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 CrusaderPi
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Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
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| benv wrote on Tue, 17 January 2023 10:09 |
I've never understood why you would be a fan of a team and focus mainly on the negative. But to each there own.
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Personally, I blame Dallas Eakins.
I used to believe and be able to care about the Oilers winning until I was a 1/3 season ticket holder during the first Eakins year. I remember vividly not being able to sell a late season game against the Kings. Couldn't give the damn things away. So whatever, I took my dad to the game and I sat in a near empty upper deck of Rexall place and was just miserable. Not only were the Oilers simply outclassed in talent they weren't doing any of the little things a bad team can do to stay competitive. That shut out loss drained the Oilers spirit from my very soul and I became emotionally detached. I never got my spirit back. Whether it was age or economics or Dallas Eakins, I've never found the joy I once had in the Oilers. Unexpectedly I actually enjoy the Oilers and hockey more now.
So I don't enjoy the Oilers losing now, but I do enjoy trying to figure out why the Oilers are losing. Likewise, I enjoy trying to figure out why the Oilers won, when they win. It's just that it wasn't hard to figure out why the Oilers beat the Eakins coached Ducks. It's because Eakins is a terrible coach.
Overall, I think it's just a different approach to how we watch hockey now.
Epilogue to my Oilers story: After that game I told my ST partners after that game I was out. The cost simply wasn't good value and I wasn't willing to wait and hope the Oilers would pay off. I didn't go to a game again until you gave me seats you couldn't get rid of the next year. That game was the ONE win sandwiched between an 11 game losing streak and a 9 game losing streak, Dallas Eakins' last win as Oilers head coach.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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