THIS is why people make fun of Edmonton. When will this stupid city figure it out? They continue to kick their own ass every day, it's impossible not to make fun of them.
Wow. They are not even trying to be subtle about it.
Stauffer finished the noon-hour by mentioning that phones would be open and he would be reading listeners's texts. Then he very creepily singled out "the haters" and noted that the station saves everyone's texts, so they have a posting history on their submissions.
The Oilers Politburo knows all.
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But head-shots are serious business. We cant have people hitting players blind-side and then just punching defenseless players in the head while they lie helpless on the ice.
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It punishes the Oilers more to have him playing than suspended...
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Fair enough!
I see some of the Edmonton media thinks the fine is a joke.......I do wonder if someone did the exact same thing to McDavid if they would be cool with just a penalty. I'm guessing not.
Lucic is lucky the kid didn't get hurt. That was Stalking 101 and just a ridiculous play all around.
The approach by the DOPS is so bass ackwards - They should assess the offending player's action and deem if it is worthy of a suspension and then tack on additional discipline if the player is injured as a result of the action. Instead, it's pretty clear that they look to see if the player was injured and if he does escape injury, no suspension is handed down. Just my two cents.
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This is actually great news for any team that plays the oilers from now on. Apparently any team could go out of their way to chase McDavid down, hit him when he’s not near the puck and is vulnerable to a dirty hit, and then proceed to sit on him and hit him in the head when he’s down on the ice defenceless. All while only getting a $10,000 fine. GM’s could dress a goon and pay him an extra $100,000 at the start of the season telling him to do that to McDavid every game that we play him. That would cover the fines. If he does it enough to hurt McDavid and gets a bigger suspension, the GM can just work in a bonus somewhere into his contract.
People saying it was not that bad have to realize the difference between what lucic did and what bertuzzi did was that bertuzzi injured the guy. That could have happened in this instance too. It’s sad to say but there would be a completely different response to this by the league and the media if this was done to McDavid.
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“Physically six pounds lighter… The speed and agility testing we have four tests – I would probably say from last year to this year between 45 and 60 percent improvement. Significant improvement. You know those pro agility tests, those shuttle runs – significant improvement. You can see it on the ice.”
So, 45-60% improvement in speed and agility. So lets say 50% just to make it an easy number.
Would that mean that a person who ran the 40 in 6 seconds who had a 50% improvement would now run the 40 in 3 seconds?
That is ridiculous. A 10% improvement is impressive. 50% is ridiculous.
Yeah, those tests make very little difference in terms of what actually happens on the ice. I know a lot of players that are very fast on those type of tests because that's what they prepare for in the offseason, then they get on the field on ice in a game and they have the same old dead legs or dead brain.
No matter what Lucic and the Oilers think, you can't beat father time, or uncle bulk. Lucic is slow on the ice because he just is.
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