The writing was on the wall. Edmonton Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli needed to go. If his history of bad trades wasn’t enough, his final transaction of re-signing unproven 30 year-old goaltender Mikko Koskinen to a four-year, 4.5 million AAV deal was the final straw. Chiarelli’s string of bad trades started when he traded Taylor Hall, last year’s Hart winner, for Adam Larsson, who is … Continue reading The Current State of the Edmonton Oilers

When I was little, sports were always very boring to me. My dad used to try to convince me to watch the Bears with him on Sundays, or the Bulls during the NBA playoffs, but I was never interested. But one day in the spring of 2009 I was flipping through the TV and came across a hockey game on Comcast Sportsnet. It was the … Continue reading About Me