The Edmonton Oilers and the rest of bottom of the barrel in the Western Conference is a who’s who of not so great performance. Will the Oilers following a possible get right game, be able to figure out the winning formula and rush up the Wild Card race?
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Lost cause
6 players are approaching or surpassed 20 points on the season while the rest of the team has 4 points.
You're grasping at straws. Sure, they're not mathematically out of the playoffs yet, but the odds of them getting in are so slim. Might as well just accept the fact and move on
Forget the numbers what they are now just go out there and win games and things will work out and it's only November I am 100% sure things will look different come April remember The ST Louis Blue in 2019 when they were 10 points out of playsoff and when on to win the Stanly Cup.
Playoffs…lets wait like 5 games before we start saying "they are in it, they are back".
Come on team, lets make a wildcard spot and get into those playoffs!
Enough with the clickbait titles
love your show im a leaf fan but i often watch the oilers after the leafs sat night
Only 6 more in a row and your back to .500 oil fans. šš
They should go for first round pick
Screw the season
think of it – if the Oil goes .500 for the next two weeks, they're finished. Irgo….
The Oilers need to finish out the season winning over 65% of their games. The chances are extremely low. In order to reach 96 points … they need 83 points over the remaining 63 games …OR … 83 out of a possible 126points. That is a very tall order if not impossible, especially for a team with swiss cheese for defense and weak goaltending, an AHL head coach and a GM that is little more than a yes man.
They need to fire Paul Lorieau.
I want to see the SQUIRREL SUIT.
We're done š¢
NOT AN OILERS FAN. LETS SUPPOSE THE OILERS PLAY 65% HOCKEY FROM HERE AND REACH THE PLAYOFFS. THATS GREAT. NOW THE SEASON REALLY BEGNS. DO YOU REALISTICALLY HAVE THE AMOUNT OF THE ENERGY LEFT TO GO 4 ROUNDS? I THINK IT TAKES TOO MUCH ENERGY TO WN 65% OF THE GAMES OVER HALF A SEASON AND THEN HAVE THE ENERGY TO WIN THE CUP JUST MY OPINION
Caps were tryptophan sleepy after Turkey din-din
Itās the capitals š
Relax. They won one game. They need to win 3-4 consistenly for the remainder of the season. If they lose 3-4 games consistently by christmas, its over.
The good news is, playing 650 hockey is very doable in the weak western conf. Those teams above us aren't that good.
I would give them a 10% chance of making the playoffs at this point.
Wins one game and thinks they Stanley cup champs again š
This fellow has the charming pubescent mood swings of a middle school kid.
The week before we needed to trade a bag of Ken Hollandās old draft laundry for say Connor Hellebuyck or whatever š
Now, the resurgent Oilers having annihilated the Beasts of the East, the Washington Capitals, they are poised to run the table in the Western conference behind the 1.50 GAA of everyoneās Vezina choice, the legendary Stuart Skinner. Good grief.
Youth is ,indeed, wasted on the youngā¦ā¦š
All they need to do is play better then they have ever played before, for several months in a row, and do what no team has ever done in all NHL history. Shouldn't be a problem. Go Oilers!
How about you see if this team can play .500 hockey. Because that will be a stretch.
Easy there, tiger. I wouldnāt plan the cup parade just yet.
Congratulations! You beat the only team worse than the oilers! You guys are fucked, mcdavid is gonna be begging for a trade if he isnāt already.
Hold on to your snowman Tyson youāre dreaming
I did the math for this team to make the playoffs theyāll need 95 points and at best that will be a 1st or 2nd wildcard. They can not lose more then 25 games and have already lost about half of that. They will have to go on runs where they win 5 in a row and maybe lose a game or 2 in overtime to secure points. This is a hell of a mountain to climb they literally only have 13 losses they can take before playoffs is over. This wonāt be easy.
Oilers had a very easy schedule to start the season. Thats why losing so much amplified the effects of their start. They should be 12-6 with that ez schedule not 6-12.
The Dec schedule is brutal!! Lots of games & most against very good teams & little time off. End of Dec they play 3 games in 4 days. The Oilers team we knew from last year would have a hard time playing this Dec to a winning record. Out of 15 games in Dec only 5 are against weak teams. As the team exists today thereās no way Oilers can go 10-5 in Dec. Not without a genuine starting goalie.
Thatās why itās critical they make a move for a legit goalie before Dec 6 game. (Oddly thatās their 1st game in Dec). If they survive the Dec schedule THEN see if a magic number to a WC is still possible.
I'm not panicking at all. We know what this team is capable of and they either do it or they don't. Looking at the numbers once in a while is important but maybe it's time for the fans to take this just one game at a time the same way the players do. I personally want to enjoy watching the sport without ruining the experience by being overly attached to an outcome because that's the key to my own happiness and sanity.
how about them canucks
The Oilers can win a lot of games but the math right now is to average 7 wins every 10 games the rest of the way. The playoff bar is unlikely to be lower than 95 points. Any stretch they go .500 puts them back. Lots of teams look at standings everyday and say hey if we win a couple and the right teams lose we are in! But just like how the Flames and Sabres were in playoff spots several times late last year and the Nucks were the year before, making it when you have dug yourself a hole isnt about runs of wins in November its going to take consistently being an elite team.
They played Washington. Nothing to get excited about.
I believe the oilers should be capable of making a wildcard spot cause imo Arizona and Anaheim might fall off soon also minny has been jorrible this year as well but the thing is St Louis has better D and goaltending then oilers idk if they fall off binners is has been pretty good seattle on the other hand has had a whole bunch of issues this year they dont have thay 4 lines of scoring and grubaur is like swiss cheese sooo keep yalls hope up maybe yall go on a tear and theres like a 50% chance Cambell finds his game but that D needs a move u guys need a stay at home guy everyone on the blue line in Edmonton have been sooo streaky
The Cup is ours
It would be a shame if the oil were out of the playoffs by Christmas. Better to win 45 games and then get eliminated by the sharks, coyotes or avs in games 80, 81 or 82.
63 games remain. They went 14-0-1 to end the regular season last year. There's reason to be hopeful.
We've got the Ducks tomorrow (should be an easy win as they are falling down the standings but we shouldn't take them lightly), the Golden Knights on Tuesday (top team in the division and the conference while showing little sign of a Stanley Cup hangover), then in Winnipeg on Thursday (another tough opponent as they are currently 2nd in the Central and on a 5 game win streak) to round out November. Then after a 5 day break, a 6 game home stand followed by a 6 game road trip in December. Carolina will be tough to beat, Minny has fallen off a bit since their win over us in their home arena, New Jersey and Chicago are probably easy wins (though not that easy), Florida will probably have Barkov back and Tampa Bay will indeed have Vasilevskiy back (unless he starts the game in Vancouver 2 nights earlier and is given the start in Calgary to conclude that road trip, giving Johansson the net against us in between). Our 6 game road trip goes through the area of New York ( Islanders, Devils, and Rangers), then cross country to California (Sharks, Kings, and Ducks).
Here's my predictions on this next stretch of games:
Win against Anaheim
Loss against Vegas
Extra time win against Winnipeg
Loss against Carolina
Extra time loss against Minnesota
Win against New Jersey
Extra time win against Chicago
Extra time loss against Tampa (depending on who their goalie is)
Extra time loss against Florida
Win against the Islanders
Extra time win against New Jersey
Loss against the Rangers
Win against San Jose
Loss against LA
Win against Anaheim
That would result in a record of 8-4-3 for a total of 19 pts in the standings. A bit unrealistic, but if Campbell can get back to form when he returns and the guys in front play like a unit (like what we saw against Washington), we might be able to get back in the hunt for a playoff spot by New Year's, at least.
Oh! I think it's Ok to start panicking now.
Oilers are great 2nd half team