| Oilers sign Alex Formenton [message #852953] |
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 NZ Oiler Fan
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Registered: October 2006
Location: Summerside, PEI
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1 year, 850k.
We do love our reclamation projects don't we?
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JPro
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Registered: January 2006
Location: Edmonton
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| 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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Jay
Messages: 1382
Registered: January 2007
Location: Edmonton
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| 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.
"Initiative comes to thems that wait"
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Leia
Messages: 578
Registered: May 2003
Location: England
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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'm all for people being given second chances, and whilst I'm probably older than most who post in here I grew up in an era when the moral compass was a bit wonky and wouldn't be accurate.
The Oilers have a history of second chances and MacT is one of the earliest ones I can recall, and whilst we may remember MacT more for what he's done off the ice for the Oilers than on it, in today's climate he'd probably would never have skated in the NHL again.
We come closer to today, and we've got the aforementioned Perry and Kane and up to today both our coach and GM have been under investigation and suspended for issues. So it's clear that we are happy to be home for those in need of a second chance, but for some things you are extremely lucky to get that second chance and that includes being found not guilty of said issue.
The Oilers haven't ventured into the PWHL yet, but if we had a team no matter what the result of the case was, do you think the women playing on that team would want Formenton in the same club as them??
I'll say the same thing I said when we appointed Babcock, I'll cheer the Oilers on, I want the Oilers to win the cup, but I'm unhappy with his appointment and again I'm unhappy about this signing. Suffice to say, I won't be getting up in the middle of night here in the UK, to watch match 37 of an 84 game season like I used to. This club has this summer tarnished itself a little to much for me.
Take me home, country road
to the place where I belong
to Alberta, to see the Oilers
take me home, country road
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