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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Kr55 wrote on Wed, 13 March 2019 12:27 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 13 March 2019 12:19 |
| JPro wrote on Wed, 13 March 2019 12:07 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 13 March 2019 11:54 |
Not much to work with if I am Hall.
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The story of his career. I hope he finds some place in the summer that can string together some wins so he can build some sort of legacy outside of a single round of playoffs.
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I expect that Hall isn't simply looking to maximize his earning potential next summer...he's going to go to a team where he can play with some other great players.
I do wonder if a wholesale change at the top here might make Edmonton an attractive place to choose...
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That's not happening...
Before Chia was hired, the idea was being spread from this org that Hall was not who they expected him to be in terms of team culture. He's not blind...I don't think there is any way he would come back here.
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I think he'd need to see a full house-cleaning. Those...so-and-sos that run this team did the same thing to Hall that they've done over and over since Comrie left...they ran him down on any number of fronts, mostly anonymously just to get the media guys sharing whispers about the player.
I think that Comrie, and the ridiculousness around that holdout and trade taught Lowe that the management can stay the good guys in the eyes of many (most?) fans, simply by insinuating the player wasn't good for the team - no matter what they did here. Looking in the rearview mirror, what Lowe did there was ridiculous. They held a player for ransom asking for him to pay back in full moneys he would have been taxed on. And in the process, blew up a deal that would have seen us get Corey Perry and the 9th overall pick for one where they ended up with Jeff Woywitka and the 25th overall pick. Insanity.
And yet we all booed Comrie lustily when he came back wearing another team's colours. The team created some rumours - he only cared about the money, he wasn't a playoff performer, etc. and allowed other more salacious rumours to fester and grow. No one was mad at Lowe for a deal where he not only got no immediate help for a player one year removed from leading the team in scoring, but they weren't even mad that he intentionally downgraded the return out of spite!
At almost the same time, Lowe and MacTavish sniped in the media about Todd Marchant - he was too big for his britches, he has a good year and doesn't know his role, etc. as they watched him sail off in to the sunset as a free agent. Again, fans were more upset with Marchant than they were with the Oilers for not being able to re-sign one of their best players.
I think that Lowe compared that to the frustration Oilers fans felt around the Weight and Guerin deals, and decided it was much easier to slag guys and deflect blame, and so we've been seeing it ever since.
Hall was just one of the most recent to get the treatment...FWIW, I think they were even starting to do it last year on Klefbom too, before his surgery removed the threat of them trading him for peanuts...but if you took those cancers out of the organization, maybe there wouldn't be an issue with him coming back? Surely, he must understand as well as anyone how they turn on people - I mean, this is the guy they shoved in front of TV cameras to give the Stockholm Syndrome interview supporting Dallas Eakins a month before they canned him and started having Stauffer rip him daily...
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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