Edmonton Oilers 2024-25 NHL Season Preview | The Steve Dangle Podcast

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1. Oilers are Canada's team.

2. As long as Edmonton avoids a 3-11-1 stretch that they always seem to have every season they should be a lock to finish above 108.5 standings points. I'll take the over. Jesse picking the Canucks to win the division again though… I dunno about that. Demko status uncertain, Silovs unproven as a full-time starter if needed, regression for many of their players who shot career-high shooting percentages… Canucks are good, hell even great! But I have a hard time picking them over Edmonton in the Pacific.

3. Mostly interested to see if whatever nagging injuries McDavid had all of last season are healed or not. Considering he was playing hockey until the end of June I'm leaning towards "no." If McDavid is able to shoot the puck again this year it probably won't matter if Hyman's goals inevitably drop a bit.

4. Defence? Aging out? Cap room flexibility? Skinner in net mid, bad or good?

5. A lot of people forget edmonton was 10th in goals against. Their defense will be fine, even with the losses.

6. Mostly the same team with maybe now the best top 6. Should likely win the division if they can avoid a horrendous start lol

7. I wish the Oilers would've went after Sprong instead of Arvidsson, and kept Holloway.

8. Honestly from an oil fan you guys broke it down pretty well. Sounds like a really fair assessment.

9. McDavid finishes with 137 pts. Oilers with 113. 😉💙🧡

10. They glossed over Skinner playing so bad in the Canucks series he wasn’t even playing two games

11. Elite goaltender?😂 Jessie is always so high with these takes

12. Can't wait to see McCryBaby in tears again. Wouldn't mind seeing him get cross check to the face again and falling down like a baby.

13. Hyman was cheechoo 2.0. Will be a dumpster fire by christmas.

    Bowman is an asshat.

14. Bad defense -> bad goaltending

15. Edmonton has a strong puck possession offence that might have even gotten stronger and unlike the Leafs, who also play a strong forward driven puck possession game, their star forwards dominate in the playoffs. The Oilers still have a lot of weakness on the blueline and their goaltending is inconsistent. You never know what you're getting in net with Skinner from game to game. They probably should have tried upgrade their backup goaltending. It'll be interesting to see how this team comes out of the gate after their game 7 hangover, but the way last season started will probably be in their minds. Getting their young players yoinked off the roster by St Louis and hiring a pariah GM were a pretty bad way to celebrate their great run in the playoffs.

16. TRASH TALKIIG THE OILERS!? Is this what you have to do?! Leafs lost with the full roster! Against the SENS!?… how about give your head a fn shake and leave the GREATER team alone?…. Also marner is a goof and tavares is a goof

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    Oil in 7.

18. I think they will have a great season.
    If they all gel and synchronize early in the season they could have a very great season.

    I think we need another Connor, perhaps another Skinner if ones to be found.

19. The Oilers will outscore any of their problems. I would say they are more of a regular season team than the Canucks, just looking at how they are built.

20. I think we will see a pretty large regression from the canucks this year, they were a massive surprise last year and you could argue that they over performed. I’m not saying they are gonna take a step back like say the Nee Jersey Devils did this past season, but they’re too guys probably aren’t gonna have the best season of their career again right after pretty much destroying they’re own personal best and the goal tending is shakey. If Demko is still not 100% during the season I don’t know that he will be able to play like a vezina calibre player either.

21. Jesse calling Stuart Skinner elite is hilarious. Consistently terrible takes

22. im not even gonna watch but let me predict.. " they will barely make the playoffs . Oilers are so bad. who would ever wanna play there . Mcdavid is gonna be a Leaf REEEEEEEEEEEE" . you people have NEVER said anything good about my team please never speak about us .

23. Vancouver didn't upgrade their team lol they are so high on the Canucks

24. 108.5 is the o/u?

    Well, some of the best analytic stat lines have the o/u as 117.0. Im taking the over on 108.5, lol. Edm has the best offense. They severely upgraded on D and now ranks 4th. Over the last 2 seasons, Skinner ranks 9th in GSAx. Elite is a great word cause S. Skinner was absolutely that.

    Edm was 28th in QA (quality against) last year. They were 1st in quantity and quality for. 2nd in quantity against. Edm projects to improve their QA to 15th which substantially improves the workload Skinner will face. Expect a career year from S. Skinner.

25. Lets not forget that the oilers found something incredible in their penalty kill with janmark and brown. Those two were single handidly destroying teams powerplays to the point that they scored more shorthanded goals than some teams powerplays in the playoffs. And then those two with henrique was starting to become a two way defensive forwards unit that was stunning teams.