I joined the OMB around 2007. I was there under this username for years. When the Oilers announced their plans for a “scorched earth” type rebuild, I was one of the few that crapped all over the idea, my reason being that it was just an excuse for Kevin Lowe to avoid accountability indefinitely. My reasoning was he was most responsible for the state of the franchise as anybody and it was a waste of time leaving someone so incompetent in charge of fixing it.
The folks there at the time bought everything the Oilers were selling and didn’t appreciate non conforming views. I was told if I wanted to be negative, HFBOARDS was the place for me. It wasn’t until a few years later, during the “Lowe Must Go” campaign where the OMB decided they were going to boot people for being negative about the Oilers that I finally decided to come over here. I’m not sure how long that message board lasted after that, many members by that time were in an uproar over that decision. I tried going back a couple years later and couldn’t find the message board on their site.