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

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by dino7c

playoffs! they were playing together in the preseason against AHL type rosters

somebody please tell me how the Oilers are better than last season? you know the team that wasn't good enough

Connor Brown!

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[butterfly]

Originally Posted by browna

Don't forget the Oilers offered to trade Brule to the Kings for Smyth, but Brule wasn't cleared to play due to concussion. So the Oilers offered up Colin Fraser, who the Oilers doctors said was almost ready to return from injury...while Fraser said he needed another surgery on his foot to even think about playing.

That sequence of events provoked this line from Dean Lombardi, Kings GM:

The bottom line for me, I would have rather invested my money with Bernie Madoff
than invest in Edmonton’s word,” Lombardi told the
Times

What a wild story. I can't imagine any other team would ruin their reputation by doing something like that.

Here's the original article:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/blo...an-smyth-trade

[browna]

Originally Posted by butterfly

What a wild story. I can't imagine any other team would ruin their reputation by doing something like that.

Or ask a player to take less on a second contract because the team felt they overpaid him on the first one?

Or ask a player (same one as above) to return some money in order to get traded away after the team-based media made his hometown stay, unbearable?

Or tell a player to play through a neck injury and don't do an MRI on the neck until it gets to the point where the player can't hold a stick?

Or accuse a player of hyperbolizing an injury while he lays in the hospital with a staph infection?

Or promise a player he will have multiple high profile free agents joining him, all lies, and then having the press smear him on his way out after one year including ludicrous stories about getting local weather lady pregnant?

Or have multiple free agents back out after they hear the real story they goes on with the president meddling and telling top players to disregard the coaches?

Or firing a coach via Skype because they want to rush to hire a coach that the eastern media likes?

An organization that was tone deaf to the reality of 2000s NHL, stuck trying to emulate the vastly different on and off ice situations that their egotistical president experienced under Sather through the 80s.

Hardball with off ice situations thinking they were making some sort of moral stand, then different rules for top players then lesser ones, all contributing to terrible rudderless teams with no leadership and accountability. Players avoiding the organization because of the gong show behind the scenes, and due to that ineptness, landed multiple 1st overall picks until one was truly good enough to not crumble with the weight of the organization thrust upon them.

[Ford Prefect]

I missed the player with staph incident. Who was that?

[Major Major]

Souray.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Completely classless organization.

[getbak]

Summer of 2007: Media reports Oilers are going to sign Michael Nylander, but his wife vetoes the deal and he signs with the Capitals instead.

Summer of 2008: Focusing on trying to sign Hossa and/or Jagr, the Oilers fail to contact Curtis Glencross prior to July 1 about a contract extension and he signs with the Flames on July 2. Hossa signs with Detroit and Jagr chooses to go play in Siberia instead.

Summer of 2009: After requesting a trade from the Senators, Dany Heatley uses his NMC to block a trade to the Oilers.



Addendum -- Summer of 2017: Jagr signs with the Flames and says it has always been his dream to play for a team in a Canadian market.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by dino7c

playoffs! they were playing together in the preseason against AHL type rosters

somebody please tell me how the Oilers are better than last season? you know the team that wasn't good enough

They are worse than they were at the end of last year, definitely.

[Hackey]

Originally Posted by dino7c

playoffs! they were playing together in the preseason against AHL type rosters

somebody please tell me how the Oilers are better than last season? you know the team that wasn't good enough

I don't think they're better, but the competition is weaker with Colorado not being as deep and Vegas potentially having a Stanley Cup hangover. Definitely makes coming out of the West a lot more open.

[Tkachukwagon]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1711088074019807393

Brilliant strategy, Conner and Leon get more ice time now

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Back from login purgatory, just stopping by to say E=NG!

[Buff]

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year I'm thankful that the Oilers are no good. (As always)

[Reggie Dunlop]

Are we going to debut a brand new E=NG thread to start the 2023-24 season?

Edmonton is No Good XI: The No Good goes to 11

[White Out 403]

McWhiningAssface will be 27 in January.

How old was 4 time stanley cup champion Gretzky when he was traded to the Kings?
27.

You could masturbate to how good the Oilers mediocrity is, even when gifted generational talent by way of a ####ing lottery. Watching that smug faced dip#### waste his career in Edmonton is as sexy as Megan Fox circa 2010

[chummer]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

McWhiningAssface will be 27 in January.

How old was 4 time stanley cup champion Gretzky when he was traded to the Kings?
27.

You could masturbate to how good the Oilers mediocrity is, even when gifted generational talent by way of a ####ing lottery. Watching that smug faced dip#### waste his career in Edmonton is as sexy as Megan Fox circa 2010

Whoa, that's heavy.

[topfiverecords]

Surprise surprise. All of the TSN talking heads picked Oilers over Leafs in the cup final. Hilarious. They never learn.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

McWhiningAssface will be 27 in January.

How old was 4 time stanley cup champion Gretzky when he was traded to the Kings?
27.

You could masturbate to how good the Oilers mediocrity is, even when gifted generational talent by way of a ####ing lottery. Watching that smug faced dip#### waste his career in Edmonton is as sexy as Megan Fox circa 2010

Weirdest fetish ever but I’ll allow it.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Surprise surprise. All of the TSN talking heads picked Oilers over Leafs in the cup final. Hilarious. They never learn.

Lol, the whole lot of them (Sportsnet/TSN) are all such predictable and pathetic homers. Every year it's Oilers this, Leafs that, Oilers, Leafs, Oilers, Leafs, McDavid, Matthews, yadda, yadda, yadda.

And every year it ends in crushing disappointment for them. It's glorious, and it'll never stop being funny.

[TheIronMaiden]

With the new season starting tonight, I would like to extend a heartfelt #### you to the Edmonton Oilers and their fans.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

With the new season starting tonight, I would like to extend a heartfelt #### you to the Edmonton Oilers and their fans.

can we add a special #### you to Evander Kane?