As Canadians it’s clear the NHL doesn’t want hockey up here. They want big American money. WHich is why they are bending over backwards to make sure hockey doesn’t get to Hamilton.

sure hockey fans here didn’t like the crap teams in the mid 90’s, who would have. But fans didn’t abandon this team. hell, games are still a sellout here despite the AHL quality product they put on the ice.

What saved us from Puck’s whims was a group of local businessmen who came together and bought the team to keep it here. Something that never happened in Winnipeg. Or Quebec City. Or Hartford. Or Denver. Or Minnesota (the first go around). So first off, props to Edmontonians. Second, do a little more research before you make off the cuff remarks like that.

Oh and the title of the Pocklington book, which if anyone buys is a complete moron, is completely inaccurate and a testament to Puck’s hubris. He never traded Gretzky, he sold him. It was all about the money to pay his debts to ATB, Gainers, and his other failing businesses, which were legion.

People forget Puck signed Gretz to a personal services contract in 1979, which at that time owners could still do. He was Puck’s property to do with as he pleased. Krush, McSorley, Carson et al were only throw-ins to make the deal seem like a trade. People forget Puck got $18 million out of the deal. It was always only about the money.

yes the Oilers did squat with their draft picks since the Gretzky deal; that’s nothing new. they’ve done next to nothing at the draft since the early 80’s.

Puck was a narcissistic manipulator who lives in his own reality. If anyone thinks any of what he says in that book is true, go get an Edmonton phone book, make a random call, and ask an Edmontonian for yourself. I don’t have to read it to know this book belongs in a landfill or at the local recycling plant.

Greg “Puck Daddy” Wyshynski saw fit to link back and expand upon my little post on what might have been had the Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs swapped cities/arenas in the early 1980s, the proposal of which recently has been alleg…

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