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Chillin' Villain
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
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Why did I chose this year to come to Korea and not be at home in Edmonton?
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I hear ya.
The biatch of it is that I actually have a ticket for a visit home scheduled for June 25th... What I wouldn't do to go back a few weeks earlier, but I've got finals to supervise.
I refuse to look at this situation in ANY sort of negative light, however.
Enjoy the glory that is the Edmonton Oilers once again! |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:28 am Post subject: |
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I'm not convinced the US will buy up oilers....
I'm really REALLY hoping anyways. I always have these romantic notions that the players just "like edmonton so much" and "enjoy playing on a team with such a good work ethic" that they would ACTUALLY stay there for a little while. But they'll probably follow the money.\
EVERYONE WHO CARES!!!
Somewhere on Yahoo sports they are streaming the playoff games for FREE!...I'm trying to find it...
If we all look around when someone finds it, put it up!
one more edit:
Here are two sites i've HEARD do webcasting...
http://www.comcast.net/sports/nhl/hockeylive/
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http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl
Click "Watch It Live"." |
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Sofa_King
Joined: 03 Mar 2005
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| We're going to the 'ship!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| khyber wrote: |
I'm not convinced the US will buy up oilers....
I'm really REALLY hoping anyways. I always have these romantic notions that the players just "like edmonton so much" and "enjoy playing on a team with such a good work ethic" that they would ACTUALLY stay there for a little while. But they'll probably follow the money.\
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There's no reason to believe these new kids will behave any differently from the guys who won us our last batch of Stanley Cups. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Pretty shameful- who would have thought such a small and unassuming city could have so many ignorant destructive knobs. Do we now have to hope they don't win the Stanley Cup in order to save the city from any more destructive victory parties? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Pretty shameful- who would have thought such a small and unassuming city could have so many ignorant destructive knobs. |
No, Edmonton is great. It's the satellite towns like St Albert and Sherwood Park and Fort Saskatchewan where all the knobs come from, and where they play hockey the most. The closer you are to the center of the city you are, the safer you are. The farther out into the suburbs you go, the more insane it gets.
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Peter Jackson
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: Oilers |
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They're not my favorite team but, with all "my" teams out of it I will definately cheer for them. I can never cheer for an American team over a Canadian one!  Even if a lot of the players on the American team were Canadian.
Go Oil!  |
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uofagirl
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
Location: Central Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: |
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Is anybody else having a hard time believing that we actually made it to the Stanley Cup Finals??!!  I guess after so many years of either not making it into the playoffs or not getting past the first or second round that I'm still more or less in disbelief.
It'd be so fun to be at a Boston Pizza drinking beer with clam juice, watching the games, eating a perogy pizza and cheering like crazy!! Then again, there's always the Rocky Mountain Tavern and their awesome poutine. Hmm...not as good as being on Whyte but things could be worse! |
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uofagirl
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
Location: Central Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Okay, just read an article in "The Edmonton Journal" about the mayhem on Whyte. Not cool at all...are some Edmontonians(I doubt that they're all from St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Leduc, Stony Plain, etc) really that stupid? Vandalism on small time businesses piss me off. Just frickin stupid. Geez, I really hope it doesn't get worse as the finals progresses. |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| Then again, there's always the Rocky Mountain Tavern and their awesome poutine. Hmm...not as good as being on Whyte but things could be worse! |
If you consider that crap to be awesome you're either:
a) used to shit
b) drunk as hell when you order it so you don't notice the taste
c) dating/screwing one of the owners
d) never had a decent poutine in your life..
Sorry for the overreaction, but I've tried it twice there and it's been damn nasty...
back on topic... I want Buffalo to win it all.. but if Carolina makes the final Dougie Weight beating Edmonton would be a nice side story... |
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jlb
Joined: 18 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Bulsajo wrote: |
| Pretty shameful- who would have thought such a small and unassuming city could have so many ignorant destructive knobs. |
No, Edmonton is great. It's the satellite towns like St Albert and Sherwood Park and Fort MacMurray where all the knobs come from, and where they play hockey the most. The closer you are to the center of the city you are, the safer you are. The farther out into the suburbs you go, the more insane it gets. |
I grew up in Sherwood Park...to me, it's pretty much the tamest place you could ever live. Perhaps even more so than Korea. However, Fort Mac is an entirely different story with all the oil workers. |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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No, Edmonton is great. It's the satellite towns like St Albert and Sherwood Park and Fort MacMurray where all the knobs come from, and where they play hockey the most. The closer you are to the center of the city you are, the safer you are. The farther out into the suburbs you go, the more insane it gets. |
two things
1) The suburbs are not "insane": They are F**k*ng BORING as hell!!! THAT's why crystal meth is becoming such a huge problem in St. Al. schools.
AWESOME!!!
2) The CENTRE (downtown) is fairly safe...but stray a little bit east of downtown and it starts to loose it's "safety-osity". So has been my experience....
Knobs around Edmonton can be a dime a dozen. I'd bet at least 70% of those farkers are university students too.
On the bright side...if there are 50,000 people in one place (and white ave is not all THAT big...) there is BOUND to be some violence if everyone is WASTed and your team wins. But why people start breaking windows is beyond me.
"WOOOO!! I'm so happy i'm gonna bust this huge piece of glass and cut myself!!! OILERS RIULE!!!"
I hope they win..and i hope the cops tasers come out. |
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tweeterdj
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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well, I'm from Stony Plain and i can tell you that while that place is one of the more boring towns in the area, most of the kids are, indeed, "knobs". And unfortunately, once they graduate from the Old Bar (the Stony Plain Hotel) and wander into the city, the first place they go is Whyte. I know especially well, since my youngest brother just went through all this.
Also, is Fort Mac really a satelite of Edmonton? It's 5 hours away!! |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| Pretty shameful- who would have thought such a small and unassuming city could have so many ignorant destructive knobs. |
No, Edmonton is great. It's the satellite towns like St Albert and Sherwood Park and Fort MacMurray where all the knobs come from, and where they play hockey the most. The closer you are to the center of the city you are, the safer you are. The farther out into the suburbs you go, the more insane it gets. |
I played hockey with a guy from Fort McMurray in prep school. He used to swear that his town was so mellow in comparison to Cambridge, Mass. Gee, have the oil sands caused the locals to go, as that old, imprisoned prat feared, completely off the deep end?
Oilers hockey rules! |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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No, Edmonton is great. It's the satellite towns like St Albert and Sherwood Park and Fort MacMurray where all the knobs come from, and where they play hockey the most. The closer you are to the center of the city you are, the safer you are. The farther out into the suburbs you go, the more insane it gets. |
two things
1) The suburbs are not "insane": They are F**k*ng BORING as hell!!! THAT's why crystal meth is becoming such a huge problem in St. Al. schools.
AWESOME!!!
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That's what I meant. There's nothing to do so kids take to drugs and gang-beatings.
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2) The CENTRE (downtown) is fairly safe...but stray a little bit east of downtown and it starts to loose it's "safety-osity". So has been my experience....
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Whyte Ave used to be a good area, but then we started getting those suburb kids showing up by the busload. I fully blame them. Now it's impossible to walk a block without someone trying to jump you. And people say skinheads are violent.
My anecdote is about a friend who used to have a Schwinn bike (probably still does) around the university area. Let's just say girls loved it. He rode it around in St Albert for five minutes before someone shouted "Fag!" at him. |
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