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Originally Posted by Rtown
Not sure how many of you have heard of the Monday Nooner Podcast (it’s Regina based with focus on Sasky NHLers and the senior hockey leagues). Anyways. Last week they had Ryan Keller on. Former Stoon Blades captain and former semi pro player. Wish I knew how to clip and embed but I’ll just type it out from memory, this is not verbatim.
He talked about his days in the Oilers farm system. How he was having a really good year in Oklahoma. The Oilers called him up. He flew to Colorado and before the game he got told that they rescinded the call up. Their logic was he was having too good of a year in OKC and they weren’t gonna keep him up all year (it was a temporary call up) and they were worried he was going to get claimed when they had to send him back down.
He also told a story and Margnus Paaravi (sp?). Towards the end of that year they call Magnus up but it was after the deadline. It wasn’t til he got to wherever it was they were playing that management realized they had already used up all of their post trade deadline call ups and had to send him back to the farm.
Can’t make this stuff up. Keller qualified his stories at the beginning with something to the effect of “probably why my hatred of the Oilers stills runs today”.
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Oh that was a long time ago… they’ve obviously changed.
(or not).
Now instead of calling players up, because of Holland’s salary cap wizardry (see Darnell Nurse) they just play without a full lineup. Easy as that.