MettleMcOiler
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Top of my head.
Ryan Smyth
Kyle Brodziak
Patrick Maroon
Taylor Hall
Curtis Glencross
Any others?
Ryan Smyth
Kyle Brodziak
Patrick Maroon
Taylor Hall
Curtis Glencross
Any others?
Wayne Gretzky?
Half those guys left over money. Did they really want to stay here?
The list of players Oiler fans have chased out of town is much longerTop of my head.
Ryan Smyth
Kyle Brodziak
Patrick Maroon
Taylor Hall
Curtis Glencross
Any others?
Not sure if this had been posted somewhere but this looked like a good spot.
Maroon shares his thoughts on playing in Edmonton, and the Oilers team.
Pretty honest interview....
Barstool Sports
The Maroon interview is about 24 minutes in.
He loved the city, loved the team, but there sure are some stupid f***ing people in Edmonton.Cliff notes?
Cliff notes?
“I didn’t really want to get traded out of Edmonton,” Maroon said. “I actually loved it there. I actually liked it. The fans are great. I liked it. You know what the most important thing was? The guys were great. Unbelievable guys. You could not have found a better group of guys. But obviously I got traded for a reason. We weren’t winning.”
Maroon said Connor McDavid is a humble, nice kid and well respected by his teammates. Bissonnette then mentioned the video where McDavid and his parents were leaving an Edmonton restaurant and got heckled by some oafs. Bissonnette said he would beat up the hecklers himself, but praised McDavid for ignoring it and staying in his lane.
Bissonnette asked what it was like being in a Canadian city when expectations were so high but the team did so poorly.
“It sucks, to be honest with you,” Maroon said.
He then talked about how he’d been shopping with his fiance just before the trade deadline when an older fan came up to him and. “He said, ‘Yeah, you’re not having a good year like you did last year.’ I’m just like, ‘Yeah, you’re right, I’m not.’ And then he was just like, ‘I think the team needs to do this and that.’ And he’s just telling me about the team and what they need to do and my fiance finally looked at him and said, ‘All right, I think your time is up.’
“Even when you go out to dinner, people come up to you and they try to be like the GM, coach, player, and you’re just like, ‘Man I would love to see you on the ice. But they’re not out there. And I’m out there.” It’s a hard city to live in but it’s one of those things when you kind of chuckle and you laugh when you go to West Edmonton Mall and people are chirping you about how bad you are and walking around looking at the casino and the amusement park and you’re like, ‘Jesus, where am I right now? I’m playing hockey in the NHL.’”
Whitney said there’s an upside to hockey in Edmonton. “If you’re on a good team in Edmonton, it’s incredible. I would have loved to have played there because when you’re good, I’m sure that year it was buzzing. You go to Cactus Club, everything is free, but then when you’re bad you’re trying to park your car and you’re getting chirped for how you parallel park. You can’t even shut your door the right way. It’s like every little single thing you do just gets shit on your face. It’s like a complete disaster.”
Maroon said in 2016-17 he was indeed well loved in Edmonton and he was getting free meals everywhere. “The following year things are going bad and I’m just getting chirped everywhere I go…. People are just chirping you the entire time, and you’re just like, ‘What the hell is going on? What happened from the year before that I’m doing this year? Just cause our team sucks does that mean that I suck to?”
Yeah, I have a tough time putting them on this list.Half those guys left over money. Did they really want to stay here?
That 2006 off season was the first big clue how bad of an executive Lowe was. EIG finally opened the wallet after that long playoff run and Lowe decides to give massive salary bumps to everybody and then try to play hard ball with his best player, the guy that had been taking hometown discounts for a while. He created that entire mess by himself. He should have prioritized signing Smyth first. He likely could have gotten most of the rest cheaper as a result.Ryan Smyth wanted to stay. He was offended that he, the only genuine star on the team after pronger was getting hard negotiated while Rolston pisani and horcoff got sweetheart deals.
That 2006 off season was the first big clue how bad of an executive Lowe was. EIG finally opened the wallet after that long playoff run and Lowe decides to give massive salary bumps to everybody and then try to play hard ball with his best player, the guy that had been taking hometown discounts for a while. He created that entire mess by himself. He should have prioritized signing Smyth first. He likely could have gotten most of the rest cheaper as a result.
That 2006 off season was the first big clue how bad of an executive Lowe was. EIG finally opened the wallet after that long playoff run and Lowe decides to give massive salary bumps to everybody and then try to play hard ball with his best player, the guy that had been taking hometown discounts for a while. He created that entire mess by himself. He should have prioritized signing Smyth first. He likely could have gotten most of the rest cheaper as a result.
Terrible. Anyone who does that crap should turn in their fan card.
Terrible. Anyone who does that crap should turn in their fan card.
He might have been sold but his wife wanted LA to from what I remember at the time. Pocklington's money woes were a part of it though that guy ruined what could have been a few more Cups in Edmonton.Yeah your right, I was little hazy in exactly what happened. But it seems that IF the Oilers had the money at that time, Wayne would of stayed an Oiler. It's still a good feeling knowing that Gretzky still loved Edmonton after everything that happened.
Dad convinced Gretzky to pick L.A. in historic 1988 trade | CBC Sports
"I was sold. Not Traded" - Wayne Gretzky
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