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I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE
I’ve written about Tyler Pitlick and the 2010 Entry Draft a lot over the years. I was impressed with the group originally, but they’ve taken their own sweet time arriving. As it stands today, there...
View ArticleTHE CALLUP LIST
I think we have the callup list surrounded, what does that tell us about the deadline? Edmonton Oilers GM Craig MacTavish spent the weekend watching the Oklahoma City Barons. An article in the...
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WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, WAYNE CASHMAN?
When I was a young man, I received an education in the truth of “there’s more than one way to win” from crusty baseball men Whitey Herzog and Earl Weaver. Herzog’s signature team arrived in 1981 with...
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DEADLINE MINUS 53
Wednesday at 1 Edmonton time, the trade deadline will close the curtain on the transaction window until the postseason. For Edmonton, that’s just a few weeks, but trades are rare during the playoffs so...
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THE PARDUBICE PRINCE AND THE NOT VERY GOOD, VERY VERY BAD DAY
He arrived as a skinny teenage boy, and leaves us today a man. Ales Hemsky is the most beautiful, least understood Oiler of his generation—an icon’s talent with a pauper’s memories. It is the saddest...
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“IN A GOOD WAY, LIKE BROTHERS”
Maybe last night’s game will be remembered for more than the win. Edmonton, doing their usual “skating around without thought” routine, worked smart and the tumblers clicked in a 3-2 comeback win...
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SAIL ON, MOOSE JAW WARRIOR
If the idea of watching grown men and women cry has little appeal, you’ll want to avoid Edmonton today. Ryan Smyth will cry, and so will we, in our sports cars, in our pickups, in our SUVs, in our...
View ArticleRE 13-14 RYAN SMYTH: ALMOST INDEPENDENCE DAY
When he left us the final time, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. It is a great injustice when our heroes find their feet of clay, for them and for us. Doubly so when an everyman—one of us, touched...
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NOBODY KNOWS YOU (WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT)
It is time my friends, to break out the blues. Pour me another rye whiskey. Smiles and blue skies aren’t selling this year, it’s my baby left me and my dog died and my momma only has one shoe. Four...
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RANGERS AT OILERS, G31 2014-15
Shame. Shame on the Edmonton Oilers. This is the fifth year of Taylor Hall’s NHL career and he hasn’t been close to a playoff game. Five years is a long time but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to...
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