‘Oilers don’t have team good enough to contend for Stanley Cup’: Button on Oilers right now
November 19, 2024
‘Oilers don’t have team good enough to contend for Stanley Cup’: Button on Oilers right now
Are you rethinking your Oilers Stanley Cup pick? Where would you begin to make changes on this Oilers’ roster? TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button joins SC with Jay Onrait to share his thoughts.
21 comments
Connor McDavid needs to become an enforcer………there is no one that is scared of this team……that much is obvious.
The team is old. Love Nuge and Hyman, but they are now definitely past their peak and the depth is also old and slowing down. Could be overcome if goaltending was great, but that is an issue as well. Oilers will need to take a step back, reload their depth with speed and youth.
Same shit it's been for the last decade , poor D and no goaltending …
They have no defense or goaltending. For years and they duffed themselves into a final.
They look like a shell of their formal self, that team they had last year everyone single one of them complimented each other and gelled so well!! It’s a shame they were THAT close!
I thought they “won” the offseason?
At the beginning of the season, saying the Oilers are Stanley Cup contenders was almost as silly as saying the Winnipeg Jets would NOT make the playoffs. Both TSN and Sportsnet – due entirely to their business connections to both the Oilers and the Leafs – have to artificially maintain a "narrative" about both teams, regardless of reality. It's so funny watching that reality come crashing down on them, when all other avenues of "excuse generation" have run out. The "narrative" has been impossible to maintain, and only now is TSN starting to hedge. Sportsnet will NEVER let go of their narrative of the Oilers being contenders…pretty sure they'd rather burn down their own studio before publically saying anything close to that. Whoever listens to the ramblings of the TSN and Sportsnet "experts" deserves to be misinformed.
They didn’t have enough talent last year. They just got lucky last year with a very easy path to the cup. The Vancouver series showed they weren’t that great. This team wouldn’t make the playoffs if they played out east. This team isn’t very good
First mistake the Oil made was hire Bowman as GM !! Then the D has been suspect for years.. And yes they need help up front as well but the D and Skinner needs to pick up his game…
The reason Bowman was a bad choice is the BAD KARMA he brings to the team !!!
Duh from an oiler fans . Still gonna keep watching lol
I'm an Oilers fan but I've been saying this exact thing since before the season started. Never bought into the hype–their defense and goaltending is simply not good enough, and they're too slow up front outside of McDavid. Our chance to win a cup was last June and we blew it.
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Button flip flops like 10 times a year on this team. Toronto sports network tells you all you need to know.
What was their record this time last year?
Of course not lol. They got lucky last year
I think they would certainly be contenders in my son’s peewee league.
No reason McCrybaby is sticking around if this is the Oil direction and to sign a contract just for Crysaitl is insane. The Oil are finished lol.
Marcus Pettersson at 50% retained and Drew O'Connor to the Oilers for Jeff Skinner and Sam O'Reilly. Other Pens cheap UFA wingers: Anthony Beauvillier and Jesse Puljujarvi. JP: $800,000 and DOC: $925,000 Pens fan.
This team is still going through a playoff hangover but need to figure this out soon with the new additions. 23% into the campaign with one game over 500, hit the panic button if it doesn't turn around by Christmas.
Same idiot that said the same things last year at this time also
21 comments
Connor McDavid needs to become an enforcer………there is no one that is scared of this team……that much is obvious.
The team is old. Love Nuge and Hyman, but they are now definitely past their peak and the depth is also old and slowing down. Could be overcome if goaltending was great, but that is an issue as well. Oilers will need to take a step back, reload their depth with speed and youth.
Same shit it's been for the last decade , poor D and no goaltending …
They have no defense or goaltending. For years and they duffed themselves into a final.
They look like a shell of their formal self, that team they had last year everyone single one of them complimented each other and gelled so well!! It’s a shame they were THAT close!
I thought they “won” the offseason?
At the beginning of the season, saying the Oilers are Stanley Cup contenders was almost as silly as saying the Winnipeg Jets would NOT make the playoffs.
Both TSN and Sportsnet – due entirely to their business connections to both the Oilers and the Leafs – have to artificially maintain a "narrative" about both teams, regardless of reality. It's so funny watching that reality come crashing down on them, when all other avenues of "excuse generation" have run out. The "narrative" has been impossible to maintain, and only now is TSN starting to hedge. Sportsnet will NEVER let go of their narrative of the Oilers being contenders…pretty sure they'd rather burn down their own studio before publically saying anything close to that.
Whoever listens to the ramblings of the TSN and Sportsnet "experts" deserves to be misinformed.
They didn’t have enough talent last year. They just got lucky last year with a very easy path to the cup. The Vancouver series showed they weren’t that great. This team wouldn’t make the playoffs if they played out east. This team isn’t very good
First mistake the Oil made was hire Bowman as GM !! Then the D has been suspect for years.. And yes they need help up front as well but the D and Skinner needs to pick up his game…
The reason Bowman was a bad choice is the BAD KARMA he brings to the team !!!
Duh from an oiler fans . Still gonna keep watching lol
I'm an Oilers fan but I've been saying this exact thing since before the season started. Never bought into the hype–their defense and goaltending is simply not good enough, and they're too slow up front outside of McDavid. Our chance to win a cup was last June and we blew it.
🐌
Button flip flops like 10 times a year on this team. Toronto sports network tells you all you need to know.
What was their record this time last year?
Of course not lol. They got lucky last year
I think they would certainly be contenders in my son’s peewee league.
No reason McCrybaby is sticking around if this is the Oil direction and to sign a contract just for Crysaitl is insane. The Oil are finished lol.
Marcus Pettersson at 50% retained and Drew O'Connor to the Oilers for Jeff Skinner and Sam O'Reilly.
Other Pens cheap UFA wingers: Anthony Beauvillier and Jesse Puljujarvi. JP: $800,000 and DOC: $925,000
Pens fan.
This team is still going through a playoff hangover but need to figure this out soon with the new additions. 23% into the campaign with one game over 500, hit the panic button if it doesn't turn around by Christmas.
Same idiot that said the same things last year at this time also