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Heel. Hockey. Hip-hop. Podcast listener. #AMNasty #Oilers OPINIONIST. Flames fan. Snoop, JAY & 50. Cookies are my weakness. Jaded, cynical & single af. Dad.

Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta
Joined January 2010
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Wow.
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4 years
Jim Rutherford has now drafted Sami Kapanen, traded Sami Kapanen, drafted Kasperi Kapanen, traded Kasperi Kapanen, and traded for Kasperi Kapanen.
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2 years
List of moves Ken Holland should be praised for: •signing Zach Hyman •Woodcroft hire •Kulak trade
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5 years
Ethan Bear, Caleb Jones, Kailer Yamamoto & Tyler Benson have completely altered the Oilers outlook moving forward. What a rookie crop.
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3 months
Hold on, I wanna see something... OILERS FANS: If you were 18 or older for the 06 Cup run, RT. If you were under 18 for the 06 Cup run, Like.
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5 years
Milan Lucic has tied James Neal on the Flames all-time goal list with 7.
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4 years
"I would not move Ethan Bear. That's crazy talk." - Friedman on with Stauffer
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3 years
Real bad look for Berta...
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5 years
@SportsnetSpec Mark, tell me what's better - fighting an inferior hockey player or having a 4 min PP. I'll hang up & listen
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Dylan Holloway on the offersheet
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3 years
Gregor says Oilers & Puljujarvi have begun contract talks.
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3 years
Stauffer: "Darnell Nurse is gonna get Chabot money. 8×8." Friedman: (suprised) "okay."
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2 years
EDM should be trying hard to ship Mike Smith to ARI today
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2 years
"I honestly and truly believe this - if the Calgary Flames don't get Johnny Gaudreau, that they are gonna be forced to trade Matthew Tkachuk and they're gonna have to basically start over" - Seravalli on DFO Pod
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The Oilers of old wouldn't have traded McLeod until he played 47 games as the 4C without scoring a goal next season & then taking a 5th rounder two yrs from now in return.
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Seravalli on 960 says he could see the Coyotes moving as early as next season if the Tempe vote goes bad (and by the sounds of it, the team is worried)
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6 years
Pontus Aberg has 10 goals. Milan Lucic (1), Ryan Spooner (2), Tobias Rieder (0), Zack Kassian (2), Jujhar Khaira (2) and Ty Rattie (2) have 9 goals.
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2 years
Mike Smith has played a grand total of 30 NHL playoff games ever. He's played 11 since losing to LA on May 22nd 2012. It's May 2022. He is 1-10 in those 11 games with a .905 sv% & five times sported an .893 or worse. He is 40 yrs old. But MANN can he handle a puck!
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Zack Kassian career: 0.33 ppg Zack Kassian vs CGY: 0.35 ppg I am shaking in my fucking boots.
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Zack Kassian career vs Calgary: Goals: 6 Assists: 7 Points: 13 GP: 37 Pims: 126!
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@bomani_jones In Da Club was pretty quick, no?
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6 years
How do u lose a Ryan Strome trade twice? #AskPeter
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Thru 2 periods Ryan Spooner is last among Oilers with 4:30 TOi & first among Oilers with 4 giveaways. That's hard to do.
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6 years
Oilers management (& ownership) failed Taylor Hall & Andrew Ference much more than Taylor Hall or Andrew Ference ever failed the Oilers. Lets all remember that.
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3 years
Blam blam, blam 'til dem fall Listen to dem shots from my killa @JeffVeillette #RIPLeavins
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2 years
Oil fans definitely the most sensitive & easy to rattle 🎣
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2 months
Kypreos & Friedman just alluded to things going sour between the Oilers & Kane
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2 years
Hey, did you guys know the Oilers got Evander Kane for free and that he was their trade deadline acquisition and he didn't cost them anything and no other team can say they did that and he was free and didn't cost anything and he was their big deadline pickup.
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6 years
NHL roster made up only of Oilers drafted players who have played N games this yr: Hall-McDavid-Draisaitl Cogliano-Nuge-Eberle Khaira-Nash-Puljujarvi Rieder-Brodziak-Pitlick Paajarvi-Gagner-Yamamoto Klefbom-Petry Nurse-Gustafsson Marincin-Jones Davidson Dubnyk
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2 years
Zack Kassian just needs fans in the building... in a playoff atmosphere... on Tuesday's & Thursday's... on the road... and Friday's & Saturday's in Edmonton... if he ate chicken parm for a pregame meal, but only if he had a 47 min nap first... BUT WHEN ALL THAT ALIGNS, LOOKOUT!!!
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2 years
The Oilers, but without Barrie, Kassian, Foegele, Keith & Smith? 😳
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6 years
Jesse Puljujarvi is "frustrated" & "dispirited" per Stauff. So right on sched for an Oilers prospect.
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4 years
I swear this kid was built for the Edmonton market & they damn near fucked it up...
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4 years
Seravalli say COL offered Taylor Hall $4M×1 & EDM offered him "south of $5M" in the $4.75M×1 range (TSN1260)
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2 months
John Shannon pouring cold water on the "Stan Bowman to EDM" talk; suggests Mark Hunter, Laurence Gilman & Mike Futa as potential options. (Oilers Now)
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10 months
You fire Ken Holland before he can fire Jay Woodcroft.
@zjlaing
zach
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you fire ken holland before jay woodcroft, for what it’s worth.
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11 months
On Sundays, we play the hits! ⬇️
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3 years
"I'd stay away from Jack Eichel every day of the week" - John Shannon on Oilers Now I'm sold. All-in on Eichel @NHLFlames
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3 years
It is absolutely baffling to me how EDM media are just waiting for Mike Smith to string together 15 good games like its just a matter of time. Mike Smith has Dave Tippett, Ken Holland & the EDM media all under a spell. Asinine.
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2 years
Since turning down the Oilers in favor of the Flames, Jacob Markstrom has played 18 games vs EDM including playoffs. He's gone 7-11-0 with an .874sv% vs the Oil since signing in CGY.
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This, from @FriedgeHNIC 31 Thoughts is perplexing. This sort of move has happened before on a couple of occasions. If you're an NHL GM & u haven't "thought of this", WHAT THE HELL ARE U DOING?! Like WTF?! I'm a goddamn dozer operator & I thought of it. This f'n league man...
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28 days
If you can justify paying Cody Ceci $3.25M, you can prob justify paying Broberg $4.5M. Just saying...
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2 years
Not sure if there's more of a slam dunk than Dylan Strome to EDM...
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6 years
Wow. Just listening to Hockey PDOcast & @frank_seravalli says Peter Chiarelli wanted to keep Evan Bouchard up past the 9 games (making him vulnerable for the 2021 expansion draft), but that Todd McLellan didn't want him & after healthy scratching him 4 games in a row, Pete caved
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3 years
Am I the o ly 1 who finds hilarity in the fact the Nick Leddy & Ryan Suter suddenly became available as soon as EDM acquired Keit?
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5 years
EDM could trade Kris Russell & Adam Larsson this summer, not bring any D in, and their D to start the 2020-21 season still has a chance to be the best they've had in a decade. Projecting that as of today: Klefbom-Bear Nurse-Bouchard Jones-Benning
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2 years
Seravalli believes EDM still has something up their sleeve...
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7 years
Find yourself someone who looks at you the way Mark Spector looks at Zack Kassian...
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3 years
Per @TomGazzola , Darnell Nurse extension in the $9M AAV range ×8yrs done; announcement shortly (days? hours?)
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3 years
TOR asking EDM for a 2nd for Hyman's 8th yr; EDM offering 6th, per Friedman. Hyman to EDM all but done.
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5 years
I can't believe how many Oil fans HATE David Rittich simply b/c he tossed his stick in the air after a big win. You'd think he slid the length of the ice on his knees after scoring the game winner or something...
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2 years
"I think this is thee most important trade deadline in franchise history" - Seravalli on the Oilers
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5 years
U win a trip to go watch a NHL game in 6 different cities... which 6 arenas are you going to?
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2 years
Frank says CGY will have no trouble unloading Sean Monahan, whether now or in June.
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4 years
If you're EDM, do u move a 1st with Koskinen to get Kuemper?
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3 years
Kassian: "Gotta find a way to get him engaged" Puljujarvi: "Guy's gotta earn it."
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3 years
The old guard is gonna be absolutely perplexed that EDM could play so many inexperienced D & have success. Fellas... it ain't the 90s anymore - we don't have to work in 1 rookie D every 3rd yr now. Issa young manz game. Let em skate!
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8 years
Maybe its time @nhl started calling rulebook again. Guys like Gaudreau & McDavid mugged nightly; draw maybe 20% of the penalties they should
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3 years
Brian Burke fired Ron Wilson only after the fans chanted for his firing. Jim Benning was fired after the fans chanted for his firing. Take note, Oil fans. #TonightsTheNight
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3 years
Barrie + Keith + Foegele for $12.75M OR Bear + ~$5M LD + ~$5M LW 🤔🤔🤔
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2 years
Claude Giroux to EDM? 👀
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6 years
I know I tweeted that I didn't think Todd McLellan would see December as Oilers coach earlier this month... so here goes - I'm not sure Peter Chiarelli sees December as Oilers GM.
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2 years
Lowkey, if EDM could move Ceci in a D trade, that's the way forward.
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2 years
Rishaug doesn't believe Evander Kane signs with EDM...
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8 months
Todd McLellan burning Cam Talbot out once again 6 or 7 yrs after doing it in his prime is kinda hilarious
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People talk like EDM D has taken a massive blow compared to last season roster. It really hasn't. It's taken a bit of a blow on the 24/25 projected roster, for sure, but I don't think Ty Emberson is any worse than Desharnais. Broberg wasn't here most of the yr. So...
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2 years
Stauff just said he expects EDM to make a bigger deal than the Athanasiou deal a few yrs back; also casually mentioned NSH has had interest in Kailer Yamamoto before... 💨
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3 months
🤣😂 Frank!
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5 years
(Age at start of next season in brackets) Erik Karlsson (30), $11.5M×7 more yrs. Logan Couture (31), $8M×7 more yrs. Marc-Eduard Vlasic (33), $7M×6 more yrs. Brent Burns (35), $8M×5 more yrs Evander Kane (29), $7M×5 more yrs. Martin Jones (30), $5.75M×4 more yrs. #SJSharks
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Honestly, if CGY handed Lindholm $8.5M×8, Hanifin $7M×8, Toffoli $5M×3 & Backlund $4.5M×3, EVERYBODY that's laughing at them now would be laughing *hysterically*. This is a blessing!
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6 years
Taylor Hall (31) & Jordan Eberle (13) have 44 pts. Milan Lucic (7), Adam Larsson (10), Ryan Strome (2)+Ryan Spooner (3) & Alex Chiasson (18) have combined for 40 pts. But that's kind of a ridiculous comment on my part b/c Chiasson has nothing to do with Hall or Eberle. 44-22.
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He still did it 🥺
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So Seth Jarvis gets $63.2M over 8 yrs, which would normally be a $7.9M AAV, however, because he's deferring $3.2M of that until yr 9, they do NOT have to include that in the AAV, thus giving him a $7.5M cap hit instead. Okay, Leon...
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4 years
So Jersey will waive Comrie, WPG will claim him & waive Forsberg who will then finally end up back in EDM...
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4 years
2 things: LAK should fire Todd McLellan for how he handled Jesse Puljujarvi while in EDM & Peter Chiarelli should never work in hockey again *even if you forget everything else he ever did* for his ✌development plan✌ for JP.
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5 years
I don't care how many MSMers talk about Adam Larsson being the worst possible player injury that could happen to EDM, it's just not true. An Oscar Klefbom injury would be far more disastrous than a Larsson injury is. They can handle this just fine imo.
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2 years
As Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk said as well...
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Both MacKenzie Weegar and Jonathan Huberdeau confirm that they are open to signing long-term extensions with the #Flames .
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5 years
Imagine having to call up Zac Rinaldo b/c Milan Lucic didn't feel like trading punches with Ryan Reaves.
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1 year
Friedman just dropped a note about an Oilers player telling him part of their motivation in the CGY series was to *actually* break the Flames. I'm sure the clip is coming.
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5 years
Friedman thinks EDM may be in the mix for Brandon Saad (Oilers Now).
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7 years
Peter Chiarelli has traded Phil Kessel, Blake Wheeler, Tyler Seguin, Taylor Hall & Jordan Eberle, and he has downgraded in every single deal.
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2 years
Friedman suggesting Barrie to SEA makes sense
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9 months
Friedman on Marek Show suggests Jack Campbell has lost his job in Bako & that Olivier Rodrigue is gonna get a run here.
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5 years
Stauffer & Friedman discussing the plausibility of a 3-way trade between EDM/CGY/VAN that see Lucic land in VAN, Neal in EDM & Eriksson in CGY.
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3 years
If Larsson walks, EDM should walk away from Barrie & sign David Savard + Ryan Murray. Then sign Jaden Schwarz + Derek Ryan up front & Linus Ullmark in G.
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6 years
Friedman says he was told this morning that EDM is a really tense place. Hot seat galore. Missed exact quote...
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10 months
Any coaching change made in EDM HAS to include a dismissal of Ken Holland & Bob Nicholson in ANY capacity with the Oilers. Full stop.
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3 years
Imagine EDM giving CHI a 1st for Fleury after taking Keith off their hands for assets so that CHI could add Fleury for free...
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2 years
FWIW, I think EDM beats LA in a playoff series, but I can't think of funnier end to the Oil season than Todd McLellan sending them golfing in 6. Surely, that'd be the end of Ken Holland.
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6 years
1st round pick re-signs for a 5% raise. NCAA UFA Drake Caggiula re-signs (a 2 yr deal!) for an 80%raise. They made the same $ last yr. QO for both was $874,125. 5% raise. 80% raise.
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Hartman re-signs with the Predators for one-year, $875,000
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5 years
SN650 speculating that VAN is trying to move up ahead of EDM to take Broberg 👀
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3 years
Ken Holland is finished. At this point, he doesn't even maintain the charisma to be a front-man or figurehead of any kind, nevermind the lead authority figure. He's not a GM. He's not a POHO. At best, he could maaaaybe be a "Senior Consultant" with no public voice.
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8 months
No, Edmonton media... Cody Ceci isn't better than Chris Tanev
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4 months
Gregor says he'd give Desharnais $2.75M×4; Seravalli says "I think that's exactly the type of contract that gets you in trouble". Maan, this is gonna be a fun one!
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5 years
Logan Couture, 31 in March, has 7 yrs left ($8M). Evander Kane, 29 this summer, has 5 yrs left ($7M). Erik Karlsson, 30 in May, has 7 yrs left ($11.5M). Brent Burns, 35 in March, has 5 yrs left ($8M). Martin Jones, 30 next week, has 4 yrs left ($5.75M). Just disgusting.
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Tyler Ray
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What's nuts about the Sharks' fall this season is that normally you'd just give up at some point and start selling off but a) Sharks don't have their 1st and b) they have no assets (maybe Dillon?) to trade that don't have crippling dollars attached to them long term.
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3 years
Buchnevich, Strome & Georgiev all on the block in NYR per Seravalli (TSN1260)
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3 years
Flames are PISSED at Kevin Weekes
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6 years
Oil should offer Ales Hemsky $650k base + $500k GP bonus for 50 games
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