12-29-2014, 03:39 PM
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#21
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Oilers should claim him.
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12-29-2014, 03:41 PM
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#22
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sask (sorry)
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Just saw it on the TSN ticker
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12-29-2014, 04:09 PM
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#23
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Franchise Player
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33 seems a little too young for even a guy like donkey heatley to lose his scoring touch.....
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12-29-2014, 04:49 PM
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#24
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary
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He is on waivers
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12-29-2014, 06:00 PM
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#25
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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50 in 07, bet he still has the sick clapbomb.
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12-29-2014, 07:27 PM
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#26
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First Line Centre
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@DanyAllStar15: Yeah, Kids: life is short. Went top titty for 50 goals, I blinked and I had like 9 speedboats, then blinked again and im on ####in waivers..
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Best Twitter parody account ever
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12-29-2014, 07:51 PM
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#27
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Clinching Party
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Can someone refresh my memory? I know, obviously, about the car accident, but his best years were still ahead of him (literally) after that happened.
Then he just sort of started to collapse before his 30th birthday. Just going by his stats, he really only had one bad "injury" year. What happened?
Maybe I just bought into the hype at the time, but this guy seemed like a lock for 500 goals and a HoF career at one point.
Also, kinda of strange to look at what the top 5 that 2000 draft turned out to be.
Dipietro - worst contract in history
Heatley - weird career all around
Gaborik - too fast for own groin
Klesla - injuries and disappointment
Torres - a dirty player for half the teams in the league
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12-29-2014, 07:57 PM
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#28
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kelowna, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Can someone refresh my memory? I know, obviously, about the car accident, but his best years were still ahead of him (literally) after that happened.
Then he just sort of started to collapse before his 30th birthday. Just going by his stats, he really only had one bad "injury" year. What happened?
Maybe I just bought into the hype at the time, but this guy seemed like a lock for 500 goals and a HoF career at one point.
Also, kinda of strange to look at what the top 5 that 2000 draft turned out to be.
Dipietro - worst contract in history
Heatley - weird career all around
Gaborik - too fast for own groin
Klesla - injuries and disappointment
Torres - a dirty player for half the teams in the league
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after i got to play goal for heatley a couple summers ago.... looks like the off season routine involved a lot of BEvERages... either that or he was just pushing out his gut so i wouldn't feel bad!! ha! ha! 
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12-29-2014, 08:23 PM
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#29
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by bc-chris
after i got to play goal for heatley a couple summers ago.... looks like the off season routine involved a lot of BEvERages... either that or he was just pushing out his gut so i wouldn't feel bad!! ha! ha! |
That's brutal, dude. The guy poses for a photo with you and you use it to slam his conditioning?
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12-29-2014, 08:36 PM
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#30
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Has lived the dream!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Where I lay my head is home...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Can someone refresh my memory? I know, obviously, about the car accident, but his best years were still ahead of him (literally) after that happened.
Then he just sort of started to collapse before his 30th birthday. Just going by his stats, he really only had one bad "injury" year. What happened?
Maybe I just bought into the hype at the time, but this guy seemed like a lock for 500 goals and a HoF career at one point.
Also, kinda of strange to look at what the top 5 that 2000 draft turned out to be.
Dipietro - worst contract in history
Heatley - weird career all around
Gaborik - too fast for own groin
Klesla - injuries and disappointment
Torres - a dirty player for half the teams in the league
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Was at that draft. It was weird. Though to be fair, everyone was making fun of the Islanders for trading both their goalies and picking up Dipietro at the time too. Total Islanders move. I think today we call it an 'Oilers move'.
Heatley never was the same after the car crash. Don't think it was an injury, he just lost his passion. Rightly or wrongly I think he still carries a lot of guilt. He changed that night, and never worked out his demons. My personal opinion anyway. Yeah, he was supposed to go first, which was cool. Calgary kid drafted in Calgary. And I saw him the same way you did.
Gaborik - you forgot to add questionable work ethic to your assesment. Total Kovalev player. Skills most can only dream of, but kinda lazy. And yes, kinda glass like. Still, looks like the most successful of the bunch by far.
Torres? Haha! Totally forgot about that.
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12-29-2014, 10:54 PM
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#31
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Fort St. John, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Daradon
Heatley never was the same after the car crash.
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He put up 635 points in 704 games since the accident
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12-29-2014, 10:59 PM
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#32
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Calgary, AB
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Extra-curricular activities... From what I have heard.
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12-29-2014, 11:01 PM
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#33
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Toronto
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Daradon
Heatley never was the same after the car crash.
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No. Heatley was never the same after he lost what little footspeed he had. And to be fair, even in those scoring heydays, his skating really wasn't that good.
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12-29-2014, 11:05 PM
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#34
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Superfraggle
That's brutal, dude. The guy poses for a photo with you and you use it to slam his conditioning?
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12-29-2014, 11:07 PM
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#35
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Fort St. John, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bc-chris
after i got to play goal for heatley a couple summers ago.... looks like the off season routine involved a lot of BEvERages... either that or he was just pushing out his gut so i wouldn't feel bad!! ha! ha!
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Musta ate too many of your smoked ribs..
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12-29-2014, 11:15 PM
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#36
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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Two words:
Breakfast sammiches
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12-29-2014, 11:24 PM
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#37
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyler
Two words:
Breakfast sammiches
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More like Bacardi & blunts. #50in07
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12-29-2014, 11:42 PM
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#38
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Cowtown
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bc-chris
after i got to play goal for heatley a couple summers ago.... looks like the off season routine involved a lot of BEvERages... either that or he was just pushing out his gut so i wouldn't feel bad!! ha! ha!
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I can't be the only person who noticed that his shirt says "Sorry for being awesome".
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12-30-2014, 12:07 AM
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#39
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Geeoff
Well, it'll just be weird seeing Heatley in the AHL but if that's his decision, then more power to him.
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Yea, playing hockey, so odd for him to do...
No idea why it matters to you if he continues to play hockey..
Im not basing this just on you, just annoyed when people say they want "players to retire"
Last edited by DOOM; 12-30-2014 at 12:11 AM.
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12-30-2014, 09:45 AM
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#40
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Elbows Up!!
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According to capgeek Heatley makes $1 million this season and is UFA so the oilers could afford him.
Can players reject a team picking them up on waivers? if Heatley retires instead of reporting, do we get to name it a "Heatley"?
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