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[Scrapin Ice]

Holloway using his feet. Quatorze!
You know Conor has 15 and Hyman has 13. Lol.

Never been a Bruberry fan. Wanted to trade him two years ago for Kovacevic but always been waiting for Dylan to blossom - knew it would take time.
I wanted to match on him so bad.
Curse you to the dark side of the moon Stan Bowman.

 

[oilers4life5]

Bob Stauffer says he doesn't know when Evander Kane will return or if he will return this season after his new surgery.

New Surgery? Say it ain’t so. That means we let our players walk for nothing to accrue cap space and just end up using LTIR anyway?

 

[foshizzle]

Not matching Holloway and signing Skinner will eat at me.

 

[brentashton]

Darryl Katz bought the team in the summer of 2007. A year removed from Edmonton's berth in the Cup Final.

There was a brief period where the remnants of that team and young talents like Sam Gagner, Andrew Cogliano and Rowbear Nilsson were going to bring them back into the playoff picture. But it was a short-lived period that also consisted of the Sheldon Souray debacle. Our management stunk.

Neither one of those guys deserves to be in a management role again.

It could have been so much worse. Did you want Jay feaster as GM instead?

 

[CanadasTeam99]

Fowler looking good in stl

 

[bobbythebrain]

I'm sorry there just isn't any logic to what you're saying. These aren't the same situations.

Ha. No kidfing, it's worse.

A Finnish GM decided to pass on the big Fin. That was even a bigger red flag than Wright.
I can guarantee if Chia hadn't split his pants running to the podium and stuck with his original plan, JP might have dropped a few more like Wright did

 

[CanadasTeam99]

So Montreal's record has been around 6-1-0 ever since they acquired Alexandre Carrier... an ACTUAL top 4 defender.

I don't think Oilers management understand this concept.

Fitting a Top 4 defender into a top 4 position instead of garbage like Stecher and Dermott will make the team better... Do JJ and Bowman know this?

Seems so easy for teams to aquire them. I don't think our scouts can even choose a good target either

 

[North]

The longer this season goes on the more I hate not keeping H and B, and that’s saying something as I thought it was a terrible move to let them walk. Pathetic.

And there is a thread devoted to them.

You’d think this team has a losing record with the way some people endlessly complain about players we lost or didn’t acquire.

 

[Heavy Dee]

And there is a thread devoted to them.

You’d think this team has a losing record with the way some people endlessly complain about players we lost or didn’t acquire.

You need to shut up about this.

 

[oilers4life5]

And there is a thread devoted to them.

You’d think this team has a losing record with the way some people endlessly complain about players we lost or didn’t acquire.

So both things can’t be true? I also love when people tell others what the appropriate way to be a fan is. What a joke.

 

[alphahelix]

Bob Stauffer says he doesn't know when Evander Kane will return or if he will return this season after his new surgery.

New surgery? Was there another new surgery recently?

 

[belair]

It could have been so much worse. Did you want Jay feaster as GM instead?

It was literally the worst it could've been. Do I have to post a video of the press conference?

 

[North]

So both things can’t be true? I also love when people tell others what the appropriate way to be a fan is. What a joke.

I didn’t say anything about how to be fan. Just made an observation. Can’t help it if you don’t like it.

 

[iCanada]

New Surgery? Say it ain’t so. That means we let our players walk for nothing to accrue cap space and just end up using LTIR anyway?

That means we get cap accrual space AND LTIR space at the deadline, FYI.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Seems so easy for teams to aquire them. I don't think our scouts can even choose a good target either

The dartboard has worked fine for decades.

 

[oilers4life5]

I didn’t say anything about how to be fan. Just made an observation. Can’t help it if you don’t like it.

That’s exactly what you did. Sorry you don’t understand. Can’t help you.

 

[brentashton]

It was literally the worst it could've been. Do I have to post a video of the press conference?

How does one presser define 10 years?

 

[oilers4life5]

That means we get cap accrual space AND LTIR space at the deadline, FYI.

I know, it’s just we made a lot of roster depth decisions based on Kane coming back before the playoffs. Like the RFAs walking.

 

[North]

That’s exactly what you did. Sorry you don’t understand. Can’t help you.

Nah. I made a separate post and it combined it with my response to you about the other thread.

My observation was separate. Don’t need you to explain my intentions since I know exactly what they were.

 

[belair]

How does one presser define 10 years?

It was that bad. An embodiment of the stink that enveloped that room during that period. Sheldon Souray wasn't lying about them.

 

[oilers4life5]

Nah. I made a separate post and it combined it with my response to you about the other thread.

My observation was separate. Don’t need you to explain my intentions since I know exactly what they were.

I don’t read intentions, I read words. Glad you don’t intend to tell people how to fan but that is exactly the way that comes across.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

It was that bad. An embodiment of the stink that enveloped that room during that pperiod. Sheldon Souray wasn't lying about them.

So many utterly embarrassing press conferences from management. Six rings, tier two fans, can’t squeeze GMs… just to name a few.

Oh yeah, that goon Nicholson blaming Reider for the playoff miss.

 

[timekeep]

MacT was a bright light in the DoD. And as much as it pains this resident KLowe hater, he too wasn’t the biggest problem.

The real issue is that the cost of operating in that era of the NHL and the shallow pockets of the EIG (bless their hearts though). In hindsight it could have been so much worse without EIG, Lowe, and Craig .

I mean replace Lowe with Tambo, Craig with Chiarelli , during that period, and the team would still be searching for legitimacy.

Truly a dark period of Oilers hockey.

Lowe had hits and misses, leader of the OBC though and pissed off fans. He screwed up with Comrie and didn't shop Pronger properly.

MacT was worse, he brought in Eakins. He also brought in McCellan but had to mentor him to pad his own stats. Players didn't want to play for them and good execs didn't want to work for them as they held unto too many strings.

There is only one reason this team has legitimacy and it was winning the lottery.

 

[brentashton]

Lowe had hits and misses, leader of the OBC though and pissed off fans. He screwed up with Comrie and didn't shop Pronger properly.

MacT was worse, he brought in Eakins. He also brought in McCellan but had to mentor him to pad his own stats. Players didn't want to play for them and good execs didn't want to work for them as they held unto too many strings.

There is only one reason this team has legitimacy and it was winning the lottery.

MacT drafted Drai and Nurse. Traded for Perron and yes should have chosen Todd N over Eakins. He wasn’t great but he was ok and definitely outshines Tambellini and Chiarelli, flat out.

 

[North]

MacT drafted Drai and Nurse. Traded for Perron and yes should have chosen Todd N over Eakins. He wasn’t great but he was ok and definitely outshines Tambellini and Chiarelli, flat out.

Chiarelli absolutely wrecked us.