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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The Oilers have always been the more popular team in Alberta but under Edwards ownership we are almost at the point where it's a 50/50 split in Calgary. Oilers flags like crazy in the city during the playoffs. Talk to any teacher and see how many Flames jerseys to Oilers jerseys on jersey days. It's pretty bad as more Oilers representation amongst the youth. The organization has lost a lot of fans provincially since he took over. Even if not by design Katz didn't get in the way of the tank jobs and the Oilers got their superstar players and while Edwards was fumbling with CalgaryNEXT, Katz got a shiny new arena built.
It's one of those things where you ask yourself. Are we just lucky we have a team and should be happy? Should we expect more than always being an also-ran? One of those organizations that never really accomplishes anything and nobody really cares about? I think the new arena will help for a bit but if the organization continues to be run the same way Edwards has always run it, I just don't see any light at the end of the tunnel.
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Lol the Oilers didnt tank, they tried to compete but still sucked and won lotteries. Are you seriously giving Katz credit for winning McDavid with a 10% shot in a year they expected to compete for playoffs?