The only concerns I ever had over Klefbom was whether his health issues would force him into a career of male underwear modelling. Happily (and also somewhat sadly) that has not been the case.
- Wildschwein

Schwein.

Schwein.
- RafiDRW

Heyyyyy.

Heyyyyy.
- Wildschwein

Long time buddy. What's happening?

Long time buddy. What's happening?
- RafiDRW

New job. Better pay but very limited Buzz access. Bugger all else really.

Yourself?

New job. Better pay but very limited Buzz access. Bugger all else really.

Yourself?
- Wildschwein

Just enjoying life. trying to figure out what to do without hockey.

Just enjoying life. trying to figure out what to do without hockey.
- RafiDRW

It is a conundrum. I've settled on an unhealthy mixture of work, drinking and masturbation.

The guy goes by Kyle Ghostkeeper...

Sounds Paiute to me. Might be reveen???

Kinda stalkerish like reveen too!
- ghostofRC

Stalker ? lol nice try grouchy mc(frank) pant

Not only could MacT not win with 3 1st overalls, but he made no trades with them to change the makeup of the team either. Chia did.
- Oildrum

He had the balls to give it a shot... maybe not the most ideal returns but the team is finally going in the right direction.

Chia is a bad GM that makes bad trades. He is only doing what he has been doing with the Oilers because they won McDavid. Mac-Tarded would be doing just as good, or better had he still been GM when the Oilers got McDavid because I SAID SO!!!. Chia just ruins teams and makes bad trades because I SAID SO!!!

Chia has (frank)ed the Oilers because he tried to make them a better team, and thus players are gonna get paid for it, because the right way to run a team is to stunt your star players development just long enough, and just right so that they don't have to get paid at an early age, and grow at a slow enough rate so that your team only improves a little bit, over a long period of time, and that is when a GM should pounce and sign said players to cheaper contracts and then push for championships because I SAID SO!!!

Being an NHL GM is easy because of hindsight.
- leonkennedy

Did chiarellis ineptitude get us puljujarvi ?
- HB77

No Jarmo Kekalainen's did

Even worse. His ineptitude (by your metrics anyway) would've garnered a much lesser prospect. Only with the same dismal finish as macts squad had.
- HB77

It took a year to start getting a handle on cleaning up a decade of poopty management. It's hard to tell where you end and Iggy begins. You miserable (frank)s should just become Flames fans and start a circle jerk with Fry.

I was surprised how well the Oil did down the stretch! Expected you guys to have a harder time staying above .500. I can be wrong just like anyone.

Anyone watching those pre-playoffs Sharks/Oil games could see it was over before the series started. You guys finding ways to beat the Coyotes was big. lol they had your number for a long time.

We're all wrong and right at some points. I still think the league meta will adapt to McDavid, and whether he finds other primary ways to produce is up in the air. It's pretty stupid to sell yourself as a person who is never wrong.

How many times were you guys wrong about the Oilers turning legit over one offseason? Eight times? Max, Iggy and Jero kept it realistic at least. The rest of you..
- fry

STFU and GTFO

Stalker ? lol nice try grouchy mc(frank) pant
- Reveen.

Hey you're the one that tracks down users like longbottom and Rutts on other sites etc and hounds them...

Using a posters location as an argument?

I'll agree that MacT made some boneheaded moves, and I'll even agree that he could have been more aggressive when it came to improving the squad via trades.

However I'm totally with HB77 when he infers that the emergence of Draisaitl and the drafting of McDavid allowed Chiarelli to pursue a much more aggressive policy. Can you imagine trading Hall prior to having McDavid or Draisaitl on the squad? Nobody was gonna give us the goods for Nuge, Eberle or Yak, as we now know.
- Wildschwein

We should have traded down in the Yak draft... in all fairness to Mac-T and Tambellini before him they were puppets of Daryl Katz and Kevin Lowe.

Chiarelli and Bob Nicholson actually have control of the team.

Hey you're the one that tracks down users like longbottom and Rutts on other sites etc and hounds them...
- ghostofRC

Rutts outted himself in fairness

No Jarmo Kekalainen's did
- Reveen.

Bless his Finnish heart.

We should have traded down in the Yak draft... in all fairness to Mac-T and Tambellini before him they were puppets of Daryl Katz and Kevin Lowe.

Chiarelli and Bob Nicholson actually have control of the team.
- Reveen.

Is it true Katz demanded that they draft Yak? I've heard it mentioned but I've never seen it confirmed.

It is a conundrum. I've settled on an unhealthy mixture of work, drinking and masturbation.
- Wildschwein

both are very healthy unless you're masturbating to weird poop

It is a conundrum. I've settled on an unhealthy mixture of work, drinking and masturbation.
- Wildschwein

Not a bad set of time killers right there.

both are very healthy unless you're masturbating to weird poop
- Reveen.

Klefbom mostly.

Klefbom mostly.
- Wildschwein

did you say "no homo" first ?

did you say "no homo" first ?
- Reveen.

I think with Klefbom it's just assumed.

Rutts outted himself in fairness
- Reveen.

He has several times. Can't get much more out of the closet as him.

I still think you're confusing the media jumping on the "exciting young oilers" bandwagon, and a few overzealous fans- with the majority. I can speak for myself and at least a few regular posters here. And these were people who knew the serious deficiencies the oilers had and were almost always extremely cautious in any predication/optimism.

This is much like you calling out oiler fans for making up hamonic rumours when that's not at all what happened and we proved it. It was legit journalists and reported on ad nauseum for ages.
I'm not sure why you're so desperate to paint all oiler fans with the same brush or in a certain light. It's like your thing. I don't get it. Most of us have a geographical location we grew up in common which led to cheering for the same squad. Other than that, one just has to read any thread to see the differences in opinions
- HB77

Hah I still could swear I read Friedman Twitter about how two connecting flights and a 40 minute drive to his Manitoba home town cancelled out Hamonic's chances of being traded to Edmonton. But hey man, maybe I dreamed it. I can't (frank)ing find it for the life of me.

Most of my last post was about how everyone is wrong at points in their life. Lol I'll own that one.

Not sure if you, Max, Tao, and Jero can be qualified as "the majority". Let's re-evaluate this in mid-October.

He has several times. Can't get much more out of the closet as him.
- RafiDRW

other than jero