Edmonton is No Good X: Up and Down Like a Toilet Seat

[McG]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Can't wait to read Staples spin on this one....likely will have him being super duper awesome and earning a contract and then go on to score 39 goals because.....well........OILERZ are awesome and everything.

It will go something like…

“Remember when gagner lit it up like a superstar? Contemplate that level of goalscoring talent and the experience of being on teams without perennial 300 point players Draisatl and McDavid, with the benefit of a $9.25 million defenseman. Now imagine him with those players!

My take:

1. Gagner could be that player
2. Oilers wouldn’t sign him if they didn’t feel the same.
3. I love McDavid’s girlfriend
4. My video analysis says that Oilers didn’t have gagner on their team last year.
5. Bob Stauffer on oilers now agrees that gagner wasn’t on the team last year.
6. You can drink out of urinals if they look like hand washing stations
7. I haven’t attended a hockey game in person for 30 years.

Conclusion? Oilers didn’t have gagner last year, and now they do. This is exactly the smooth move of one k Lowe, who isn’t that far away from the oilers!”

Please note the quotation marks!

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by McG

It will go something like…

“Remember when gagner lit it up like a superstar? Contemplate that level of goalscoring talent and the experience of being on teams without perennial 300 point players Draisatl and McDavid, with the benefit of a $9.25 million defenseman. Now imagine him with those players!

My take:

1. Gagner could be that player
2. Oilers wouldn’t sign him if they didn’t feel the same.
3. I love McDavid’s girlfriend
4. My video analysis says that Oilers didn’t have gagner on their team last year.
5. Bob Stauffer on oilers now agrees that gagner wasn’t on the team last year.
6. You can drink out of urinals if they look like hand washing stations
7. I haven’t attended a hockey game in person for 30 years.

Conclusion? Oilers didn’t have gagner last year, and now they do. This is exactly the smooth move of one k Lowe, who isn’t that far away from the oilers!”

Please note the quotation marks!

That is eerily accurate, both tonally, and likely content wise.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Hackey

All these excuses just look bad. If Oilers fans were making them, we would be absolutely roasting them. At the end of the day, the Oilers top players rose to the occasion and the Flames top players didn't. End of story, move on.

Edmonton is no good.

End of story, move on.

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[Chi-Town Hustler]

I still find it weird that bettors have the coilers sitting so high. Is it just recency bias? Their D is still garbage.

Go Flams

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Sam Gagner reportedly returning for a third stint.... this time on a PTO.

He heard that they are rebooting Oil Change.

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[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town Hustler

I still find it weird that bettors have the coilers sitting so high. Is it just recency bias? Their D is still garbage.

Go Flams

It is because Oilers fans are suckers.

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[BlindMilwaukee]

Pulled from HF Oilers:

"Puljujarvi + Foegele + draft picks is a trade you make for Patrick Kane a million times."

Typical Oiler fan. Why would Chicago do that you dummy?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

If the draft picks are two first rounders they probably do it. Each of the other two at 50% retained are worth a 2nd... 2 firsts 2 seconds seems kinda reasonable.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by BlindMilwaukee

Pulled from HF Oilers:

"Puljujarvi + Foegele + draft picks is a trade you make for Patrick Kane a million times."

Typical Oiler fan. Why would Chicago do that you dummy?

Because if I'm Chicago sitting on a top player the return for which I hope to further my rebuild, I'm absolutely going for Edmonton's expiring garbage first.

It's amazing that they can't think from any perspective other than their own over there.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by BlindMilwaukee

Pulled from HF Oilers:

"Puljujarvi + Foegele + draft picks is a trade you make for Patrick Kane a million times."

Typical Oiler fan. Why would Chicago do that you dummy?

And why would Kane waive?

[BlindMilwaukee]

But haven't you heard those first round picks are likely 29-32 overall?

Kane would also have to waive his NMC.

To go to Edmonton.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by BlindMilwaukee

But haven't you heard those first round picks are likely 29-32 overall?

Kane would also have to waive his NMC.

To go to Edmonton.

I can see a younger guy heading towards UFA going if he thinks McDavid will pad his stats (like Evander Kane).

But Patrick Kane will get the same offers no matter where he plays. He doesn't need McDavid feeding him. I'm betting he's content to ride out a year in Chicago and see where he can go after than. He's from Eastern US so I imagine that's where he will look.

[BlindMilwaukee]

Totally fair. A younger guy who hasn't won it all makes a ton of sense, like Hyman.

I also don't know how well egos would mesh bringing in an actual winner like Patty Kane.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by McG

It will go something like…

“Remember when gagner lit it up like a superstar? Contemplate that level of goalscoring talent and the experience of being on teams without perennial 300 point players Draisatl and McDavid, with the benefit of a $9.25 million defenseman. Now imagine him with those players!

My take:

1. Gagner could be that player
2. Oilers wouldn’t sign him if they didn’t feel the same.
3. I love McDavid’s girlfriend
4. My video analysis says that Oilers didn’t have gagner on their team last year.
5. Bob Stauffer on oilers now agrees that gagner wasn’t on the team last year.
6. You can drink out of urinals if they look like hand washing stations
7. I haven’t attended a hockey game in person for 30 years.

Conclusion? Oilers didn’t have gagner last year, and now they do. This is exactly the smooth move of one k Lowe, who isn’t that far away from the oilers!”

Please note the quotation marks!

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

That is eerily accurate, both tonally, and likely content wise.

Testify!

Reading that made me puke through my nose a little, which made the whole world smell like Edmonton. Eerily accurate indeed.

[Dragomir]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town Hustler

I still find it weird that bettors have the coilers sitting so high. Is it just recency bias? Their D is still garbage.

Go Flams

Other than Colorado and maybe St.Louis the Oilers are the best team in the West so the betting odds definitely make sense.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Dragomir

Other than Colorado and maybe St.Louis the Oilers are the best team in the West so the betting odds definitely make sense.

When you type...do you smell burning toast?

[Sofa GM]

Originally Posted by Dragomir

Other than Colorado and maybe St.Louis the Oilers are the best team in the West so the betting odds definitely make sense.

Holy Moly fan boy….. worst d-core in the league, downgrade in goal, they are a wildcard team at best

[Groot]

The Oilers will squeak into the last wildcard spot on the back of its offense, and proceed to get swept by Colorado for the 3rd sweep exit in 3 years.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Dragomir

Other than Colorado and maybe St.Louis the Oilers are the best team in the West so the betting odds definitely make sense.

They'll be worse then last year.

• Their defense is thin.
• They don't have Smith's puck handling skills to bail out the Oilers defense on shootouts.
• Campbell probably isn't near an elite level starter, he's played at most 49 games in a season and that was last year behind a way better blueline then the Oilers had.
• The new coach bounce will be gone, and McDavid and Draisaitl won't stand for a whole season of a coach telling them what to do.
• Outside of Their top 4, its an average forward group with a below average bottom 6.
• Spoiler . . . . . . . The Oilers will at best be a wild card team, or be supplanted by Vancouver and LA in the playoff race, and the blunder twins will tune out Woodcroft by April.

Last year was an illusion. Kane will probably screw up by game 40.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Dragomir

Other than Colorado and maybe St.Louis the Oilers are the best team in the West so the betting odds definitely make sense.

Summer in Edmonton… when the fanbase has some form of brain poisoning from all the pollutants that thawed out in the spring.