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 Skookum Jim
Messages: 3911
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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| NetBOG wrote on Wed, 24 June 2020 19:45 |
| Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 24 June 2020 20:39 |
| mightyreasoner wrote on Wed, 24 June 2020 15:48 |
Now that Kevin Lowe is in, which Boy on the Bus is next to be pushed for HHOF / jersey retirement by the Edmonton media and Oilers Alumni?
*honourary
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Smytty will always be in my Hall Of Fame !
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Never understood the love for Smyth and not Weight in this town.
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I actually like both players, just like Smytty more, both as an Oiler, and for representing Canada all those years, with success.. I'd put both in the HHoF.
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
P. Chiarelli math.. T. Hall = A. Larsson, Yak= bag o'pucks (OK he got one right...) K. Russell = $4.1 M+NMC, G. Reinhart= M. Barzal + A. Beauvillier, J. Eberle = R. Spooner,
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NetBOG
Messages: 2862
Registered: January 2006
Location: Parts Unknown
2 Cups
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| CrudeRemarks wrote on Mon, 29 June 2020 21:51 |
| NetBOG wrote on Mon, 29 June 2020 21:08 |
Fun fact:
Kevin Lowe actually did a really good job
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Hey whoreableguy, is he still your doppleganger?
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Magnum
Messages: 839
Registered: June 2009
Location: Rogers' Arena > Banff
No Cups
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| NetBOG wrote on Mon, 29 June 2020 21:08 |
Fun fact:
Oilers team salary 2001-2002: $24.3 million
Doug Weight salary 2001-2002: $9 million
That why Weight left. Oilers cheap owners. Smyth just wasn't good enough to command a stupid contract from a rich team.
Kevin Lowe actually did a really good job keeping the team competitive without any money.
Introduction of the salary cap and change in ownership seems to have done more to sewer the team.
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I've had that thought a number of times. With my understanding being along the lines of seeing Lowe as a good managed manager. When Lowe was managed by the OEG and restricted by cost, he could do well. When he was given more rope and had to think at a different level, he just didn't have that gear.
Was also a terrrrrible manager for Tambo, MacT, etc.
Some guys can really understand Fords and can get a lot out of them, those same guys do not understand Maseratis.
But, if you don't understand Maseratis, be adult enough to admit it and keep working on Fords.
2015/2016 - This Kool-Aid tastes like McDavid flavoured Drain-O.
2016/2017 - This Kool-Aid is starting to taste like juice.
2017/2018 - I'm drinking this Kool-Aid, in hopes that it's Drain-O.
2018/2019 - Another round of Drain-O, good sir!
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CrudeRemarks
Messages: 1698
Registered: November 2010
Location: Edmonton
1 Cup
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| Adam wrote on Wed, 24 June 2020 17:39 |
| NetBOG wrote on Wed, 24 June 2020 16:08 |
The kicker is our boy Burkie had one of the 18 votes
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Here's the committee that voted:
https://www.hhof.com/htmlInduct/indselect.shtml
Makes it easier to see why Lowe got in:
Kurri - former Oiler teammate
Gartner - former Ranger teammate
Davidson - buddy of Gretzky
Robitaille - buddy of Gretzky
Clarke - some Team Canada cross-over I believe
Francis - peer, Team Canada cross-over?
Larionov - peer, friend of Gretzky
Hedberg - peer
Mike Murphy - assistant coach of the Rangers for some of Lowe's time there
Burke - good friend of Lowe's pre-Penner, and then patched up things after death of his son
It really is about who you know...
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So apparently you need 14 of 18 votes to get in. How the hell did 14 of these people think Lowe was good at hockey?
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you can get a lottery pick.
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WhoreableGuy
Messages: 590
Registered: August 2006
Location: Calgary
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| CrudeRemarks wrote on Mon, 29 June 2020 21:51 |
| NetBOG wrote on Mon, 29 June 2020 21:08 |
Fun fact:
Kevin Lowe actually did a really good job
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Hey whoreableguy, is he still your doppleganger?
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He’s ded to me ☹️
Fun to be back, not ready for hockey man. I felt so free the past 4 months.
"Bah Gawd! Would somebody stop the damn draft!"
- Jim Ross calling the NHL Draft Lotto 2015 as the Oilers win
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CrudeRemarks
Messages: 1698
Registered: November 2010
Location: Edmonton
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Geez what a rambling, incoherent article. Matheson needs to retire.
Also am I right in understanding that Kevin Lowe was head of the 80's party planning committee? Is that the pitch to retire #4?
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you can get a lottery pick.
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Kr55
Messages: 9614
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| CrudeRemarks wrote on Mon, 02 November 2020 09:36 |
Geez what a rambling, incoherent article. Matheson needs to retire.
Also am I right in understanding that Kevin Lowe was head of the 80's party planning committee? Is that the pitch to retire #4?
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Yup :) Can expect a consistent flow of Lowe stories until we finally raise that sucker to the rafters.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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