Fer - The Oilers Will Be Better

Player movement this summer was pretty minimal. Khabibulin replaced Roloson. Kotalik and Brodziak are gone.On paper then the roster is weaker than last season's club. They are short a reasonable fourth liner who could win draws, PK and score a little and a guy who could play in their top nine, hold his own and score some. And Khabibulin may have a ring but he won it five years ago. You might argue that he is an upgrade over Roloson but goaltending was hardly an issue last year and Roloson was durable. Khabibulin, not so much.So if there are no further roster upgrades coming then its pretty clear that Tambellini has put his eggs into the Pat Quinn/Tom Renney basket.And a lot of fans have done the same.There are some who believe that MacTavish was an awful coach and there are those who loved him and then there is the vast in between. That is where you could count me until last season when I felt that MacTavish went off of the rails.Now he was handed a mediocre roster but as the se...