Oilers are beating a dead horse. Solution? Get rid of...

Larsson -15
Pulju -14
Brodziak -13
Lucic -12
Nurse -12
Petrovic -7 in 9 games

When you get rid of the worse +/- players on the team that makes the job for everyone else easier. And you don't add to the problem by acquiring even more terrible +/- players like Chiarelli was apt to do.