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Rocksteady wrote on Tue, 11 December 2018 16:19

Neilson was on the news this morning asked about the Ference allegations and Dustin said these 3 things:
1.Why do I care what a has been says about the Oilers
2. It's irrelevant
3. This team is not the Oilers of Ferences' time.

Point number 3 is the only right thing. What a buffoon. The ills of the teams of old and now are still there, still lurking, still infesting. Yeah the Edmonton fa nbase by enlarge get their opinions derived from media hot takes, and we can be unfair but hey man we pay the ticket prices it's our right.


It was discussed at length with Spector and Stauffer today. There was even a little heat to that conversation, although some predictable talking points:

- The fans pay their money, they can criticize whoever they want! It's not Ference's place to criticize the fans!!!

- Spector said, "hey, I have to write a column every day, I need content. I'm going to write the narratives I see. If I think Kassian takes a bad penalty, I'll write that article."

- Stauffer pointed out that the physical guys aren't usually the whipping boys, and suggested that Lucic isn't THAT maligned here, because he works hard and he hits people. That of course is a pathetic defence - there's lots of valuable players who aren't big hitters.

- They danced around the criticism that the team didn't defend their players, saying they think they do - and used Lucic again as the example (although I think Lucic is more defended because he's seen as a massive management error, rather than because the fans and media are on the player alone).

- They did blame MacTavish for any culture where the young guys didn't take practice seriously, or they felt they could do anything they want. They said "if true" then the blame lies with the coach, the captain and the GM at the time. They seemed to go out of their way to pin it on MacT - not the management as a whole...

- They pointed out that it was a while ago that he played here.

Basically, they're defending the media and the team.



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