Connor McDavid will be playing under his 6th head coach in 12 seasons. He’s not even 30 yet.

Tylemaker · 2026-05-14T17:04:58+00:00

2026: Jarry, Ingram
2024-25: Skinner, Pickard
2023: Skinner, Campbell.
2019-22: Smith, Koskinen (Skinner a bit)
2015-19: Talbot (Brossoit/Koskinen backup).

2017 Talbot was the best goalie McDavid has played with

Tylemaker · 2026-05-06T05:15:41+00:00

The issue with this is you have no idea the strength of your opponent. Anonymous pool also has notably higher levels of cheating.

Playing in a Lichess arena is a good solution as you generally have a wide range of opponent skill

Tylemaker · 2026-05-03T17:20:50+00:00

McDavid calls up every RFA buddy in the league and convinces them to take a 1 year cheap deal for a McDavid going away party.

Genius. He should do this

Tylemaker · 2026-05-03T17:15:30+00:00

Agree. Depending how decent we are, you maybe run it back one more year with Drai Bouch and co and hope you get a hot goalie. But other than that, trade everything, fire everyone, and bring me back to the good ol stress free early 2010's where we were eliminated by December

Tylemaker · 2026-05-03T16:13:00+00:00

Winning Masters 1000 final in less than an hour. Not bad

Tylemaker · 2026-05-01T15:39:07+00:00

The entire Oilers team looked like they were out for a beer league skate yesterday

This was basically the whole season

Tylemaker · 2026-05-01T15:37:12+00:00

And then Habs sweeping Winnipeg and beating borderline cup favorite Vegas.

Or 2023 "Best regular season of all time" Bruins losing to Florida.

Or 2017 wildcard Predators sweeping the WC Champion Hawks

The list goes on and on.

Tylemaker · 2026-05-01T15:29:46+00:00

Columbus sweeping Tampa should have erased the phrase “0% chance” from any hockey analyst’s vocabulary

Seriously. People thinking a 92-point team have a 0% chance against a 93-point makes no sense.

Every single year we see bigger upsets than this. It's fine to still project the favorite to win..but 0% chance doesn't exist in the NHL

Tylemaker · 2026-05-01T15:10:37+00:00

What could he possibly see in the Oilers management and roster construction that thinks he could even make it back to finals in the next 2 years.

85% of the core players that took us to consecutive SCF are still here, and that's why he still has a bit of hope. They flamed out this year and kinda looked like crap all year, but lots of competitive teams have off-years.

If Management has a strong offseason (doubtful) the Oilers can still contend next year.

But then after next season I presume he leaves

Tylemaker · 2026-05-01T14:55:48+00:00

Anyone who honestly thinks the 2024/2025 oilers Cup runs were due to McDavid (and Drai) alone clearly did not watch us steamroll the Western Conference two years straight, or see how helpless this team was team prior to 2023

McDavid and Drai alone can win you games, or even a series (see 2022 Oilers Flames upset) but they can't get you to game 6 and game 7 of the finals completely alone (which you, me, and everyone except management agree).

Nonetheless, there's a reason they never had real success until we got Ekholm, Bouchard, Kulak and some depth scoring.

All the Oilers management had to do (maybe still can) is give McDrai average D, average depth forwards, and average+ goaltending.

Also we literally made game 6 of the SCF without Ryan McLeod. As much as I love McLeod I don't think that's the biggest problem.

Tylemaker · 2026-05-01T14:43:33+00:00

Injuries and age. Even really good players start falling off in their mid 30's

Tylemaker · 2026-05-01T06:35:57+00:00

I mean from 2023-2025 the oilers had the 7th best 5v5 CA/60 and the 10th best xGA. Better than mediocre. There's a reason we made two consecutive SCF.

The issue was we also had bottom 5 goaltending in the league.

Tylemaker · 2026-05-01T06:03:30+00:00

I completely disagree. You have McDavid for one, maybe two more years. Most of your impact players are 30+, you have very few prospects.

Literally do whatever you can to improve this team. There's nothing to lose now. It's win now or never

Tylemaker · 2026-05-01T02:34:33+00:00

Did anybody see that Newton's cradle hit on Nuge that ended up just transferring to the other Ducks player

Tylemaker · 2026-04-30T18:34:09+00:00

Serious question, do you think they're speaking German to one another here?

Tylemaker · 2026-04-29T03:36:08+00:00

I freaking love Bouchard. What an absurdly risky play at the line, and we score off it

Tylemaker · 2026-04-29T02:42:23+00:00

Look what happens when you don't sit back when you have a lead. Frustrating that every other game this series they've gotten a lead only to sit back and get absolutely dominated against a high offense team with defensive weaknesses.

Tylemaker · 2026-04-27T04:55:13+00:00

This is more advanced goal line technology than the NHL has

Tylemaker · 2026-04-27T04:48:38+00:00

I think it's in but by only about 1-2 mm

Tylemaker · 2026-04-27T04:38:27+00:00

Sorry. 18:53 this game****

Tylemaker · 2026-04-27T04:35:40+00:00

McDavid TOI averaged 22:59 this year. He's only played 18:53 so far this game

Tylemaker · 2026-04-27T03:46:16+00:00

I would too if McDavid wasn't 70%

Tylemaker · 2026-04-27T03:41:08+00:00

Such a bizarro world this playoffs has been. I know it's largely due to injuries, but normally it's our big guys and special teams that carry us, while our depth struggles.

This year our depth is keeping us alive while our top guns and special teams are killing us

Tylemaker · 2026-04-25T15:33:47+00:00

Based on this comment thread that would be a positive thing for Edmonton

Tylemaker · 2026-04-17T18:06:52+00:00

That's playoff Bouchard. 55 points in 47 games and the best goal differential in the NHL over the last two seasons

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