Pre-Game Talk: -- Jets vs Oilers -- Oct 1st -- 8:00 MDT -- "Just Win, Baby" --

[oilersrule14]

I just feel like the anthem isn't really an appropriate time to be praising a business.

Especially doing it outside of Winnipeg, where these ties mean even less.

A business that brought back a national pasttime to their city, don't see the issue.

 

[40oz]

Meh, I am fine with it. If they want to use that as their way of thanking the True North group that brought their team back, I don't have any issues with it.

I just don't like any opposing team's fans making noise at Rexall .

Could you imagine a Jets/Oilers playoff series? That would get interesting.

 

[GMofOilers]

Edmonton-residing Jets fan, I come in peace.

I don't think it's confidence, just trying to pump up the fans. And, lets face it, the OIlers are a perennial bottom-feeder team, and have been for several years. Now maybe this is the year they turn it around like the Isles did last year, but until they prove themselves, this is a game a bubble team like the Jets will circle as a "should win".

Not "will win" of course - anything can happen. But it's a game they should win if they want to make the playoffs.

I'll be rocking a Jets white tomorrow at the game, and I'm curious to see how many fellow Jets fans make the trip. Hopefully we can all just get along...

Just curious, when have the Jets been so good that they are such a contender? What year have they proven this?

 

[thinlizzy]

I love the fact that " the Moose" number 11 will be in the building on Tues.

 

[Groucho]

Just curious, when have the Jets been so good that they are such a contender? What year have they proven this?

Jets fans are in for a rude awakening now that they only get to play Florida and Tampa twice instead of 8 times a year.

 

[s7ark]

I just don't like any opposing team's fans making noise at Rexall .

Could you imagine a Jets/Oilers playoff series? That would get interesting.

That would be a fun series for sure. But I think and Oilers/Flames or Nucks series would be much more of a bloodbath. Canuck fans in particular seem to bring out the worst in Oiler fans.

But I am getting off topic..

 

[McSaviour]

Please tell me you realize they do that because of their ownership group...

1. I don't particularly care about the Jets as they played in the weakest devision and still had a weak record
2. I don't care about ownership groups for hockey teams other than the Katz group.

Sorry I'm not as intelligent and hockey savvy as you about owners of teams.

Thank you for informing me btw, as an outsider watching their games it seems as if they're saying it because Winnipeg has a reputation for being very cold.

 

[Hockey Nightmare]

Katz Group! Katz Group! Katz Group!

 

[friction]

I would wager that J Schultz get's 2 points tonight.

I will bet you anything he gets exactly 0

 

[40oz]

That would be a fun series for sure. But I think and Oilers/Flames or Nucks series would be much more of a bloodbath. Canuck fans in particular seem to bring out the worst in Oiler fans.

But I am getting off topic..

I think that's what would make it interesting, theirs no inherent hate (yet) between the clubs. Just a bit of geographic pride.
We've hated the Canucks and Flames for so long that it's getting boring.

Katz Group! Katz Group! Katz Group!

O Katz-nada!

 

[Conkanen*]

I can't stand the Jets...My 2 buddies are season ticket holders and one of them is a complete fan boy. Believes they have the best fans in the league blah blah blah. Then I show him the attendance stats of the Old Jets teams compared to Edmonton Oiler attendance stats(even when we sucked). I told him City's with the Best Fans don't lose their teams! OUCH!

 

[IV XIV XCI]

I would wager that J Schultz get's 2 points tonight.

Where is he playing tonight?

 

[OG Eberle]

Don`t beak the Jets and their fan base over what they do. Being an Oiler fan living in the Peg, you can see this is all our city really has to cheer about. The Bombers blow and not everyone watches baseball. Ever since we got the team back, this city feels like it has an identity again. When people mention Winnipeg, the first thing that comes to mind (after our winters) is the Jets. It`s who we are. Just like any fan base, we have a couple loose screws that "talk" a big game but can't back it up. But like I said, that's with every fan base.

Let them chant "True North". Let them be loud and over zealous with their celebrations. They're just happy to have something to look forward to and talk about everyday outside of their regular routines. You'd understand if you lost the Oilers in Edmonton and they came back one day as well.

Oh, and beaking Jets fans that we lost our original team is the equivalent to kicking a dude in the balls in a fist fight. Low blow.



With all that being said, i'll cheer for the Oilers till the day I die. Living in the Peg, I have to follow the local sports team though, whether I'm a fan or not.

 

[EVBetting Site]

Oilers open up as -145/134 favorites against Winnepeg. Either some decent respect for the Oilers despite injury situation or disrespect to a bad Winnepeg team

 

[McDNicks17]

Whew. I'm glad the first two games are on CBC.

Just called to add Center Ice to my satellite and turns out you need a new dish to get the HD Center Ice channels this year and they won't be able to do the upgrade until Thursday.

 

[McSaviour]

oops

 

[AlowlyMcOilersfan]

good to have Winnipeg back in the west

 

[ps241]

Just curious, when have the Jets been so good that they are such a contender? What year have they proven this?

We would need to take it back.........way back....... to the Avco cup days and 3 championships in 4 seasons (1976-79) but hey what's 35 years and a transleague leap amongst WHA friends ....never great to peak just before you join the NHL.

Things have been a shade leaner since 1980.....and there was that pesky black hole from 1996 to 2011 but the sun always shines brighter until the first puck drops on the new season.

 

[ToeMcDrag83]

Whew. I'm glad the first two games are on CBC.

Just called to add Center Ice to my satellite and turns out you need a new dish to get the HD Center Ice channels this year and they won't be able to do the upgrade until Thursday.

What's upsetting is the 4 day break between those two games. Not sure I'm made for that kind of patience, I'm already tweaking since pre-season ended..

 

[Yukon Joe]

Just curious, when have the Jets been so good that they are such a contender? What year have they proven this?

Umm, I didn't call them a contender.

I called them a bubble team. Which is what they have been since returning to the league fighting right up to the end of the year for a playoff spot, and ultimately failing.

It's somewhat more gratifying to be a bubble team that a lottery team, but they're not what I would call "good".

 

[Yukon Joe]

I just don't like any opposing team's fans making noise at Rexall .

Heh, I can respect that. I'm still shouting "True North!" mind you, but I can respect that won't like it.

 

[SeriousBusiness]

A business that brought back a national pasttime to their city, don't see the issue.

The issue is the fans should **** during our national anthem.

 

[Calgary McOilers]

I would wager that J Schultz get's 2 points tonight.

I have been wishing that the game was tonight as well. I just want the season to begin already!!

 

[AlowlyMcOilersfan]

so, do these fans just yell True North during that verse of the national anthem?

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

FroM far and wide o'pavelec we stand inside your crease