GDT: LXXX | "Battle of Alberta: Rexall's Last Stand" | 4.2.16 | 8:00PM | CBC/SN

[The Nuge]

i want to pass nucks and then win the lottto

I really don't mind us ending up 4th. It leaves us with our choice of dman

 

[Expatriate]

yes, it would have bben great for the last game to be the BOA. At least the Oilers are starting the next season in a new build.

Montreal Forum last game - Mar 11/96 Dallas
Maple Leaf Gardens last game - Feb 13/99 Chicago

Two iconic venues closed in the middle of the season

 

[Jumptheshark]

I really don't mind us ending up 4th. It leaves us with our choice of dman

nucks win the lotto

ten second later on the main board the following thread gets posted by a canuck fan

"Do the canucks have the best prospects in the NHL"

make book on it

 

[Bryanbryoil]

So is Nuge coming back tonight or not?

 

[Aceboogie]

This game will be so Oilers itll hurt. Oilers will do some big montage to start the game, and Calgary will score 2 goals in first 5 minutes. The game will be terrible for next 40 minutes with Edmonton looking better but not scoring. Then 2 goals in last 10 minutes

4-0 loss in final BOA at Rexall, greta way to cap off a craptastic last 10 years of BOA

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Hopefully McLellan instills a "protect our house" mentality and it carries into Rogers next season.

 

[snipes]

Hope we lose looking at the big picture.

We're playing the Flames, how can you be an Oilers fan and hope we lose to them?

Screw the draft we still have hockey to play.

 

[snipes]

I want to see some fights this game. Darnell SMAAASH

 

[Expatriate]

Two bottom feeding Canadian teams , so we should at least see some unbiased officiating

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

I want to see some fights this game. Darnell SMAAASH

Fighting isn't allowed anymore.

Maybe our players can "accidentally" trip someone face-first into the boards instead. Penalty at the refs discretion.

 

[snipes]

Fighting isn't allowed anymore.

Maybe our players can "accidentally" trip someone face-first into the boards instead. Penalty at the refs discretion.

**** it. Darnell needs to bloody someone up.

Nurse v Ferland?

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

**** it. Darnell needs to bloody someone up.

Nurse v Ferland?

*sigh*

Fiiiiiiiine.

 

[snipes]

*sigh*

Fiiiiiiiine.

Knew you would come around brother.

 

[Dimensha]

I don't know about that. I feel we are due to lose out and draft 4th. If that is the case, take Dubois if Chiarelli pulls off trades for D.
Everytime I run this simulator, we never win the pick.

http://nhllotterysimulator.com/

So I was and bored and decided to try running this simulator 100 times and see what the results were. The Oilers won the first overall 20 times and were a top 3 pick 49 times. so take that for what its worth.

 

[Gret99zky]

I ran this simulator once.

http://nhllotterysimulator.com/

It came out:

1st

2nd

3rd

 

[SometimesY]

Unbelievable that any Oiler fan would be ok losing for any reason. Time to start ignoring the draft.

 

[snipes]

Unbe.ie able that any Oiler fan would be ok losing for any reason. Time to start ignoring the draft.

Exactly.

We've been the only Canadian/basement team that hasn't actively advocated for tanking. No time to start this **** now. I want a win!

 

[Arpeggio]

You can ignore the draft all you want, it's still going to happen and the Oilers are still going to be picking a player.

 

[Mr Positive]

Unbe.ie able that any Oiler fan would be ok losing for any reason. Time to start ignoring the draft.

big time this! Besides, we're guaranteed an awesome prospect. The only standout is Matthews, and even finishing dead last only gives us a 20% chance at him so it's not happening anyway. I know the running joke is that the Oilers always beat the odds at the lottery, but that stigma is just a joke and it's not even true btw. It would be pretty cool if we won in the Ekblad draft year. Didn't happen though. We won the best one though so I can't complain.

Besides, it will just be embarrassing if we win. I troll-laughed myself silly last year. I don't know if I have the stamina to do it again

 

[OnTheBrink]

big time this! Besides, we're guaranteed an awesome prospect. The only standout is Matthews, and even finishing dead last only gives us a 20% chance at him so it's not happening anyway. I know the running joke is that the Oilers always beat the odds at the lottery, but that stigma is just a joke and it's not even true btw. It would be pretty cool if we won in the Ekblad draft year. Didn't happen though. We won the best one though so I can't complain.

Besides, it will just be embarrassing if we win. I troll-laughed myself silly last year. I don't know if I have the stamina to do it again

Would have preferred to have won the lottery the Ekblad year over any of our other 1st overalls sans McJesus of course.

I'm so sick of hearing about Oilers always winning the lottery I almost don't want to even if we finish DFL, living near Shames land its ****ing unbearable. Mathews doesn't do a lot for us we already have the best young C in the league and 2 centres under 23 who are already very good 2C. We should be happy there is little separating 2-6 this year and embrace whomever of the Finns, Dubois, Chychurn or Joulevi we end up with or better yet parlay it into a top pairing D if we can't move one of the "old core".

 

[LTIR]

Dont care who wins... Hoping for a hard hitting high scoring game...

 

[LTIR]

All this Ekblad wish is hindsight... I drooled over Seth Jones a lot more than Ekblad ...
Would we even have picked Ekblad 1st overall? Not sure with our management at that time... Besides we wouldnt have had McDavid if we had Ekblad playing on the team.

 

[BlackDogg]

Youre better off listening to the Punjabi feed on Omni.

Is there subtitles?

 

[Del Preston]

I think Hughson is calling the game tonight.

 

[McFlyingV]

All this Ekblad wish is hindsight... I drooled over Seth Jones a lot more than Ekblad ...
Would we even have picked Ekblad 1st overall? Not sure with our management at that time... Besides we wouldnt have had McDavid if we had Ekblad playing on the team.

I didn't, Ekblad was always the much better prospect in my personal opinion. I agree though I'd rather have McDavid over anything thats happened in the past.