ladybugblue said:
Actually if you are a fan of the Oilers this is no different than what they have been doing for years. I wanted to put a Oiler name on the back of my Jersey and found that no player stayed long enough. I guess if you are in Detroit it is a different situation but for Oilers fan they have already been doing this for years.
Come on. You don't have 38 year old legends, like the Wings (Yzerman, CHelios, Hasek, Murphy, Joseph, Hull, Shanahan, Robitaille, Larionov, etc.
But you guys always have a hungry young team with lots of speed and heart.
I imagine it's frustrating, losing your guys just when they mature.
But you've still got Smith, Smyth, Brewer, Hemsky and a whole slew of guys I love to watch.
I love Oiler hockey. They can't match up with the skill some teams have. But skill ain't everything. If the Wings played with the passion shown by Oilers, we wouldn't have been knocked out of the playoffs in the first or second round, five times in the last six years.