http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1JTK7JUts
watch that video.
So it is apparent that Hitler was not a Mactavish fan. However, can all of the Oilers troubles, and misfortunes be blamed on him alone? Sure he likes his team to play a checking, grinding type of hockey, but so do many other coaches, and its a system that works, as per Oilers circa.05-06. The biggest problem the Oilers have been plagued/faced by, for a long time, is their offense. Yes playing a grinding/checking game slows it down, but not to the point of what it has become for the Oil. Mactavish started as an assistant coach to Kevin Lowe in 99-00. In 2000-2001 he stepped into the head coaching role when Kevin Lowe was promoted to General Manager. His star player in his first year was Doug Weight, who finished 8th in NHL scoring with 90 points that season. The supporting cast consisted of Ryan Smyth, Janne Niinima, Anson Carter, and Todd Marchant. Their goaltender that season was Tommy Salo. Now, we will take a look at Mactavishes complete tenure with the Oilers, each seasons results, and what his lineups consisted of.
2000-2001
Doug Weight (90pts)
Ryan Smyth (70pts)
Janne Niinima (46pts)
Anson Carter (42 pts)
Todd Marchant (39 pts)
Goalie:
Tommy Salo
Finish:
6th in the West, lost in first round to Dallas
2001-2002
Mike Comrie (60 pts)
Anson Carter (60 pts)
Ryan Smyth (50 pts)
Janne Niinima (44 pts)
Jochen Hecht (40 pts)
Goalie:
Tommy Salo
Finish:
9th in the West
2002-2003
Ryan Smyth (61 pts)
Todd Marchant (60 pts)
Anson Carter (55 pts)
Mike York (51 pts)
Mike Comrie (51 pts)
Goalie:
Tommy Salo
Finish:
8th in the West, lost in first round to Dallas
2003-2004
Ryan Smyth (59 pts)
Radek Dvorak (50 pts)
Mike York (42 pts)
Shawn Horcoff (40 pts)
Raffi Torres (34 pts)
Goalie:
Tommy Salo/Ty Conklin
Finish:
9th in the West
2005-2006
Ales Hemsky (77 pts)
Shawn Horcoff (73 pts)
Jarret Stoll (68 pts)
Ryan Smyth (66 pts)
Chris Pronger (56 pts)
Goalie:
Jussi Markanen/Ty Conklin/Mike Morrison/Dwayne Roloson (aquired that year)
Finish:
8th in the West, lost in Stanley Cup Final to Carolina
2006-2007
Ryan Smyth (53 pts)
Petr Sykora (53 pts)
Ales Hemsky (53 pts)
Shawn Horcoff (51 pts)
Jarret Stoll (39 pts)
Goalie:
Dwayne Roloson
Finish:
12th in the West
2007-2008
Ales Hemsky (71 pts)
Shawn Horcoff (50 pts)
Sam Gagner (49 pts)
Dustin Penner (47 pts)
Andrew Cogliano (45 pts)
Goalie:
Mathieu Garon/Dwayne Roloson
Finish:
9th in the West
2008-2009 (still in progress)
*currently
Ales Hemsky(63 pts)
Shawn Horcoff (49 pts)
Sheldon Souray (48 pts)
Tom Gilbert (43 pts)
Ales Kotalik (41 pts)
Goalie:
Dwayne Roloson
Finish:
currently 9th in West 2 points behind St Louis
So Mac-T's tenure hasn't been too all inspiring, and, or, plain mediocre. However, can he be blamed entirely? The Oilers (minus Doug Weights big year), under Mac-T's rule, never really had a Super Skilled, Top Notch, All Star. Ales Hemsky is the Oilers latest greatest attempt, but even he falls short of All Star status. Currently Mactavish's record as head coach stands at : 263-217-47-47 (the extra column are for ties in the old NHL). He is a winning coach, possibly the problem for the Oilers goes deeper, or, higher up. To Kevin Lowe, the Oilers former General Manager, who managed the team just as long as Mactavish coached it. Combined, the two have lead the team to two 1st round exits, and one magical run to a loss in game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. All of this over 7 seasons, 8 including this one. Meanwhile other teams in their division, such as the Calgary Flames have enjoyed much more success:
Calgary Flames
Stanley Cup Final (03-04)
1st Round Exit (finished 3rd in West)
1st Round Exit (finished 8th in West)
!st Round Exit (finished 7th in West)
Colorado Avalanche
Stanley Cup Champions (00-01)
3rd Round Exit (finished 2nd in West)
1st Round Exit (finished 3rd in West)
2nd Round Exit (finished 4th in West)
2nd Round Exit (finished 7th in West)
2nd Round Exit (finished 6th in West)
Minnesota Wild
3rd Round Exit (finished 6th in West)
1st Round Exit (finished 7th in West)
1st Round Exit (finished 3rd in West)
Vancouver Canucks
1st Round Exit (finished 8th in West)
1st Round Exit (finished 8th in West)
2nd Round Exit (finished 4th in West)
1st Round Exit (finished 3rd in West)
2nd Round Exit (finished 3rd in West)
The reason for all their success? Well for Calagry it lies in Jarome Iginla, Doin Phanuef, and Mikka Kipprusoff. For Colorado its been with Joe Sakic, Milan Hejduk, Peter Forsberg, Patrick Roy, Rob Blake (okay the list goes on). For Minnesotta its in Marian Gaborik, and all the great goal tending they have ever had. For Vancouver its been Todd Bertuzzi, Markus Naslund, The Sedin Twins, and Roberto Luongo. Who has it been for the Oilers? Ryan Smyth? Ales Hemsky? One year of Chris Pronger? No the Oilers have not experienced that same super stardom for quite some time. When they did, they didn't have the finances to keep those superstars around. Now that there is all this money to be spent (thank you Daryl Katz), the Oilers seem to be lost in what the hell to do... During his tenure, Kevin Lowe, traded away Doug Weight, Ryan Smyth, Chris Pronger (OK so he had no choice), and so far the best return on any of those, has been the Pronger trade (Jordan Eberle, Riley Nash, Laddy Smid, ultimately Patrick O'Sullivan and Ales Kotalik). The others have brought in useless parts.
The summers haven't been any different, with the biggest names coming in being that of, Chris Pronger (traded one year later), Michael Peca (same thing), Sheldon Souray, Petr Sykora, and Lubomir Visnovsky. Meanwhile other teams are signing Marian Hossa, Todd Bertuzzi, Markus Naslund, Brian Campbell, Robert Lang, Paul Kariya, and Ryan Smyth. Maybe Edmonton isn't exactly the place everyone is scrambling to get to, but if the money is there, then how many goes are gonna turn it down? Kevin Lowe in my opinion, is more to blame then Craig Mactavish, all the high hopes and promises are based on who is in the lineup, not on Mactavishes plans for the season. Steve Tambellini is now holding the cards, which could bode a lot better for this team. Mactavish will probably not be our coach next season, but I wouldn't completely blame him for all the Oilers under performing. This Oilers team could see some big changes upcoming, and the franchise could look quite a bit different in the near future. When we look back in 5 years, and see all the mediocrity this team experienced, hopefully we can see it as a cause of the Mactavish/Lowe rule over this franchise, and hopefully have a good chuckle, and watch the new DVD we just bought, story booking the Oilers trip to winning the 2013-2014 Stanley Cup.
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Firstly not a winning coach...add the OTL which ARE LOSSES and he is one game below .500,
ReplyDeleteSecondly the other west teams have groomed their talent from within the organization almost all the players that you named were not superstars when they arrived in their cities, that speaks measures to the Oiler organization, and how shitty these former oilers are at their jobs, just because you were mediocre at hockey doesn't make you good at coaching, managing, scouting, Right Wayne Gretzky?
Third, NOOOOOOOOOOO Kevin Lowe didn't HAVE TO trade Pronger, no where in a contract does it state, "When I want to be traded you must trade me" Its called "either play or sit in the press box until we find a deal that makes sense to us, oh and PS you don't play you don't get paid" and I'm pretty sure they could have gotten him to play. Ask the Senators about there situation with Yashin....
Fourthly Its not Darryl Katz money that has changed things Kyle, it is the fact that there is a Salary Cap now, ALL teams should be spending (SMARTLY EDMONTON, SMARTLY) AT THE CAP!!!!!!!!!!! Its even in the league now its not Katz's magic money that has changed things
Fifthly, Why dont good players want to come here??? The owners throw money at them and they are like "Nah I'm good actually" Why is that? The weather no that cant be it because Calgary has the same weather and they have talent that want to be there, it must be the management crew which leads me too say...the Oilers are not going ANYWHERE until they are purged of all former oilers, and all former oiler ties ARE COMPLETELY cut, until then there is no future for the oilers, NONE.
Here's my prediction a much more realaistic one then Kyle's, MacT is not fired but shuffled within the organization, and Fuckburger (has a 35-35-10 [thats 10 games BELOW .500] record with Springfield last year include no playoffs) or Huddy take over as coach and that is NOT a fix, thats not even a bandaid, thats salt in the wound!!!!!!! The oilers will continue to slide for the next 3 years until they decide at maybe, just maybe the former oilers have no idea what they are doing and finally fire all of those douchebages, and then they re-build from the ground up, get all these fucking losers out of Edmonton that make wayyyyy too much money, like your Penners, your Horcoffs, and your Staois'. Because if it smells like shit, tastes like shit, and looks like shit...ITS SHIT!!!!
So sorry Kyle your dream of a 2013-2014 Stanley Cup run is completely IMPOSSIBLE
wow, you must have spent alot of time typing that...good for you ;)
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