{"id":27257,"date":"2010-10-01T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T22:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=27257"},"modified":"2010-10-06T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T18:22:21","slug":"predictions-2010-edmonton-oilers-betting-preview-11010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nhl\/predictions-2010-edmonton-oilers-betting-preview-11010\/","title":{"rendered":"2010\/11 Edmonton Oilers Predictions \u2013 Odds \u2013 Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>2010-11 NHL Predictions\/Previews: Edmonton Oilers <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>CappersPicks.com\u00a0<a href=\"\/nhl\/\"><strong>NHL Betting<\/strong><\/a> and gambling site provides the BEST Online\u00a0<a href=\"\/handicappers\/\"><strong>hockey predictions<\/strong><\/a> for you to bet on for the 2010\/11 NHL hockey season! Stick with us all season long! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDMONTON OILERS<\/strong><br \/>\nStanley Cup odds: +7500<\/p>\n<p>After seeing teams like Pittsburgh, Chicago and Los Angeles become powerhouses by building through the draft in the post-lockout era, the Edmonton Oilers have to be pretty frustrated. They\u2019ve piled together one first-round pick after another but have nothing to show for it. In fact, despite having a young, speedy team, they finished with the NHL\u2019s worst record last season.<\/p>\n<p>Are the Oilers in store for more misery this season? Or will the young guns finally click?<\/p>\n<p>Looking up and down the Oilers\u2019 2009-10 roster, it was easy to see why the roster flopped. The forward corps had speed to spare but, aside from Dustin Penner, seriously lacked size and strength. Ales Hemsky, Gilbert Brule, Andrew Cogliano and Sam Gagner all have skill to their game but aren\u2019t strong on the puck. Hemsky is also injury prone and both Gagner and Cogliano haven\u2019t delivered the promise they showed as high-draft picks. <iframe allowtransparency='true' src='http:\/\/ff.connextra.com\/Bodog\/selector\/client?client=Bodog&#038;placement=Ext_RS_Sports_250x250&#038;cxt_aff_id=151627' class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 3px solid #FFFFFF;\" width='250' height='250' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border-width:0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the back end, the Oilers should\u2019ve been better than they were. Sheldon Souray, Kurtis Foster, Ryan Whitney and Tom Gilbert are all big and relatively young, but they lost too many one-on-one battles. The Oil could use a blueliner with better foot speed.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltending was a sore spot with the young and inexperienced Jeff Deslauriers filling in for injured Nikolai Khabibulin. But the Russian veteran netminder is healthy now and ready to reassume starting duties this season.<\/p>\n<p>However, as bleak as last season was, there\u2019s plenty of hope for 2010-11. The Oilers have three major new arrivals at forward: Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Magnus Paajarvi. If training camp and the preseason tell us anything, they\u2019ll be special. Hall, the first overall pick in the 2010 entry draft, has the hands and scoring touch of a bigger Patrick Kane; Eberle was an outstanding clutch scorer in junior; Paajarvi is an absolute burner.<\/p>\n<p>Pessimists will look at the new arrivals and say \u201cHey, people talk up the Oliers\u2019 youngsters every year. Why should this year be different?\u201d But the more positive outlook suggests that Hall, Eberle and Paarjavi have a stronger pedigree than any other rookies to come through the Oilers\u2019 system this decade.<\/p>\n<p>If the Colorado Avalanche, Phoenix Coyotes and Los Angeles Kings taught us anything last year, quick turnarounds are possible in the new NHL. The Oilers won\u2019t become Cup contenders overnight but they haven\u2019t enough talent to become relevant again and even flirt with a playoff berth this season.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m drinking the Kool-Aid. Expect the Oilers to mature into a bubble playoff team this season. Even if they fall short, they should be one of the most fun teams to watch.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodog.ca\/welcome\/151627\/betting-offers\/capperspicks-football-deposit-bonus.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">NOTE: To all the Canadians visiting CappersPicks.com today! 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CLICK HERE!!<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shea Matthews weighs in with his 2010-2011 Edmonton Oilers Season Gambling Picks and NHL Preview, plus he provides the lastest NHL odds, Oilers future lines, and Stanley Cup predictions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":27259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[34010,34011,35639,35640,35641,35642,34013,34014,35647,35011,2994,2996,3080,17638,895,3207,17823,35643,35644,35645,35646,1968],"class_list":["post-27257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl","tag-2010-nhl-predictions","tag-2010-nhl-stanley-cup-odds","tag-2010-oilers","tag-2010-oilers-predictions","tag-2010-oilers-season-preview","tag-2010-2011-edmonton-oilers-season-betting-preview","tag-2010-2011-nhl-predictions","tag-201011-nhl-preview","tag-bet-on-oilers","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey-picks","tag-hockey-predictions","tag-hockey-wagering","tag-nhl-hockey-predictions","tag-nhl-picks","tag-nhl-predictions","tag-nhl-season-preview","tag-oilers-2010-preseason-schedule","tag-oilers-nhl-schedule","tag-oilers-odds","tag-oilers-picks","tag-stanley-cup-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27459,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257\/revisions\/27459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}