Prospect Info: Bakersfield Condors 24-25 thread

[TheNumber4]

Week to week? He's seemingly been out for months.

Yeh pretty sure I heard week to week on Oilers Now. Maybe he healed his months long injury and then tweaked something more minor?

Sens send us broken goods. But atleast we sent them a bust.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Considering Regula also hasn't played, I get the feeling the Oil aren't interested in playing someone coming back from injury unless they are 100%. Or at least not playing them during the first half of the season.

I suspect that'll change as we get closer to the playoffs.

 

[TheNumber4]

I woke up this morning with a Matt Savoie dream.

He gets inserted in the playoffs. First shift, we are playing the Stars. He gets the puck behind the Stars net, walks out from behind the net, and glides into the slot, holds, holds, holdssssss, shoots to pick the left bottom corner, but epic kick save by Oettinger. Oettinger on the ground now, rebound goes right back into Oettinger, net front scramble and chaos, other Oilers clear the net front of soft Stars. Savoie there the whole time hunting for the rebound.

Then I woke up, impressed by Savoies poise to walk out in front of the net for that chance, but confused as to why my dream didn’t let him score.

True story.

 

[Stoneman89]

I woke up this morning with a Matt Savoie dream.

He gets inserted in the playoffs. First shift, we are playing the Stars. He gets the puck behind the Stars net, walks out from behind the net, and glides into the slot, holds, holds, holdssssss, shoots to pick the left bottom corner, but epic kick save by Oettinger. Oettinger on the ground now, rebound goes right back into Oettinger, net front scramble and chaos, other Oilers clear the net front of soft Stars. Savoie there the whole time hunting for the rebound.

Then I woke up, impressed by Savoies poise to walk out in front of the net for that chance, but confused as to why my dream didn’t let him score.

True story.

We need goals! Take a gummie next time you go to bed and see if that will get your dream to have him score.

 

[Jumptheshark]

shocked it is still standing

 

[Fourier]

shocked it is still standing

It will be a sad day for me when the old barn comes down. Lots of great memories in that place. I just wish the city had had better ideas of what to do with the property. So far their redevelopment plans seem to be going even worse than Blatchford. They also really seem to have no interest in NE Edmonton.

 

[Jumptheshark]

It will be a sad day for me when the old barn comes down. Lots of great memories in that place. I just wish the city had had better ideas of what to do with the property. So far their redevelopment plans seem to be going even worse than Blatchford. They also really seem to have no interest in NE Edmonton.

I posted it here because every so often people suggested moving our Ahl team here

 

[Fourier]

I posted it here because every so often people suggested moving our Ahl team here

There is no chance that was going to happen. It would have taken hundreds of millions of dollars in renovations to make that work. The City has been pretty much committed to demolishing it since the new arena opened. I went to a public planning meeting before covid. It was a bunch of developers from Calgary trying to tell people about the neighborhood. They were totally out to lunch. The plan was completely unrealistic. And of course the City approved it.

 

[Stoneman89]

Sad to see it go, but it's more than past time to get the job done. Costing taxpayers far too much money every year to keep it on life support.

 

[Fourier]

Sad to see it go, but it's more than past time to get the job done. Costing taxpayers far too much money every year to keep it on life support.

No question that once it was decided it was coming down the sooner it happened the better. But I still doubt they will be able to do anything significant in terms of executing the plans for the area. My guess is that it will simply be an undeveloped eye sore for years to come. I hope they prove me wrong.

 

[Stoneman89]

No question that once it was decided it was coming down the sooner it happened the better. But I still doubt they will be able to do anything significant in terms of executing the plans for the area. My guess is that it will simply be an undeveloped eye sore for years to come. I hope they prove me wrong.

It's the city of Edmonton and their daft council we're talking about, so your prediction is likely correct.

 

[McShogun99]

It will be a sad day for me when the old barn comes down. Lots of great memories in that place. I just wish the city had had better ideas of what to do with the property. So far their redevelopment plans seem to be going even worse than Blatchford. They also really seem to have no interest in NE Edmonton.

They should just turn that site into condos and shops, kind of like what they're planning to do to Millwoods Town Center.

 

[Fourier]

They should just turn that site into condos and shops, kind of like what they're planning to do to Millwoods Town Center.

Here's the plan.

Edmonton Exhibition Lands

Edmonton’s Exhibition Lands site is an incredible opportunity for sustainable, transit-oriented, aspirational redevelopment in the heart of North Edmonton. With over 200 acres of prime land waiting for transformational urban infill under five kilometres from Edmonton’s downtown, serviced by...

www.exhibitionlands.ca

Let's see how the execution goes. My money is on not so good.

 

[Stoneman89]

If they do it in the same time frame as the community at the old airport, we will all be long gone by the time it comes to fruition. Our grandchildren may have a chance of seeing it though.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Good for the kid

 

[Fourier]

If they do it in the same time frame as the community at the old airport, we will all be long gone by the time it comes to fruition. Our grandchildren may have a chance of seeing it though.

The guys we spoke to at the "Final" Community Public Meeting were insisting that it would go very quickly and that the area would be highly desirable. That was five years ago and I believe they just passed the plans last year. I brought up the Blatchford plans and it seemed they were completely unaware of the project. (They were from Calgary). Lots of lofty ideas like beautiful affordable housing which is pretty much an oxymoron these days. They also had no idea it seems of what the surrounding area was like.

They expected Concordia to be a key anchor in the south east corner but as far as I know Concordia had no plans to expand there. They do seem to have a new building but it looks like it will be on the field north of the main campus.

 

[SupremeTeam16]

I don’t know who to be more mad at, Holland for drafting such bad players or Bowman for letting such great players go for almost nothing.

 

[VeteranPresence]

I don’t know who to be more mad at, Holland for drafting such bad players or Bowman for letting such great players go for almost nothing.

Katz for hiring three dud GMs in the McDrai era.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

1-1 after 1, Savoie with the secondary assist at ES. Attard with the primary and Kemp with the goal. Delia is in net and holding the fort down as the Condors were outshot 15-5 in the first.

 

[Soundwave]

It will be a sad day for me when the old barn comes down. Lots of great memories in that place. I just wish the city had had better ideas of what to do with the property. So far their redevelopment plans seem to be going even worse than Blatchford. They also really seem to have no interest in NE Edmonton.

I still don't like tearing this down. It's a piece of history and had the greatest hockey team arguably ever, I would have preferred retro fitting it into a hockey museum/retail space or something.

 

[ImmuneEH]

I really hope Savoie and Philp get a look before the deadline. Philp would be an upgrade on our current 4C, no?

 

[CycloneSweep]

I still don't like tearing this down. It's a piece of history and had the greatest hockey team arguably ever, I would have preferred retro fitting it into a hockey museum/retail space or something.

I mean that would be great but the cost just to have the building in a non condemned state was ridiculously high. Tearing it down and building something new, even if they do a hockey museum would be substantially cheaper. That’s even ignoring the operations cost of a building that large.

 

[Soundwave]

I mean that would be great but the cost just to have the building in a non condemned state was ridiculously high. Tearing it down and building something new, even if they do a hockey museum would be substantially cheaper. That’s even ignoring the operations cost of a building that large.

I think they could have kept it like Maple Leaf Gardens and the Montreal Forum, they just didn't want to.

 

[TheNumber4]

Now that's a shot and release that WILL score in the NHL. Let's Go Savoie!

 

[CycloneSweep]

I think they could have kept it like Maple Leaf Gardens and the Montreal Forum, they just didn't want to.

The building had between $50mill-$100mill in costs just to make the building usable again. Between repairs, asbestos abatement etc. it wouldn’t have been worth it. And that’s not even retrofitting costs.