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Originally Posted by VERVE
Wow boys, rather skewed and bias view of your team and the Oilers.
If Edmonton fans are dumb, then the Flames fans must be in a comatose state or lobotomized. Most Flames fans seemed to accept that former Sutter and now Feaster were and are doing fantastic to assembled a team of 2nd and third liners who are way-over agers and making the playoffs (and contend). The team is continually having one of the highest numbers of NTC and NMC signed.
Their owners love Kipper and Iggy so much that they have become Miss Havisham who was left at the alter wishing and hoping that one day, they will unite under Lord Stanley while never letting them go as their values diminshed each year.
The media are the ones doing the hyping because it attracts interests and apparently you guys ate it up. The Oilers are trying to appease their fans while maintaining that they are going through some tough growing pains and most likely staying the course.
You have a terrible assessment of RNH and truly incorrect. He plays both ends of the ice and an unbelievable passer. He is very talented player and has a great hockey IQ and vision. He is going through some tough stretches this year.
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I call BS on your entire post with the exception of the last paragraph.
Do you actually read this board, the media and listen to Flames fans over the last three years. If anything this fanbase and the associated media are turning on this franchise due to missing the playoffs year after year. I think your making things up to make a point on that.
On the Kipper and Iggy point, the vast majority of the fans and the media in this town and even the national media are screaming that they're great guys but its time to move on from them, so again you are kinda full of it.
Its more then the media hyping the Oilers, you yourself are pretty much one of the bigger examples of third eye blind around. The fans on HF, on Oilfans and the ones that come here with certain reasonable exceptions have taken a boast mentality about your teams so called future. Oiler fans seem content with losing as long as they draft high and pick up young players who are steadily being ruined by playing in that poisonous environment. I haven't heard one fan stand up yet and say that outside of goaltending your sad sack organization has taken a step further back from being competitive this year. We blast Oiler fans because in part we feel sorry for you. We have right now a bad team and we have serious questions about management, but at least we're honest about it. Oiler fans live in the land of delusion. The fact that your team remains incompetently lead and coached and stocked by players is because Oiler fans have bought one of the greatest hockey cons since the Sens threw games to get Daigle.
RNH is a very talented player, I think he's badly coached. He's probably going through a sophomore slump, but don't make him out to be a great or even good two way player. The biggest problem right now with the Oilers Young Guns is that they are playing a selfish game, and your coach who is the wrong coach, yah old boys club represent isn't putting the hammer down on them.
You are one of the biggest Oiler homer fans out there, and you've managed to evade duck dodge and duck around here for a long time, so part of the joy of the Oilers being an even worse run franchise then the Flames is that the egg looks good on you.