Post-Game Talk: “You’re My Favourite Mistake” Oilers tank game 81 to let AZ close this franchise with a W

[NedPlimpton]

Yeah honestly I'm gonna be a villain here and just say it: I sympathize with their fans(honestly maybe the most dedicated considering all they dealt with) but as shitty as it is, the organization and NHL had 28 years to get it together. Nothing against the fans at all but the org was a tire fire and this was overdue. It's not wrong to call it as it is.

Yeah exactly.

Of course it would suck for the fans. I get that entirely.

but people in here acting like we should feel bad or are "classless" for feeling otherwise are weird.

I'm not a fan of the team and therefore my stance on the Coyotes remains ever the same. Even when they still existed: I simply do not care.

I'm not out here relishing the fact that they are no more, but I also don't feel a thing.

Throw in the fact that the writing has been on the wall for as long as it has and it hardly even feels like a story.

And the one Yotes fan in here and the GDT basically trolling/saying "YOU'D CARE IF IT WERE YOUR TEAM!". Like... yeah man. No shit. And? go reminiscence with your people, bro. Not sure the point you are trying to make even needs to be made.

 

[tardigrade81]

get them in the playoffs!

Oh wait they didn’t make it

 

[GMofOilers]

It’s either feast or famine for the Oilers with the league. Expect games 3-5 to be crammed into a doubleheader followed by a game the next morning.

This doesn’t even make sense

 

[fuswald]

I wonder how betting houses can work with a league that manages games to get the results they want.
Like betting on a fixed sport. Gambling for money on a fixed sport is illegal and I believe even criminal where gambling is legal.

 

[WaitingForUser]

Well I must say for the first time ever this board is actually not panicking like everyone on face book lol

 

[CupofOil]

Yeah honestly I'm gonna be a villain here and just say it: I sympathize with their fans(honestly maybe the most dedicated considering all they dealt with) but as shitty as it is, the organization and NHL had 28 years to get it together. Nothing against the fans at all but the org was a tire fire and this was overdue. It's not wrong to call it as it is.

I think it's reasonable to say that hockey didn't work in Arizona and that the team should have been moved while also feeling bad for the diehard Arizona fans that you saw with tears in their eyes after the game. It's never fun to watch fans lose sports teams, for people to lose jobs etc.

The move was long overdue and it was an embarrassment for the league but it does suck for their fans who were dedicated to the team, last night I couldn't help but to think about what it felt like for me and many others around here (especially those of you who live in Edmonton) when the Nordiques and Jets moved and it seemed inevitable for many years from the mid 90s to early 00s that the Oilers would too so I feel for them.

 

[Broberg Speed]

Arizona is one of the biggest markets in America. With an actual good owner and team they could thrive there.

why? it's not a hockey market. it will never be a hockey market, and why should it be? those people don't give a f*** about hockey. they never will.

haven't they gown the game enough for you yet? you want to squeeze another team into florida?

aiming for 40 years without a canadian cup? hockey isn't canada's game anymore. do you understand how many generations of canadians have been alienated from hockey while bettman has been the commissioner?

maybe vancouver will win it all this year. haha look at calgary, no playoffs for them. fanboys, pump up your team. let's go!

Yeah honestly I'm gonna be a villain here and just say it: I sympathize with their fans(honestly maybe the most dedicated considering all they dealt with) but as shitty as it is, the organization and NHL had 28 years to get it together. Nothing against the fans at all but the org was a tire fire and this was overdue. It's not wrong to call it as it is.

sounds more like edmonton than arizona.

I wonder how betting houses can work with a league that manages games to get the results they want.
Like betting on a fixed sport. Gambling for money on a fixed sport is illegal and I believe even criminal where gambling is legal.

it didn't take long for gambling and the nhl to become synonymous once the littlest gangster got vegas in the fold.

I made the mistake of watching the Sportsnet broadcast. I should have known it would be a 2.5 hour Coyote love-in. I was waiting for slow-motion video of Louie's greatest moments on ice there, with a violin soundtrack.

fatso boy debrusk doing his dick helicopter routine.

 

[syz]

sounds more like edmonton than arizona.

Edmonton has perennially spent to the cap since it was introduced. The Coyotes have perennially had to take on dead contracts to reach the cap floor because it turns out their owners have been too cheap to even pay the team's hotel bills.

 

[Broberg Speed]

Edmonton has perennially spent to the cap since it was introduced. The Coyotes have perennially had to take on dead contracts to reach the cap floor because it turns out their owners have been too cheap to even pay the team's hotel bills.

cool

 

[syz]

cool

Good contribution, as always.

 

[syz]

The east matchups have already been locked in for days and the west matchups won't be known until potentially the last second of the season. It shouldn't be a surprise that they'll start later.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

This doesn’t even make sense

It’s the NHL. Should it even make sense?

 

[Canovin]

Utah needs to bring in The Rock for this introduction.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Edmonton has perennially spent to the cap since it was introduced. The Coyotes have perennially had to take on dead contracts to reach the cap floor because it turns out their owners have been too cheap to even pay the team's hotel bills.

Atlanta was similar with shitty ownership. The NHL continues to find the absolute worst owners for their teams.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Arizona is one of the biggest markets in America. With an actual good owner and team they could thrive there.

I disagree. The last year where they were actually a good team (2011-12) and finished first in the Pacific division, they were still last in the league in attendance with just 12,000 people or so with bought and paid tickets out of a 17K or 18K arena.

Before they moved out to Glendale, they shared an arena with the Suns so looking at average attendance numbers between the two teams, they weren’t close either. Picking two random seasons, (98-99) the Coyotes were still an okay team finishing third in the Pacific and had an average attendance of 15,500. The Suns averaged 18,462. In their last season sharing an arena (02-03), the Coyotes started to struggle as a team. Attendance dropped to just under 14,000 while the Suns were up near 20K and were barely a playoff team. Hell, the first year the Coyotes were there in 96-97, they were 20th out of 26 teams in attendance, the following season-still a bottom 10 team in the league in paid attendance. That’s pretty shitty for a new professional sports team in town.

Americans that far south heard names like “Shaq” or “Kobe” or “Lebron”, they’d flock. When they heard names like “Wayne”, “Mario” or “Jaromir” they went “who??”.

The NHL should never set foot in Arizona ever again as far as I’m concerned.

 

[FlameChampion]

Whats the obsession with the NHL and Arizona? I know in theory they figure snowbirds will support the club but that doesn't happen, and isn't realistic. Snowbirds coming from Western Canada already have their favorite home side. They ain't changing, and a quarter Century says they aren't attending.


You can't bank on just OOT buying tickets. Not even in Vegas is that the sole plan.

One of the biggest markets and population centers in the US, which makes Bettman giddy. Doesn’t really have anything to do with hockey.

Atlanta is probably the same.

 

[bobbythebrain]

Embarrassing effort.

Kinda the point

 

[Heavy Dee]

With this song, right?

I remember they played this at the end of Gretzky's last game and I balled my eyes out like a broken hearted school girl lol.

 

[CupofOil]

Edmonton has perennially spent to the cap since it was introduced. The Coyotes have perennially had to take on dead contracts to reach the cap floor because it turns out their owners have been too cheap to even pay the team's hotel bills.

Say what you want about Katz in terms of hiring qualified hockey people and he has failed in this respect more times than not but he's been a very good owner in terms of running the Edmonton Oilers business. Winning the McLottery certainly helped that along but the Oilers who were once what Arizona currently is are now one of the most profitable franchises in the league mostly thanks to Katz.

 

[Sweetpotato]

I remember they played this at the end of Gretzky's last game and I balled my eyes out like a broken hearted school girl lol.

One of the most cemented childhood memories for me and that song will always be synonymous with that moment.

 

[North Cole]

Wonder what happens to that meme poster that ditched us years ago to go be a yotes fan. Lmao

 

[harpoon]

Atlanta was similar with shitty ownership. The NHL continues to find the absolute worst owners for their teams.

Those shitty billionaires who don’t know how to play with their toys correctly eh Keith. You really should go watch the wnba.

 

[alphahelix]

He ain’t scoring 20 again.

guy scores 20 riding shotgun with draisaitl (mostly against bottom feeders), and people think hes irreplaceable. So invisible in so many tight games this year. hes bigger and faster than yamo but dumber and less tenacious. he would have been an ideal candidate for an upgrade at tdl.

 

[Oilhawks]

Wonder what happens to that meme poster that ditched us years ago to go be a yotes fan. Lmao

Changes the tear-stained Yotes poster in his mom’s basement for a (soon to be tear-stained) Utes one, I’d guess

 

[oXo Cube]

Someone is gonna give Foegele a multi year contract starting with a 4 and that someone is going to regret it before the first year is out.

He's a quality depth player but that's exactly the type of piece that smart teams constantly churn into cheaper replacements.