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Originally Posted by Locke
Well hold on a sec here....
"it was a waste of years in your NHL career, where it’s just you never get those back."
While hes not wrong on that account, he also made way, way more money slumming it in Edmonton than he ever would have anywhere else.
He won his Cup in Boston and then cashed in and cashed in hard on Katz's dime.
He may been a 4-5 defenceman but he was making 2-3 money that was not on anyone else's table.
Its hard to listen to someone complain about winning the Cup and then phoning in the end of their career on the back on some very generous paycheques.
Edmonton is No Good but sorry Andy, if you wanted Job Satisfaction more than money then thats all you had to do. Take a lot less money to play for a much better team.
But I doubt when that contract offer was on the table his altruism-alarm was screaming that he didnt deserve that much money and that he should take less to fit into the cap of a good team.
And then theres the fact that he was a 4-5 Dman on Edmonton. The worst team in the League. He could take less money but he'd have been risking AHL or pressbox time.
I always liked Ference until he became a cheap-shotting Oiler. He very literally got his cake and got to eat it too at the expense of the Oilers, the only drawback was having to live in Dumpmonton and having to haul that horrid Oil-drop over his head on an almost nightly basis.
But he could wipe his tears with money.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Go to the highest bidder in free agency which happens to be the worst run NHL franchise in the history of the game and after the fact complain that you wasted years of your NHL career? Some of these guys need to be a little more honest with themselves. Sure the situation sucked for him there but it's not like he didn't know what he was getting into.
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Not sure if you guys read the whole thing, but he was saying that he knew full well he wasn't the most talented guy on the team, but he was trying to bring a winning culture. I mean, lots of people have been offered jobs at places that did not have the best rep, and then help to repair that. And getting some decent cash is what it takes to lure people.
Friggin pathetic stuff to read (what Russell said). That place is rotten to the core, and it still isn't changing. Guys out partying till 3-4-5am, when the team isn't winning, and then they're making fun of people trying too hard in practice? Brutal. And guys like Russell and Lucic are the guys that are trying to tell the kids what it takes to win, and the kids aren't listening because the old men are being old men, and not coming out and partying.
This is probably the most damning thing I've read about the Oilers, and it absolutely mystifies me how Lowe still has a job. He knows a thing or two about winning? Yeah, maybe from the 80s, when players still smoked in the dressing room. Lowe has no idea what it takes to win in the new millennium. He can't see that having his players out getting drunk until 5am and then making fun of the guys trying hard in practice is a bad thing. Coaches getting fired over the performance of the team, players getting traded that magically learn how to hockey as soon as they're in a winning atmosphere. Prospect after prospect that does not meet their potential. And that muppet has been at the helm for close to 20 years? And he claims to know a thing or two about winning?
Man, on one hand, I hope the Oilers never change, but on the other hand, watching NHL talent wither and die up there is pretty disappointing as a hockey fan. They need an intervention up there. Katz and Lowe really, really need to go. I almost feel sorry for Oiler fans, but I don't, because they should be calling for heads up there, and not the head of Todd McLellan.
Just pathetic. So embarrassingly pathetic. That article made shake my head and facepalm more than a Spector or Staples piece, because of truth instead of fiction.