Ducks Beat Oilers 5-0, Fans Hoping For Management Change, Not Another Episode Of "Oil Change"

Those people still blame Horcoff, Hemsky and Gilbert for this team.

In a perfect world, there could be two clone Edmonton Oiler franchises.. one specifically for those same people, where they could be subjected to the incredible torture of trying to cheer for an Oilers team with a Tambo management clique that trades those 3 away…

Look at the date of that hire. Sutter wasn’t around last July 1, or the July 1 before that.

Lowe’s good trades were all before 2006. He and the professional scouts were a disaster post-2006. Rob Daum saw O’Sullivan good when he coached him in the minors, which is why he is probably no longer with the Oilers. They brought in Hemsky’s buddy Kotaliik. Katz brought in Comrie for detente reasons in the Edmonton business community. The “get-rid-of-Penner/Heatley” stuff clearly comes from MacT not wanting the player. The dumping of Glencross and Hejda preceded Tambellini. MacT praised Nilsson, and essentially chose Nilsson over Glencross.

The medical staff that cleared the Whitney deal are gone. And there are reports that Lowe insisted on an “established” NHL player for Visnovsky, rather than prospects/picks.

Tambellini has been a very good GM at dumping contracts for picks….Staios, Grebeshkov (who would have had to quality at over $3 million to keep), Garon.

Tambellini, as an incoming GM, had the disadvantage that his predecessor was still around, and could not clean house immediately.

Can you point out something good that the professional scouts did after 2006?

Zona wrote an article a year ago (or more) about the Chicago rebuild and how they added to a strong core by signing people like Hossa and pointing out how many players were in their mid 20’s and NHL players. Currently, the Oil have done neither of those things and want to get rid of all our NHLers to get more non NHLers. I firmly believe we are following the Columbus/Florida/NY Islander model. I’m of the opinion that, with a few easy trades, waiver pickups and simple signings we could be competitive today while still building around our awesome core of youth. For instance, when Jagr came in he had Jiri Hrdina to help him. Ron Francis, Paul Coffey and Mario all veterans by that point… seemless transition. More recently, Seguin has come in to have Recchi (last year), Chara, Krejci and an assortment of great players and is now going to the All Star game. We just throw our young guys to the wolves and ‘hope’ we build a winning environment around them. I really don’t think it would be rocket science to make this Oil team competitive. We should’ve traded Khabi when he was hot. Signed two more mid level D man. The ONLY signing I liked was Belanger (which hasn’t worked out but it was a good signing at the time).

I’d kill to get Nashville’s management in Edmonton… give me Poille and Trotz asap. They make the playoffs every year without a superstar forward, lose their starting Goalie every few years (but always have another one ready) and come in under the cap every year but are always competitive. Our model is apparantly to keep losing and then WHAM Stanley cup.

The problem with the Islanders and Blue Jackets is that they didn’t commit to last place for long enough.

I think two years of finishing last entails enough “commitment” by our management. If any long term commitment is needed it’s to our managerial hierchy.

I think, unless I’ve misunderstood something, the point of this thread is about mismanagement. So when you mention to be happy we didn’t sign Wisniewski or Leino… that would be an example of mismanagement. You also mention Khabibulin was a bad deal in Chicago 5 years ago… so how bad was it that we signed him for a similar term and more money in 2010? Also, nobody said Chicago did it overnight nor do I think the Oilers should either. We are in year 3 of this and still finishing last with little depth, good quality NHLers, lousy goaltending, shallow defensive depth. Hall, Eberle and RNH are fabulous cornerstones… when do we start building around them? Surrounding them with similar teenagers doesn’t make much sense to me.