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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:45 pm 
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They're wasting two careers right now...

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:28 am 
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Just wondering- do the Oilers get screamed at that they're wasting McDavid's career?


Oh do they ever, on twitter at least.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:40 am 
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E.L. wrote:
They're wasting two careers right now...


Three. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is a seriously underrated and underappreciated player.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:49 am 
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Chris18 wrote:
Just wondering- do the Oilers get screamed at that they're wasting McDavid's career? When the Isles had Tavares fans of other teams would scream that he's wasting away with a go-nowhere team. The Oilers have had 2934087 1st overall picks on their roster in the last 14 years. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration on my part, but that's how it feels.


Funny you should ask...

https://deadspin.com/connor-mcdavid-des ... 1844665253

Deadspin is a hollow echo of its former self, but this is as fun and relentlessly scathing as it gets.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:17 pm 
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Pokecheque wrote:
E.L. wrote:
They're wasting two careers right now...


Three. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is a seriously underrated and underappreciated player.


Kinda shocked they haven't traded him for dumb character guys yet, but good on em, I suppose.

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What's up in Alberta? Why is every early playoff exit met with a call for truculence and pugnacity? If that's the case then they should have kept Lucic.....how about better D and goaltending!

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:02 pm 
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Pokecheque wrote:
Chris18 wrote:
Just wondering- do the Oilers get screamed at that they're wasting McDavid's career? When the Isles had Tavares fans of other teams would scream that he's wasting away with a go-nowhere team. The Oilers have had 2934087 1st overall picks on their roster in the last 14 years. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration on my part, but that's how it feels.


Funny you should ask...

https://deadspin.com/connor-mcdavid-des ... 1844665253

Deadspin is a hollow echo of its former self, but this is as fun and relentlessly scathing as it gets.


That was good shit. Thanks.

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What's up in Alberta? Why is every early playoff exit met with a call for truculence and pugnacity? If that's the case then they should have kept Lucic.....how about better D and goaltending!


I follow a number of Canadian sportswriters, analytics experts, and even a few journalists and political pundits. Unless I read a lot of what they’re saying wrong, Alberta is their version of Texas. Very conservative (and their Premier, Jason Kenney, has no friends among the people I follow). It might be a bit of a leap, but there’s plenty of overlap between sports fans who embrace old-school ideals and conservatives who embrace old-school ideas.

There are huge exceptions of course. Brian Burke (who of course is American and not from Alberta, so this might be a bad example) is as old-school and brazenly disdainful of things like analytics as you can get in sports, yet he’s refreshingly progressive with his politics.


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Oilers bring RW Adam Cracknell back from China on a juiced up two-way contract. He's old, but I thought he deserved a shot in Montreal the year he lit up Laval. But I get it, he's had enough chances to, err, crack the lineup.

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Back just in time to be a centerpiece expansion pickup for the Kraknel. I mean, Kraken.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:35 pm 
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Connor has COVID https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/spo ... ssion=true

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Hopefully no long-term effects for Connor. McCovid? Too easy?

Like the Oil statement that he's in voluntary self-quarantine. Voluntary? Ok there. You get a positive diagnosis, you stay the fuck home.

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McCovid? Too easy?


I thought of it but didn't write it. So yes, too easy. :lol:

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Oilers don't qualify Anathasiou after doling out 2 2nds for him. Better than doubling down on a mistake, I suppose.

They also got Puljujarvi back for 2 years at a nice contract.

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So far I don't quite understand what Ken Holland is doing. But he's a far smarter man than I so, I guess we'll see...


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Oil add Sabres cast-off Dominik Kahun. Perfect fit for the German: he's played internationally with Leon Draisaitl.

Not saying the Sabres are going to regret replacing him with Hall, but Kahun could easily get 50-55 points riding shotgun with his countryman.

I don't hate what the Oilers have done. Just wish they got a goalie.

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Oil are kicking the snot out of the Sens tonight. 8-3 after 40, Leon with 6 assists.

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McDavid was frustrated last night, threw an elbow at Kotkaniemi's head. Only got 2 minutes, and given his stature, I'm surprised he even got that.

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McDavid was frustrated last night, threw an elbow at Kotkaniemi's head. Only got 2 minutes, and given his stature, I'm surprised he even got that.


Now he got a $5k fine. In a normal season he makes $152k/game. Does someone making $12.5 million even know what $5k is? How the hell are these fines so damn small? Ridiculous. For me, $5k would keep from doing almost anything. When the dude makes more/game than I do in a year? Not exactly a deterrent.

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Chris18 wrote:
E.L. wrote:
McDavid was frustrated last night, threw an elbow at Kotkaniemi's head. Only got 2 minutes, and given his stature, I'm surprised he even got that.


Now he got a $5k fine. In a normal season he makes $152k/game. Does someone making $12.5 million even know what $5k is? How the hell are these fines so damn small? Ridiculous. For me, $5k would keep from doing almost anything. When the dude makes more/game than I do in a year? Not exactly a deterrent.


I imagine him at the pawn shop now, trying to hawk one of his 50 XBoxes.

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