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Illegitimi non carborundum.

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to Alberta, to see the Oilers
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"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
#FireBobbyNicks

"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
#FireBobbyNicks

"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

McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World

"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

McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World

[Updated on: Wed, 11 March 2026 14:18]

"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

McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World

Bouch is having a crazy season after a bad first 2 weeks.

None of our forwards even make this list.





I bet our media guys will still be hesitant to give him Norris votes though. When Bouch hit 82 points and +34 a couple seasons ago, almost all our media guys gave 100% credit to Ekholm. They put Ekholm on their Norris ballots (Spector, Matheson, Daniel Nugent-Bowman) and left Bouch completely off it.

"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

Kr55 wrote on Wed, 11 March 2026 11:12

Bouch is having a crazy season after a bad first 2 weeks. None of our forwards even make this list. I bet our media guys will still be hesitant to give him Norris votes though. When Bouch hit 82 points and +34 a couple seasons ago, almost all our media guys gave 100% credit to Ekholm. They put Ekholm on their Norris ballots (Spector, Matheson, Daniel Nugent-Bowman) and left Bouch completely off it.

NHL put this on twitter today:



Still no respect - even as he runs away with the defencemen scoring list and has been great at both ends of the rink. All anyone can remember is a couple of giveaway highlights apparently...

16 writers and 19 points means that Bouchard was FIFTH on most ballots, and potentially left off completely on some.

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Adam wrote on Wed, 11 March 2026 11:24

Kr55 wrote on Wed, 11 March 2026 11:12 Bouch is having a crazy season after a bad first 2 weeks. None of our forwards even make this list. I bet our media guys will still be hesitant to give him Norris votes though. When Bouch hit 82 points and +34 a couple seasons ago, almost all our media guys gave 100% credit to Ekholm. They put Ekholm on their Norris ballots (Spector, Matheson, Daniel Nugent-Bowman) and left Bouch completely off it. NHL put this on twitter today: Still no respect - even as he runs away with the defencemen scoring list and has been great at both ends of the rink. All anyone can remember is a couple of giveaway highlights apparently... 16 writers and 19 points means that Bouchard was FIFTH on most ballots, and potentially left off completely on some.

Hughes is allowed to just completely quit on his team for half a season to force a trade and still be 3rd. Lots of Hughes highlights in Vancouver this year of him controller disconnecting and letting guys just skate by him to score. I'm sure no one cares though.

The standard for Bouch remains insanely high. And it's probably even higher with Oilers media than it is with the rest of the league. Our media will never go to bat and promote him, while most other media are complete homers pumping their home team players up.

Pretty sure the amount of Flames media guys and definitely Toronto media guys putting Bouch on their 2024 ballots was higher than Oilers media. Oilers media spent the entire year selling that anyhting good Bouch did was purely a product of Ekholm, and everything bad that happened was all Bouch.

[Updated on: Wed, 11 March 2026 11:30]

"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

[Updated on: Wed, 11 March 2026 11:59]

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#FireBobbyNicks

"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

Clean house or bust

[Updated on: Wed, 11 March 2026 14:43]

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Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 11 March 2026 14:40

smyth260 wrote on Wed, 11 March 2026 13:30 I thought it was crazy how adamant Louis was that it would be a 2 min minor. If running the goalie and causing blood plus knocking him out of the game isn’t enough, not sure what is. And despite the rhetoric, MacKinnon is a wreckless player. He chased around Frances guys after taking a hit he didn’t like, and actually hurting himself in the process. He gave a pretty nasty hit which put the final nail in the coffin on Nolan Patrick’s career. Great player, but he has a history. Yeah Lou seemed to actually be arguing why it shouldn't be a 5.. had his Mr. "National Broadcaster" hat on.. For comparison if a forward hits another forward directly in the head open ice even if its incidental there is a good chance he gets 5 and a game.. never mind a goaltender totally within his crease.. its probably a good precedent.. otherwise you could take free runs at goalies and just make sure you rub off a defender to say you were contacted and "directed" (accidently on purpose) into him.. they'd run out of goaltenders.. great for the 3rd stringers and EBUGS though :)

I bet in the playoffs they would have screwed us. A goalie bleeding from his head is pretty eye-catching though.

Nurse kinda got lost puck watching, so I get why MacKinnon thought he had a gap to go through between Ingram and Nurse, but that was a gamble. Nurse spun and did the desperation reach for the puck and closed that opening down.

From behind you can see MacKinnon's left skate angle out, he wanted to try to go around Ingram, but Nurse's stick and then arm knocks Nate's left leg/skate back straight.



Then Nurse's shoulder/head gives an extra push to make sure MacKinnon is all in nailing Ingram.



Both guys played a part, but I definitely like setting a prescedent to protect goalies. Nate gambled, and he gambled wrong and a goalie got his head sliced and likely a concussion because of it.


If Nurse was actually good at positioning and reading plays, he would have been on MacKinnon much earlier and just been covering him and angling him away from the net from the start. It was a 3 on 3 rush and he basically puck watched the whole way through it while Nate snuck behind him. But That's our Nurse, all about the last second desperation lunging plays after he loses track of guys.

[Updated on: Wed, 11 March 2026 15:05]

"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

"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
#FireBobbyNicks