But the Oilers organization has continually failed to address what ails them. D and goaltending. You have a plethora of young, uber-talented forwards up front and as soon as you won another lottery and had McDavid, Chiarelli should have been on the phone offering one or more of the "untouchables" to address those needs.
Sekera is better but still not what the Oil needed. Talbot has been marginally better but again still not what was needed. I don't profess to having any insight on what any teams GM is doing or attempted to do but offering up a RHN, Hall (whomever) + to obtain (insert impact player here) would seem to move the Oil forward not maintaining status quo.
I think you guys have suffered enough. Management needs to be brash and pull something that shakes the organization and tells the fans they're serious because other wise the same old song and dance gets old, I imagine even for you guys...
- geta02it
I really don't think there's much to be done about tending.
They develop brossoit and wait.
There's 2 bluechippers out there in vasilevsky and Gibson. Aside from the fact that they'd cost a ton- we don't even know if they're movable.
or u wait for them to be ready to move bishop or Anderson. When's that?
And from what we've seen from Anderson this year- he's no slam dunk.
As far as defence- they've signed who they could while waiting for nurse/klefbom.
Aside from the fact that I assume chiarelli probably wanted to get an idea who's part of the problem/solution before heads any moves- it's only been 20 games. And he hasn't had near a full roster to gauge it. Makes it much tougher.
Plus, we're desperate- u think any gms are willing to give us help without bending us over. And how many gms are ready to give up at this point?
A move will be made. I just don't think it's gonna happen unless it actually helps us.
As u said- we don't know what goes on behind closed doors. It's not like our gms aren't aware we have forwards and an inexperienced defence
