Anyone else notice how close the Erie otters jersey looks like it almost read oilers?
#fate
Mcdavid mmm
Hall can score 80 pts without a mcdavid . Wonder how many he'll get with a mcdavid!

Wowow announcement tomorrow oilers org.
Apparently announcing chiarelli as part of oilers now.

Press conference at 1pm Mt
Exciting things in oil country today.
Lowe gone...Chiarelli taking over. This will be a day remembered for a long time.
Nice to see the oilers/Katz not wanting to dick around with mcdavid and try to put a winning group finally together.

change is here

welcome peter chiarelli to the oilers

Hopefully Chiarelli handles things differently than he did in Boston. He traded away the better skilled players in Seguin and Kessel for bigger more physical players in Boston.

Edmonton is the polar opposite type of team than Boston with their smaller and less physical but extremely talented players.

I have to imagine he is still much better than what Oilers had before. At least he made a cup winning team in Boston. But again he has to adjust to the fact that Oilers are never going to be a Boston type team. Hope Chiarelli knows how to GM a team that has talent and will rely on talent rather than goon style

This post was edited by rattle-trap on Apr 24 2015 01:24pm

I should add that McDavid should get the C on his jersey right away. He will be "the guy" now

ohh im sure he'll be just fine. he just got gifted a generational player in mcdavid.

all he has to do is build a supporting cast around our core. and shore up defense and goal.
and he will look like a genius

Trade Eberle to Detroit for Jimmy Howard. (You need a real #1 goalie, none of this let's try backups and hope he can be a #1)
Trade Yakupov to someone for good defensemen or a package of some kind
Get a good coach

And the team will automatically become a playoff team if all 3 of the above is done. And they have potential to become a massive powerhouse team

This post was edited by rattle-trap on Apr 24 2015 01:30pm

Should have read MT.... was thinking it was 30 mins from now.

Is the presser over?

This is a huge day for the Oilers... Charelli taking over as President of Hockey Ops and GM... It looks like they've finally realized that the old boys club isnt working. Edmonton might start seeing forward progress for the first time since Gretzky left. Good for them.



GL Trading Yak for any more than a bag of pucks these days. I dont see how he has any value currently.


This post was edited by GSG on Apr 24 2015 01:43pm