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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
That happened? That's awful.
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Gather 'round, Younglings, and let me tell you the epic tale of Edmonton is No Good.
The story of this fabled movement has deep roots, stretching back to the summer of 2004. Weeks after the Flames had lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, the powers that be at Calgary Puck moved the board to a new platform. As a commemoration of this event, Bertuzzied opened the inaugural "Edmonton is No Good" thread on 28 July, 2004, with the following, now immortal words:
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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
Can't think of a better way to start off this new board than this topic.
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This followed with 32 more entries, and then the thread was abandoned—lost to the Lock Out, and then the Dark Time in 2006, when the Oilers somehow found themselves riding the creaking limbs of Dwayne Roloson deep into the playoffs.
Nearly ten years passed, and the "Edmonton is No Good" thread was forgotten. But then, by some strange and unexplained stroke of improbability Post #34 appeared on 8 September, 2013:
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Originally Posted by Trailer Fire
If he goes back down from the NHL, he isn't AHL eligible. He'd go back to Ottawa.
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It was a thread-bump of the most unlikely proportions—the mother of all necro-bumps. But, the astonishing and quickly realized truth of the matter was not Sean Monahan's AHL eligibility, but rather that after nine years, one month and eleven days some things are indeed eternal. Edmonton was just as no-good in 2013 as they were in 2004!
That season in 2013–14 was a banner year for the Oilers that saw the debut of Nail Yakupov, the "October knee-slide," Dallas Eakins's storied start and the first jersey-toss in the Oiler's multi-decade pursuit of respectability. The thread naturally became a repository for all things Edmonton, and it continued into 2015, when the Flames returned to the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in seven years, and well ahead of the Oilers's ill-fated schedule.
Then, on 7 April, 2015, a miracle occurred. In the midst of yet another lottery-draft quality season the Oilers faced off against the LA Kings, in a game that would determine the playoff-fate of the Calgary Flames. With an Oilers win, the Flames would be off to the First Round amid the delirium of an incredible season that featured improbable player performances, an iconic media-savvy coach, and rookie excitement from a fourth-round future superstar and his toast-loving sidekick.
Ahead of the game, it was suggested by some that the good people of Calgary Puck were in danger of overdosing on the schadenfreude that E=NG had become. It was thought that a seemingly impossible victory in this unwinnable game deserved a gesture of reciprocation—that perhaps the thread should be closed, even if only temporary. So, it happened. The Oilers beat the LA Kings 4–2 in Los Angeles, and the thread was closed after 18,091 posts. The new thread was launched only four days later, after an unsurprisingly pompous and entitled promotion video featuring Propaganda Minister Baghdad Bob Stauffer aired on YouTube.
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Originally Posted by Locke
The video you are about to see not only isnt a joke, but is officially sanctioned by the Edmonton Oilers who happen to know something about winning. What that something is has yet to be determined as it appears astonishingly similar to losing.
However, I give you fair warning that the following video is four and a half minutes of Kool-Aid guzzling and sweatpant-clad propaganda to which Stalin himself would offer up a respectful slow-clap of appreciation.
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Never forget, friends. Never forget.