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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Leia wrote on Thu, 25 June 2020 01:35 |
| NetBOG wrote on Wed, 24 June 2020 20:45 |
| 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?
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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 saw Cujo's named mentioned in the potentials for this years HHOF draft, I'd much rather he go in than Weight.
I think some of the reason as to why we don't celebrate that era is that due to the financial constraints we were under and coming off the back of the dynasty all our better players left. This was mainly due to wanting more money, and it left us supporting those that were like us the fans loyal to the club and we can't say that Smytty wasn't loyal at that point.
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I think this is only part of it. There's definitely a tendency to celebrate the successes more, and the 80s crew had massive success. But they are all over the organization still, and they had almost no connection to that team of the 90s. They were all in LA and NY and would just come play here occasionally.
Some of the second tier from then - Ranford, Tikkanen - were still here for a few years of it, but they missed the good parts, really just here for the 4 years of no playoffs. The upsets in 1997 and 1998 didn't mean much to Gretzky, Messier, etc. because they were busy with their own careers at the time. At the end of that decade, Lowe and MacTavish come back and take over the team, so they're all invested again (although likely won't ever celebrate those first few years because A) there was no success and B) everyone who left, Lowe and MacTavish pissed off first.
It'll be interesting to see how the Hemsky/Horcoff/Hall/Eberle era gets remembered too. Almost no one has been happy here by the time they left, and the team's done so many hatchet jobs on reputations after players leave that they may have burned a lot of bridges. Maybe all we can hope for is that the current team actually wins some Cups so that they don't leave in misery too, with McDavid hating the team for wasting his prime.
"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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