GDT: Oilers @ Jets 5PM MT

[brentashton]

I haven't been inside but they probably still got those Banners in Winnipeg. What else would they put up there? Moose banners? Jets haven't even been to a cup final, ever, they gotta have the AVCO cup banners up. haha

AVCO repossessed those banners and took them away.




No one gets that joke except you, me and maybe a few other boomers…

 

[Drivesaitl]

Sure.... but Oilers are out some very key players as well. Win is a win.

The Jets on the ice didn't even show up. Look at Schiefele handing us that third goal. Or Iafallo on the first. They didn't give a toss about this game. I wouldn't do it, but Jets were clearly resting. They were treating this game as optional skate it seemed.

 

[rboomercat90]

Well, hang the banner. Wpg has a Pres trophy banner to go along their AVCO Cup banners. Oh wait,, those are in Utah.

Well congrats Wpg, anyway.

Mock all you want but it broke my heart when we lost the AVCO Cup in 1979 and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Mock all you want but it broke my heart when we lost the AVCO Cup in 1979 and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Oh yeah. I was there. I remember Oilers winning one game in the series by a wide margin and thinking maybe they can comeback and then Jets won the deciding game with a pretty clinical performance. Was a great season, playoffs, and final to watch. It was top quality entertainment, Jets and Oilers in 79 and those clubs could handle some NHL clubs at the time.

The Jets had some real good teams. Always said Jets and Nordiques and New England were pretty entertaining. Houston Aeros worth price of admission too with Howe and his boys playing. Those were some great times.

 

[brentashton]

Mock all you want but it broke my heart when we lost the AVCO Cup in 1979 and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

RBoom, I’m not mocking. It was the last one in the WHA and we were good. It did hurt.

That said, within 5 years the hurt went away multiple times over.

 

[rboomercat90]

AVCO repossessed those banners and took them away.




No one gets that joke except you, me and maybe a few other boomers…

Awesome, lol. It took me a moment to remember what business Avco was in.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Really? He seems to do a whole lotta nothing to me. 0-7 on the dot as well.

Didn't see much either tbh. Like another poster mentioned he looks overwhelmed to be here. He did get that one shove at a puck as 3 Jets were busy sleeping in front of their own net.

 

[NeverForget06]

Only thing that needs to happen in the last two games is Perry getting to 20

 

[Heavy Dee]

Taking your kid to this game would be child abuse. Holy crap does NHL have a competition problem. Jets mailing this one all day. Just resting. Didn't mount a thing.

Nothing really can be taken from a game like this with zero intensity. If pro teams just want to sleepwalk through games, which happens so often now maybe the paying crowd can get some refund. This game was worse, far worse than WHA Winnipeg Jets fans would see.

Nice to get the W but cannot wait for these terribly played regular season games to end. Season seems like its gone on forever this year.

Happens in every professional league.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Awesome, lol. It took me a moment to remember what business Avco was in.

I have to get into the Delorean to follow half of Brents humor.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Really? He seems to do a whole lotta nothing to me. 0-7 on the dot as well.

At least analytically he has crushed it in his limited time against limited competition.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Happens in every professional league.

I guess. But I don't watch other sports really. Only Soccer. I couldn't imagine the absolute boredom of golfers or Baseball players going through the motions. Of course I wouldn't be watching.

But hockey its different. Its meant to be an engaging sport and when it isn't....

The telecast made it worse. I absolutely abhor Michaels and Debrusk by now. They're actually selling this game every minute of it as it were contested. Nothing wrong with telling it how it is. It was a no contest. Rod Phillips would have no trouble saying theres more action on Portage and Main outside than at this game. He'd be yawning out loud as if to emphasize the point.

 

[RegDunlop]

The Jets on the ice didn't even show up. Look at Schiefele handing us that third goal. Or Iafallo on the first. They didn't give a toss about this game. I wouldn't do it, but Jets were clearly resting. They were treating this game as optional skate it seemed.

I thought both teams were kind of for first half of game. Then it looked to me like Conner told himself that.... people are prob only here tonight to see him. Which is what only the best of the best do. So he put it into second gear. And... who knows, playing tentatively ... like the Jets did... could've lead to that leg injury.

 

[rboomercat90]

Oh yeah. I was there. I remember Oilers winning one game in the series by a wide margin and thinking maybe they can comeback and then Jets won the deciding game with a pretty clinical performance. Was a great season, playoffs, and final to watch. It was top quality entertainment, Jets and Oilers in 79 and those clubs could handle some NHL clubs at the time.

The Jets had some real good teams. Always said Jets and Nordiques and New England were pretty entertaining. Houston Aeros worth price of admission too with Howe and his boys playing. Those were some great times.

I was around 9 years old the season before this when I started going to Oilers games. By the time that final WHA season started I’d become a hard core fan and never missed a game on the radio. I lived and breathed the Oilers back then as a young kid and that loss was so heartbreaking. There were better things to come of course but it sure didn’t feel that way at the time, lol.

 

[brentashton]

Awesome, lol. It took me a moment to remember what business Avco was in.

Had one on the Main Street in place I grew up.

Always had a negative connotation to me because my parents always said, “never deal with that type of business”. They basically told me they were legal loan sharks. It stuck with me through the 80s when I was starting out. Never used them to finance anything.

Funny how certain things form your future habits.

 

[brentashton]

I have to get into the Delorean to follow half of Brents humor.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I was around 9 years old the season before this when I started going to Oilers games. By the time that final WHA season started I’d become a hard core fan and never missed a game on the radio. I lived and breathed the Oilers back then as a young kid and that loss was so heartbreaking. There were better things to come of course but it sure didn’t feel that way at the time, lol.

Hey I came from working class. Me and my buddies could afford to go to lots of WHA games. Even back then we knew that at some point that was going to be gone albeit we were very surprised that ticket prices stayed low for so long. We were expecting NHL to be out of price range quicker rather than later but oddly that didn't really materialize for decades. 1982 and the economy going in crapper here kept prices down among other things.

But I had mixed feelings about the end of the WHA. Particularly with merger rules allowing each team to keep only two skaters in the entry draft. Was really a poorly negotiated merger leveraged 90% in favor of NHL. It was like losing a war and having to sign reparations.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Did you slow the song down to keep up with the beat?


hehe

 

[29Beast97Mode]

 

[Drivesaitl]

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Was a homer shot count even with the 18shots. Last 3 shots were a dump in bank shot off the boards that happened to float into Skinner. Next shot was a push that wouldn't have crossed goal line, but somehow credited as shot and last one was I can't even remember. A scrimmage around net and shot awarded. I don't know Skinner even had to make a save for last dozen minutes of the game.

Couldn't figure out why Jets bothered pulling the goalie. There was no real reason to and the team sure wasn't feeling it.

For a goalie this was as easy as an NHL game ever gets. Skinner might have dozed off a couple times.

 

[brentashton]

Hey I came from working class. Me and my buddies could afford to go to lots of WHA games. Even back then we knew that at some point that was going to be gone albeit we were very surprised that ticket prices stayed low for so long. We were expecting NHL to be out of price range quicker rather than later but oddly that didn't really materialize for decades. 1982 and the economy going in crapper here kept prices down among other things.

But I had mixed feelings about the end of the WHA. Particularly with merger rules allowing each team to keep only two skaters in the entry draft. Was really a poorly negotiated merger leveled 90% in favor of NHL. It was like losing a war and having to sign reparations.

I remember the “merger” talks being very one sided as well. The NHL dictated how many teams they would accept, forcing the Stingers and Birmingham to fold. The league records were lost in the “merger” and of course the worst was that NHL rights to players reverted back to original NHL clubs. Dave Langevin was a merger era Oiler but became a mainstay of those early IsLander Cup teams for example. John Ziegler was so bad for hockey. Thank god Gretzky was able to be retained. Can you imagine?

 

[rboomercat90]

Hey I came from working class. Me and my buddies could afford to go to lots of WHA games. Even back then we knew that at some point that was going to be gone albeit we were very surprised that ticket prices stayed low for so long. We were expecting NHL to be out of price range quicker rather than later but oddly that didn't really materialize for decades. 1982 and the economy going in crapper here kept prices down among other things.

But I had mixed feelings about the end of the WHA. Particularly with merger rules allowing each team to keep only two skaters in the entry draft. Was really a poorly negotiated merger leveraged 90% in favor of NHL. It was like losing a war and having to sign reparations.

Those tickets were so affordable. I can remember buying tickets in the expansion seats for four bucks. Anybody could go for that price. Even when I moved back to Edmonton in 1985 they were still only 10 bucks to sit in the upper blues.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I remember the “merger” talks being very one sided as well. The NHL dictated how many teams they would accept, forcing the Stingers and Birmingham to fold. The league records were lost in the “merger” and of course the worst was that NHL rights to players reverted back to original NHL clubs. Dave Langevin was a merger era Oiler but became a mainstay of those early IsLander Cup teams for example. John Ziegler was so bad for hockey. Thank god Gretzky was able to be retained. Can you imagine?

Each WHA club could retain only 2 skaters and 2 Goalies. The Oilers put Gretz and Bengt Ake Gustaffson on their skater list. The NHL accepted that list and later decided that one of those, the swede, was property of the Washington Capitals but made that ruling after the fact thus the Oilers only being able to protect one skater. They didn't get a redo. Was such a joke.

Then Gretz not winning Rookie of the year because even though nothing about WHA counted in eyes of NHL somehow it counted that he played there...

 

[ManByng]

Oh yeah. I was there. I remember Oilers winning one game in the series by a wide margin and thinking maybe they can comeback and then Jets won the deciding game with a pretty clinical performance. Was a great season, playoffs, and final to watch. It was top quality entertainment, Jets and Oilers in 79 and those clubs could handle some NHL clubs at the time.

The Jets had some real good teams. Always said Jets and Nordiques and New England were pretty entertaining. Houston Aeros worth price of admission too with Howe and his boys playing. Those were some great times.

I remember they couldn't beat Gary Smith, the guy who couldn't stop a beach ball in the NHL !!

 

[RegDunlop]

Each WHA club could retain only 2 skaters and 2 Goalies. The Oilers put Gretz and Bengt Ake Gustaffson on their skater list. The NHL accepted that list and later decided that one of those, the swede, was property of the Washington Capitals but made that ruling after the fact thus the Oilers only being able to protect one skater. They didn't get a redo. Was such a joke.

Then Gretz not winning Rookie of the year because even though nothing about WHA counted in eyes of NHL somehow it counted that he played there...

Was reading your group msgs and waiting for someone to mention this. It's what pissed me off the most when I was young.

We won't recognize any of your achievements because... well...cough cough you weren't in a real league. Oh... but wait wait....no no you can't be rookie of the year cause that ah...was sort of a real league. What's that? Scoring race....oh cmon ...Marcel ah.... yeah he has more goals...yeah there you go.
Signed...NHL