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Originally Posted by Titan2
I am so baffled by Leon and now McWhinypants even considering signing there. They could live in virtually any city in the league and on a top 20 team their addition would instantly make that team a contender. Any team that has been managed competently and has a proper balance would easily add 10-15 wins.
I don't get it.
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It's the cult of Edmonton... seems like they got sucked in to it. In order to help themselves cope they do this thing where they tell each other how great it is there, led by a lot of boorish loudmouths like Stauffer, and eventually they start believing it instead of just admitting most of them live there for work opportunities and endure it for higher wages but would rather be somewhere else if they could.
I totally agree though seeing a soon to be 29 year old trading away more years of his prime to live there every winter when he could literally pick his spot quality of life wise is staggering.
I am sure he will stay though, there's no way his best buddy would have re-upped last summer without knowing it, their wives are close and McDavid's wife likes to pretend she's some kind of high end fashionista restauranteur trading on McDavid's name and all the homers there and has a couple businesses in the city.
It's crazy too because his rationale is that it's a good place to win right now, but if he leaves they are 100% a lottery team, and so if he were to go to a team that was already a contender without him they would be way stronger than the oilers. It's total nonsense.
Imagine he went to Tampa to stick it to the Panthers and plays with Hedman, Point, Hagel, Cirelli, Kucherov, Guentzel, Vasilevsky and co... you can't tell me they aren't immediately better than the oilers.