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Color me with being fine Blues are taking last WC spot. Would rather have them in than Calgary or Vancouver. Sure Blues took our pants down. I blame the Oilers for that, not the Blues.

Winnipeg probably end up facing the Blues. Will be interesting if Blues continue to be hot and Jets playing like crap last several games.
 
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Brutal OOT. All other clubs that impact us winning. Oilers again in third place and Kings with a game in hand and winning every game. Kings have a ton of home games left where they hardly ever lose.

Kings walking all over the Bruins 7-2. So dominant there were track marks. Oilers haven't been on top of their game since when?

Guess we gotta hope they figure it out. I thought nothing of the Kings team this year but they're flying and now Jeannot and Byfield are getting going. Kings didn't add much of anything at TDL but somehow they're going better.
 
Drivesaitl said:
Brutal OOT. All other clubs that impact us winning. Oilers again in third place and Kings with a game in hand and winning every game. Kings have a ton of home games left where they hardly ever lose.

Kings walking all over the Bruins 7-2. So dominant there were track marks. Oilers haven't been on top of their game since when?

Guess we gotta hope they figure it out. I thought nothing of the Kings team this year but they're flying and now Jeannot and Byfield are getting going. Kings didn't add much of anything at TDL but somehow they're going better.
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Like you said, Boston is terrible
 
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I knew the Canucks had a lot of luck last season but I did not think they would crash back down to earth this hard. Things were looking up now everything looks bleak.

They lost their best forward for peanuts, they are going to lose Boeser for nothing, Petterssons contract looks terrible, Demko is a bandaid and they just signed Lankinen to a 5x5 and now he looks like shit.
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And Rutherford is praised as an elite hockey executive.

He did nothing but spun tires in the mud in Carolina, abandoned Pittsburgh the moment things became challenging, and now is in the middle of dropping an anchor through the floor of their boat.

But thank f*** he's doing it to a rival lol
 
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Drivesaitl said:
Color me with being fine Blues are taking last WC spot. Would rather have them in than Calgary or Vancouver. Sure Blues took our pants down. I blame the Oilers for that, not the Blues.

Winnipeg probably end up facing the Blues. Will be interesting if Blues continue to be hot and Jets playing like crap last several games.
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Gotta say I've never liked the Blues but absolutely despise them now. Usually it's the Flamers acting like a farm system to Florida, Dallas, Vegas but the Oilers management historic bungle gifted two young pedigree talents. I've also shifted to cheering for all Canadian teams to make the playoffs even with bile in my mouth a Flamers option over carpetbagger Blues. The NHL lost its soul years ago pandering to U.S. market and revenue potential. Would rather see some Canadian team success though a first round exit for Flamers and perennial tire spinning as a mediocre franchise is as far as my delusion goes.

Alex, I'll take things I never thought I'd say or want for two hundred please! haha
 
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Gotta say I've never liked the Blues but absolutely despise them now. Usually it's the Flamers acting like a farm system to Florida, Dallas, Vegas but the Oilers management historic bungle gifted two young pedigree talents. I've also shifted to cheering for all Canadian teams to make the playoffs even with bile in my mouth a Flamers option over carpetbagger Blues. The NHL lost its soul years ago pandering to U.S. market and revenue potential. Would rather see some Canadian team success though a first round exit for Flamers and perennial tire spinning as a mediocre franchise is as far as my delusion goes.

Alex, I'll take things I never thought I'd say or want for two hundred please! haha
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Lately posters have been diverting to this is some kind of scheme by the NHL. You seem even to be hinting at that. Its the Oilers fault and the Oilers fault only that they lost their best prospects to offersheets. One could expand to its the Oilers fault they enacted offersheets when few other clubs ever did so and plundered players like Dustin Penner and thought that was fine.

One could easily think Karma and stupidity bit the Oilers ass. The way I'm viewing it.

TBH I'd like to see another league. A real World hockey League would be nice. But now with protectionist market protections that would never happen. NHL shouldn't have a continental monopoly, and cutting the onion not having any competition isn't good for hockey, or even the NHL or viewers. The league can be as poorly run as it can be and our only option is stop consuming.
 
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Lately posters have been diverting to this is some kind of scheme by the NHL. You seem even to be hinting at that. Its the Oilers fault and the Oilers fault only that they lost their best prospects to offersheets. One could expand to its the Oilers fault they enacted offersheets when few other clubs ever did so and plundered players like Dustin Penner and thought that was fine.

One could easily think Karma and stupidity bit the Oilers ass. The way I'm viewing it.

TBH I'd like to see another league. A real World hockey League would be nice. But now with protectionist market protections that would never happen. NHL shouldn't have a continental monopoly, and cutting the onion not having any competition isn't good for hockey, or even the NHL or viewers. The league can be as poorly run as it can be and our only option is stop consuming.
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No I'm not a conspiracy theorist. It's just smart business for the NHL to focus their primary objective of revenue creation on the big population base to the South. That's where the financial growth will be with increasing franchise fees and also the big money national revenue deals are which are vital for all North American professional sports teams to diversify and grow beyond the financial limits of bums in seats. The gift of fandom delivers is that this primary profit motivation gets clouded by soft emotive romantic notions about the love of the game and associated sentimentality. Of course we see the cold splash of wet water on this every strike and lockout when the best interests and 'love of the game' gets parked for carving out the big business's share of money.

Canada's a deeply established basically fully exploited, fished out monopolistic heritage market. A steady, largely secured revenue stream that doesn't require a lot of attention or resources. Pursuing the 340 million population, world economic driving market with all of its potential revenue streams is a no-brainer. This is just another big business whose product happens to be sports entertainment.

Absolutely agree this was a complete botch job of inexperienced Oilers management who failed to see the signs of a changing marketplace with finally some spending growth coming out of the covid stalled cap; bullish external evaluation of their poorly developed young pedigree talent; failure to be pro-active in negotiating with young, emergent talent coming off proving points with a deep Cup run; one frustrated player with a public trade request; and blowing past their Cap ceiling on July 1 week. There's no conspiracy there. Just a historic, precedent setting poor organization decision.

I appreciate your final point. It took the WHA to get Edmonton into the NHL cartel and to force significant change to a pretty stodgy NHL monopoly. Unfortunately I think that would be pretty tough to challenge in this modern context.
 
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I feel like I've read these same sentiments somewhere before.
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I feel so bad for them.

It's to the point where it is a true curse. You look at their roster and it isn't even that bad, it just doesn't work. Their defence is a bit young and are missing some overall defensive competence, goalies a bit green too, but still. They shouldn't be last in the conference.

The worst thing is they are going to start making moves for the sake of making moves that are only likely to do damage, as we saw with the Cozens/Norris trade.
 
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I feel so bad for them.

It's to the point where it is a true curse. You look at their roster and it isn't even that bad, it just doesn't work. Their defence is a bit young and are missing some overall defensive competence, goalies a bit green too, but still. They shouldn't be last in the conference.

The worst thing is they are going to start making moves for the sake of making moves that are only likely to do damage, as we saw with the Cozens/Norris trade.
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I can't remember what radio show it was I was listening to, probably fox. More so how some of the poorer NFL clubs on field just stem from poor ownership. They mentioned how a good owner will actually know the names of people that do simple tasks like cleaning an office. From there it's a trickle down effect all the way to the locker room as there is a vibe that no matter how big or small your role is you feel like a family.

The Bills oddly enough were one of the teams that were talked of as having this good core family vibe.

Yet when it comes to the Sabres it's as if no one truly cares about having the same type of vibe. Sabres it's more turned into people showing up for doing a job and happy to leave the arena.
 
Looks like it will be Kuchey and Nate-dog going for the Art Ross once again. Sadly. And I wonder if William Nylander has enough bullets left to challenge for the Rocket?
 
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