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Swaggerville was adopted by the fans first and the team followed, canadian mafia I can see catching on cause O'Shea seems to have that sort of sense of humour.

It's the exchange rate man.

I won't go quite that far, but he's been weird.

That is his biggest failing, he is so insecure he has to be the smartest guy in the room, which given that he's an idiot means he's surrounded by yes men and morons.

Well there is Boateng in Edmonton at very least.

Even if it's even money in BC and Winnipeg that money goes a hell of a lot further in Winnipeg than it does in Vancouver.

That's a tough one because when he's playing well Loffler is a good piece to have, but he's been a bit inconsistent the last year or two. I think unless he's asking for the moon (he might, they keep making him an allstar) you can build your D around his style of play. Can probably improve the coverage if you go all american in the secondary, but where does the other National come in?

i literally just said to noeller "time to change the concussion protocol" good for a laugh anyway.

Since Ritchie implies that Ritchie was still better, and that's not even getting into the power struggle that existed between Ritchie and Bauer that O'Shea doesn't have to deal with. O'Shea is a good coach, you want to use arbitrary things to judge that's fine, but everyone else can clearly see that O'Shea is a good coach and we'd be fools to turf him. He's gone a lot of good for this team and we're not seeing the regression that you need to see to fire a coach.

He keeps putting up double digits in wins a season I'll give him a lot more time. He is flat out the best head coach this team has had since Dave Ritchie and he's done it with the safest most boring coordinators going. I got lots of patience for O'Shea cause these teams are fun teams to watch when for the better part of the last 20 years we've watched some absolute horseshit teams.

Demski is a decent player, but man the way he always has to try and outrun everyone to the edge rather than cutting up inside is infuriating. Harris needs to take him under his wing and toughen him up if he's going to be worth a big pay day.

I think you missed the joke.

Will always have mad respect for Leggett. That guy was a great player for us.

If they wanted a successful business man they never should have picked trump. Who bankrupts casinos? Seriously?

So here's the thing, I believe Mclellan brought some value initially, but he never adapted when his **** stopped working, and that is why the Oilers started struggling. Coaching is a constant game of adapting and mclellan never did that. We saw more in game coaching from Hitchcock last night than in years of mclellan. The roster is imperfect, but there is more to it than mclellan was getting from them.

Eakins was a problem. Renney and krueger and Nelson were guys who never should have been let go, Eakins and Mclellan were problems.

Yeah the way the Blues have gone since he left there sure seems to indicate the guy is useless.... People are selling this move short, just watch. Oilers need a teacher and someone who uses guys to their strengths, that's Hitchcock. Mclellan didn't even line match, he just let the other teams dictate the matchups. What do you think McDavid will do when he isn't having to take all the hard matchups and when the rest of the lineup gets more sheltering?

At least the Riders can trade Bridge for some national starters.

How anyone can think Jennings is an upgrade on Nichols I will never know. Jennings was such **** the Lions had to go to a one armed Lulay.

I won't defend some of chia's trades, but draisaitl is on pace for over 100 points right now, how is he over rated? Mclellan was a problem and you will see that as more time passes. Hitchcock isn't a long term solution but you will see a different oiler team and don't be surprised if McDavid actually scores more now.

See and I think a big part of that is because we didn't threaten them downfield until the last 2 minutes. Should have seen how it would look if we'd made them defend the entire field. Guys were able to get open deep the few times they tried, and it's because Calgary was sitting on the short stuff.

Because he wasn't getting a lot of help from the receivers or offensive coordinator. Even a guy like Dressler was dropping passes. Not to mention the refusal for this team to stretch the field which allowed Calgary to sit everyone in the areas Nichols wanted to throw. The game plan was **** from the Bombers and made it easy on the Stamps defense. Not all on the qb. BLM had trouble with the pressure at times and he missed a bunch of throws, difference is that his OC gave him options and they kept trying to make some big plays in the passing game.

Is that why he was working for TSN after we fired him the last time?

I would say it's simply unfortunate to be in the same division as Calgary. I get that people get stupid because of 28 years, but this regime is on the right track so everyone needs to be patient.

The States have been letting the Saudis off the hook for ages regardless, Trump is just the most blatant about it.