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Jay Random · 09-21-2015, 06:59 PM

To be fair, Klefbom had the worst GA/60 partly because he was playing hard minutes on a terrible team with terrible coaching and terrible goaltending. What's more troubling is that he was worse than his terrible teammates in that stat.

I suppose you give a 7-year deal for that because Klefbom knew that a long stint with the Oilers could ruin his career, and told his agent to hold them to ransom, Dr. Evil style: ‘I demand… one hundred billion dollars!’

As for the Oilers, they had to spend the money to make it look like they were trying to improve the defence, but they didn't have anyone sufficiently proven that was worth that kind of money. So they took a flyer and hoped the fans wouldn't know the difference. This was probably wasted effort, since everyone was distracted by Mc-I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Gretzky.

09-21-2015, 06:59 PM	#256
Jay Random Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2005 Exp:	To be fair, Klefbom had the worst GA/60 partly because he was playing hard minutes on a terrible team with terrible coaching and terrible goaltending. What's more troubling is that he was worse than his terrible teammates in that stat. I suppose you give a 7-year deal for that because Klefbom knew that a long stint with the Oilers could ruin his career, and told his agent to hold them to ransom, Dr. Evil style: ‘I demand… one hundred billion dollars!’ As for the Oilers, they had to spend the money to make it look like they were trying to improve the defence, but they didn't have anyone sufficiently proven that was worth that kind of money. So they took a flyer and hoped the fans wouldn't know the difference. This was probably wasted effort, since everyone was distracted by Mc-I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Gretzky. __________________ WARNING: The preceding message may not have been processed in a sarcasm-free facility.