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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It really is a master stroke of public relations that the oilers have successfully pinned all of their problems on chiarelli.
As predicted, the oilers used their all star week to sewer the outgoing GM. They needed that window because they could guarantee an oilers loss or two or a blowout wouldn't detract from the pile of #### they were heaping on Chiarelli.
Now that it's been firmly established that Chiarelli and only Chiarelli is to blame, the team can resume playing and losing hockey games.
The next salvo in this PR war is that mcdavid wants to stay an oiler. Gin up the fanbase, try to secure those renewals, make everything appear copasetic and then when mcdavid wants out over the summer the franchise can turn on him and leak a bunch of stories about all the things they did for him and yet he spurned them.
But unlike last time this happened, no tears will be shed at the airport in Leduc by the star on the move. Mcdavid may even be spotted clicking his heels.
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Fully agree with it all, but I’d wager maybe the next summer. Lowe has turned on the charm for Orr when he came into town to check in on the state of emergency with McDavis ice time and contracting of leperosy.
To walk their camp off the edge, he at the time also accelerated the dumping of Chia after that meeting to placate the McDavid camp in that they were capable of real change. The push will be hard, or appear hard, to make him happy. It’s all a bunch of false promises, as it always is with Lowe, because in addition to the snake oil salesman that Lowe is, even if the organization didn’t have a toxic reputation, the cap issues in a vacuum are hard enough for any GM to quickly navigate out of, let alone the up hill battle of whatever new GM having to answer to Lowe and keeping him out of things, and get calls from agents saying their client won’t wave the nmc to consummate whatever trade was proposed.
Orr and I think McDavid know full well by now from stories around the league and personal experience how dysfunctional Lowe is, but they’ll say and do all the right things, and give the Oilers a year, more to be having the time to be laying out a plan and laying the groundwork for his exit than his staying signifying having any further commitment or trust that the Oilers are going to turn it around.