Do you think Tippett and Holland just get paid to eat f*cking popcorn and watch the team? It's 100% on them: one assembled the roster and the other continues to ice a suboptimal roster. Tippett thinks "winning is hard". Holland thinks "you can't go for it every year". As far as I'm concerned both men should be drawn and quartered come sunrise. Shoot them at sundown for good measure. Every part of me wants to tell you to blow it out of your ass but that would be misdirected anger. It's not your fault and you don't deserve that.

The Oilers making the playoffs this year - hell let's give them credit for last year too - has SFA to do with Dave Tippett. Not an ounce of it is on him: this team has two active Hart Trophy winners. Career years from players last year and this year pushed Edmonton over the hump. Tippett has a losing playoff record with Edmonton and in his entire career. Phoenix never did anything unless Smith bailed them out. Now the Oilers don't accomplish anything unless McDavid and Draisaitl are firing on all cylinders. Even then it's not a guarantee.

I've been angry with this team. Frustrated. Apathetic. Disappointed. I don't even have words for how I feel right now. Betrayed? Ashamed? I'm at a loss as to why I hitched my wagon to this team when I was younger. It's been over 4 years since Chiarelli destroyed the roster and the club still hasn't figured out a damn thing about fixing it. Holland has no plan. No gumption. It's a paycheck to him. Anything less than firing *everybody* will only demonstrate this. We're year 6 into McDavid's career and the Oilers have ONE more official playoff victory (7) than McDavid has seasons under his belt. It's embarrassing. I genuinely want him and Draisaitl to request a trade after Winnipeg puts this Mickey Mouse franchise out of its misery tomorrow.

The two superstars deserve so much better than what this organization has forced them to work with. The fans even more so.

My earliest conscious memory of this godforsaken team is when Conklin beat the brakes off of Nurminen in 2004. My dad and I watched that game together. The high water mark remains losing in 2006 and drafting McDavid. It's been 15 years since this team did anything meaningful and about 20 years since they were consistently decent. I've made it through 8 years of post-secondary school: I grew up while this team spun its wheels. They've accomplished nothing. Childhood me could have never imagined that I'd be damn near entering fatherhood - not too distant from the point in life my dad was at when he and I watched that game in 2004 - before they tried to be good again.

Like why do I bother?

My condolences.

Gotta think EDM will do something huge. This team gets exposed far too often in the playoffs.

Appreciated.

In the playoffs? My guy, they've made the official postseason twice since McDavid entered the league. They don't even make it to the playoffs enough to consider they get exposed too much in the postseason. It's a bad team and we've been sold snake oil.

Oilers NEED to make a huge move in the offseason

Yzerman continues to win. Best case scenario for Washington's first round pick. God he's a genius

Easily the best GM in the league at this point. Brighter days are coming soon for the Red Wings.

Wouldn't say easily, Sakic is a close second.

True, but the man is a mastermind. Sakic is great too though.

Yes, I agree.

I just don't understand why he's considered to be better than Sakic by everyone, because I'd say they are really close.

I’ve been gone on a camping trip this weekend. WTF happened to the Oilers?

Also to that Oilers fan that said that Klingberg would be their 4th best dman. Except Neal, Klingberg has been to the finals more times than the whole Oilers roster combined (I think).

who said this lmao

Who do you think? Pretty obvious, almost every Oilers fan is chill except this guy.

I’ve been gone on a camping trip this weekend. WTF happened to the Oilers?

Blake Comeau has the same amount of goals as Connor McDavid

Who do you think? Pretty obvious, almost every Oilers fan is chill except this guy.

Blake Comeau has the same amount of goals as Connor McDavid

Oof. So Blake Comeau has a better goal per game ratio than McDavid... I feel like I’m living in a different dimension.

I have my suspicions but I can't say for certain lol

Bobbyt32 joshelkin si5137

Go Isles!!!

They gotta put their left over cap one Nuge leaves to better use.

Also to that Oilers fan that said that Klingberg would be their 4th best dman. Except Neal, Klingberg has been to the finals more times than the whole Oilers roster combined (I think).