Originally Posted by Alpha_Q
I'm so sorry. So sorry, but I want Edmonton to get Lafreniere. Hear me out - indulge my fantasy. They get him, and this time, THIS TIME, he's the one. The fans are so excited. Ron Maclean ruins his pants, and the pants of whomever is sitting across from him. Only they Oiler him up, and they still can't make the playoffs. (I remember being terrified at the thought of them landing Taylor freaking Hall. And now the Now Now me looks at the Before Time me, and wonders, why were you worried?)
I want them to land this cat, this Lafreniere guy, and I want them all excited and full cocky about it, and I want them to mess it up. Shouldn't be hard, they've got enough experience.
Now, nothing against the player - just fate. Cruel circumstance, but I want the league to make a rule, wherin a team can only ruin x number of 1st overalls in x number of years. But this rule, it's not some subtle rule the league slides in. It's not 'Paragraph 24.1.a.' This rule comes to be known as the Edmonton Rule. I want that name associated with incompetence with extreme prejudice. It's not enough that the league knows about 'the Edmonton Rule.' I want it known outside of hockey, outside of North America that the word 'Edmonton' translates to 'utter incompetence.' In 2022, I want some company to open a diamond mine in South Africa or Mozambique or Azerbaijan somewhere, and I want that mine to fail, and miserably so. And when it fails I want the person in charge to explain to his investors, 'we had bad information, incompetence from above - the mine Edmontoned on us.'
I want Edmonton to do nothing other than Be Edmonton. Get Lafreniere, Edmonton. Show us how spectacularly ****ty you can be.
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