Oilers hire Stan Bowman as GM & EVP of Hockey Ops

[Little Fury]

Ah yes, the guy who fell into first and second overall picks, then ruined the core whilst giving a sexual predator a positive review so he could go sexually abuse more minors. That's exactly the type of person you go and hire as the GM.

I hate this hire, but there's no evidence this happened.

 

[DingerMcSlapshot]

Hahahahaha

Mcdavid will never win a cup with Edmonton.

Coming up year is McDraia's last anyway.

 

[JPT]

Yeah a guy taking a picture during a consensual act and sharing it is definitely the same as enabling and writing a recommendation for a rapist to a new job where he does it again.

Average Edmontonian. Enjoy your 4 hour drive to the 4th best mountain town in Alberta.

Was there consent to share the picture? If not, that's very f***ed up in its own right and is a sexual abuse crime in a lot of places.

 

[Coffey]

Nah Banff is the worst

Jasper?

 

[HabzSauce]

Keep defending that draft pick like the rest of your fan base. average Quebec mentality lol

Lmao of course I'll defend it. What he did was no where close to the predator allegations people were making him out to be.

Mailloux is a fantastic player, I'm happy Bergevin didn't let the cancel culture snowflake mob stop him from drafting him.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

I disagree. I disagree with the hire as I wrote above, but I also think they are free to do it. There is an argument to be made that what happened with Beach was 14 years ago, and Bowman has now done his time and served his punishment.

Say it how it is.

Beach got raped 14 years ago.
Bowman Enabled the Rapist to go to another place of work and he then raped a 16 year old.

3 years of no NHL is no punishment.

 

[Chainshot]

Well this is a choice. :I

 

[Kahvi]

I think you'd be hardpressed to find any Oiler fan celebrating this, Kahvi.

Might be so and it's a good thing, but I still like the reaction from your fanbase and I think it deserves a nod.

 

[Coffey]

Might be so and it's a good thing, but I still like the reaction from your fanbase and I think it deserves a nod.

I'm sure Instagram/Twitter/Facebook has some people saying "He won cups! I have no problems with it!"

But HF is the last bastion of sanity for hockey takes, as crazy as that sounds lmao

 

[Czechboy]

One day the oilers will conduct an extensive search into the right gm. This summer wasnt it. Bowman wouldn't have even got an interview in my world. Gretzky would have been a better hire. Jackson doing it interim would've been better. McDavid girlfriend would have been a better hire. This is the equivalent of bringing back chia.

 

[SimpleJack]

Remember when Bowman gave away Phillip Danault for a couple months of Weise and Fleichman?

That’s up there with the Panarin and Teravainen trades too.

He really was awful after that 2014/15 season and was the main reason their run ended.

Add in the off-ice stuff and then u really start to get an idea just how bad of a hiring this was. Wonder what McDavid is thinking….

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

The only possible positive he could spin to get this GM gig to Oilers brass is that his drafting even with downswing in 2nd half of his time in Chicago is far better than what Oilers have done

Literally Oilers have been atrocious at drafting outside of #1, #2 and #3 picks in drafts

It's amazing they got so close to cup but two generational talents + a pretty good former #1 pick in RNH and a FA hit (Hyman) really covered up to an extent the awfulness and lack of depth because of years of lousy drafting

He also could point at his final two drafts which look fairly promising as sign he was improving after some poor years. Allan, Del Mastro, Kaiser, etc all look promising for Hawks

 

[JediOrderPizza]

For all the hassle I don't really think he is a great GM anyways, oddly enough he is probably the Holland equivalent for the Hawks.

 

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[Little Fury]

Lmao of course I'll defend it. What he did was no where close to the predator allegations people were making him out to be.

Mailloux is a fantastic player, I'm happy Bergevin didn't let the cancel culture snowflake mob stop him from drafting him.

I'm sure you'd be singing the same tune if it was your daughter in the photos.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Disappointing.

 

[Hasbro]

And they called me a lunatic when I said Draisaitl is coming to Montreal in 2025. I feel sorry for the Oilers fans. That douche will leave a stain.

Two things can be true.

 

[Kamus]

As an Oilers fan, this is terrible for so many reasons. I don’t get it…. This seems like a Katz hire.

I’m so embarrassed as a fan of the Oilers and an Edmonton resident. Makes no sense.

 

[hangman005]

I'm sure Instagram/Twitter/Facebook has some people saying "He won cups! I have no problems with it!"

But HF is the last bastion of sanity for hockey takes, as crazy as that sounds lmao

That is a phrase I never expected to hear

 

[Coffey]

Can't wait till he trades Drai for Josh Anderson

 

[Woodrow]

This is so bad that I'm not even seeing a bunch of homer fans trying to defend it like you would usually see with basically any move any team makes.

 

[JurassicTunga]

Lol.

Trash hire for a trash organization.

 

[John Price]

he belongs nowhere near a hockey team

 

[Coffey]

That is a phrase I never expected to hear

Forums have a sense of normality and receipts that social media doesn't.
We recognize each other with names, avatars, posting history, etc.
Social media, you're arguing with a new bot or fake account every day.

I LOVE IT HERE

 

[PuckG]

Gross.