I can vouch for this. 5 is somebody who once ripped my head off for saying Nicholburger was a drunken pickled buffoon. This poster has come around full circle. We used to argue about this stuff.
Now we agree on almost everything. heh
True true lol.
I usually give people and organizations the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise, and that point has been reached.
After the decade of darkness followed by the decade of McDavid, all the Oilers management has done shoot themselves in the foot time and time and time again, making preventable unforced error after preventable unforced error. Just when you think they’re aiming right, you realize they’ve got the gun pointed at their forehead instead of down range, and you watch them blow their brains out in real time.
I’m a diehard lifelong fan of this team and that will never change. I’ll always cheer for them to succeed no matter what. And my money has been where my mouth is as I’ve been a season-ticket holder in some of the most expensive seats for decades. I love going to the rink and love watching the games.
But I’m tired of feeling like Charlie Brown when Oilers management plays Lucy and keeps pulling the ball away at the last second. I used to trust that Lucy would hold the ball but now I realize she’s just a f***ing bitch. That is Oilers management to me. A bunch of brain dead incompetent know it alls who could f*** up a free lemonade stand in midsummer on Jasper and 101st.
It’s been a litany of idiot general managers and POHO‘s and where I used to give the benefit of the doubt I am now firmly in the show me state and have developed, perhaps an unhealthy dose of scepticism and cynicism towards our management team.
I don’t know if that’s wrong and I know I’ve been venting a lot lately here where I feel it’s a safe place to do so as it’s just a bunch of fans who want the best for our team around here.
When you’re getting paid millions of dollars a year to just build a competent secondary cast with reliable goaltending and defence around the worlds best two players with the goal of winning a Stanley Cup and can’t get it across the finish line, no in fact, you make the team much worse, then I’m like Seinfeld and wave off the nonsense and leave the theatre.
I know it sounds like a bunch of negative bullshit and maybe it is but that’s where my mindset is right now. I feel frustrated for the players and want nothing for the best for each of them, but I have nothing but disdain for our front office, management, scouts, player development, and especially our goalie coach who I used to also give the benefit of the doubt to and support much to my chagrin around these parts.
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