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 CrusaderPi
Messages: 7667
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
6 Cups
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| Goose wrote on Thu, 21 March 2019 09:50 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 21 March 2019 08:11 |
Apathy sets in every year, right around this time for some reason, but by June everyone is all hyped up again. I can't figure out why, but I can recognize the pattern.
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For all their flaws, the one thing that Lowe, MacTavish, Nicholson, et al have been good at is selling hope and manipulating public perception. It's helpful that the local media are more than willing to play along (and even the national media to some extent. How many times has Friedman written about all the due diligence Bobby Burgers is out there doing).
It's why Lowe and gang all still have jobs. And it's why I have zero faith that whoever this group hires is going to come in and make meaningful changes. Nicholson has pretty much telegraphed it. To them the issue with the Oilers hasnt been any of the moves they made (because regardless of whether they admit it or not, that group was 100% on board with everything Chia did). It's been character and guys just not wanting it. So they'll go out and try to find the 17th version of Adam Larsson/Matt Hendricks/Milan Lucic/Kris Russell that will finally be the one to turn this group around.
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This is very true. The Oilers are an extraordinarily bad hockey organization, but they're a very good PR firm. And real estate, they're good at that too.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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