Edmonton Sports Talk

[Landlocked]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Smith being brought back for a 1yr at 2mil.

I guess we're going to have to hope that Koskinen continues to get better. To be fair to him, he did do a lot of work on improving his hand position and mostly eliminated his glaring glove hand weaknesses because of it.

[Black Star]

Originally Posted by Landlocked

I guess we're going to have to hope that Koskinen continues to get better. To be fair to him, he did do a lot of work on improving his hand position and mostly eliminated his glaring glove hand weaknesses because of it.

Agree....i saw a marked improvement in his play and that weak glove hand didn't show its ugly head nearly as much last year. Imo, goaltending wasn't the weakest part of the Oils game. It was the overall defensive game from all positions.

[Coldrsx]

Reminds me of our time with Dubnyk.

Koskinen did get better. His angles and glove were vastly improved over the previous year, but still gets very little support from his D.

Fix the D and allow him to show his real game.

[Coldrsx]

RIP Joey.

What a guy, what a life, what an inspiration.

[Hallsy's Toupee]

I like the idea of a Joey Moss statue outside of Rogers Place. A statue of him belting out the national anthem!

[SHOFEAR]

TSN1260 ended up going late last night rather than switching to ESPN shows at 6 shows so Gregor and Strudwick could share stories. It's going to be non stop stories from a who's who of former Eskimos and Oilers for days.

It's all very deserving and incredibly touching. I have no doubt this city will do something very special to honor his legacy.

[Coldrsx]

There is a petition to rename the Downtown Community Rink to the Joey Moss Arena, I like that a lot.

[Hardhatdan]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

There is a petition to rename the Downtown Community Rink to the Joey Moss Arena, I like that a lot.

Do it.

[Hallsy's Toupee]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

There is a petition to rename the Downtown Community Rink to the Joey Moss Arena, I like that a lot.

I like that even more than the statue.

[TimB09]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

There is a petition to rename the Downtown Community Rink to the Joey Moss Arena, I like that a lot.

Do that, get a statue made for him and put him on the Wall of Honor for the EE Football Team and put a banner up for him at Rogers.

He deserves that much.

[Glenco]

https://www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...nik-kahun.html

[SHOFEAR]

I hope that in addition to whatever the oilers/esks/city does, the oilers do something along the lines of what the Flyers did with Kate Smith. Play an old recording of him singing the anthem prior to "big" games, and then find a way to incorporate Joey into regular anthem footage.

While i'm not a big fan of anthems before games, i do appreciate the routine of it when it is accompanied by a consistent individual that have the ability to transcend the anthem itself and becomes part of the build up prior to the game starting. We had that with Paul Lorieau, but it has been missing since. This is a great opportunity to address this short coming with the current pre game program.

The Esks could also do something similar for the same reasons. I find the revolving door of different singers prior to every game a little amateurish. I appreciate that the esks use this as an outlet for various individuals...but i want the familiarity of somebody that i instantly associated their voice to home games.

[EdmTrekker]

Originally Posted by SHOFEAR

I hope that in addition to whatever the oilers/esks/city does, the oilers do something along the lines of what the Flyers did with Kate Smith. Play an old recording of him singing the anthem prior to "big" games, and then find a way to incorporate Joey into regular anthem footage.

While i'm not a big fan of anthems before games, i do appreciate the routine of it when it is accompanied by a consistent individual that have the ability to transcend the anthem itself and becomes part of the build up prior to the game starting. We had that with Paul Lorieau, but it has been missing since. This is a great opportunity to address this short coming with the current pre game program.

The Esks could also do something similar for the same reasons. I find the revolving door of different singers prior to every game a little amateurish. I appreciate that the esks use this as an outlet for various individuals...but i want the familiarity of somebody that i instantly associated their voice to home games.

Yup!

[Coldrsx]

An excellent read. Someone should put his bagel combo on their menu and raise funds towards one of Joey's organizations.

https://oilersnation.com/2020/11/02/...be9NmPtgBiMbIo

[Coldrsx]

Get ready to Rock the Hawk!

Picked me up a trucker hat today.



https://shop.gohawks.ca

[Rocket252]

Speaking of team names I am hearing the Edmonton football team is not going to announce their new name till April.

Why didn’t they launch around now and use the holiday season to market and sell their merchandise? Surely they have had a lot of time since announcing the name change to prepare?

Bad marketing move - need to generate some interest while the Oilers are idle.

[Coldrsx]

They are doing a public request and why is there any rush?

[Rocket252]

^ maybe start generating interest , eliminate the embarrassment of not having a team name and get to marketing the product and selling season tickets.

[Jasper and one o nin]

Originally Posted by Rocket252

Speaking of team names I am hearing the Edmonton football team is not going to announce their new name till April.

Why didn’t they launch around now and use the holiday season to market and sell their merchandise? Surely they have had a lot of time since announcing the name change to prepare?

Bad marketing move - need to generate some interest while the Oilers are idle.

I have a hunch, the new name is going to be very bold, truly unique, very "Edmonton", and may even be disruptive in terms of how Cities name their professional sports teams.

[Coldrsx]

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