patrick-laforge Stories - The Copper & Blue
NHL Realignment - Some Good, Some Bad
Almost as soon as it was announced that the Thrashers would be leaving Atlanta for Winnipeg, NHL fans around North America started talking and thinking about realignment. Having the second coming of the Jets playing in the Southeast Division didn't make a lot of sense and a number of Western...
The Art of Negotiation - a photo shoot
On Thursday the Katz Group took their vision of a new arena to the public, hosting an open house at the spectacular new Art Gallery of Alberta. Being the only Copper & Blue writer living within 1000 km of Edmonton, your intrepid reporter dropped in for 90 minutes or so last evening,...
How Big Might The New Arena Be?
Edmonton Oilers' president and CEO Patrick Laforge went through a rather long and gruelling press conference today to help answer questions about a proposed new arena in Edmonton. I'm an agnostic on the issue; it will certainly benefit Daryl Katz's bottom line and thus hhelp the team, but quite...
The Kind Of News You Only Get From Oilers Pipeline!
The Edmonton Oilers Pipeline is the organization's official newsletter of the organization, and one of the things it does (more than anything else, in point of fact) is fill me in on all sorts of good things the organization is doing in the community. Because that's what it is really; a PR tool.In...
Poverty
There was a time when Doug Weight was easily the most important player on the Edmonton Oilers. He was the team captain, and its leading scorer – in his final year with the club, Weight’s 90 points were 20 ahead of the next closest player (Ryan Smyth).At one point, Weight was the best player on a...
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