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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| PlusOne wrote on Wed, 19 April 2023 21:49 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 19 April 2023 21:11 |
| Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 19 April 2023 19:45 |
| PlusOne wrote on Wed, 19 April 2023 17:35 |
.. Out with one scapegoat, in with another. This fanbase isnt happy without having someone to blame everything on.
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Nature of professional team sport.
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Nature of stupid fans. Maybe try to understand that not everyone is McDavid, and that that doesn't mean that guys don't have a role. Also, riding our own players is counter-productive to the results we all want to see.
Starting to see it with McLeod too, and if Mark Spector and others had their way, Bouchard is on deck.
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I couple of key points here that I want to add on to.
"Nature of stupid fans"; You see it time and again. There only two acceptable player types to dumb fans; superstars and loveable underdogs that try hard.
If someone is a good or even great player, with some flaws they marked as a public enemy.
That leads to number 2; those same fans are the ones who listen too much to the media. I can confidently say that Edmonton has some of the worst, if not the worst, media for having a whipping boy. Some fans hear that and buy it 100%.
You then have a circular equation as the media tears a guy down, fans buy in and click, call, watch or whatever, so the media keeps it up and repeats.
Not being in Edmonton I tend to listen to general NHL radio and not Oiler based coverage. They have guest media guys on from every team. The Oiler guys are amazing in their ability to be negative. Most others spend the time sounding as much like a PR rep than a news reporter.
I tend to have a general rule, if a fan combines;
- picks a talented player as the whipping boy while replaceable supporting role players
- complains about refs even when it is the right call call
- parrots local media
You can be one, maybe even two on a bad day, but if someone has all three constantly it is a solid chance they know nothing about the game.
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So many fans think that if a guy isn't a first line player, then he's gotta be Matt Hendricks or Josh Archibald.
Although Archibald was a mess - hit everything but ignored the puck so much of the time.
"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
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