Edmonton Sports Talk - Page 16

Hallsy's Toupee · #**301** Posted **Jan 20, 2017, 5:30 PM**

Quite a decade of ineptitude for our professional sports franchises, eh?
Maciocia and Tillman for the Esks.
Lowe, Tambellini and MacTavish for the Oilers.

Mind you, if McJesus hadn't fallen into the Oilers laps I wonder if Nicholson and Chiarelli would have still cleaned house.

Hallsy's Toupee · #**302** Posted **Jan 22, 2017, 5:55 AM**

Quite the massacre by the Oilers down in Calgary. And LB gets his first NHL win against his old team!

Coldrsx · #**303** Posted **Jan 22, 2017, 4:39 PM**

He looked confident for the first time ever in the big leagues.

hilman · #**304** Posted **Jan 22, 2017, 4:48 PM**

The last time they had this many points at this stage of the season was in 1987-88, remarkable turnaround. All hail Chia

The video of the Oiler fans chanting in the Saddledome after the game last night was epic.

https://twitter.com/stack_scott/stat...49285331664896

SHOFEAR · #**305** Posted **Jan 23, 2017, 2:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hallsy's Toupee

Quite the massacre by the Oilers down in Calgary. And LB gets his first NHL win against his old team!

5-1

"the heat is on..."

lol.

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The video of the Oiler fans chanting in the Saddledome after the game last night was epic.

https://twitter.com/stack_scott/stat...49285331664896

Wow. I forgot about how much of a dump the pringledome is.

hilman · #**306** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 3:36 PM**

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Oilers after 51, 2015-16: 20-26-5, goal differential -23
Oilers after 51, 2016-17: 28-15-8, goal differential +21

Edmonton reaches the All-Star break with a stunning amount of improvement. Hell boys, last year’s team won 31 games all season! 24 two years ago! 29 three years back! Crazy crazy.

http://lowetide.ca/2017/01/27/pet-sounds-2/

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Jack Michaels ‏@EdmontonJack

1st sweep of CA teams for EDM since 2008; Oilers 3-0-2 last 5 trips to SJ. Head into break 7-0-1 last 8, 13-3-3 last 19, 16-5-6 last 27.

Unreal!!

Black Star · #**307** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 5:56 PM**

So fun to watch the Oilers now....

That was a long 10 years

Coldrsx · #**308** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 6:22 PM**

Amazing stuff... and we seemingly are getting better as a team.

McBoo · #**309** Posted **Jan 27, 2017, 9:00 PM**

And w/o Darnell Nurse.

I'm starting to believe we're for real.

Mind you, with a real President of Operations, a real general manager and a real coach .....

tele75 · #**310** Posted **Jan 30, 2017, 4:40 PM**

Amazing how that works. Credible people in senior positions.

EdmTrekker · #**311** Posted **Jan 30, 2017, 5:58 PM**

Indeed - the pharmacist appears to be close to a breakthrough in developing the right cocktail to cure what has ailed his team since he bought it.

Coldrsx · #**312** Posted **Feb 1, 2017, 9:15 PM**

Don't curse, don't curse, don't curse.

http://www.edmontonexaminer.com/2017...ully-thats-all

Hallsy's Toupee · #**313** Posted **Feb 1, 2017, 10:50 PM**

The #Oilers have acquired forward Henrik Samuelsson from the @ArizonaCoyotes in exchange for forward Mitchell Moroz.

I really wish the Oilers would dispense with this mad obsession with acquiring former Oil Kings.

McBoo · #**314** Posted **Feb 1, 2017, 11:28 PM**

Ken Hitchcock out: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/s...ins-big-issue/

Landlocked · #**315** Posted **Feb 2, 2017, 5:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hallsy's Toupee

The #Oilers have acquired forward Henrik Samuelsson from the @ArizonaCoyotes in exchange for forward Mitchell Moroz.

I really wish the Oilers would dispense with this mad obsession with acquiring former Oil Kings.

With that said, exchanging a struggling Left Winger for a Center with higher points production but also higher injury rate is a wash.

As per OilersNation

"Both Samuelsson and Moroz are Restricted Free Agents exiting their entry-level contracts. "

hilman · #**316** Posted **Feb 6, 2017, 4:53 PM**

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NFL took cross-Canada scouting trip in 2016, could play future games in Toronto, Edmonton or elsewhere

John Kryk, Postmedia Network

HOUSTON — The NFL scouted four Canadian stadiums in 2016 as candidate sites for possible future regular-season games, Postmedia has learned.

Mark Waller, the NFL’s executive vice-president of international, said in an interview on Wednesday that league reps last year visited Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, Toronto’s Rogers Centre, Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium and Vancouver’s B.C. Place Stadium. The latter two play host to CFL games.

In the interview, Waller talked up Canada as a future host of a regular-season “international” game, or games.

He added, however, that a “dark cloud” hangs over Canada regarding the CRTC’s decision to allow U.S. commercials to be shown during Sunday’s Super Bowl LI. More on that in a moment.

Following commissioner Roger Goodell’s annual pre-Super Bowl news conference, Waller told Postmedia that he and his team visited the four Canadian stadiums in person for two main reasons: first, to see if team locker rooms were sufficient, and secondly, to see if those venues meet NFL technological standards.

The NFL has not yet reached a conclusion on a Canadian venue, Waller said, nor does it disclose findings of such information missions.

http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/...n-or-elsewhere