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Post by Andy Martin on Feb 7, 2015 21:18:15 GMT -5
God, this team is terrible.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2015 21:23:56 GMT -5
God, this team is terrible. Trust me bro it's much easier, healthier, and happier when you stop watching the team past mid November. But seriously #LOLOILERS of course they have to break another teams slump. Seriously it's comical on how many personal slumps they have broken for players and losing streaks of other teams the past few years. |
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Post by Andy Martin on Feb 7, 2015 21:28:33 GMT -5
God, this team is terrible. Trust me bro it's much easier, healthier, and happier when you stop watching the team past mid November. But seriously #LOLOILERS of course they have to break another teams slump. Seriously it's comical on how many personal slumps they have broken for players and losing streaks of other teams the past few years. C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! |
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Post by BR329 on Feb 7, 2015 22:00:34 GMT -5
Damn I missed the Leafs/Oilers McEichel cup while at work.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2015 23:56:55 GMT -5
9 games with the Minnesota Wild, Devan Dubnyk has:
7-1 Record
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.948 save percentage
4 shutouts
Entering goalie prime age
You Dun Goofed MacTavish. f*** YOU!!!
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Post by BRV on Feb 8, 2015 10:06:49 GMT -5
There are a myriad of options to finger the blame for the poor attendance at Chicago's Hockey City Classic, but I can't help but shake this feeling that we're starting to see the beginning of the slow death of the cache of outdoor hockey, and I blame the NHL's Stadium Series. www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-hockey-soldier-field-spt-0208-20150207-story.htmlThe Winter Classic was one of the rare things that the NHL did flawlessly. It drew huge ratings, sold out stadiums, and became must-watch television every New Year's Day. But naturally, the league got fat and happy and thought there was no way they could oversaturate the market. With four Stadium Series games last season, one this year, and two in 2015-16, I can't help but feel like the appeal of outdoor stadium hockey has lost a lot of its luster. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 10:23:51 GMT -5
There are a myriad of options to finger the blame for the poor attendance at Chicago's Hockey City Classic, but I can't help but shake this feeling that we're starting to see the beginning of the slow death of the cache of outdoor hockey, and I blame the NHL's Stadium Series. www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-hockey-soldier-field-spt-0208-20150207-story.htmlThe Winter Classic was one of the rare things that the NHL did flawlessly. It drew huge ratings, sold out stadiums, and became must-watch television every New Year's Day. But naturally, the league got fat and happy and thought there was no way they could oversaturate the market. With four Stadium Series games last season, one this year, and two in 2015-16, I can't help but feel like the appeal of outdoor stadium hockey has lost a lot of its luster. Well if they give other teams a chance that isn't part of the Bettman Seven they'll do fine. Like we're running out of cool special heritage jerseys for the Blackhawks and other teams. Next year they'll do fine by f***ing finally having a Boston vs. Montreal game and two outdoor games in the western conference in both Minnesota and Colorado. Then the season after that apparently Toronto is hosting a Winter Classic for their Centenial season and should host it against Ottawa but it'll probably be against the f***ing Penguins or Blackhawks. Plus Winnipeg is supposedly getting a heritage game in 2017. But yeah the reason why Minnesota is finally getting a outdoors game is because they wanted a winter classic for a long time but the league wouldn't give them one and the next two years being booked they didn't want to wait any longer showing the problems with the leagues and NBC's stubbornness. One year all of the Bettman Seven teams or only one or two of them will make it to the playoffs and it'll be glorious. NBC got over reliant on insane luck on one of those teams making it to the cup finals every season but one since 07-08 |
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Post by BRV on Feb 8, 2015 10:32:12 GMT -5
Well if they give other teams a chance that isn't part of the Bettman Seven they'll do fine. Like we're running out of cool special heritage jerseys for the Blackhawks and other teams. Next year they'll do fine by f***ing finally having a Boston vs. Montreal game and two outdoor games in the western conference in both Minnesota and Colorado. Then the season after that apparently Toronto is hosting a Winter Classic for their Centenial season and should host it against Ottawa but it'll probably be against the f***ing Penguins or Blackhawks. Plus Winnipeg is supposedly getting a heritage game in 2017. I look at the Stadium Series games from last season and into the future and I can't help but think, "THAT would have made for a great Winter Classic." Ducks vs. Kings at Dodger Stadium, Rangers vs. Islanders at Yankee Stadium, and Red Wings vs. Avalanche at Coors Field all would have made for perfect Winter Classic games. Instead, the NHL got fat and happy and decided to lazily shoehorn them into the middle of the regular season (and the middle of NFL playoff season, on top of that). The epitome of the NHL not realizing there's such a thing as too much of a good thing was when they had the Rangers and Islanders play at Yankee Stadium three days after the Rangers had previously played the Devils in the Bronx. Oh, and the game was on a WEDNESDAY. And they run the risk of fully oversaturating the market in 2016, when we'll have the Winter Classic and two Stadium Series games in two months. Hell, there's going to be two Stadium Series games in a matter of six days in 2016. I just feel like this is the kind of stuff the NHL is going to be looking back on and shaking their collective heads at when the 2018 or whatever Winter Classic draws piss-poor ratings in a three-quarters-full stadium. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 10:39:54 GMT -5
There are a myriad of options to finger the blame for the poor attendance at Chicago's Hockey City Classic, but I can't help but shake this feeling that we're starting to see the beginning of the slow death of the cache of outdoor hockey, and I blame the NHL's Stadium Series. www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-hockey-soldier-field-spt-0208-20150207-story.htmlThe Winter Classic was one of the rare things that the NHL did flawlessly. It drew huge ratings, sold out stadiums, and became must-watch television every New Year's Day. But naturally, the league got fat and happy and thought there was no way they could oversaturate the market. With four Stadium Series games last season, one this year, and two in 2015-16, I can't help but feel like the appeal of outdoor stadium hockey has lost a lot of its luster. I think the only way outdoor games can get any luster anymore is if they hold the games in a market that doesn't have an NHL franchise. Like maybe host an outdoor game at SafeCo Field or Lambeau Field. Heck, could it be possible to host it at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway? And hey, 2016 will mark 25 years since the first official NHL outdoor game between the Kings and Rangers in Vegas, why not host a rematch there to celebrate it? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 10:42:59 GMT -5
I just think winter classic games should be hosted in cities that actually have snow for the visual and stadium games should be in warm weather cities and a good way to build up that market. But I forgot about the scheduling like damn that's bad. But they really need to focus on building new teams up by winter classic exposure and so they don't get low TV ratings. The 2012 Cup Final did poor numbers because NBC never builds up LA (or any team in the west just Chicago since Detroit is gone) and NJD and their was some extremly high ratings during the other series of the playoffs like Boston vs. Washington or NJD vs. NYR
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 23:22:45 GMT -5
The Oilers won their first road game since November 9th, 2014. It's amazing how this amount of level of suck isn't 30th place in the league. Edmonton is having a special kind of generational level of suck of a season and are getting upstaged by an epic generational level of suck from the Buffalo Sabres. It's only fitting the two front runners in the horse race for the generational talent of Eichel/McDavid is being done by two generational levels of tanking
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Post by The Captain on Feb 9, 2015 23:46:47 GMT -5
Devils somehow managed to only get 14 shots on goal against the Oilers.
Seriously. That is a special level of sucking after watching Kinkaid get wrecked by the Habs.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 21:48:01 GMT -5
Darryl Katz = Dixie Carter
Kevin Lowe = Eric Bischoff
Craig MacTavish = Hulk Hogan
Edmonton Oilers = TNA
And they somehow continue to make a profit every season the past 9 seasons. Katz wants to raise season tickets next year LOL and sent a survey to Season Ticket Holders on what the prices for Season Tickets should be when the New Arena Opens for the luxury boxes, ($1800 or $18,000 dollars). I'm not making this up.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2015 23:12:32 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2015 11:52:39 GMT -5
The Jets and the Sabres made a trade, and it's a biggie. Jets trade Evander Kane, Zach Bogosian and Jason Kasdorf for Tyler Myers, Drew Stafford, Joel Armia, Brendan Lemieux, and a 1st round pick. The Sabres had 3 1st round picks, and the one in the trade will be the lowest one.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2015 11:54:27 GMT -5
Jets won that trade big time.
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Post by JTG Fan on Feb 11, 2015 11:59:02 GMT -5
I think a change of scenery will be big for Kane, he still has all the potential in the world and I could see a Seguin-esque breakout from him. I think it got the point where his every movement in Winnipeg was under a microscope.
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Post by The Captain on Feb 11, 2015 12:07:04 GMT -5
And I agree that overexposure of the Bettman Seven is actively detrimental to the national hockey fanbase. I seriously can't remember any featured Sunday national broadcast game or the laughably misnamed "Wednesday Night Rivalry" series that didn't feature one of the following: NY Rangers, Bruins, Penguins, Capitals, Blackhawks, Red Wings, or Flyers. It makes ESPN's selection process for Sunday Night Baseball look diverse by comparison.
The NHL continues to be its own biggest obstacle to growing its own popularity and I'm sure NBC is just as guilty. f*** Bettman and f*** NBC.
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Post by Sam Punk on Feb 11, 2015 13:59:15 GMT -5
How are the Oilers so bad? They've picked in the top 10 each of the past six years. Four of those years they had a top 3 pick. A chimpanzee could turn that into a winning team.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2015 14:45:25 GMT -5
How are the Oilers so bad? They've picked in the top 10 each of the past six years. Four of those years they had a top 3 pick. A chimpanzee could turn that into a winning team. The biggest flaw is they never have an accomplished skilled veteran like say Jagr to teach prospects the game rather then rushing up prospects to the majors too soon and killing all of their development. Problem is Oilers can't ever make a good trade or a good free agent signing because Lowe has a horrible reputation from the players. Also doesn't help he hasn't made a winning hockey team in nine years. So really it's f***ing Lowe and his horrible arrogance. Chicago and Pittsburgh and Washington has many high draft picks but they built up a veteran squad and depth to compliment those superstar players. I'm still convinced they should of never fired Krueger like he might of been the coach to actually turn the team around like everything progressed under him and everything regressed miserably after him. Edit: Like look at Ekblad. He's excelling because he's being mentored by Campbell and Willie Mitchell. If Ekblad was playing for the Oilers he would be playing top minutes with Ference and Nitkin and worst of them all Justin Schultz at one point under Krueger looked like he had serious elite potential. Now he's probably the worst overpaid D-Man in the league |
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