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I posted this on another thread, but keep this in mind when debating Nurse’s trade value or value to this team generally:

In the last 3 years, Nurse at even strength is:

- 34th in scoring for defenceman, tied with D like Heiskanen and ahead of D like Letang, Chabot, and Seider

- 33rd in goals, ahead of D like Chabot, Seider, Sergachev

- 21st in primary assists, ahead of D like Chabot, Chychrun, Hronek

- 12th in hits, ahead of Trouba, Manson, Larsson

- 16th in shots blocked, ahead of Matheson, Pulock, Harley, Chychrun

- 48th in individual high danger chances for, ahead of Hedman, Morrissey, and Harley,

- 15th in ice time, ahead of Chychrun, Hanifin, Byram, Toews

- 1st in rush attempts

- 12th in individual expected goals, ahead of Harley, Morrissey and John Carlson

So Vegas can deny permission. It’s a rule so that’s the reason why teams have to ask permission in the first place. If they didn’t have to ask permission first then what Vegas is doing would unlawful. It sucks but it’s like a good lawyer reading the terms and conditions and implementing it within the laws.

I haven’t been watching the games as I don’t have a subscription, but checking the stats I am pretty happy with how the guys are going.

Bouch tied third with Crosby on plus minus (and ahead of Celebrini), Nurse tied 6th in Defensive scoring and tied 5th (with Celebrini) on assists, Ekholm and Howard tied 8th on goals (with Celebrini)- Eckholm even has 2 goals? Our defensive Mr Reliable who rarely scores unless he’s pulling out a once in a career hatty- what a guy. Then Samanski 3rd on TOI for Germany, but Germany (and USA) are getting smoked so tough to get good stats with those teams.

Not bad not bad my guys, doing us proud. I’d say Bouch will finally get some respect after this but we already know that won’t happen.

First part of the tweet confirms the penalties for Vegas for violating media policies remain:

>Vegas/NHL met at 10 am today. As it stands, penalties remain as assessed: $100K fine to John Tortorella, Second-round pick. There is possibility if Vegas is compliant with rules, there could be some addressing of this in the future…but it doesn’t sound like there’s room for draft penalty to be revoked…

Just wanted to remind you all about this presser from Draisaitl after Woody was fired in 2023.

Any coach the Oilers hire SHOULD have a consistent track record in delivering quality possession hockey.

Bruce Cassidy's Knights delivered.

For the record, Craig Berube's Leafs ranked 16th (2025) and 26th (this season) over the last 2 seasons in xGF% at 5v5.

Don't hire Craig Berube.

Find a coach that can coach a possession-heavy system.

What a shitty situation this team is in right now

• He paid for lots of fear mongering propaganda about the Oilers getting moved after his first failed bid attempt (As if one of the most profitable teams in the league would need to be sold and moved to somewhere like Atlanta Georgia...........)

• I remember the propaganda around him (most likely paid for) of being a Bruce Wayne savior (small pp rich person wannabe batman energy) of the Oilers when he did actually buy the team. (I wonder where the fear mongering of moving the team to the states came from...)

• In his second bid attempt, he absolutely fleeced the Oilers Investment group and they caved to the fear mongering.

• He charges 20$ for a beer

• He convinced city councillors to pay for the arena, while he collects all revenues for a bajillion years.

• He is weird

• He nickle and dimed homeless shelters

• He has his own personal elevator for his car at rogers, and watches the games from his weirdo billionaire untelevized bunker inside the rafters of the arena.

• He treats the Oilers like his own little personal childhood toy. Throwing money around to hang out with relics from the past he grew up with.

• He charges 20$ for a beer

• He promotoes the 50/50 as some kind of charity contribution, when it was revealed that his business pockets the majority of the proceeds.

• He signed a paid advertisement contract to taint the sacred oilers jersey with bullshit logos.

• He sounds like a bit of a creepy billionaire perv

• He has more than doubled his net worth in the last 5 years, (he made 5 billion+ since covid)

• He charges 20$ a beer

• He pays to be surrounded by relics from the past.

• Through no competence of his own, he somehow lucked into having not only McDavid, but ALSO Draisaitl BOTH AT THE SAME TIME on his team, but pissed away the last 10 years due to his love of middle aged bald men GMs.

• He charges 20$ a beer

For real, Katz sucks

Edit: I know there are lots of bots these days on all social media platforms. For sure there are some legitimate Katz lovers, but just want to encourage people to check out the comments from "reddit users" that are dismissive of this post and also supportive of Katz. (Whoops, a Billionaire wouldn't pay for social media support, my bad)

With the "Coaching Carousel" that has afflicted the Oilers, I was curious about how the Oilers current coaching term lengths compare to those of the past. Being an Excel dork, I plugged in the data. (This does not include playoff games: Regular season only.)

Start Date	End Date	Total Days	Years	Games Coached (GC)	GC/82	Name
10-Oct-1979	10-Oct-1980	366	1.00	80	0.98	Sather (1)
10-Oct-1980	23-Nov-1980	44	0.12	18	0.22	Watson
23-Nov-1980	05-Oct-1989	3238	8.87	702	8.56	Sather (2)
05-Oct-1989	04-Oct-1991	729	2.00	160	1.95	Muckler
04-Oct-1991	27-Nov-1993	785	2.15	188	2.29	Green
27-Nov-1993	20-Jan-1995	419	1.15	60	0.73	Sather (3)
20-Jan-1995	07-Apr-1995	77	0.21	35	0.43	Burnett
07-Apr-1995	01-Oct-1999	1638	4.49	341	4.16	Low
01-Oct-1999	06-Oct-2000	371	1.02	82	1.00	Lowe
06-Oct-2000	03-Oct-2009	3284	9.00	656	8.00	MacTavish
03-Oct-2009	07-Oct-2010	369	1.01	82	1.00	Quinn
07-Oct-2010	20-Jan-2013	836	2.29	164	2.00	Renney
20-Jan-2013	01-Oct-2013	254	0.70	48	0.59	Krueger
01-Oct-2013	16-Dec-2014	441	1.21	113	1.38	Eakins
16-Dec-2014	08-Oct-2015	296	0.81	51	0.62	Nelson
08-Oct-2015	20-Nov-2018	1139	3.12	266	3.24	McLellan
20-Nov-2018	02-Oct-2019	316	0.87	62	0.76	Hitchcock
02-Oct-2019	11-Feb-2022	863	2.36	171	2.09	Tippet
11-Feb-2022	13-Nov-2023	640	1.75	133	1.62	Woodcroft
13-Nov-2023	01-Oct-2026	1053	2.88	233	2.84	Knoblauch

A couple things to note. Measuring the term lengths by raw dates is messy due to the fact that some coaches get an offseason, while some other coaches who are fired mid-season do not. There are also things to consider like lockouts, pandemics, etc.

For this reason, a cleaner way to compare coaching terms is by the number of games coached. In order to get a comparative metric, I have taken the total games from each coaching term and divided it by 82 (the length of an NHL season in 2026). This is also not quite perfect due to shortened seasons from lockouts and a pandemic, and the fact that NHL seasons have varied in length from 80 to 84 games. However, for this purpose, it is close enough and gives us a consistent 'measuring stick.'

So for the upper chart, you mostly want to look at the GC/82 column. This number approximates how many seasons each coaching term was.

Next, we look at it by era. I have divided it into three 15-year eras:

#AVERAGE COACHING TERM (GC/82)

1980-1995	1995-2010	2010-2026	TOTAL (1980-2026)
2.80	2.86	1.61	2.22

To which, the data does not lie. Coaching term lengths are about 40% shorter than they were during 1980-2010. Through 1980 to 2010, coaches lasted about 2.8 seasons. Now, they only last about 1.6 seasons. This means they are overturning coaches about 75% more often than they were in the past.

The main difference here is that in the past there have been 'anchor coaches.' In the 1980-1995 era, that was Sather who had a long term of 8.5 seasons, and during 1995-2010 MacTavish did a term of 8 seasons. The Oilers have not found an 'anchor' for the current era, and that is why the data shows what it does.