Edmonton is No Good Episode 4: New Rink, Same Stink

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Sure, if you can shut them down. It seems they're not being shut down, or they wouldn't have those numbers.

I think it's pretty simple. You can't shut him down. I'm not sure you can limit him much.
What you have to do is outscore that line with the rest of your team.

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Playoffs are a little different I think that was the point he was making

I mean they just played the Avs twice

Teams win in the playoffs with depth scoring

That's only partially true.
Crosby, Malkin, Kane, Toews etc aren't recent multiple cup winners from depth scoring alone. It's because they are the among the best players in the league. The Kings were multiple winners with a 'depth' scoring team, but I'm guessing that will happen less instead of more going forward.

[Eric Vail]

Same stink... Edmonton is no good:

Downtown residents dealing with smelly back alleys after Rogers Place concerts and Edmonton Oilers games might soon see relief.

City officials are hoping portable washroom trailers can give fans with full bladders a sanitary alternative.

“We’re in the playoffs now,” Mayor Don Iveson said Monday, pushing for a quick investment in addition to a long-term citywide plan. “There’s an urgency where issues are most acute. … I don’t want to wait a year for a strategy.”

Last year, 120 people were given $500 fines for urinating in public, with downtown seeing fines issued double in number to 52. Residents blame that on Rogers Place patrons, saying back alleys are extra smelly after games and concerts, but also on a lack of facilities for the homeless.

http://edmontonjournal.com/news/loca...nton-officials

[getbak]

Residents blame that on Rogers Place patrons, saying back alleys are extra smelly after games and concerts, but also on a lack of facilities for the homeless.

Oiler fans are less sanitary than the homeless: confirmed

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Downtown Edmonton has always smelled like urine.

The only reason it's now news is that because of the arena people are actually spending time there instead of it just being a urine soaked ghost town most of the time.

[GioforPM]

In the words of fake Steve Armitage: "Edmonton..... Urine."

[FlatLandFlamesFan]

or is it "Edmonton urine the playoffs" "what's that smell?"

[chemgear]

Edmonton's next step is to start up the "is it dog or human" game ala San Francisco.

[-TC-]

you want stink?

Try Paris in the summer after a rain storm.... you walk over a sidewalk grate and just about keel over.

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by -TC-

you want stink?

Try Paris in the summer after a rain storm.... you walk over a sidewalk grate and just about keel over.

Paris is no good.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by -TC-

you want stink?

Try Paris in the summer after a rain storm.... you walk over a sidewalk grate and just about keel over.

The canals of Venice during hot summer days.

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

The canals of Venice during hot summer days.

New Brighton when the wind blows from the north.

[MrMastodonFarm]

New York stinks just about all the time. The city that never sleeps nor figured out garbage removal.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

New York stinks just about all the time. The city that never sweeps nor figured out garbage removal.

Fixed*

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Weitz

Fixed*

A regular Paul Lynde aren't ya

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

New York stinks just about all the time. The city that never sleeps nor figured out garbage removal.

I admit that I haven't been to New York in a long time.

but iirc at night there were piles of garbage because buildings weren't allowed to have underground dumpsters.

But I also remember getting up in the morning and all of the trash was gone and the sidewalks were cleaned.

However there was nothing worse at night then going out for a late night stroll or sitting in a bar having a drink and the smell of gently decaying garbage.

[McG]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/news...cid=spartandhp

Our frequent contributor to this thread, David Staples, with another Kool-Aid chugging piece this morning. In it, he somehow manages to point out that Griffin Reinhart has fallen the most on the Hockey News prospect list, but it is okay because while David was catching him on the internet, Griffin Reinhart is playing the best that Staples has seen. Mr. Staples considers that today, Reinhart is a 5-6 dman, and with a bit of work with Scott Stevens, could be a 3-4. The problem with that is that Scott Stevens isn't Oilers alumni, so couldn't possibly get offered the role. Kevin Lowe knows a thing or two, so maybe Reinhart should work with him instead.

FWIW, Flames have 4 in the top 100 (Tyler Parsons, 34, Jon Gillies, 49, Mark Jankowski, 66, Oliver Kylington, 96), while "Los Angeles has just two" (to quote Staples), the same as the Greasers.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

However there was nothing worse at night then going out for a late night stroll or sitting in a bar having a drink and the smell of gently decaying garbage.

Oh trust me, there is. It's called "empty subway car".

[topfiverecords]

Well , whomever came up with the thread title sure nailed it both ways.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Boniman

...we don't need a thread dedicated to Calgary because we are jealous of their averageness.

That is not what this thread is about. This fourth iteration of a thirteen year project has always been a well deserved tribute to Edmonton Oilers ineptitude, and it is gloriously funny and enjoyable. A good season after a full decade of futility does not change that.

Edmonton is no good.