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 Adam
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Fri, 17 May 2019 09:55 |
| Rocksteady wrote on Fri, 17 May 2019 09:48 |
| overdue wrote on Thu, 16 May 2019 17:50 |
A face saving move for sure. I'm sure he's realized for a long time that the fans wanted him gone and he likely got a little encouragement from Holland. Maybe Locamotife or whatever has a management position opening up that has Kevin's name on it. They are likely due for a re build, a very..... long...... re build and Kev has all the credentials for the job.
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I think the fans had a small part with it.
Looking at the structure what did MacT really do? Sr VP of Hockey Operations? So he's responsible for jacking up the beer prices or..? Like seriously what did he do? He most assuredly advised on hockey moves this franchise made.
I think MacT looked around and saw that the deck looks full and decided welp, I go or I'm going to be tossed because the fans want blood.. MacT is the sacrificial lamb and will be lauded by the Oilers as his removal as the significant step to propel the team forward.
It's all BS in the end. I remain discouraged by this team.
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Hey. He was in charge of the AHL team, in a non-definable way, the second it started to have any success. So his contributions to the Oilers will haven been extremely valuable for the two years he's in Siberia some random part of Russia paving the way for him to come back in an important role when the Oilers have FINALLY turned it around.
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I love watching the media here spin this as a "very graceful exit" - and "surely he's the lightning rod for fans, so now that he's gone, it takes pressure off the team to make other changes." I just heard Dave Jamison talking about how Howson is a former GM and you have to value what he brings...
A) No, there's no value to Scott Howson. He was a crappy GM who traded Voracek, Couturier, Carter and Nash and left Columbus with little to show for it other than Brandon Dubinsky. He came here and advocated for Nikita Nikitin to be given a three year deal that we needed to buy him out of. He's terrible. Flush him.
B) The lightning rod is Kevin Lowe. MacTavish is always Number Two, but Lowe has just been excrement. He's led the team through a totally disastrous 20 years with two little glimpses of sunshine in all that time. He has made Edmonton a laughing stock and built the culture where there's no accountability, as long as you're a Friend of Katz, and where nepotism is just part of the way of life. It's all just a family business, right?
He probably won't get dumped, because A) he's too vain to realize he's the problem and B) the owner won't axe his buddy and C) because the media NEVER EVER tries to hold him accountable in the least - but he's the one most responsible for the mess that is the Edmonton Oilers, and he's the lightning rod. Fire Lowe and all those other guys can't hold their jobs anyhow. Fire Lowe and the cloud over the team lifts. Fire Lowe and finally there would be real accountability. Fire Lowe and it's franchise-altering.
MacTavish leaving is a really nice thing to see. It's healthy for the team to flush #2, but he was never the biggest issue...not even when he was the team's disastrously bad general manager. That is, was and remains Kevin Lowe.
#FireLowe
"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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