New Year's Resolutions?

[McDrai]

Happy New Year's! What is your New Year's Resolution? Can be Oilers or non Oilers related.
My New Year's Resolution is to not watch Oilers games and to learn the guitar instead.

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[BlackDogg]

Happy New Year's! What is your New Year's Resolution? Can be Oilers or non Oilers related.
My New Year's Resolution is to not watch Oilers games and to learn the guitar instead.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

To watch less Oiler games.

 

[LTIR]

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Oilers guitar would have a golden string, 4 cheap threads and a big expensive one that can't be played.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

As I posted in the PGT, I'm done for the season. This team ain't sniffing the playoffs and will be back in last place in the west in 2 or 3 weeks, or less. I'll watch the BoA games but that's it. Chiarelli has ruined the Oilers for me.

If Chiarelli is fired, I'll see who the new gm is and maybe I'll come back to watch depending on who is hired.

 

[Jumptheshark]

at a personal level I do not make news years resolutions--if you want to change--just do it and get on with it==do not use a certain date to starts

for the oilers-got none

 

[McDNicks17]

I haven't watched football in years, but I found myself more emotionally invested in the Ravens while playing a must-win game against the Browns on Sunday night than I have any Oilers game in a long time.

Made me realize I should just stop spending time and money on a team I basically don't even care about anymore.

 

[Oscar Acosta]

at a personal level I do not make news years resolutions--if you want to change--just do it and get on with it==do not use a certain date to starts

for the oilers-got none

This.
Perfectly said for me as well.

If it was Oilers New Years Resolutions for front office, who knows. It's like they see one year in terms of Dog Years. Shit, maybe Chiarelli isn't our guy? Lets ride this out for half a friggin decade, what's the worst that could happen?

 

[Fmrnuckfan95]

To stop loving a team that tortures me on a daily basis. I can't help myself, I still watch every game and I would still go see them live.

 

[Fmrnuckfan95]

The worst management in hockey, disappointment pretty much every year, overpriced tickets....but I love my oil.

 

[Cloned]

To get amped up for the draft lottery again.

 

[LTIR]

To get amped up for the draft lottery again.

What OilKing / local kid/ relative of ex Oiler are we wishing for this time?

 

[Cloned]

What OilKing / local kid/ relative of ex Oiler are we wishing for this time?

It's kind of funny how we draft and sign all the bad descendants. Never the good ones like Jake Debrusk, or Anthony Mantha, or Matthew Tkachuk, or...

 

[Jumptheshark]

we are running out of runway again

 

[McDrai]

What OilKing / local kid/ relative of ex Oiler are we wishing for this time?

Matthew Robertson. Defenseman for the Oil Kings who should go in the top 15. Expecting the Oilers to draft him out of convenience

 

[Ck1]

To give up my oilers seats next year if chia is still gm

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

Dry January. Not sure how that will work watching this team. Maybe I'll work out during games.

 

[Aerrol]

I'm supposed to use HF less... Oh. Shit.

 

[BlackDogg]

To get amped up for the draft lottery again.

I went on here and hit the button once and the Oilers got the first pick. Followed by Detroit, LA, Chicago.

13.5% chance at overall first pick.

Tankathon | 2019 NHL Draft Order & Lottery Simulator

 

[Ritchie Valens]

we are running out of runway again

I don't think they left the tarmack to get on the runway.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I'll chime in. NYE resolutions are fairly meaningless. Change in life is sudden. One day I won't care, and that will be it, and I don't know when that will be. I think I can see that with the Eskimos. I'm just mostly done with that club, even the product, the league, and I was a CFL diehard fan.

With the Oilers its more complex. My interests extend well beyond hockey. I look at it as the national fascination, the sport, the politics, the economics, and also how people evaluate, discuss. If my fascination was still Chess I would be on a board discussing Grandmaster games. Hockey allows discussion that grass roots involve in, I love that, this board is always the most populated Edmonton based board. So many things can get discussed. The current team is almost a sideline. I've had my fan cups like any older fan. I'm lucky. I've seen the best team on Earth, attended the cup wins. Been to Nirvana.

The current team, when things are not going well I'm able to approach with a combination of morbid interest and comic pathos. Its a tragicomedy that just makes for a somewhat interesting endless novel. The Oilers org is, and has been for decades, as pathetic as the Oil Change series that featured it. Its like a bad soap story and at present I'm still not changing the channel. I don't pay for the product, not a dime, and I FF through commercials so don't watch the sponsors either.

Its just easy entertainment. I detest actual soap stories. This Oilers one suffices for the same thing, and is as tawdry, but it gets through my filter that otherwise say why waste time with this garbage. If I wasn't watching this I would be reading more poor novels or watching poor Netflix or something like that. I've read most of the classics. The amount of series I engage in is extremely limited.

 

[Chet Manley]

Skate more. Stop being so fat. Stop buying video games until I've played 100 games from the backlog... could interfere with not being fat.

 

[Tyrolean]

To quit criticizing Lucic, Chia and the Oilers play.

 

[Todd from Leduc]

To eat more wings

 

[McShogun99]

we are running out of runway again

We went from 3rd in the Division to 9 points out of 3rd in 3 weeks.