Oil's Well that Ends well
The Oilers futility streak continues for yet another year.
Losing Visnovsky a couple months ago was a crushing blow, it never helps to lose one of your best players, especially when you fill the void with a call up from the farm. It's like putting the temporary spare on your car, yes it will get you from A to B, but it just doesn't have the same effect the old tire did. It's smaller, not as durable, and doesn't perform as good.
Grebeshkov is coming along, but still looks very bad, very often. His gaff last night cost us the game, not like we had much chance mind you, St. Louis won their game anyway, and the Oilers needed St. Louis and Nashville to lose and they NEEDED to win in order to have any shot at making the show.
Regardless, I'm a bit glad that we can just focus on cheering against the Flames now, and baseball started on Monday and already my team (Jays) is 2-0. Many baseball analysts predicted that the Blue Jays would lose 100 games this year, so they only have to win 61 more games to prove those guys wrong.
I'm interested to see how Tambelini will attempt to improve the team in the off season. Kevin Lowe hasn't done anything really to make the team better, even though he has tried most of his moves have ended up being duds.
I truly hope that our scoring problem can be addressed this summer, If I hear this summer that the Oilers have 'Picked up another Blue Liner' im going to lose it.
Yes we have great Defensemen, and yes our number two scorer is a Defenceman (Souray), but is that a good thing? Shouldn't we have at least one 25 goal scoring forward on this team?
Hemsky, you're a fabulous player, but 65 points doesn't make you elite. You need to show everyone how awesome you are truly capable of being and start owning some games. There was one or two games this season where you alone won the game for us, this team NEEDS MORE of that.
Roloson, great job, you are awesome and seem to be getting better the older you get. I have always thought that you are a great goalie, even when you were having
struggles at the beginning of the season. Come back and play one more season with these kids.
Gagner, Nillson, Cogliano, Brodziak, these kids are all on pace to become good solid forwards. Hopefully one or more of them can actually bust out and start becoming the type of player they have the ability to be. I think the big problem with being so young and having so much money is that the fame, girls, cash, fast cars and high life hit them really hard, they lose motivation on the ice because their off-ice life is so fun and exciting. You get a wiley old veteran like Steve Staios and he doesn't let the fame go to his head, he also comes from a very poor, hard working background so he appreciates every thing he gets.
The Oilers season was actually over about a week ago, a couple of huge games and the boys decided not to show up. Roloson was standing on his head doing everything possible, but in the end you cant win games unless you score goals.
The hardest part of the whole thing for the average Oiler fan to swallow is that the Oilers really didn't seem into it. Too many first and second periods were pittered away in the last 10 games, only to try very hard in the final 20 minutes and just fall one goal short. You can forgive loses if the teams try for 60 minutes, but that really wasn't the case.
So now we sit, and wait for another playoffs, off season, and new season, so we can Rinse wash and repeat again.
Will the Oilers finally address their overwhelming need for scoring?
Will the Oilers re-sign Dwayne Roloson?
Will MacTavish resign?
We will know the answers to these questions over the next 6 months.
Stay tuned for our playoff editions.
Losing Visnovsky a couple months ago was a crushing blow, it never helps to lose one of your best players, especially when you fill the void with a call up from the farm. It's like putting the temporary spare on your car, yes it will get you from A to B, but it just doesn't have the same effect the old tire did. It's smaller, not as durable, and doesn't perform as good.
Grebeshkov is coming along, but still looks very bad, very often. His gaff last night cost us the game, not like we had much chance mind you, St. Louis won their game anyway, and the Oilers needed St. Louis and Nashville to lose and they NEEDED to win in order to have any shot at making the show.
Regardless, I'm a bit glad that we can just focus on cheering against the Flames now, and baseball started on Monday and already my team (Jays) is 2-0. Many baseball analysts predicted that the Blue Jays would lose 100 games this year, so they only have to win 61 more games to prove those guys wrong.
I'm interested to see how Tambelini will attempt to improve the team in the off season. Kevin Lowe hasn't done anything really to make the team better, even though he has tried most of his moves have ended up being duds.
I truly hope that our scoring problem can be addressed this summer, If I hear this summer that the Oilers have 'Picked up another Blue Liner' im going to lose it.
Yes we have great Defensemen, and yes our number two scorer is a Defenceman (Souray), but is that a good thing? Shouldn't we have at least one 25 goal scoring forward on this team?
Hemsky, you're a fabulous player, but 65 points doesn't make you elite. You need to show everyone how awesome you are truly capable of being and start owning some games. There was one or two games this season where you alone won the game for us, this team NEEDS MORE of that.
Roloson, great job, you are awesome and seem to be getting better the older you get. I have always thought that you are a great goalie, even when you were having
struggles at the beginning of the season. Come back and play one more season with these kids.
Gagner, Nillson, Cogliano, Brodziak, these kids are all on pace to become good solid forwards. Hopefully one or more of them can actually bust out and start becoming the type of player they have the ability to be. I think the big problem with being so young and having so much money is that the fame, girls, cash, fast cars and high life hit them really hard, they lose motivation on the ice because their off-ice life is so fun and exciting. You get a wiley old veteran like Steve Staios and he doesn't let the fame go to his head, he also comes from a very poor, hard working background so he appreciates every thing he gets.
The Oilers season was actually over about a week ago, a couple of huge games and the boys decided not to show up. Roloson was standing on his head doing everything possible, but in the end you cant win games unless you score goals.
The hardest part of the whole thing for the average Oiler fan to swallow is that the Oilers really didn't seem into it. Too many first and second periods were pittered away in the last 10 games, only to try very hard in the final 20 minutes and just fall one goal short. You can forgive loses if the teams try for 60 minutes, but that really wasn't the case.
So now we sit, and wait for another playoffs, off season, and new season, so we can Rinse wash and repeat again.
Will the Oilers finally address their overwhelming need for scoring?
Will the Oilers re-sign Dwayne Roloson?
Will MacTavish resign?
We will know the answers to these questions over the next 6 months.
Stay tuned for our playoff editions.
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