This channel needs a deep dive on the disaster that was the Messier era Canucks, which for as rightfully despised as it was, ended up laying the foundation for the West Coast Express, which also deserves it own video
re: the Dangle Narration at 9:27 Steve did a lot of work on the KHL during the lockout, because he was at the stage in his career where the NHL not playing meant he couldn't afford to just wait it out.
Your videos are the perfect combination of urinatingtree and TheHockeyGuy. I binged your entire channel, some videos twice, and have been loving these videos since I grew up a diehard oilers fan through this decade when I was too young to care if they where the basement of the league.
As an Oilers fan that went through the pain of this crap, I thank you for bringing back trauma! You did a great job on all three parts buddy. Keep it up!
The one good thing about the lock out shortened season was my Avs sucked and we drafted Mackinnon lol but love these long reviews can you do it in a way that doesn't drag at all. So keep up the great work!
With this guy's quality of research and presentation, there are a LOT of good storylines. The Thrashers would be a great one to do next. A series on the Sharks "close but no cigar" time throughout the Thornton years would be a good one too. The Sabres from the Brett Hull goal till now would be another one I would love to see on this channel.
this is awesome. during the decade of darkness i was entertained. the team construction was horrible but the kids were flying when they tried. i'm nervous for part 4 when there's enough talent to actually compete. that's when this story really gets frustrating.
Did you know that most of the Edmonton Oilers amateur scouts wanted the team to select Ryan Murray with the first overall pick in 2012? It was Steve Tambellini and Darryl Katz that made the selection of Nail Yakupov.
That's right, you can see a bit in the episode of Oil Change that the scouts look pained when Tambellini asks who the most "talented" player is in the draft and they have to say Yakupov
Great work on this, can't wait for part 4. I think these videos will really educate non oiler fans on just how much of a mess this organization was from top to bottom year to year, it's actually mind blowing looking back all the mistakes that were made
I'm a long time Oilers fan. This trilogy is so well done that it makes the Decade of Despair less painful and seem more positive. Anyone else feel this way? Am I crazy??
It’s really cool to see how this team went through being a team that made the finals was down 3-1 and pushed their way to a game 7 and lost to a horrible team with all the sad parts involved involved back to a cup contender with mcdrai
Ekblad, Bennett, and Sam Reinhart are all members of the Florida Panthers now, with Reinhart having his first 50 goal season. Update: Ekblad, Reinhart, Draisaitl, and Bennett made it to the Stanley Cup Finals, and the Panthers won their first Stanley Cup in franchise history!
Yakupov, McTavish, Eakins, Schultz... this is "peak" dark ages Oilers to me. God, what a horrific squad through and through I was all there to see Schultz get his 2 cups with my Pens though. Him and Kessel xD Speaking of a team going through a dark age lmao...
Wow, I must commend you on the amount of work you did to make this documentary, bravo! Also, I was just finally forgetting how painful it was to witness all of this in real time. Thanks for rehashing my trauma! 😂
The series is just a reminder that they literally needed one of the greatest players of all time before the ship finally got turned on the right course again. Hopefully, Connor wins his Cup for them. He more than deserves it.
Your work is phenomenal. I think at some point if you can do a similar series on the islanders from the mid 90s- mid 2000s would be a great video idea as well. They are equally if not more dysfunctional than the 06-15 oilers.
If Boyd Gordon has 100,000 fans, I'm one of them. If Boyd Gordon has 1,000 fans, I'm one of them. If Boyd Gordon has 10 fans, I'm one of them. If Boyd Gordon has 1 fan, I'm him. If Boyd Gordon has 0 fans, I'm dead.
It will be cool to watch your videos come full circle when they win the cup this year. Expecting a full series on the rebuild post darkness to the parade on Jasper this summer.
Dude after this story one on the 2018 capitals and ovis run to the cup that year would be phenomenal (may be hard due to copyright) phenomenal work by the way rare to find good hockey content with solid footage on youtube like this
Why didn't the Oilers dominate with all these top picks? Oh right, terrible asset management and baffling personnel decisions. Thanks for the awful reminder! Great series 11/10
There is also the story of the German Ice Hockey Federation being FURIOUS with the Edmonton Oilers for refusing the loan them Leon Draisaitl for the 2015 World Juniors, only to send him back to junior at the end of the tournament.
Something I can brag about is the fact as a Oilers fan I didn’t want us to draft Yakupov. I thought he had the highest up side but also that he was a risky pick and I wanted us to use our pick for a lower up side but way lower risk
The oilers never should’ve drafted Yakupov. I have it on good authority that none of the scouts wanted to draft him, but Katz overrode them and kept saying “you’re taking the Russian”. There was a good defenceman available that they should’ve taken, but Katz kept saying to take the Russian. The GM of the oilers at the time actually stood up to Katz in the hallway and tried to talk him out of it, but Katz turfed him. Sometimes you have to put your ego aside and listen to your scouts because you have them for a reason.
As a young Leafs fan back in the early 2010s i loved Scrivens. He was an excellent 1B. I was pretty sad to see him out of the league so quickly after I thought he was gonna be the guy in Edmonton. 40:46 Watching the highlights of that Sharks game, he’s still in his signature crouch (no one really holds their glove like that anymore, lol. No one even did at the time) But look at how still he is when he’s on his feet. He’s in his crouch but his feet don’t get wider at all. Compare that to 49:23. He literally slides (ie guesses) behind a pretty bad screen. You generally don’t have to do that to make a save. In fact it’s counterproductive to do so. 50:00 is just Scrivens beating himself. Hansen doesn’t even deke and Scrivens bites. He’s half down before the release. Ugly stuff. This is how you know someone’s confidence is shot. The rest of the (non-covered) goals are just…largely not his fault Except for 53:52, which is a good shot, in a good place (low-blocker just over the pad,it looks like) that you still gotta stop from all the way out there, and that out-stretched position he ended up in indicates that he really didn’t give himself a good chance at that save. What you’d want to see is him dropping into his butterfly as soon as his brain has processed the release with his head tracking the puck, leading his body into the path of the puck, and deflecting the puck over into the corner.
Kevin Lowe did have quite the temper and was prone to saying/doing the wrong things when provoked (the Corey Perry Trade that fell through almost leading to a fist fight with Brian Burke). I had totally forgotten how he tried to dodge accountability once Tambellini was fired. I still personally think Lowe is unfairly treated by Oilers fans today though, given his loyalty to the franchise and resume during the early 2000's and the wizardry that led to the 2006 run, but he shouldn't have been an executive after being fired from the GM spot, the game had passed him by. MacTavish, while a reasonable hockey guy was baffling as a GM hire, the type of guy to sign Boyd Gordon to a 3x3 AND get David Perron in his prime in the same off season, just bizarre. At least he drafted Leon Draisaitl... I guess.
@@oakley22610 That is real interesting. I still see Craig around town from time to time, I actually went to school with his kids. As much as Kevin Lowe was a peripheral part of the core group of the 80's, he was a great defenseman and did a great job leading Edmonton through cash strapped times before the salary cap. I am glad his number is retired to the rafters today, he does deserve it tough times aside.
The only reason i clicked on the first video was because I have Hyman on my fantasy team, literally no interest in the Oilers at all. I just finished episode 3 lmao
Ken Holland needs to be put on the chopping block as well,the Oilers are going no where not having a reliable goalie may the douch should watch his team more.
One of the problems is when teams have the good ole’ boys club of former star players from past glory that walk into these front office jobs and fans are expected to believe that just because they were great players, that they’d be great coaches, GM, presidents, etc. There’s exceptions of course. Steve Yzerman being one.
He never really got a chance with the Oilers, big tough defenseman who played for a long time in a bunch of different places, won a World Junior gold medal, good guy to have as a coach!
They did win big in 1992, it's why the owners hired Bettman, and had pretty big share of hockey revenue. Even as badly as they've done recently, they're probably stronger than the NFLPA imo.
