Oilers booed outside locker room

[asian player]

We can only laugh at them for so long before feeling bad for them. As a hockey fan, this is just sad. If their 1st is on the table, I'd definitely dangle Bonino ++

[VegasCanuck]

You look south at Calgary and how fast they have managed to make themselves competitive again.

How many 1st overall's has Edmonton had in the last 5 or 6 years? How the hell can they still be where they are and not at least challenging for a playoff spot?

Its incredible that the entire front office hasn't been swept out to the trash!

[TACIC]

I'd rather see him in bed with my mom before seeing him as either. Tanking is for losers, both teams have the mentality of losers. LOSERS!

Not really...look at the sabres...they got a good team there just young and struggle to put it together. The oilers have pretty good players but miscoached and misplaced so it makes them very bad

[SabreFan1]

Not really...look at the sabres...they got a good team there just young and struggle to put it together. The oilers have pretty good players but miscoached and misplaced so it makes them very bad

Nearly all of the A level young guys are still in juniors, college, and the AHL. Right now the Sabres are playing mostly expendable short term players.

[TACIC]

Nearly all of the A level young guys are still in juniors, college, and the AHL. Right now the Sabres are playing mostly expendable short term players.

And they already have a decent team...which shows they're actually going somewhere and trying

[hockeyville88]

Just terrible. The Oilers should be ashamed. That's a walk of shame right there

[Mustapha]

Oilers fans are truly bottom feeding scum. They should have stayed in their seats and started a Fire Lowe chant instead of taking it out on the players.

Well maybe that turd Ference, but outside of him? They don't deserve that.

Typical BS from Deadmonton.

Vancouver fans can be scummy too...remember what happened after Game 7 back in 2011?

Cut some of these fans a break. They have been watching crappy hockey for several years now, and it's the players who are playing poorly.

I've said it before, the Oilers again do not have the right coach. The team seems to play a different game from period to period, no consistency whatsoever. They have been described as listless and distracted in practice and they don't show up prepared to play ( Chicago game is a great example)

Chicago had an issue like this (albeit not for this many seasons) and had several coaches with no success until they hired Quenneville. The Oilers need their Quenneville.

But it might be better to keep tanking and try to grab McDavid. A lineup like Edmonton's with good coaching could become a sleeper to be a contender, especially if they had McDavid next season.

[riffraff]

Vancouver fans can be scummy too...remember what happened after Game 7 back in 2011?

Cut some of these fans a break. They have been watching crappy hockey for several years now, and it's the players who are playing poorly.

I've said it before, the Oilers again do not have the right coach. The team seems to play a different game from period to period, no consistency whatsoever. They have been described as listless and distracted in practice and they don't show up prepared to play ( Chicago game is a great example)

Chicago had an issue like this (albeit not for this many seasons) and had several coaches with no success until they hired Quenneville. The Oilers need their Quenneville.

But it might be better to keep tanking and try to grab McDavid. A lineup like Edmonton's with good coaching could become a sleeper to be a contender, especially if they had McDavid next season.

Mcdavid would go lindross.

[Mr.DirtyDangles]

Fans that do this are a joke and have no life, no perspective, no concept of the sport they are so angry over. The fact it is EDM fans is really not that surprising though. The coil are the KINGS of SUCK !

[DownUndaCanuck]

There seems to be a pretty simple way of getting out of the NHL cellar and into the post-season these days, and I'm glad Benning has found it while teams like Buffalo and Edmonton struggle to do so.

Don't throw rookies into the NHL straight away, expecting them to save you, because it ruins their development. The Oilers could have had some real stars in Hall, RNH, Eberle and Yakupov but instead these kids struggle with consistency and defensive play still because they were rushed in. Now the same thing is going to happen to Draisaitl. If they spent at least another one or two years in the minors and/or AHL, they would have developed smoothly but instead the Oilers have rushed them in, hoping they'll save them the way Crosby saved Pittsburgh.

The truth is, these kids weren't ready. Successful teams like Chicago, LA and now Vancouver and Calgary find ways to send their kids back to develop in the junior leagues because they're willing to sign UFAs, trade picks for veterans etc. so the current team has enough skill that it can win without its kids. These "rental" or "loan" type deals (like Vbrata and Miller) may not make much sense in the future, but in the present they keep teams alive while the future of the team is allowed to develop properly.

If Benning hadn't signed Vbrata, we'd probably have to rush a kid like Jensen or Shinkaruk into the NHL when they clearly need another year in the AHL. If he hadn't signed Miller, god knows Lack would have been blown up and his confidence shattered again. Two ENORMOUS moves for this organization's present and future, and that's what Edmonton and Buffalo need to start doing.

Send the kids back to develop, and take a bunch of UFAs to fill those holes. It's hard for them to do now with so many ruined prospects though, the only way out of this mess is to completely blow it up and start from scratch. Trade some of those ruined young players, clean out management and find guys from winning teams who understand how you run a team to win in the present and future.

[ice orca]

Does it make me a bad person if I find watching the Oilers misery hilarious?

No i got a big grin on as well.

[MoneypuckOverlord]

There seems to be a pretty simple way of getting out of the NHL cellar and into the post-season these days, and I'm glad Benning has found it while teams like Buffalo and Edmonton struggle to do so.

Don't throw rookies into the NHL straight away, expecting them to save you, because it ruins their development. The Oilers could have had some real stars in Hall, RNH, Eberle and Yakupov but instead these kids struggle with consistency and defensive play still because they were rushed in. Now the same thing is going to happen to Draisaitl. If they spent at least another one or two years in the minors and/or AHL, they would have developed smoothly but instead the Oilers have rushed them in, hoping they'll save them the way Crosby saved Pittsburgh.

The truth is, these kids weren't ready. Successful teams like Chicago, LA and now Vancouver and Calgary find ways to send their kids back to develop in the junior leagues because they're willing to sign UFAs, trade picks for veterans etc. so the current team has enough skill that it can win without its kids. These "rental" or "loan" type deals (like Vbrata and Miller) may not make much sense in the future, but in the present they keep teams alive while the future of the team is allowed to develop properly.

If Benning hadn't signed Vbrata, we'd probably have to rush a kid like Jensen or Shinkaruk into the NHL when they clearly need another year in the AHL. If he hadn't signed Miller, god knows Lack would have been blown up and his confidence shattered again. Two ENORMOUS moves for this organization's present and future, and that's what Edmonton and Buffalo need to start doing.

Send the kids back to develop, and take a bunch of UFAs to fill those holes. It's hard for them to do now with so many ruined prospects though, the only way out of this mess is to completely blow it up and start from scratch. Trade some of those ruined young players, clean out management and find guys from winning teams who understand how you run a team to win in the present and future.

Send the kids back to develop, and take a bunch of UFAs to fill those holes. It's hard for them to do now with so many ruined prospects though,

the problem is that, Edmonton is not a very desirable place to play and to live. It's probably the coldest city In North America, Night live is not the best, city is small, team sucks, franchise sucks, Edmonton also got he most votes for city players least want to go too, and also most votes for city they least want to get traded too.

Trevor LInden was asked which city he disliked the most Edmonton and St.Paul was the worst.

anyways agree with sending kids back to develope too.

[McBackup]

Vancouver fans can be scummy too...remember what happened after Game 7 back in 2011?

Cut some of these fans a break. They have been watching crappy hockey for several years now, and it's the players who are playing poorly.

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Yeah and these Oilers fans would be the very first to jump down our throats about that, so too freaking bad.

[KING ALBERTS]

the problem is that, Edmonton is not a very desirable place to play and to live. It's probably the coldest city In North America, Night live is not the best, city is small, team sucks, franchise sucks, Edmonton also got he most votes for city players least want to go too, and also most votes for city they least want to get traded too.

Trevor LInden was asked which city he disliked the most Edmonton and St.Paul was the worst.

anyways agree with sending kids back to develope too.

You can't send the "kids" back to develop. They are NHL players, with AHL defence and goaltending. Maybe we should've send Edler back to develop after last season? Stupid.

You meant the coldest city in North America with an NHL team, right? Edmontons not even in the top 5 for coldest cities in Canada.

[viking mama]

Year after year

Game after game

U blame them?

Only feel good moment for the Oilers fans are the draft day and the draft lottery.

If the player dont want to be booed, then they should start playing hockey like they are paid to do.

So the only questions that remain are:

Are these players playing to be traded?

Are they tanking for yet another pick? (McDavid)

Are they trying to get their in-experienced, uber-hyped & pretender coach fired?

Are they just all collectively clinically depressed now?

How about all four?!

It's a shame that Eakins doesn't have a university education in counselling, social work & teaching like WD does - eh?

I wonder if Schultz is wishing that he had signed elsewhere, now? Why is Oilers' management so hell bent on believing that winners will emerge out of this perennially losing environment?! That way is not nearly as enjoyable for everyone,..as the DET model! Yah, maybe CHI pulled that off once..tanking for picks that is,.. & PITTS too...but I think the Oilers lack of leadership is the issue that can't carry-on for much longer. They need a few more grizzled-vets to show them how to all become proper warriors and Ference ain't proper enough,..good enough...grizzled enough,..nor smart enough, to do something like this all by himself. If role-modelling is coming from Ference and a few pretty speeches by Messier...well, talk about falling short in too many areas!

It's such a shame that this team's progress has been slower that snail slime. Any wonder their fans have run-out of ways to tolerate losing. They've completely exhausted the ways to making losing in anyway palatable,.. or funny. They're done. The boos should be directed at management at this point.

[SabreFan1]

There seems to be a pretty simple way of getting out of the NHL cellar and into the post-season these days, and I'm glad Benning has found it while teams like Buffalo and Edmonton struggle to do so.

Don't throw rookies into the NHL straight away, expecting them to save you, because it ruins their development.

That was Darcy Regier who did that. Tim Murray knows better, and Ted Nolan has always preferred veterans on his team. The 2 or 3 rookies that are on the team right now are excelling.

[poetica]

There's a big difference between adding a rookie to your NHL lineup and surrounding him with experienced talent to help him continue developing, like we are with Horvat, and bringing them in and essentially saying, "Hey, kid. You were drafted high because you're awesome. Now be our #1 scorer and save this joke of a franchise because drafting is ALL we do."

[2SKATES1STICK]

the problem is that, Edmonton is not a very desirable place to play and to live. It's probably the coldest city In North America, Night live is not the best, city is small, team sucks, franchise sucks, Edmonton also got he most votes for city players least want to go too, and also most votes for city they least want to get traded too.

Trevor LInden was asked which city he disliked the most Edmonton and St.Paul was the worst.

anyways agree with sending kids back to develope too.

even russians think its freezing cold.

[Caboose]

That was Darcy Regier who did that. Tim Murray knows better, and Ted Nolan has always preferred veterans on his team. The 2 or 3 rookies that are on the team right now are excelling.

What's going on with Joel Armia? that guy showed so much promise.

Think he'll get into the lineup soon?

[Mr.53]

Who can blame them. The Oilers have taken a once storied franchise, with the legendary Wayne Gretzky dynasty, and turned it into a straight up joke. I would like to pull a Stephen A Smith and call them a walking piece of mediocrity but that would be too generous of a comment. Year after year, they are trash, get some top talent in the draft, and respond by putting out the same trash they did the year before. If I was an Oiler fan, I would be insulted that the Oilers front office put this product in front of me year after year..