02-02-2026, 06:38 PM
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#5301
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever.
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02-02-2026, 06:38 PM
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#5302
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Montréal, QC
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I posted this in october 2024, it's relevant again now!
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I looked it up, the last NHL player-coach was Doug Harvey of the Rangers in 1961. Fun little article about it if you're bored
Tell me the Oilers organization wouldn't LOVE the media attention they'd get for having the first player-coach in 63 years. Rogers would release an absolute deluge of articles, videos, social media posts non-stop for the entirety of McDavid's coaching tenure. The clicks. The eyeballs.
They so would.
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These guys come in and it’s always a nice polite one. You serve them because you dont want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And THEY bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh, this is a Nazi bar now. And its too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
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02-02-2026, 06:47 PM
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#5303
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Turn up the good, turn down the suck!
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02-02-2026, 07:31 PM
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#5304
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by MissTeeks
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I assume this is about 60% AI generated by the Oiler PR staff. All these supposed insights are all things that he’s said before, it’s nothing new.
He signed off on it, but the team wrote it.
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02-02-2026, 07:34 PM
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#5305
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First Line Centre
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We just need Colorado or Minnesota to beat Dallas, to avoid another Oilers cup finals.
Those losers on Dallas will let them win again. And the Pacific seems awful.
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02-02-2026, 07:47 PM
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#5306
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Franchise Player
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Edmonton fan sites keep indicating oilers are looking at Mcmann out of TO or Jenner out of Columbus. Every Edmonton fan always includes eatbread as part of a trade. Why do they think teams want their garbage?
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02-02-2026, 07:49 PM
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#5307
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Chicago
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Voodooman
I assume this is about 60% AI generated by the Oiler PR staff. All these supposed insights are all things that he’s said before, it’s nothing new.
He signed off on it, but the team wrote it.
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I can't read that ####
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02-02-2026, 07:52 PM
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#5308
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Rhett44
We just need Colorado or Minnesota to beat Dallas, to avoid another Oilers cup finals.
Those losers on Dallas will let them win again. And the Pacific seems awful.
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At this point, according to Moneypuck, the Oilers are almost as likely to miss the playoffs entirely (18.2%) as to make the conference finals (23.5%). Eight teams are in the mix for five playoff spots (including all three Pacific divisional seeds), all in a range from 56 to 64 points at the moment.
I'm not particularly worried about the Oilers making the finals again. They haven't got the horses, and Jarry isn't going to bail them out.
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‘You see in Calgary, [Ryan] Huska is no joke. It’s good. He’s really set on a specific model defensively. If you can be reliable, you have the freedom to play offence.’
—Ethan Wyttenbach
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02-02-2026, 09:17 PM
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#5309
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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McDavid’s bantam coach is packing his suitcase.
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02-02-2026, 09:28 PM
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#5310
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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"Hello, I am the Oilers' new head coach. My name is David McConnor."
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Turn up the good, turn down the suck!
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02-02-2026, 10:10 PM
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#5311
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Rebiggling, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Party Elephant
I posted this in october 2024, it's relevant again now!
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More ways for cap circumvention.
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Franchise > Team > Player
Future historians will celebrate June 24, 2024 as the date when the timeline corrected itself.
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02-02-2026, 10:25 PM
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#5312
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Richmond upon Thames, London
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Originally Posted by MissTeeks
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Reverse psychology. He needs a break and all he thinks about is getting out of Edmonton, whatever it takes.
The robot part is genuine though.
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02-02-2026, 10:27 PM
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#5313
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Franchise Player
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https://flip.it/8ZaXGy
“ 5. I don’t know if I’ve ever been prouder of Connor McDavid.
Great player.
Great captain.
Great Oiler.
Great Edmontonian.
Great Canadian”.
Barf.
I would bet good money that Staples wrote both the original McDavid piece AND the story in the Journal.
Barf.
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02-03-2026, 01:20 AM
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#5314
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Chicago
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A lucky goal after an invisible 4 nations and a Worlds 8 years ago is the only thing he has ever won. I doubt Canada wins gold this time, because McDavid. Maybe Sid can still carry it. That guy knows winning. I don't know
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02-03-2026, 07:45 AM
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#5315
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First Line Centre
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https://triblive.com/sports/joe-star...s-in-edmonton/
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Oh boy. Things seem to be deteriorating for Tristan Jarry in Edmonton. Did you see his comments after getting pulled from a 7-3 loss to Minnesota on Saturday?
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This is what he told reporters after his latest brutal performance since coming from Pittsburgh, one in which he allowed three “questionable” goals (sportsnet.ca’s euphemism):
“It’s tough. The chances we’re giving up, some of the shots, they’re tough. It’s a lot of Grade A’s, a lot of breakdowns.”
Put that through the what-he-should-have-said translator, and it comes out like this: “I was terrible. They brought me here to win games. I have to be better.”
Jarry was allergic to big games here. The difference now is he’s in a Cup-or-bust situation. That creates a new kind of pressure.
His comments didn’t get any better as he spoke.
“We want to play fast … we want to play in their end,” Jarry said. “When we’re taking some of those chances, they come back at us, and it’s tough. We just have to make sure we’re managing the puck a little bit better.”
Wow. I can’t imagine those quotes going over well in Oilers country. Not with Jarry’s numbers attached to them. He has an .836 save percentage in his past five games and .873 overall. Over a full season that wouldn’t be top-50 in the NHL.
Meanwhile, Stuart Skinner — the goalie in return — is becoming a fan favorite here. He went 7-1 with a .910 save percentage in January..
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Jarry has no one to blame but himself. He had trade protection and agreed to go to Edmonton. That media and fan base is going to chew him up and teach goalies why you don't willingly go to Edmonton. Meanwhile, I couldn't be happier for Skinner.
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02-03-2026, 07:59 AM
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#5316
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Chicago
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Originally Posted by Eric Vail
Jarry has no one to blame but himself. He had trade protection and agreed to go to Edmonton. That media and fan base is going to chew him up and teach goalies why you don't willingly go to Edmonton. Meanwhile, I couldn't be happier for Skinner.
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The end of the article is nice
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Penguins president of hockey operations/GM Kyle Dubas looks like a winner by knockout, at least so far. He picked the perfect time to trade Jarry. He also got Brett Kulak, who’s been helpful, and a second-round pick. The Oilers got Sam “Throw In” Poulin.
Dubas deserves jail time for that kind of robbery.
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Also really pleased for Skinner. Loved his interviews. Never shied away from the tough ones. Never threw team under bus. I'm sure he is becoming a fan fav in Pitt.
A good news way to start my day 
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02-03-2026, 08:08 AM
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#5317
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Franchise Player
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oilers team, media and fans tossing yet another goalie under the bus
Meanwhile, the goalie who escaped that no good #### hole is having a resurgence.
Shocking stuff I tell ya
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