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One guy feeling validated with this whole media #### storm, is Kevin Lowe.
All the grovelling and shameless pandering and flat out sucking up to the media out east over the past decade or more (he hired coaches based on popularity in hockey circles, Eakins,Quinn/Renney hybrid), allowing full access, is finally coming to roost with media on his side, on hits that he knows are @00% fine. But he’s getting public relations thanks to the snakes who he’s gotten into bed with in exchange for inside info and an invitation to the Oilers golf tourney each year.

He’s had the local scribes under his thumb since the Sather days, but even those guys got mobilized late on Saturday night and whip fans into a foaming at the mouth frenzy. Usually that sort of mobilization is to trash a player or coach a few weeks before the fire them, to paint them in a bad light for the kool aid drinking fans to guzzle and place all the blame on another scapegoat.

This time it’s low level schlubs like Strudwick, And high profile (in the Oilers eyes, because he’s on TSN in Ferraro (my guess in Brent Sutter didn’t suck up to Ray when his son was in Red Deer) mobilized with their hot takes.

But when the coach of the team says it’s clear, no how matter how much spewing to the lowest common denominator and how much repeating for turn it into fact and makes it so, and the league has chimed in, this still wreaks of an unprofessional set of best writers ridiculously stopping to low level of journalism, even for them.