I like Arvidsson. Though he's an injury risk of course.
Skinner is slow, and bad defensively, but his 5v5 results are among the best on the Sabres over the last 3 years. He has been outscoring his weaknesses. Will be interesting to see if the Oilers can utilize him as well as Buffalo has the last few years.
I don't know Brown from a hole in the wall. The Jfresh cards don't always tell the whole story though. Duncan Keith had terrible underlying stats coming into Edmonton and he ended up having an ok season for the Oilers.
I suspect Brown is just mostly signed for his fighting and won't play all that much. There aren't a lot of teams around with great 7th and 8th D-men, so its about par for the course.
This is the NoGoods' mantra...outscore the weaknesses. Well it worked VERY well in the SCF...they outscored the Panthers all the way to ... oh, wait...NOT WINNING THE CUP. LOL.
Another unwitting stone in the temple of E=NG from a fan of the Greasers.
Aww, is poor Evander going to cry? I hope for his sake the ESPYs weren't in vegas... and also what the hell was he doing there? I thought the ESPYs were for stars of their respective sports. Not for washed up third-liners with a history of legal troubles.
You know what is no good? No good is Eric Francis going on Edmonton radio to pump the tires of the No Goods. Then even no gooder? Staples writing about it.
You know what is no good? No good is Eric Francis going on Edmonton radio to pump the tires of the No Goods. Then even no gooder? Staples writing about it.
No surprise, Francis hasn't met a mic he hasn't loved, and if it means schilling for the local team (he's on Vancouver radio a fair bit as well) or saying things afar that he knows wouldn't say in Calgary, to continue getting some waning and desperate media exposure as some sort of faux Flames insider, so be it.
No surprise, Francis hasn't met a mic he hasn't loved, and if it means schilling for the local team (he's on Vancouver radio a fair bit as well) or saying things afar that he knows wouldn't say in Calgary, to continue getting some waning and desperate media exposure as some sort of faux Flames insider, so be it.
He knows that being provocative drives engagement. That explains him.
He knows that being provocative drives engagement. That explains him.
He has also said multiple times on air with Steinberg he does not care about the Flames at all, he is just a neutral hockey fan. I remember him saying he loves watching the BOA but he doesn't have a side in it. The opposite of the Oilers media who are all hardcore Oiler fans.
He has also said multiple times on air with Steinberg he does not care about the Flames at all, he is just a neutral hockey fan. I remember him saying he loves watching the BOA but he doesn't have a side in it. The opposite of the Oilers media who are all hardcore Oiler fans.
Yeah, Sather controlled the media in Edmonton to control the message. Why did it take a Sports Illustrated article in 1986 to expose the debts, coke habits and other issues behind the scenes with the Oilers, when all the local press knew that?
It's something Lowe learned and did on in the 20+ years he was an Oilers exec. Get the Matheson's, Jones', Cam Cole's and Staples all engaged with the team. Invite them to dinners, golf tourneys etc. Drop them rumors and other things. Get them to be a fan and feel part of things. Then, when Lowe makes a dubious decision (and he made many of them a year - Tier 2 fans comments, offer sheets, spat with Burke, coaching hiring and firings) or wants to run a player or coach or GM out of town, he has sympathizers ready to help do his dirty work and deliver the messages, or keep quiet and not critize a bad decision, and lessen the blow of running a player out of town (Comrie, Souray,Pronger)or give one sided reason to the general public.
When the McDavid lottery ball hit, Lowe then pushed national media to do similar, pushing them to push McDavid as the star that Canada needed to treat like Gretzky, and SNet needed to get ratings, and Rogers did, and has, and will continue to go full in on the Oilers. He then expanded his reach to do the national media favours, give them inside information. Ron McLean a good example. He goes to every Oilers charity event there is and his coverage on random Saturday nights show that. Inside info on the Oilers comes from all over the place, because they are cuddling up to the Dregers and Serivelli's as well.
Those favours and coziness with media locally and nationally, to an extent no other organization would dare open themselves us up, also, and not coincidentally, got Lowe to get those same media members to vote him into the HHOF 25 years after his middling career on successful teams, came to an end.
The Flames, and most NHL teams, are not they open book, or have they been a "I'll rub your back if you rub mine" and push via favours, their media into fans.
Prior to insiders and the social media proliferation, in the late 2000s, most teams kept their best writers informed but also the writers also knew to stay quiet or they would be no longer welocme. Duha said as much many times.
When insiders and social media hit, embracing and using the media like Lowe (abused) was never Sutter (as GM) or Treliving's way of doing things. The blowhard GM in between them tries but with zero credibility it didn't get him or the organization very far.
So the local guys in Calgary didn't and don't get the rumors from Sutter or BT to be a true insider for the Flames and personally profit from, as other beat writers and insiders around the league...which is basically why Francis is supposedly a "neutral" because the Flames haven't given him the ability to be a schill and a fan.
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You know what is no good? No good is Eric Francis going on Edmonton radio to pump the tires of the No Goods. Then even no gooder? Staples writing about it.
Will the Oilers be a good team? Sure, why not, they will also be an old team, They will be a team that still on paper while they have a richness of offensive players of up front, have a mistake prone blueline, that tends to get out of position, and they have a starting goalie with the unpredictability of Jack Nicholson in a mental institution.
And now they're the hunted team, the highly hyped team that all other teams will measure against.
And there's the possibility of turmoil, They have until the end of August to get Draisaitl under contract, they have basically til then to figure out their cap situation. They have 30 days for their training staff to but enough of those inflatable donuts that old people tend to bring along for long plain trips.
I think that the Oilers penalty kill is going to suffer this year. I think this team is going to be a bit slower and more injury prone then last years team, and we're going to learn in Skinner can play a full schedule (The goalie that is).
And no new coach bump, and we've seen what happens when the new coach bump fades when it comes to Draisaitl and McDavid.
I expect a terrible start by an arrogant and entitled Oilers team that to me feels like its just looking for a reason to lose games. I expect that Draisaitl will not sign a deal by the end of August, and that the Oilers are going to have to lose assets that they can't afford to lose to get under the cap.
For all their strutting, Well I'm going to let my Lawyer Vincent Gambinni explain the Oilers for the rubes.
Quote:
Vinny Gambini: Look, maybe I could handle the bullsh$t that Staples and the Oiler fan base is scooping out? I admit it. But what's most important is understanding that hockey is not a video game, or computer simulation, or some BS put out by a hack that hides behind advanced stats, and screams my team is special year after year. Look, the Oilers management team has to build a team that's good at all aspects to win the cup. Building a team is like building a house. Each piece of the team is just another building block. He wants to make a brick bunker of a building. He wants to use serious, solid-looking bricks, like, like these, right?
Vinny Gambini:[holding up a playing card, with the face toward the audience] Let me show you something. Staple's is going to show you the bricks. He'll show you they got straight sides. He'll show you how they got the right shape. He'll show them to you in a very special way, so that they appear to have everything a brick should have. But there's one thing he's not gonna show you. (turning the card), so that its edge is toward you] When you look at the bricks from the right angle, they're as thin as this playing card. That whole team is an illusion, a magic trick. It has to be an illusion, 'cause they're no good. Nobody - I mean nobody - pulls the wool over the eyes of a Gambini, especially this one. Give me a chance, one chance. watch the first week of the Oilers schedule. If after that point, you don't think that they're awful, fire me then and there. I'll leave quietly, no grudges. All I ask is for that one chance. I think they're no good.
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You know what is no good? No good is Eric Francis going on Edmonton radio to pump the tires of the No Goods. Then even no gooder? Staples writing about it.
And here we go again with every media jackass immediately declaring the Oilers the Cup favourites, as per usual. There are a lot of teams right now with more depth than the Oilers that could just as easily win the Cup. Hell, even the Canucks with a healthy Demko are still a better team than Edmonton.
Has there been any update on the Draisaitl negotiations? Last I heard, his agent claimed the ball was in the Oilers’ court and they had till August to make it happen or it likely wouldn’t happen. Not sure if that meant the beginning or the end of August.
If they’re pushing back at all on Draisaitl’s demands, it could mean his demands put them in a tough spot with the McDavid re-signing. What if he and McDavid still haven’t decided if they want to stay long-term? In that case, he may be only willing to sign a 1 year deal so he delays free agency to the year McDavid becomes a free agent. That would likely scare the hell out of the oilers brass so they might be trying to convince him to sign longer thinking every year he is signed with the oilers is a year that McDacie will be with the oilers.
The ideal scenario is that Draisaitl walks to free agency after the oilers fall short again this year - followed by the same thing happening with McDavid the following year. The second best scenario would be Draisaitl signing a one year, $14 million extension with the oilers… followed by the oilers falling short in both of the final years with McDavid + Draisaitl. Then they watch both of them leave to sign with LA/NY/Florida in free agency.
Man I woke up again today and I am gonna have a good day. The Oilers aren’t Stanley Cup champs. Can’t wait for tomorrow, another good day
Every day I see instagram/facebook clips of tkachuk and the panthers celebrating the cup win, and in every comments section of the clips there are token, crying, salty oilers fans in going on about 'turtlechuck' etc. It's so just so satisfying knowing how much this loss eats at fans of the no-goods.
So funny how all oilers fans have is how tkachuk wouldn't find a neanderthal sack of **** many years ago. And yet their two stars couldn't or wouldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.
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