Confirmed with Link: Oilers Sign Jesse Joensuu - 2 years, $950k per

[Morpheus]

I didnt even realize you were replacement. I was like.. who the hell is this drivesaitl guy that thinks he knows everything all of a sudden... son of a...

Yeah I didn’t know either I was like:

Now everything makes sense. Lol

 

[Drivesaitl]

Thought this was a recent signing and I was gonna be like "who?" Lol

This was more peoples reaction than we care to mention. I got a brief sweat reading it and with us having Drake Caggiulia again how far off was it.

I prefered Hartikainen if we're reminiscing.

Yeah I didn’t know either I was like:

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Now everything makes sense. Lol

Hopefully I still get the likes. Particularly in music or weather posting that we seem to agree on. I'm a bit more manageable now in my retired "calm" years so don't fret too much. hehe I slid in a music pun.

ps I saw Kiss first time in 77 in I think it was the Love gun tour. Ace smoking guitar, Peters rising drum platform with Cat mural, Paul Stanley prancing around like a hair stylist, Gene Simmons monster, whole bit. Cheap Trick were the back up band. Nice. At one point in time Kiss Alive and Cheap Trick Live at Budokhan were real good selling live albums. Both bands liked it live.

 

[Spawn]

@Soundwave too…

Or when you were too young to post on this site!

 

[Morpheus]

This was more peoples reaction than we care to mention. I got a brief sweat reading it and with us having Drake Caggiulia again how far off was it.

I prefered Hartikainen if we're reminiscing.


Hopefully I still get the likes. Particularly in music or weather posting that we seem to agree on. I'm a bit more manageable now in my retired "calm" years so don't fret too much. hehe I slid in a music pun.

ps I saw Kiss first time in 77 in I think it was the Love gun tour. Ace smoking guitar, Peters rising drum platform with Cat mural, Paul Stanley prancing around like a hair stylist, Gene Simmons monster, whole bit. Cheap Trick were the back up band. Nice. At one point in time Kiss Alive and Cheap Trick Live at Budokhan were real good selling live albums. Both bands liked it live.

I’m glad you got to see em then. I wasn’t born yet so I had to wait for the reunion/farewell tour in 98/99

Cheap trick always puts on a killer show as well.

 

[The Nuge]

Wayback machine

Edmonton Oilers - HFBoards

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web.archive.org

The links don't work but those are some funny thread titles - Klefbom cut with skate and out with infection, Byfuglien drunk boating, Hall as a Centre, Kings file grievance over Smyth trade

How far we’ve come that we went from trying to convert a winger to center that we’re now having to converts centers to wing… that era was great for building a sense of community around here, but god was it ever painful

Amazing to think there was a me a time when both myself and @Drivesaitl were moderators here lol.

Retirement and the decade of darkness really did a number on our sanities it seems

So much like the Oilers of the era, we would take literally whoever would say yes?

Wait until I tell you about Tobias Reider and Patrick Russell.

I feel bad for Russell. He wasn’t that bad as a 4th liner. We saw a lot of mediocre to bad players over the years, but he at least stood out positively as a guy who left it all out there trying to live his dream.

In fairness I was recruited into it and was convinced to do it. Plus BBO got tapped on the shoulder at the same time and so that was fun. They figured I had the right kind of take no prisoners approach to be a mod. At the time they seemed to want some hammers to nails, or something. The board was more wild west then, than it is now. Fights would be constant here and go overboard. Moderation was required.

Now matching present times everything wants to be inoffensive and the infractions are now blanket served by anonymous bots so as to avoid any and all controversy. Back in the day you'd give somebody an infraction and they'd be giving you love PM's for the next 3 days and deriding you for a year. lol. For a free gig wasn't worth the aggravation, don't know how Bryan does it.

DSF stopped talking to me after I became a mod. That might be a good thing.

JTS was a mod. I think thats odd too.

I sure don’t miss those. Especially when it was a jackass from another board that couldn’t comprehend what trolling infractions are for.

Some wise words I got from Fugu early on in me being a mod were “watch out for former mods. They know how to push buttons while technically being within rules”. Not naming any names as to who that might have been about

I didnt even realize you were replacement. I was like.. who the hell is this drivesaitl guy that thinks he knows everything all of a sudden... son of a...

Hmm. I thought everyone knew that years ago. It was a pretty open secret

I always felt bad for Russell. Good, hard working guy but zero puck luck.

And when he actually did bury one that one time, he got absolutely robbed by a joke of a goalie interference call.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Remember when Bob Mckenzie was on here and called someone an Ass Hat.

Speedyturtle too, he was a good follow.

I believe it was ass clown!

 

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I’m glad you got to see em then. I wasn’t born yet so I had to wait for the reunion/farewell tour in 98/99

Cheap trick always puts on a killer show as well.

The best live show ever! I was supposed to be at the 77 Love Gun show with Cheap Trick. My buddy and I camped out front of Northlands all night and we had Floor Row 1 center stage tickets. Couldn't attend the concert - long story - but was I ever pissed.

For the fall show here I’ll be in the “pit” and backstage pre and post show and then down to Calgary to see them play there. I tried to get tickets to their last show ever in NYC but I was in the Ticketmaster line right at 10AM EST sharp and was something like 10,000th in line so won’t happen.

Some pics from the pit in Ottawa. Can’t wait for the 2 shows in November!

 

[rboomercat90]

Seeing this thread is actually depressing. I want to forget that team ever even existed.

It was fun reading the first few pages of a 10 year old thread and seeing who is still around and who isn’t.

 

[Fourier]

You and me both.

And our old buddy @Comrade Blunderbore!!! I hope both are doing well.

 

[The Nuge]

And our old buddy @Comrade Blunderbore!!! I hope both are doing well.

Especially with everything going on over there… although he was apparently on yesterday. Just 1 post in 6 years

 

[TheGreenTBer]

I believe it was ass clown!

It was.

His exact quote was "some of you guys are really assclowns sometimes" and the immediate next (hilarious) response was "...did Bob McKenzie just say assclown?"

Too bad we didn't have likes back then because Bob's post would have broken the record

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Whoops. Thought he was a mod here too. What a shithole that place was.

It still exists, technically.

I was there from 2008 to 2014 or so and i never remember a big Oilers presence there though.

 

[The Nuge]

@Soundwave too…

As was @The Head Crusher . Twice even

The bad part is I couldn’t for the life of me say when Soundwave stopped being a mod

 

[Senor Catface]

And our old buddy @Comrade Blunderbore!!! I hope both are doing well.

I think you caused him to sign-in.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

And our old buddy @Comrade Blunderbore!!! I hope both are doing well.

Definitely miss him as well!

 

[rboomercat90]

And our old buddy @Comrade Blunderbore!!! I hope both are doing well.

Was that Alex?

 

[Ritchie Valens]

The best live show ever! I was supposed to be at the 77 Love Gun show with Cheap Trick. My buddy and I camped out front of Northlands all night and we had Floor Row 1 center stage tickets. Couldn't attend the concert - long story - but was I ever pissed.

For the fall show here I’ll be in the “pit” and backstage pre and post show and then down to Calgary to see them play there. I tried to get tickets to their last show ever in NYC but I was in the Ticketmaster line right at 10AM EST sharp and was something like 10,000th in line so won’t happen.

Some pics from the pit in Ottawa. Can’t wait for the 2 shows in November!

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Love KISS-lol. I remember being about 6 or 7 listening to my sister's records of them. She had (maybe still has?) Alive II on vinyl and the only reason I listened to them was Gene's facepaint scared me so I figured they must be good haha.

Saw them in Saskatoon in November of '09, got floor seats so was pretty excited for that. Because Shannon Tweed grew up in Saskatoon, she was there too and my sister and nephew met her in a chance encounter on the concourse inside Sask Place or whatever it's called now.

Buckcherry opened for them, who are pretty good live in their own rite. Funniest part of the concert though, they sprung into "Let Me Go Rock n Roll" and they're playing the intro and being familiar with the song, the intro ended where the first verse was to begin with Gene taking lead. Instead, he keeps strumming away on the bass working the crowd and Paul is staring him down like he's thinking "Are you gonna go f***ing sing or what?". Gene catches his stare and you can see the "Oh shit" look on his face so they wind through an impromptu extended intro of the song and Gene finally steps to the mic and sings-lol. Great concert.

 

[The Head Crusher]

As was @The Head Crusher . Twice even

The bad part is I couldn’t for the life of me say when Soundwave stopped being a mod

 

[Paralyzer]

Damn...I made this thread 10 years ago, and it's still kicking.

 

[K1984]

At least for me Anton Belov and Acton were very low risk moves. Belov had potential at least too. You have to throw those darts once and awhile. The problem is when you sign those guys and think they are shoe ins to play above where they really should be.

But Nikitin and Ference my god. Just dumb dumb contracts.

Edit: You have to throw PPCP into the mix backhand.

Belov actually made the Russian Olympic team that year. I remember in the Russia vs. USA game he was playing awesome and I remember Craig Simpson saying something to the effect of "Belov can't even get into the lineup at times in Edmonton of all places, but he's been fantastic in this game."

Part of me wonders if he had some upside that just got hidden with how rancid those Oiler teams were, but I guess we'll never know.

 

[MessierII]

Belov actually made the Russian Olympic team that year. I remember in the Russia vs. USA game he was playing awesome and I remember Craig Simpson saying something to the effect of "Belov can't even get into the lineup at times in Edmonton of all places, but he's been fantastic in this game."

Part of me wonders if he had some upside that just got hidden with how rancid those Oiler teams were, but I guess we'll never know.

Two words. Dallas Eakins. He had an interview in Russian where he said he wouldn’t consider playing for that coach again.

 

[ManByng]

I did a double take as well, then I saw the date....

 

[The Nuge]

Two words. Dallas Eakins. He had an interview in Russian where he said he wouldn’t consider playing for that coach again.

Yep. If it wasn’t for Eakins I feel like Belov would have had a 5+ year NHL career. He was fine as a bottom pairing dman imo

 

[Drivesaitl]

Two words. Dallas Eakins. He had an interview in Russian where he said he wouldn’t consider playing for that coach again.

The usual types here were blasting Belov here for the comments and complete with the go back to Russia stuff. Despite Belov nailing it. I loved Belov all the more because he spoke his mind. Wish for more of that in present day. Idiots in charge ought to be challenged. I was calling out Eakins every day.

Could you imagine how demoralizing it was to play pro hockey for Dallas Eakins. you dedicate your whole life to playing and then you get typecast and misused and devalued by a village idiot.

 

[AM]

Yeah I didn’t know either I was like:

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Now everything makes sense. Lol

I think of it this way, he’s the replacement of replacement.