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 JPro
Messages: 846
Registered: January 2006
Location: Edmonton
No Cups
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| Jay wrote on Wed, 09 September 2026 10:49 |
| JPro wrote on Wed, 09 September 2026 10:08 |
| NZ Oiler Fan wrote on Wed, 09 September 2026 09:56 |
1 year, 850k.
We do love our reclamation projects don't we?
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At least the first two swings at the garbage tree were actually good at hockey with Perry and Kane. Are Bowman, Babcock and Formenton even good at their jobs? Real diminishing returns here as we keep going back to the scumbag well.
Excellent PR moves; very good for the Oilers brand. Such a well respected organization we have here as we head into the final full year of the McDavid era.
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I have some tough news for you.
Other athletes and celebrities in their teens/20s with insane amounts of celebrity/access/money have done similar things. Doesn't make it right or wrong but you should probably stop watching sports if that's your line in the sand.
Babcock was/is treated the way he has been because he was mean to "journalists" in Toronto. Nothing more.
Kane did nothing wrong. No idea what happened with Perry but humans do dumb things sometimes and I couldn't care less if a hockey player got drunk and said something inappropriate.
As for is this player any good - fair question and I don't think anyone really knows but I guess we will find out. Scored 18 goals in the NHL and is 6'3. That's something.
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I am well aware that young people behave badly with money. I don't really care on a personal level.
The point is that the Oilers manage to pickup all the ones that have horribly toxic public images.
I have some tough news for you: that is not good for the franchise no matter which way you want to justify it. It's very short term thinking in this world where image and brand matters.
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