Edmonton is No Good Episode 4: New Rink, Same Stink

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Sutter_in_law

So I have a dilemma: I have a co-worker here in Edmonton (hopefully not for too long) that I will be going to the season opener with, he is a massive Oilers fan.

We have also agreed to go to the first BOA this year in Calgary as well. He wants to bet on game #1, the problem is that he wants to make a jersey wearing wager, where if the Flames lose, I have to wear an Oilers jersey to the game in Cgy, and vice versa.

The Flames always seem to struggle early on, but I have more faith in this team than I have in years past. But, is it worth the risk??

I would totally take that bet

Go big or go home

Sidney or the bush

I'm assuming the loser actually has to buy the jersey the winner doesn't supply it?

cause if you have to buy it then you can put any name or number that you want to like

ENG

This team blows

my parents went to Edmonton and all I got was this stupid dress.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

I hate HF with a passion. It's such an awful place.

Never been, never going. Wish I could say the same about Edmonton.

[MisterJoji]

Originally Posted by ToraToraTora

To be fair, he probably used it challenging a borderline play.

Did we honestly have one Gulutzan-initiated review that went our way last year? I remember getting screwed multiple times from opposing coach reviews but I can't recall one time we had a successful review that Gulutzan asked for.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

I hate HF with a passion. It's such an awful place.

Key is to stay away from the pissing matches on the main board.

Some of the team boards and the prospects boards are good to get an idea on a team or individual player that you may not get to see often.

But yeah the trade board and the general NHL pages are just terrible.

[CaptainCrunch]

Its pretty much the Oilers board because honestly their Oiler only boards out there are graveyards.

[StrykerSteve]

Originally Posted by Sutter_in_law

So I have a dilemma: I have a co-worker here in Edmonton (hopefully not for too long) that I will be going to the season opener with, he is a massive Oilers fan.

We have also agreed to go to the first BOA this year in Calgary as well. He wants to bet on game #1, the problem is that he wants to make a jersey wearing wager, where if the Flames lose, I have to wear an Oilers jersey to the game in Cgy, and vice versa.

The Flames always seem to struggle early on, but I have more faith in this team than I have in years past. But, is it worth the risk??

You take that bet every time. You're a sports fan, gotta have faith.

[Love]

Originally Posted by ToraToraTora

To be fair, he probably used it challenging a borderline play.

Need an AC compilation of "Stunned Gulutzen" when he loses a challenge

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Sutter_in_law

So I have a dilemma: I have a co-worker here in Edmonton (hopefully not for too long) that I will be going to the season opener with, he is a massive Oilers fan.

We have also agreed to go to the first BOA this year in Calgary as well. He wants to bet on game #1, the problem is that he wants to make a jersey wearing wager, where if the Flames lose, I have to wear an Oilers jersey to the game in Cgy, and vice versa.

The Flames always seem to struggle early on, but I have more faith in this team than I have in years past. But, is it worth the risk??

As long as he's willing to double up and wear a Flames jersey at the next game in Edmonton after the Flames win game 2 then sure!

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by Love

Flames just had horrible luck against Edmonton akin to the playoff series against Anaheim. I'm pretty sure we outchanced them in all four games but were done in by head-scratch worthy bull####. I still remember that game (I think it was in January) were Slepyshev picked up the puck on the halfwalls on one of the first shots of the game and just beat Elliott cleanly over his shoulder and everyone I was with just collectively rolled their eyes like 'oh here we go again'. I think the Flames on paper are just as good (or even better) than the Oilers or Ducks, but they have to believe it as well. Confidence is a prerequisite for success, and unless our guys believe that they can beat those teams, they won't. I like the way our schedule starts this season, on the road in Edmonton for kickoff and not too long after that on the road at the Honda center for game 3. Although this team could go on to lose both of those games and have a stellar season, I still think that those will be fairly critical litmus tests for this club.

Or how the Flames should've been right in it in game 1 until the Wideman effect met the McDavid effect with that phantom grab, right after several Oilers lumberjacked Gaudreau at the other end.

No strange D pairings, no Wideman, no Grossman, and the team not being ice cold to Gulutzan's system should help in this season opener though.

We never seem to face Anaheim early in the season and the Ducks are traditionally a slow starting team. So of course we get them when they're starting to gel and get hot usually. This time there may be a good chance to stick a fork in that streak right off the hop, which would help set the tone for the season. One can hope.

[Five-hole]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Or how the Flames should've been right in it in game 1 until the Wideman effect met the McDavid effect with that phantom grab, right after several Oilers lumberjacked Gaudreau at the other end.

[schteve_d]

Nothing groundbreaking but always fun to see these articles popping up. New one on MSN today.

“Just wait until Nuge gets his ‘old-man strength’!”

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard variations of that statement over the time Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has been in Edmonton, but forgive me for feeling the expression itself is getting old faster than RNH himself seems to be.

Full article is here: http://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nhl/...NPO?li=AAggNb9

[GioforPM]

"Dallas Eakins called him a “bobblehead” for the manner in which he absorbed information"

Ummmm - what?

[Since1984]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

"Dallas Eakins called him a “bobblehead” for the manner in which he absorbed information"

Ummmm - what?

Probably to mean that he was a very smart player("Big Head") but very skinny like a Bobblehead.

[FlatLandFlamesFan]

Nope means he sat there staring vacantly and nodding his head constantly LOL

[CaptainCrunch]

That's just another trade loss that Chia really can't afford to have happen.

I keep hearing from Oiler fans that RNH is a strong two way player, but I look at his face off percentages, how weak he is along the board and his floating through the neutral zone and all I can say is "What the frack are you talking about"

In a battle between Backlund and RNH its not even close.

Of the two realistically Backlund is the 6 million dollar valuation and RNH is closer to 3.

But the Oilers are going to badly need the cap space, but RNH's contract is going to kill any returns for him. I also don't see a lot of teams that are desperately searching for a weak, inconsistent, offensive center without much offense who doesn't do anything particularly well.

If Oiler fans are pissed off about the return for "Ebs", they're going to lose their nut on the sell off of the "Nuge".

I've said in the past that beyond Draisaitl, McDavid and Talbot, the Oilers are an underwhelming team in terms of depth and talent, and as bad as RNH is, you take him out of that equation, and at that point the three above players won't be enough, especially with very little coming out of their prospect pool.

I would expect that any trade will involve the Oilers either eating contract (which they can't really afford to do), or taking back a similarly bad player with a bad contract and maybe saving a million or two.

But I don't see a huge market for a 6 million dollar player who gets sand kicked in his face on a nightly basis and doesn't really do great offensively or defensively.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by FlatLandFlamesFan

Nope means he sat there staring vacantly and nodding his head constantly LOL

I was thinking the same thing, that doesnt seem like praise.

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by StrykerSteve

You take that bet every time. You're a sports fan, gotta have faith.

Exactly.
In fact, you don't just take that bet, you initiate it. Every time

[Nufy]

Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

Exactly.
In fact, you don't just take that bet, you initiate it. Every time

And if you do end up having to wear an Oilers Jersey...Just do it for the game...

then go home and

Shower
Disinfect
Say 12 Hail Marys and 10 Our Fathers
Drink heavily to remove the memory
and

Seek Therapy...

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Sutter_in_law

The Flames always seem to struggle early on, but I have more faith in this team than I have in years past. But, is it worth the risk??

I've done the jersey bet befure (with our last names on the back to make it extra insulting), but just to work the next day.

Not a chance would I take that bet to wear in the opposing rink though.

[GioforPM]

Noting in the Jersey bet says what jersey you have to wear or what it has to look like, eh?

Possibilities, in the unlikely event you lose:

1. Wear a Dubnyk jersey.
2. Wear a Yakupov jersey.
3. Wear a Houston Oilers jersey.