Dee Lux DX7's World of Hockey

This.....Everybody understood, Hall HAD to be gone prior to training camp, you can gush all over his Hart win now, but back then his attitude had been identified as the #1 thing the Oilers needed to move in order to be successful....and though everyone hoped to get more....IT WORKED! Like magic, the cloud lifted from Edmonton and descended on Jersey where people are forgetting he neither played very well or was very well liked his first year... Hall came in with a different attitude this year, one he never would have been forced to adopt had he NOT been traded, and the Oilers failings for last season need to be placed squarely at the feet of ONE MAN Connor McDavid.....EVERYONE gives him a pass when he is the FIRST guy who should have been held accountable, This guy's main concern in the first part of the season was upsetting the team's lines because HE wanted the team's 2nd line center (Who HAD to play there) on HIS wing Huh? He's supposed to be the...

To all you, the ungrateful misinformed masses, who think they are watching hockey today because the NHL is a natural occurrence like the Sun or Moon. Let's briefly revisit the 2005 lockout, the one that Trevor Linden talked the union into accepting a salary cap and was eventually sued by a group of NHL players for.   Yeah, that lawsuit and what Linden did, is the reason you have an NHL to complain about. LINDEN was the only guy in the union with brains enough to recognize that fans weren't interested in watching hockey broadcasts where the only topic of discussion is how long it would be till their best players went and signed with the Ranger or Red Wings. That was an era where Bobby Holik was getting 9 MILLION A YEAR The NHL was dying and the stupid selfish players couldn't see past their own pocketbooks. Looking back it's insane that we even watched a league where one team could spend twice or three times what another could. It's l...

So, the Olympics are starting up sooner than later and no NHL, players kept home as part of the usual internal politics the NHL has to play with its spoiled newborn of a union. I'm tired of politics I'm tired of salaries I'm tired of lazy players forcing fans into the obsessive calculation of advanced stats because the games aren't entertaining enough to hold our attention. These are all symptomatic of a business that has lost control of its employees. You can have a union,and I concede that players were royally screwed up until it's formation, but when that union interferes with your paying customers ability to enjoy your product, you have let the tail wag the dog. Time for the NHL to do some house cleaning. Tell Seattle, that they will be starting play on schedule, with or without current NHL players. Because if these idiot's don't accept the deal they are dictated....FIRE THEM ALL! Bring on the lockout, Bring on replacement players....

         So, an Erik Gudbranson trade is imminent, and rumor has it, Evander Kane could be involved, Ah....Jimbo, you've saved your biggest mistake for last, the final showstopper in the circus of stupidity that has been your regime. You're going to bring Evander Kane to the Vancouver Canucks?  You better not be, I've said it before and I mean it: I don't care if they win the frigging cup, I will not sink a single dollar into that team so long as Kane is on it. He's shown himself to be a very bad human being, this isn't the NFL, where fans don't care who is wearing the jersey, I care very much who I enable with my dollars and Kane gets NOTHING from me Too late to do anything about my tickets this year, but next year? No renewal Sadly, I could almost see this happening. Fans don't realize it, but even with all the talent he has Kane is very much not wanted throughout the league, you couldn't get much of anything for him in a trade Gudbra...