Tonight was great.
Rogers keeps the Oil Groupthinkers happy with Burkie telling everyone the Oilers are still in the hunt.
Oiler fans already hate Burke & the ones with a brain are screaming at the screen because they know he’s trolling them. They also applaud Kypreos & MacLean for their assessments.
The groupthinkers believe they have the Ed’mutton Hoi polloi in check and will send a note to Rogers about Nick & Doug.
The hoi polloi shake their fists & renew their tickets when they remember... MCDAVID!!! & how long the winters are in Ed’Mutton & how long the drive to the mountains is.
They’re not abysmally out of the playoff race or turtle derby for the last playoff spot... except they are.
So they’ll sell that.
Once all the suites in Rogers Place are renewed Katz & his fellating henchmen will see this season for what it is... a veiled threat.
They’ll take it as a license to carry on as usual.
It’s a beautiful scene.
The silver lining of the Oilers marginalizing McDavid’s career is that he keeps them right...
Right...
Right...
in meat of the heart of that special pergatory... “no man’s land” sweet! sweet! sweet! spot drafting around the 8-15th pick range while their inept scouts & even worse development approach keeps them farting all over assets in perpetuity.
When I looked that their situation almost 4 years ago I thought this was the likeliest scenario... but you never know when a blind squirrel will stumble upon someone else’s harvest stored up for winter.
I forgot to account for goaltending & luck covering up their mistakes to cresting a team to come together & thus enable a season like 2017.
They are exactly what they are now.
Oilers gotta oil.