Tom_Benjamin said:
It was okay when Edmonton was the constant contender - the constant winner - but when Detroit or Colorado or New Jersey does it, they are cheating because they spend the money they earned. Oh boo-hoo. Edmonton is supposed to be a constant contender even though their management has pretty much sucked for the last 10 years.
Who the hell said cheating?
Where was that posted?
I know it's hard, but don't make stuff up so you can fit an argument around it. How was the Oilers team primarily built?
Through the draft. The team was able to build, and develop and stay together. Management wasn't the problem for the Oilers. Drafting and ownership was. It was a terrible owner that screwed things up for the Oilers originally, and while bad drafting hurt, they rebuilt a team from scratch in 4 years to become a playoff team.
Then league economics stepped in, and since then the Oilers have continually lost players that they have developed.
The Oilers have had what? Five Cups in 25 years and you have the gall to whine? It will be your turn again in about 200 years. What a bunch of hypocritical wimps. Alberta is supposed to be like Texas, the heart of Canadian individuality. No socialists there, no sir. Alberta is where men are men.
Not every Oiler fan is from Alberta... and are we comparing the NHL to socialist behaviour now? Talk about reaching around in a dark room to find the needle in that haystack.
Holy crap, what a joke.
Yet as soon as they didn't have a winner, Edmonton fans started mewling like little girls. It started when the Oilers sold Esa Tikkanen and Kevin Lowe to get Doug Weight and Todd Marchant. It has continued non-stop through the sale of Weight and beyond. Will it ever stop?
If you'd take your cranial cavity out of your anal one for 2 seconds and join us here in the real world, it would be mighty pleasant. Oiler fans weren't complaining about league economics when Tikkanen and Lowe were traded (by the way, at least get it right, Mac-T was traded for Marchant). Oiler fans were pissed at an owner that sold assets from his money making hockey team to fix his other business ventures that he screwed up in. But hey, don't let trivial things like actual events prevent you from continuing your wonderful POS story you have going on here.
It actually started with the loss of Cujo, Guerin and Weight. Teams were signing players for $10+mil, and the Oilers weren't able to pay that kind of money. What started out as poor ownership, was not a factor when these guys had to be dealt.
"No fair! Change the system or we quit! We need hockey fans and players everywhere else to subsidize us so we get really low prices and another Stanley Cup winner. Never mind if we haven't produced any talent in a coon's age. We deserve a winner! We had to sell Doug Weight! Oh boohoo. We need a system that will immediately turn us into a constant contender!"
Any particular reason you are being a racist *****? You realize that the word coon in that phrase is a derogatory term for a black person correct (it was coined in the Southern States with that specific meaning).
Haven't produced any talent?
Cripes, you are just dumb as a rock aren't you?
Who developed Doug Weight? The magical hockey gnomes?
Guerin? No one knew much about him til he was an Oiler... it must have been stick elves.
Ryan Smyth? Ah, must have been those crazy puck leprechans.
Go on... alrighty...
Guys like Rem Murray, Tom Poti, Janne Niinimaa, Todd Marchant, Mike Comrie, Roman Hamrlik, just to name a few.
And no one is expecting an instant contender you nit-wit. What we want is to be able to see guys like Brewer, Hemsky, York, Torres, Scremp, Lynch, Woywitka, etc... be able to stay in Edmonton, and not be forced out of the city because other teams are paying contracts the Oilers can't afford.
We should all feel sorry for the girlie-boys in Edmonton. Excuse me if I'd rather see them fold.
Tom
And if there is a deal signed that you hate so much that you refuse to watch NHL hockey again, I can't say I won't be too displeased either.
Another dumb, ignorant statement. Everyone wants what is best for their team... so yeah, Oiler fans want something to be done.
We aren't any more whiney than you.