Is Katz the most inept owner in pro sports history? Has got to be my favourite.
I dunno. He conned the City of Edmonton into giving him a free arena and a big swath of suddenly valuable downtown real estate. And people keep on buying tickets to watch his worthless team. Seems pretty ept to me.
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I dunno. He conned the City of Edmonton into giving him a free arena and a big swath of suddenly valuable downtown real estate. And people keep on buying tickets to watch his worthless team. Seems pretty ept to me.
Right, is goal is to make money, and he's doing it. Now, he's lucky that he has rubes to fleece, but that's not his fault.
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Jesus ####ing Christ
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Caggiula had heart and effort. He was serviceable when called up to play in the top-6 due to necessity. He hits like a ####ing truck despite his small frame.
Brandon ####ing Manning is a fringe NHLer at best, better than precisely no one on our current D roster, and most importantly, was the piece of #### waste of skin who broke McDavid’s collarbone and ruined his rookie season.
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I'm sorry, but Brandon "breaker of collarbones" Manning is not "Defense". Even with Chicago's lackluster defense, he was not a fit under Colition's system. He'll get some use by Hitch, who like Q loves the physical vets, but don't expect him to do much for your defense.
He's more likely to have an own goal than stop a goal.
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Manning is costly and not a major upgrade over garrison at all... Not to mention the locker room issues this could cause
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We need GOOD D. Not ####ing sh*tty D
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This trade doesn't make us better, makes the locker room worse and puts us in a worse cap position. There is nothing positive about this.
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####ing fire this idiot before he does any more damage!!
I'm convinced Bob Nicholson is just as stupid for allowing this to happen.
####ing hell.
Not to mention, WE HAVE NO ####ING WINGERS. STOP TRADING THEM AWAY FOR BOTTOM PAIRING D
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McDavids highschool buddy for his collar bone murderer. Chias just ####in with us now
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I hope everyone in that locker room is pissed, how the #### can you bring in a player who hurts your franchise player??
Peter Chiarelli is a ####ing dumbass
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If you'd like further fuel. The Hawks get Caggiula for nothing. They give up a guy who sits in the pressbox and a guy drafted in 2013, that will probably never play in the NHL.
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Chiarelli is going to single-handedly drive McDavid out of this franchise. Just ####ing watch. This is it.
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The oilers have no depth scoring and we trade one of the few guys who has been serviceable for a 7/8 dman. I just don’t t get it.
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I just don't understand
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This just lays the ground work for Mcd to request a trade right? Doesn’t the team hate this guy.
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Imagine having to play with someone who broke your collarbone and then ####ing made fun of you for it after.
Wow.
Edit: /u/arunatic5 just pointed out to me Manning has another year at 2.25M. Ahaha.
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You know. I think I'm done watching for now.
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NO NO NO NO NO. WTF
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i don't even have the heart to google the 2 guys we're getting....
never heard of them
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Forget about Hall.
Forget about Eberle.
We traded our little possession machine for the mother####er who broke our captain’s collarbone.
I’ve actually never been more incensed with Chiarelli than I am right now. This was a nothing move that only hurt us. Manning will be despised in Edmonton, not only by the fans, but even more dangerously, by the team.
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Um excuse me what the ####?
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its been a good ride oilers. But i think im gonna go watch the sharks now.
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Shoot me
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This must be a joke honestly
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Who the #### is letting him do these trades?
Someone take his phone away and walk him out of the office
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We're about to get fleeced on a bigger deal, aren't we?
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Chia’s just collecting 7th defensemen at this point hoping they’ll combine to form Voltron
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Gotta be ####ing kidding me...
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Fire Chia Now
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#### Peter Chiarelli
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I am officially done.
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I’m just gonna close my eyes for a bit
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Is Chia TRYING to get fired at this point???
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The thought this headline was satire when I read it. What the hell is happening
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This is a nightmare right? Right...
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I don't like it.
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Oh my god
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Omg
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Traded one of our only forwards with goals for a literal garbage player and human being. Wonderfuk
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YUCK!
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This team is going to be trash for years to come
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You know when the Chicago twitter is full of comments like "Thank god we got rid of Manning" that this is gonna be a huge success /s
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If anyone is at the game tomorrow can we get a Fire Chia chant going?
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I’ll be there. Chia- SUX CHANT INCOMING
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Good ####ing god chia this is ridiculous
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Embarrassed to be an Oilers fan
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####ing #### ####. #### you Chiarelli.
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We need to ####ing storm the Oilers office like it’s the ####ing Bastille.
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I can't support this team any longer with Chia at the helm. If you make a trade like this and actually think it's a good idea then you deserve to be canned. I'll go cheer for an organization that doesn't employ absolute ####wits
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So ummm do we have a plan?
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I’m embarrassed
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chiarelli is literally cancer
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Aaaaaaannnddd I’m just gonna watch juniors until Chia is fired.
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What the actual ####. Seriously. What the #### is going on.
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I've officially been converted to the "Fire Chiarelli" movement. I tried to defend the guy but he doesn't know how to assess a player.
I defended him through the Hall trade.
I defended the Eberle trade.
I defended the Lucic signing.
I'm done with the guy. We better win this cup.
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can someone tell me how the #### these rag tag fringe players will help us at all? we have like 6 3rd pairing dman now, we just lost our 2nd best winger as sad as that sounds. #### off Chia you ####ing goof
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Embarrassed to be an Oilers fan
Aych Eff Oil
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Lol trade Caggiula for the guy who broke McDavids collarbone and is a terrible player. Wtf
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Eff you Chia
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It's like he's trying to force McDavid to demand a trade.
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At least Manning is a 6/7 defenceman only making 2.25M
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You guys are just not seeing the brilliance here. If we break enough collar bones of the opposing teams best players, we'll make the playoffs practically by default.
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Oilers under Chia...
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"holy mackrel, we have a lot of defensemen!"
-Kevin Lowe in like 2007
do the Oilers lead the league is bottom-pairing defensemen?
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Can every fan please boo Manning nonstop at the next game. This is ****ing ridiculous
I'm so disappointed. I've been neutral with chia up to this point but he can GTFO now.
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Brandon Manning?
Laughable. **** this team.
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LOL, someone get rid of Chiarelli already.
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What the hell does Manning have that we are lacking?? Add in the past history and WTF!?
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Chia is like a Pokemon Master, except he's trying to catch all of the ****ty Pokemon (bottom pairing/fringe dmen)
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Get rid of all management while they're at it. 11 years of garbage from Katz and friends and no end in sight.
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The only way this trade turns out to be a win is if they tape a naked Manning to the goal posts and let McDavid fire pucks at him to prevent McDavid from asking for a trade.
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This trade just seems like a **** you to McDavid from management. Maybe they're unhappy with him.
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"I know, I'll give Hitch 48 D-Men, he'll eventually find some combination that works to bail me out"
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I know Caggiula wasn't a game breaker or anything. But please tell me why we are dealing away forwards when our scoring depth is absolutely atrocious.
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He also told McDavid he intentionally injured him. This will go over great in the room.
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To any of you who want Keith Gretzky as our next GM, remember this day . He had a hand in it.
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Ok I wasn't the biggest fan of Caggiula but he has 7 goals this year on a team that doesn't score. You're trading him for a guy who makes even more.. a guy who broke McDavid's collarbone and the whole team was trying to run over in a game vs. Philly.
Makes no sense.
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Wat? Manning makes 2.25 mill a year and is a #7 defender at best. We added what...1.5 mill to our cap today and added 2 #7 defenders and a nothing prospect.
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How can one organization just lose trade after trade after trade with no reprocussions?
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This is a travesty of a trade, what are you talking about? Caggs isn't a great player or anything, but he was at least a legit top-9 winger. Manning is simply a TERRIBLE player, and Norell is a wash-out AHL guy who ran back to Europe. No idea why this trade is made at all. Basically a 3rd line winger for a 7th dman. Barf.
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Yeah, its baffling. Just bad trade after bad trade after bad trade. How can one person (Chia) be this incompetent? It's crazy.
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It's almost, ALMOST, as if the guy making these trades has absolutely no ****ing idea what he's doing. Almost.
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One of the guys is a plug defenceman who isn't going to help this team, and injured Connor McDavid in his first season with a dirty hit that McDavid himself confirmed was intentional.
Chiarelli is the worst GM of all time.
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There HAS to be another trade or waive of Manning. There's legit no ****ing way they're going to bring this assclown into McDavid's room. It'd be the biggest slap in the face I've seen in a while, the guy legit told him he injured him intentionally. I will being booing this ass clown at Rogers place if he ever puts on an Oilers jersey
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No. Manning is not even bottom pairing worthy.
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You just traded him for the only player in the entire NHL who McDavid has publically ****talked as being a coward? Am I in some sort of alternate reality? What the **** is going on here? I refuse to believe the absurdity of this trade is real.
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Manning is the POS who broke McDavids collarbone and then skates up to him and said he did it on purpose. Classless POS. Also really really bad at hockey.
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Manning has one more year on his deal.
Hahahahahaha
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It's time that McDavid demands a trade if Chia isn't axed by tomorrow.
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I can kinda convince myself to be neutral on the Petrovic deal, but this deal makes zero sense and is downright disturbing in a non-sequitur kind of way. Chia has actually lost his ****ing mind.
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how come Katz and Nicholson are still allowing these kinds of trades? how are they ok with this?
this is insanity
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Unless Norell is some stud prospect I have never heard of this trade has no positives. This feels like Chia giving the Oilers a middle finger on his way out.
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Ok fire him. This is full special needs.
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Let's not impugn the character of people with special needs by comparing them to Chia please
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Holy ****, this season just keeps getting worse....
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At this point, is he actually just burning bridges?
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Our team got worse and we have less cap space this summer.
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Mcdavid will ask for a trade this summer. Why wouldn't he
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Why are we letting him make trades when he isn’t going to be the gm?
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At the end of the day our forward core is weaker, our defense added 2 #7, zero offense #6 at best defenders, have less cap space next year and moved out a 3rd round pick to do so.
The Oilers org is worse today than it was yesterday
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lol holy **** man chia strikes again
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This is beyond explanation. How do we take on the higher cap hit in both deals AND part with a 3rd? All this shuffling in a game of musical chairs for 6/7 D men, why didn’t we just extend Davidson last year. Not that I’m a fan of that move, but it would still make more sense than this.
Chia can **** off yesterday. He better be fired tomorrow.
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Somebody wake me up from this nightmare..
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Hahahahahahahah god this sucks
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This might just go down as the dumbest trade I've ever seen. Not necessarily the WORST trade I've ever seen, but very likely the most tone-deaf trade I've ever had the misfortune of being exposed to. It's like Chia is TRYING to be bad.
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Let's not impugn the character of people with special needs by comparing them to Chia please
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omg, Manning has 1 more year at 2.25M
Chia is getting owned while desperate. Make it stop!
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We now have 6.1 mil of cap space invested in Benning/Manning/Petrovic. Let that sink in for a moment.
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Like I said on the mains if you asked me yesterday to name 1 player I was completely certain the Oilers wouldn't target I probably would have picked Brandon Manning.
I'm mostly just laughing right now as a coping mechanism to make sure I stay sane.
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This ********er Chiarelli is literally trying to ****up the team before he is fired.
**** you Nicholson for letting him do this and sitting there you grinning **** eating idiot.
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I mentioned in another thread how today feels like Soviet-style scorched earth policy. If he can't win with this team, nobody will...
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Wouldn't take Manning for free as a UFA. I laughed at Hawks fans. So bad.
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I'm done with this team until Chiarelli and the entire OBC is gone. Done. No more NHL. Plenty of good and cheap hockey on Junior.
This franchise is a joke and McDavid deserves better. This is seriously the final straw.
HOW STUPID CAN THIS MAN GET!? Any single one of us could manage this team better and I'm including those of you who I have strongly disagreed with on numerous occasions. THIS IS A JOKE. WAKE UP KATZ.
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A disastrous trade, that poisons the room, and pisses off our generational player. Oh, and we also somehow take on more cap, and this idiot is signed for next season as well. LOL. If it wasn't so pathetic, it would be funny.
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How in the hell is he allowed to do this, like wtf is going on in that office?? They've literally lost their minds, Manning ! FFS!
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FIRE CHIA! FIRE HIM ABSOLUTELY RIGHT GOD DAMNED BLOODY NOW! THIS DEAL IS BEYOND BELIEF! WAKE THE HELL UP KATZ!
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I’m convinced Chiarelli is secretly a double agent for the other NHL teams.
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It really is insanity. I am at a complete loss of words really. How is this allowed to happen?
I literally laughed out loud when I saw this thread title.
Dear lord.
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Special Peter made our team worse, frigged our dressing room, pissed off McDavid and added cap $ all in one fell swoop.
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This just sucks in every way
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Wow, what a ****ing ****head. Trade away a good friend from our best player for a player he ****ing hates. Way to treat your superstar ********. Not to mention Manning is **** and he he's taking up 2.25mill for the next season as well. **** you Chia.
That's 13.25M of cap space basically wasted on guys that could be replaced by around or barely over league minimum salary players.
Awesome...
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I don’t know if I can be a fan of this team with Chia near this org. **** me his decision making is questionable at best. This trade is him in a nutshell... he has awful judgement. In what world is this trade beneficial?!
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This is ridiculous now, please stop this madness, seems like the sky is the limit for this inept ******ing GM, in trying to save his job. Just trading for any plug that he can get his hands on, hoping they can pan out. "Hey Connor let me introduce to Brandon, remember the guy that deliberately broke your collar bone" hahahahahhahaha
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the OBVIOUS issues with trading for the ONE ****ING GUY that McDavid has expressed hatred for. JESUS ****ING CHRIST!!!!
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We are currently in the darkest timeline.
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haha we're living in an alternate universe or Chia is legit autistic.
Like mind blowingly dumb trade.
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lmao at this ****
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I don't even know what to say about this garbage anymore. **** this organization.
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all around this is a bunch of bull****.
God Chia is the biggest ****ing moron I've ever seen head a NHL team. I used to consider Milbury as the worst GM in my lifetime, but I think Chia might be inching ahead of even Milbury for his level of ineptness.
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Are you ****ing kidding me...
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The Hawks board is over the moon on this trade...
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This is Oiler fans version of X-Men Days of Future Past
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Does anyone even like this deal? Lol literally all of us hate it.
**** this.
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Chia is seriously damaging the Oilers, yet again, only he is now jeopardizing things with Connor. Chia is the biggest bumbling, two-bit, incompetent SOB that ever slithered into a front office and if he isnt fired before he does any more damage, I am switching teams. After almost 40 years of following this team religiously, I’ve had it
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Chiarelli is everyone else’s Santa Claus.
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How the **** do we make 2 garbage trades in the same day and Chia still isn’t fired. Fire this ****ing idiot already.
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First though when I saw this thread, "wow, Chia works hard to catch up with Milbury".
I did defend Chia a couple of months ago on the mains against being as bad as Mad Mike, I can't ****ing believe this!
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I'm just saying.... nobody could be this bad on purpose, right?
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boston fans warned me about chia and i didn't listen..
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Chia is worse than the Cleveland Browns run defense today.
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I try to rationalize Chia and his dumbass actions all the time. Stupidity doesn't cut it. The dumbest person in the world couldn't mess up as much as this idiot does, day after day.
You have to actively try and be this horrible, to be this horrible.
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Oiler fans "WE WANT A TRADE
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oiler fans "NOT THAT TRADE"
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Chiarelli is in a tier with Milbury for :laugh:****tiest GMs of all time
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With Peter Chiarelli, it’s never “this” trade that should scare you... it’s always the next one...
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Another hilarious footnote on the day. The Oilers surrendered a draft pick to the Bruins as compensation for signing Chiarelli. The Bruins selected with that pick...Jack Studnicka who is looking good playing for Canada at the WJC.
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