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Drakrami

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  1. Dont get why everyone's solely bashing our defense. Aren't we also acing 2 AHL goalies who at least let in 4 goals every game? Make that 3, because Demko's also been playing like hes from the AHL this season. Martin seems like someone who by chance played really good for 6 games last season, elevating his position in everyone's mind. But showing his true colors right now. In their defense, I haven't watched many games this season, mostly just highlights.
  2. Pretty funny if Oilers do not make the playoffs with McDavid in his prime years. They have 2 of the best forwards in the last decade (1's even on a budget contract of 8.5mil) and struggles to make the playoffs. May just have to trade Draisaitl to shake things up.
  3. Where does it say that? Just because he said he shoulda retired, doesn't mean he doesn't take his current Canucks top job seriously. Those 2 things are not contradictory. If he has mailed it in, he wouldn't be doing all these interviews with different media outlets you have seen in the past year. You think all these interviews with the interviewers hammering him with tough questions doesn't stress him out? Why does he do it? So he can get his direction out to the fanbase. Hes been on the job for 1 year, give it some time. Some moves are crap (like not trading and ended up signing Miller), but it's what he does right that counts.
  4. Damn Dahlin finally living up to his potential... on pace for 100 points, 6 foot 3, 22 years old, 6million dollar per year contract.
  5. That's an ok idea. But what are you actually suggesting? Buyout OEL, save some cap, keep this team pretty much intact as it is, the next 2 seasons same ugly performance we are seeing now while JR engages in his version of the retool? I'd much rather we ship 2-3 main pieces out, big haul coming back, and shake up this team that has been underperforming for who knows how many years...
  6. May be hes reporting what he read on CDC. And then CDC opens a topic on his report. It's a freaking loop.
  7. Damn the Dman everyone dumped on last year is now the defending champion's #6/7. Seems like a repeating theme.
  8. Easiest way to analyse this is to compare it with previous year's champ. MacKinnon, Makar, Rantanen, Landeskog, Toews. Their top 5 is pretty much on another tier from ours, almost incomparable. Let's do another Kucherov, Point, Hedman, Stamkos, Vasilevsiky. Pretty much the same thing... Their top 5 is pretty much on another tier from ours, almost incomparable. Let's go back to 2019. O'Reilly, Tarasenko, Pietrangelo, Schwartz, Binnington (god mode Binnington, not 2023 Binnington) This one is much closer, in fact our core is better. But how much of their run is because of Binnington that was on fire?
  9. If you wanted to make this poll more accurate, you should write realistic numbers for Pettersson (9mil+; Barzal comparison) Horvat (8mil+; dude's on a 62 goal pace...) and Kuzmenko (6mil+; 72 pts pace...)
  10. Chicago is full on tanking for Bedard without any shame or hiding it. 8 wins out of 37 games and about to trade away Kane. If Bedard brings them another dynasty I suggest we riot, this time in Chicago.
  11. Even with how poorly we played last season we ended up drafting #15. We'll probably end up drafting #10-15 again unless we blatantly start to tank.
  12. Technically we have already seen the 2 opposite ends. Green was prioritizing defense last season. Losing record, gets called out for handcuffing the team's offense. Boudreau is known for unlocking brakes to the offense. Losing record, the team just collapses and leaks goals like it's pouring rain every game. Green had to go. But there was a majority of people who thought we had a great team and Green was the sole reason for last season's losses. And now the sentiment on here is once again preaching defense; that's just kinda funny. Well more news is that JR is not a defense guy.
  13. I've always been critical of Benning, but that is an unfair statement to say. It's blatantly obvious ownership pushed Benning to make the playoffs every year. And Benning was trying his best to make "hockey moves" to make that happen. If someone's to be blamed, ownership should be equally criticized. Basically the main ugly point of anger is 8 years of "retooling" and the current team is the end product.
  14. In before someone says let's give him a try without remember previous projects like Madison and Juulsen who's still in the system lol.
  15. Wow... Didn't know... looks like a hard month. only 2 pushover games. Blackhawks, Blue Jackets. This season we collapse when playing vs good teams. Vs poor teams, our offense can some times outscore the opponent. At least by the end of January, we could possibly be full on sellers. I'd imagine management looked at January's schedule before declaring everyone on the team's on sale like 2 weeks ago. That deserves praise.
  16. Lazar's an offensive blackhole, been that way his whole career. Dont know why people are trying to force him into a top 6 role...
  17. I just want a firm direction for this team and not juggle between let's make the playoffs / let's be sellers based on some short lived winning / losing streaks. It is the same story year over year with this team. There's literally no direction other than wanting to make the playoffs when we don't have the right team to do it. The collective sentiment of this board is scavenged the media which in turn does their reporting which in turn does however subtlely affects management's decision with this team. Obviously management wants the fans happy. If most fans wanted playoffs, they would not move in the other direction.
  18. Not too surprising, should be expected, we blowout a team called SJS one of the worst team in the league. And a mediocre Oilers team. Once face with real teams we show our real selves again. The only surprising thing is the fans who were hyper giddy over the last 2 wins.
  19. Prediction: we will pivot again for a playoff run. Horvat wont be traded. Basically repeats of the past 8 years. Hopefully this time the result will be different. Unless this management really shocks me with some boldness.
  20. lol.. Your proposal is one out of hundreds that involve trading Pearson/Myers. Know why it hasn't happened? Because it is far off from reality. You won't be able to offload Myer's contract without attaching a 1st round pick. The best management has snoped around was a 1:1 swipe with a bad contract, the Zaitsev swap. The problem is Zaitsev is also not a very good dman. You can continue these proposals and dream about offloading contracts for free or even value coming back. It just won't happen.
  21. Which hockey fantasy league is this? Like 20 teams in the league is at the cap limit, and you want to pull out some wizardry to offload 15million in salary? Refer to Dicksinon and Kassian trades for a small dose of the cost for offloading salary.
  22. When you've played 18 years in the league, score 802 goals, being 2nd all time goal scorer. Yes, you do get the spotlight shine on you.
  23. Wait until we win the next 3 games in a roll. lol. This is why decisiveness is so important. Realize that we are not there yet, and act on it. Anaheim was near the top of the league the first 30 games last season I think, and they ended up being huge sellers at TDL. Now that's action.
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