It's early this season, but here come the Oilers jokes:
The EPS is cracking down on speeders heading into Edmonton. For the first offense, they give you 2 Oilers tickets. If you get stopped a second time, they make you use them.
Q. What do you call 30 millionaires around a TV watching the Stanley Cup playoffs? A. The Edmonton Oilers.
Q. What do the Oilers and Billy Graham have in common? A. They can both make 18,000 people stand up and yell "Jesus Christ".
Q. How do you keep an Oiler out of your yard? A. Put up a goal net.
Q. What do you call an Oiler with a Stanley Cup ring? A. Real Old
Q. How many Oilers does it take to win a Stanley Cup? A. Nobody remembers.
Q. What do the Oilers and possums have in common? A. Both play dead at home and get killed on the road!
yet this putrid joke of a team is beating SJ in SJ 3-2 after 2, and the Oil last win? vs. SJ
It's early this season, but here come the Oilers jokes:
The EPS is cracking down on speeders heading into Edmonton. For the first offense, they give you 2 Oilers tickets. If you get stopped a second time, they make you use them.
Q. What do you call 30 millionaires around a TV watching the Stanley Cup playoffs? A. The Edmonton Oilers.
Q. What do the Oilers and Billy Graham have in common? A. They can both make 18,000 people stand up and yell "Jesus Christ".
Q. How do you keep an Oiler out of your yard? A. Put up a goal net.
Q. What do you call an Oiler with a Stanley Cup ring? A. Real Old
Q. How many Oilers does it take to win a Stanley Cup? A. Nobody remembers.
Q. What do the Oilers and possums have in common? A. Both play dead at home and get killed on the road!
If you have an intolerable blue team fan crowing their record, here's something to think about:
Blue team record: 19-9-3
First 31 games: 21 home games, 10 road games Next 29 games: 8 home games, 21 road games
Playing so many games on home ice likely has something to do with their record so far, and we'll see how long that lasts when they have to be on the road a lot for the next two months.
there goes Homer raining all over Pan and Canucks upcoming vacation plans to Sin City.
of course since Homer made such perfect sense on why NHL won't work without a real fan base u just know Bet-man will put a team in the Nevada desert so the people in the Arizona desert will have a rival
-- Edited by tjlincoln on Wednesday 17th of December 2014 04:35:11 PM
Just finished listening to this week's show and have a though about the NHL having a team in Vegas and why I think is a bad bet.
I Googled top Vegas shows and came across the following list.
O Cirque du Soleil at Bellagio
Celine Dion at Caesars Palace
Terry Fator at the Mirage
Absinthe at Caesars Palace
Le Rêve - The Dream at Wynn Las Vegas
Jersey Boys at Paris Las Vegas
Penn & Teller at Rio
Boyz II Men at The Mirage
Human Nature at the Venetian
Blue Man Group at Monte Carlo
Now what do all these shows have in common? They are all inside Hotel/Casinos. Don't Vegas hotels/casinos want to keep their patrons inside their buildings as much as possible? Giving comp tickets to a show in their own building is kind of like a loss leader because they know they will make the money back.
Why would hotels give comp tickets to a hockey game to a venue they don't own and have people spend money there instead? I just don't see it happening.
Sure you might get you Pans and Canucks of the world who might take a Vegas trip and catch a game, but that's a small percentage. If you're a hockey fan, you can catch a game in your team's city and 29 other cities. The shows on the list above only play in Vegas and have an appeal to a much wider audience.
I'd be willing to bet that if you offer the average visitor to Vegas a pair of comp tickets to a Vegas-Edmonton game or a pair of comp tickets to any of the above shows, most will take the shows. If it is such a great idea, don't you thing the NFL, NBA and MLB be there already?
Remember, the house always win and they win more when their patrons stay inside their building.
Kane did spend many years in Atlanta.. think that maybe it was a bad influence? I guess he hasn't done anything dumb lately so he was due.
Watched the ceremony for Beliveau yesterday. It was concise and a great tribute. Well deserved.
and at the far other end of the class spectrum, RIP Jean Beliveau. A man who carried himself the right way.
A sad day. Jean Beliveau was my hero when I was young. One of the classiest men to ever play the game. I always tried to get no. 4 on all the teams I played for.
