The Oilers' Mount Puckmore

by Scott Reynolds on Aug 28, 2010 12:09 PM MDT

As many of you know, Puck Daddy's Mount Puckmore series is well under way. We've already had some discussion about who the Oilers should have on their monument, which I'm confident Bruce used to fine-tune his list before going live with his choices today on Puck Daddy. After Bruce's recent series of articles on the best of the best, it's no surprise that Wayne Gretzky tops his list. The other three choices may (or may not) result in a bit more debate. So head on over to Puck Daddy to join in the craziness!

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One minor thing: I thought the Oilers could protect two skaters. I know Gustafsson was denied for some dumbass reason, but then I thought they protected Brett Callighen or someone like that instead.

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by Doogie2K on Aug 28, 2010 12:31 PM MDT reply actions

Nope. They protected Gustafsson over other possible choices like Dave Langevin, the Capitals appealed that the Oil had broken some minor rule or other, and by the time Ziegler ruled in favour of the existing NHL club – surprise, surprise – the other players had already been dispersed to the four winds. So the Oil just flat out lost one of their two skaters.

Fortunately, the other guy turned out to be pretty decent.

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by Bruce McCurdy on Aug 28, 2010 12:35 PM MDT up reply actions

Fuck the merger. The WHA should still be going in my books. GO NEW YORK GOLDEN BLADES!

by Benjamin Massey on Aug 28, 2010 3:28 PM MDT up reply actions

Hm, I thought in Willes’ book he said they’d named someone else as their replacement.

Whatever the case, there was really only one guy they kept who mattered. ;)

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by Doogie2K on Aug 28, 2010 4:19 PM MDT up reply actions

I was expecting Coffey over Lowe. But reading it you have me convinced. Also I wasnt sure whether you would go for Smyth or Kurri!

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by SumOil on Aug 28, 2010 7:55 PM MDT reply actions

It says a lot about the Oilers’ history that my reaction to that post was “Well, can’t argue with that,” but that I would have had a similar reaction if Lowe and Smyth had been replaced with any two of Kurri, Coffey, Anderson, or Fuhr (despite Scott’s comment that the non-Gretzky choices could result in some debate, I can’t fathom Messier being left off).

I hope that we can all agree, however, that the comments on that post are painful to read.

(A propos nothing, I have this suspicion that a few years down the road there’ll be money to be made betting people that Ryan Smyth was never the Oilers’ captain.)

by sarcasticidealist on Aug 28, 2010 8:04 PM MDT reply actions

Agreed. It was only ever going to be 99, 11, and “pick two from a list of about ten.”

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by Doogie2K on Aug 29, 2010 11:29 AM MDT up reply actions

Well, Messier did play for the Canucks, so I could probably make an argument if pressed.

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by Derek Zona on Aug 29, 2010 2:07 PM MDT up reply actions

Messier sabotaged the Canucks; ask any Vancouver fan.

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by Doogie2K on Aug 29, 2010 2:59 PM MDT up reply actions

Excellent choices Bruce. Can’t really argue with any of them. Smyth has to be on there as a latter day face of the franchise, and Lowe….. well, he’s gotta be on there good or bad.

by JulianTSA on Aug 29, 2010 11:37 AM MDT reply actions

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