{"id":40532,"date":"2019-01-23T02:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=40532"},"modified":"2019-01-23T02:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T07:04:13","slug":"edmonton-oilers-fire-peter-chiarelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/01\/23\/edmonton-oilers-fire-peter-chiarelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers Fire GM Peter Chiarelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> announced they have fired general manager Peter Chiarelli.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Edmonton Oilers have dismissed Peter Chiarelli as President\/GM.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Shannon (@JShannonhl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JShannonhl\/status\/1087968398443794432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Oilers Dismiss GM Peter Chiarelli<\/h1>\n<p>The Edmonton Oilers have parted ways with Peter Chiarelli.\u00a0This season, the team has a record of 23-24-3 and sit in the 7th spot in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 13-year career as a general manager, Chiarelli has split his time between the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a> and Edmonton Oilers. Chiarelli&#8217;s greatest success was with the Bruins in the 2010-11 season when the team won the Stanley Cup. Chiarelli joined the Oilers organization shortly after he was fired from the Bruins in 2015. The Oilers sacrificed a 2nd round pick as compensation for him to be their GM.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers are currently 23rd in the NHL and are 3 points out of a playoff spot, having played more games than teams ahead of them in the standings. The Oilers have only made the playoffs once since Chiarelli took over as the GM, where they were eliminated in the second round by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/ducks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Team\u2019s Future<\/h2>\n<p>This comes just days after signing goaltender\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/koskimi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikko Koskinen<\/a><\/strong> to a 3-year, $13.5 million contract, as well as just recently placing\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/spoonry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Spooner<\/a><\/strong> on waivers. Ryan Spooner is indirectly the result of the trade that sent\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eberljo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Eberle<\/a><\/strong> out of Edmonton. Fans were very displeased when the result of that trade was put on waivers. Chiarelli has been criticized for numerous moves while in Edmonton, such as trading away reigning league MVP\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=hallta02,hallta01&amp;search=Taylor+Hall&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Hall<\/a><\/strong> and signing\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lucicmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milan Lucic<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/russekr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kris Russell<\/a><\/strong> to large, long term contracts. It was only a matter of time until Chiarelli was fired. With Chiarelli out of the picture, this opens the way for a new GM to come in and potentially clean up the organization.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachBear_\/status\/1087401234363953152<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"Pv3Ma2r7QCRHVayoNwU6Ow\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/698806144\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Pv3Ma2r7QCRHVayoNwU6Ow',sig:'tT6q90jCJap8MSOgANrC9ROw68dOtSi3775od-DJAmk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'698806144',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers announced they have fired general manager Peter Chiarelli. The Edmonton Oilers have dismissed Peter Chiarelli as President\/GM. &mdash; John Shannon (@JShannonhl) January 23, 2019 Oilers Dismiss GM Peter Chiarelli The Edmonton Oilers have parted ways with Peter Chiarelli.\u00a0This season, the team has a record of 23-24-3 and sit in the 7th spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":40534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[138,37,38,1522],"class_list":["post-40532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oilers","category-news","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-peter-chiarelli"],"modified_by":"Oscar Elieff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}