Rumor: Potential numbers for our new players

[MessierII]

Pretty interesting:

http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/EDM/numbers.html?mobile=false

McDavid will be the first player to wear #97, pretty cool

That's insane that there is still numbers no one has ever taken.

 

[Crobby]

Here they are!

 

[McGoMcD]

Here they are!

Love Klef with 77.

 

[OilerTyler]

62 has to be one of the ugliest numbers I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of numbers.

 

[Spawn]

62 has to be one of the ugliest numbers I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of numbers.

Fits with a player like Gryba lol.

 

[Del Preston]

I wonder what number Seabrook will wear. #27 would look good.

 

[gooilgo]

I wonder what number Seabrook will wear. #27 would look good.

Was thinking #6

 

[Digger12]

So I take this to mean that Reinhart is pretty much a slam dunk to be on the starting roster at the beginning of next year? They don't give out single digit numbers to guys that have any chance of starting the year on the farm.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Love Klef with 77.

I actually really like Talbot wearing 33, looks good on a goalie.

 

[oilers4life5]

What about the two goalies we added Eetu and Anders? Love 77 and 33!!!

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Sekera - history with 4, 44, , and 7. I predict he goes with 44, and PRAY TO GOD he breaks the curse of 44. If he does summon blasts from the past, please let it be of the Janne Niinimaa variety

Imagine if...

Sekera marries a girl named Sakura (Sakura Sekera/Nina Ninimaa), gets a reporter pregnant, and then breaks his hand fighting Jarome Iginla, then calls out Management for not talking to him in the hospital, all while saving Hogwarts from the evil Voldemort?

 

[The Head Crusher]

And don't forget Corey Potter's ability to... never mind.

Or Rob Schremp's....errrrr never mind

 

[Gunnersaurus Rex]

Never liked the number 77. Not a great track record of Oilers with that number. Hope Klefbom is the exception.

Love the low numbers for defencemen.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

Did the font for the name plate change as well?

 

[Del Preston]

Did the font for the name plate change as well?

No, the tweet just used the crappy NHL.com jersey customizer.

 

[Da McBomb]

wish someone would wear 69 for once

 

[Diamondillium]

No, the tweet just used the crappy NHL.com jersey customizer.

I chuckled when I saw that it used the old Reebok logos from like 2008.

 

[Stud Muffin]

wish someone would wear 69 for once

No that's just ****** to the max leave that for the football and basketball players

 

[Namtsua]

No that's just ****** to the max leave that for the football and basketball players

I'm assuming you don't like Dumba and his #55 to make Dumba55?

 

[Stud Muffin]

I'm assuming you don't like Dumba and his #55 to make Dumba55?

Why is there anything wrong with 55?

Edit: I see it haha

 

[Namtsua]

Why is there anything wrong with 55?

You didn't seem to like using the number 69 for being inappropriate, so I was wondering if you thought Dumba was inappropriate for using 55 to spell out dumbass on his jersey

 

[syz]

Damn, Sekera really is the Petry replacement.

 

[gqmixmaster]

#69 has an obvious connotation, it also reminds me of a beer league goon who sucks at hockey or the enforcer in EA NHL who might as well not have a stick when they play lol

 

[40oz]

Welcome back Petry and Gilbert!

Yah I'm not a big fan of 84. But I could see him picking something random, maybe 6. Barons players had to have a number under 40 so that may have been a factor. And he wore 7 in Sweden.


Edit, he wore #6 at the WJC and 84 at the WC.

77 seems pretty random to me, although I guess it was the best alternative to 7 or 17.

 

[misfit]

I like 77, but for some reason I'm not sure I like it for Klefbom...just seems strange to me. I would've preferred he went with 6 or 8. Not that it matters. It's his number, obviously he can chose whatever he wants.