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Is There A Next Step For The Oilers
by Paul on 07/04/07 at 08:13 AM ET
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from Terry Jones at the Edmonton Sun,
Can you sue to get a free agent hockey player you believe you already had acquired?
Is that what the Edmonton Oilers plan to do to get Michael Nylander, er, back? Will NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman become involved to force the “return” of Nylander to the team?
Would the Oilers really want Nylander here after this? Would the Washington Capitals be forced to provide player compensation to Edmonton? Was the agent negotiating with the Oilers and the player with the Capitals?
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Okay, I understand that no one prefers the cold (although I would rather scrape ice off my car windows with a credit card in the winter than have to open my car door with a potholder in the summer, just my personal preference), but is Edmonton really that bad?
I mean, it sounds as though it is a dilapidated shanty-town with a smoke-spewing coal-fired power plant on one side, a sewage-filled river on another, and a giant rat-infested dump in the town center, populated by street gangs and druggies. It might be a little boring, run-down, and dull, but I can’t believe it is developing-world, poverty-stricken horrible--and that seems to be how some people describe it. It’s western Canada, not “Escape from New York.”
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/04/07 at 09:41 AM ET
This is just another slap in the face to us Oiler fans. I doubt the NHL will step in and at least compensate us either.
Posted by Stephen Monachello from Pennsylvania on 07/04/07 at 10:54 AM ET
With Nylander, I was surprised when I heard he supposedly signed with the Oilers. He reportedly wanted a 4-year deal and wanted to keep his family where they are, in Connecticut. Everyone expected him to stay in the East. So, in this case, I don’t think it was that Edmonton was a bad town, just that it was not the right spot geographically.
Posted by K24 from NYC on 07/04/07 at 10:55 AM ET
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The Oilers are just snake-bit.
Obviously, they should have never traded Smyth.
Lowe loaded up with draft picks in preparation for trades at the draft, and that fell apart.
He loaded up with cap space in preparation for free agency, and that fell apart.
Now it appears nobody wants to live in Edmonton. Why should they, when they are multi-millionaires?? What’s a million bucks when you prefer to live in a warmer climate and have a much better travel schedule?
At least some of the travel inequity can be changed by the NHL by increasing the number of inter-conference games.
The situation is just terrible for some of the best fans in the NHL. And while Kevin Lowe may have made a mistake or 2, he is a darn good GM.
Posted by w2j2 on 07/04/07 at 08:59 AM ET