Quote:
Originally Posted by Rutuu
Ok...so there are some pretty good ideas in the thread on how to fix the Oiler team. Now how do we fix the fanbase?
There was a distinct turn in oiler fans during the fall for hall that they've never been able to recover from. In my opinion they were on the path to recovery back to a disliked but respected rival fanbase...and then they won the McDavid lottery.
Personally I think they need all their toys taken away, Kevin Lowe fired, a new owner, and then the media purge can start. Retire the dusty relics and their poms poms, and promote reason and accountability in the coverage.
|
Why would I care about the Oilers fan base being fixed. They are one of the most arrogant and entitled fanbases in the NHL and its not close.
They are fast to make up excuses
They are quick to create conspiracy
They believe that they're entitled to top draft picks without the organization doing anything to fix the franchise.
They're annoyingly fast to jump on the whole "Bail for the next wonder kid bandwagon
They think their funny and clever
They are like the particularly stupid David Staples in terms of the Tkachuk stuff and beliving in the outright virtue of their players.
Why fix them? hey should suffer, year after year with no playoffs except for an occasional fluke run to refill their arrogance tank. They don't deserve the playoffs because they're so called suffered, they don't deserve another number 1 draft pick for lots of reasons. They do deserve the dread of knowing that their team has been irrelevant and terrible since the mid 90's and when they go to hell where all Oilers go, the only thing on TV will be endless replays of the Smith own goal in slow motion, and a video reel built around McDavid trying to play defense.