| Petr Klima, Oilers Playoff OT Hero, dead at 58 [message #822704] |
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 Skoobz
Messages: 334
Registered: January 2006
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RIP to a legend.
"[It was] really cool to throw on the Oilers gear, the gear that I want to play the rest of my life wearing. It was pretty cool to put it on. With all the history, it was a lot of fun." - Connor McDavid, July 1, 2015
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benv
Messages: 601
Registered: May 2006
Location: Edmonton
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Very sad to hear.
I always liked Klima, and thought Muckler gave him a raw deal sitting him out in that OT, so was elated that it was he who ended it. I also remember his hat trick in the next year's playoffs against Minnesota in the Oilers' sole victory in that series. He probably would have had an even better career if he could have overcome some personal demons.
RIP.
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Adam
Messages: 7174
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| benv wrote on Thu, 04 May 2023 13:57 |
Very sad to hear.
I always liked Klima, and thought Muckler gave him a raw deal sitting him out in that OT, so was elated that it was he who ended it. I also remember his hat trick in the next year's playoffs against Minnesota in the Oilers' sole victory in that series. He probably would have had an even better career if he could have overcome some personal demons.
RIP.
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Certainly his demons were one of the reasons he was an Oiler at all. Very talented player, but he became joined at the hip with Probert for a short time early in his NHL career and partied pretty hard.
He lived in Sherwood Park when he was here so in my high school days I saw him around town several times including at the Dairy Queen where I briefly worked.
He was definitely a whipping boy for Muckler and had a great line about getting sat in another game - saying that he'd need a pretty long stick to score from the end of the bench.
"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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Kr55
Messages: 10769
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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RIP
"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
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