MikeBossy

Thanks  Lol I screw up enough on my own most of the time - I'm curious how that ended up in a hockey article

I think it ended up in the article because Mark Sphincter is a lazy journalist who doesn't bother to actually investigate quotes he puts in his articles. He clearly googled it and just cut and pasted the text into his "article".

In the article it is funny as he says this:

Beginning Tuesday, when St. Louis visits the Oilers on Sportsnet, our cameras will go in search of such interference off the puck, as McDavid tries to join the play. If it’s there, and we have little doubt it exists, Canadians across the country will see it for the next two days — because that’s the media’s role in all of this.

Mark Spector is on the case!!!

If McDavid's house was a hockey team, it would be the Canucks.

@Brad Marchand - so what you're saying is that McDavid bought his house for 6 million dollars but it's probably only really worth 1.5-2 million?

It's the house he had to settle on after he 'ran out of time' deciding whether to buy a different house.

Potentially having him and Virtanen in our top six would cause other teams fits tbh, I'd be fine with taking him if he's available. Admittedly I'm leaning towards taking D with our top two picks though. Our prospect pool really needs more quality D men.

Can't deny I've been hating on Tkachuk's for a while...

Brady's way too awful for Bergevin to pass up. No way he makes it to #7.

Just read an article on Wahlstrom - damn there are some great players this draft - wish we could scoop up another pick 

Cici and Kerfoot arbitration will award 9 million for the two.  Leafs might have to walk from both guys.  I really think a team should offer sheet Marner at 11 million times 7 years.  Islanders should do it.  Come on Lou!  Stick the knife into your old boss and twist.  You’ll like it, and so will we all! 

Buffalo should offer sheet Marner. They have 40+ mil in cap space after this season and can easily lock up their RFAs by then too. 

@Jimmy McGill

thats a great idea!  Buffalo is close to home for Marner too.  Love to see this happen.  

I'd take a Bruins cup win over a Leafs cup win. I'm not aboard the Canada must see a cup at any cost train. If Toronto won a cup we'd never hear the end of it, if Boston knocked out the Leafs and did it the Leaf trolling would only intensify.

hopefully they injure the crap out each other and who ever wins, loses next.

Unless there's some sort if crazy upset in the Tampa series, they'll play Tampa next. No way Toronto or Boston beat them in a 7 game series.

I hope we tank HARD next season. 2023 draft is DEEP. Trade Boeser, Miller, Horvat (assuming he doesnt want an extension), Garland for 2023 1st round picks + more. 

If any stupid team is willing to overpay for Hoglander Im fine with that too. 

Its all about the TANKKKKKKKK

Tank?

Remember when some thought with summer signings the cup was coming

I can't recall how we were to retain people with expiring contracts?

So was this team constructed to be better for this year only and with more let downs after we again would have lost people for nothing (especially if we had made the playoffs and old guard still in place)? Just up and groggy still wondering what the past plan would have been?

Evander has a point in the sense looked like interference to me - not sure about a head shot, 

Why don't they call some of these penalties and let it escalate into goonery,Z.Chara and  R.Reaves from vegas knights seem to be able to run around hitting people and no penalties,I don;t mind rough and tumble hockey but when you start hitting guys then crosschecking them when they are down(Reaves),there has to be some rules against that goonery.Those are shi%%y refs that should go back to pee wee hockey where they belong.

No, but I haven't watched a single second of the NBA playoffs, that good enough? 

Final? What final? 

I wasn't interested once the final 2 teams were set - but specially after how long they waited to play the 1st game.  

Besides - NHL has already given the Bruins the cup, doesn't matter what they do, punching people in the back of the head, hitting goalies, skating more than 20 feet to hit someone - no suspensions - but make sure the other team loses players.

Yes absolutely, I haven't watched a full game since round 2.

Every team left was one I either didn't like or had an ambivalence towards.

The NBA playoffs and especially the Raptors run has been mesmerizing...

So true, shame on sportsnet and all who associate with them.

take it easy my dudes;

Seeing as we've firmly established what &^@#ing weirdo pervert Rotten Ron Maclean is,  I'll give my privileged opinion -

I actually think it's important for white, grey topped, rich conservative perverts to address and condemn systemic racism no matter how forced or disingenuous their hollow words ring.

&^@# Ron Maclean.

I think we've all agreed upon the copious blueberry shipments, off the books...

Do whatever is necessary to keep the kid happy here.

He'll get paid and it'll be well deserved. I'm curious to see what Boeser gets.

Clearly coaching was a problem right? LOL. 

I guess we owe Edmonton some gratitude, they have definitively answered the question "can one player carry an NHL team".

I can’t thank the poster enough, who showed me HF Boards for the Oilers.  Reading that board is great fun!  

First time i have ever watched a american football game from start to finish.

Haven't seen one for over TWO decades! Who's this Brady guy?

i skipped it

and patriots have been my fav team for years

goes to show my true level of interest in nfl football

oh well

there is always next year maybe

i think i saw parts of 3 nfl games all season

If you're looking at the Oilers this season, you'd start to wonder how they forgot to play hockey over last summer.  Or....did they realise its a lot easier to get a #1 defenseman in the draft than trade for him/sign as a free agent.  Kind of a pull a Pittsburgh like when Lemieux was up in the draft....

Doesn't bother me anymore, if Edmonton gets Dahlin people will respect them even less than they do now. I think it's just as likely that we see a repeat of last year where a team leaps all the way up in defy the odds fashion to snag him.

We should announce a travel ban of AB hockey players from our golf courses hahaha

i think there are leaning towards bouchard. he is the only one they haven't critiqued. 

We already have weak defense men,

We need a horse,a guy that eats up a lot of minutes and seems like he is out there the whole game, a defender that puts the opposition on their backsides when the come into our zone and go to shoot at our goalie.A heads up, pass the puck to the right person at the right time type of guy.

Very dependable defense man are a tough thing to get unless you draft them

E.BOUCHARD OR NOAH DOBSON MIGHT JUST BE THE GUY WE REALLY NEED.

Allow me to clarify my original comment - I think we will end up with an excellent prospect - what we do with him from there is going to be up to our player development team

Like last year it's about Connie winning the scoring title for some bragging rights about having the best player in the blah blah blah. They will pick in the top five and blow than one too!

Edmonton will not make the playoffs and not only that but they have Cap issues because of 4 players making around 33 million.Do I feel sorry for them,NO I DO NOT.

This team has gotten 4 first overall picks at the LOTTO DRAFT in the last decade or so,  when the Canucks have never ever had one in fifty years or so,this is one of the reasons I do not feel sorry for the way this team has stunk for sooo long,another reason is they have many Stanley Cup wins when they has Gretzsky etc. BOO HOO for Edmonton.

I wonder how much being a Soiler is holding McDavid back.  Look at how Eberle and Hall exploded when they finally escaped that dump of a city and joined actual NHL franchises.

I wonder what kind of garbage return they'll get for McNuggets when he's finally had enough of embarrassing himself by playing for that joke of an organization.  Edmonton would struggle to make the AHL playoffs even if they were forced to play in the league they belong in.

Very high on Harley I think he is going to continue to shoot up the rankings 

@Dazzle, Benning's drafting record is much better than CDC's collective wisdom.  Imagine if we'd taken Vilardi or Glass instead of Petey.

@King Heffy

No doubt. I think Glass will be a decent player but not Petey good. Vilardi has caught the injury bug and bad too. 32 games last year and only 4 this year. Not a good start to a career.

Haha I saw the highlight - boy did he ever. 1st goal in 41 games - at this rate they will get a wicked deal of 3 million a goal this year haha

Remember when there was some on here that was outraged he didn't sign with Vancouver?

Good times. 

we were destined to have an anchor contract that year, weren't we talking to all 3 of Ladd, Lucic and Loui?

@MattJVD

Lol! That's hilarious. I forgot about that. That contract is disgusting.

He's playing injured. He was supposed to miss the entire year and decided to play.

And the Ducks wonder why they are on a 7 game losing streak.

It ends at 5pm EST

C'mon..sign in RUSSIA!

Ha, I thought Willie Watch was a countdown until LA fires WD.

Anybody wearing a perm these days should not be in hockey.

If he were Craig Button's younger brother, I bet he would get smacked around.

Avs don't play any D at all.  They are all goal sucks and one way players.  Plus, they have no goalie.  

Anyone else miss Kassian?

Ever since he left.

Jeebus you'd think a team like the Laffs that is poised to try and take the next step would go "all in" on a guy like Tanev.  Meh, their loss.  **** them anyhow (like I would like the help out them).

Not the actions of a captain.

Call Brad M. to mug him and punch him in the face,

Don & Ron said he has personality,but is A-hole a personality.

It won't be so funny when they land Dahlin

If McDavid can't save them, nobody can.

I am going to go out on a limb and predict we win 1st overall this year and select Dahlin 

I've lived in Alberta for several years before moving to the Peg and I can tell you everybody has been telling me over and over how great the Oilers are going to be yet here we are - still watching them flounder. I'm going to enjoy watching this tire fire while it burns :D

If that happens they should be punished for once again getting a 1st pick. A 5th 1st overall pick would be absolutely and utterly ridiculous and no excuse for that. 

I think we may finally see a player flat out tell Oilers not to draft them or immediately request a trade.

No because I love watching disasters from afar.

Is Myers overpaid, certainly.  And We probably overpaid Benn a bit too, but when all is said and done, on paper, we've kind of insulated Hughes with better options than we had at the end of last season.  We added qualities to our backend that we were lacking last year, and hopefully the sum of all those moving parts will be greater than the individuals.

3 more years.... McDavid must be thrilled 

Can't stand McGuire either. When it was suggested by someone else on the panel, that Quinn Hughes will improve the PP this coming season, he basically gave a "pfft", saying we don't know that. VAN never seems to get the same treatment or respect from the media. Seeing Panarin sign for $11.3 or whatever in NY, I hope another team offer sheets Marner $13.