It Seems Like Every Season...

Or should I say off-season?

Either way, there is this threshold that I have. It details just how long I can go without Oiler Hockey before I bloody well go crazy. Every season that we miss the playoffs this 'threshold' of mine seems to become shorter and shorter. This off-season is no different.

I've been running around the Oilers' blogging community brushing up on everyone's opinions, options, ideas, and general nattering about the team, and I've got to say that it isn't helping a whole lot. In fact, I'd say it's making it worse. I'va already begun watching old youtube highlites, checking out next season's schedule, and taking preliminary scrutinizing looks at our division rivals.

This is bad.

Why is this bad? Because this is exactly the kind of hype that lets me down more often than not. The Oilers haven't been a great team out of the gate for some time now, but year after year I get myself so worked up that I can hardly stand myself.

You know why that is? Because in actual reality my love for the game over-rides the Oilers' game when they're playing poorly. When they're playing well it's irrelevant, but boy does it help when the boys are dragging their butts in the mud.

I mean, let's be honest here: this offseason has not been exciting. Free Agency was a let down, and the only change we've made is swapping Roli for another aging goaltender in Khabibulin. The changes behind the bench? Yeah, it will be interesting to see how that plays out, but it wasn't exactly shocking, was it? We all had a feeling that MacT was on the out, and though Quinn and Renney were a bit of a surprise, they were both on the fan base's radar for a new coach.

Oh, and the Heatley thing. Kill me now.

There are rumblings about other possibilities, in say Kessel for example, but as this goes on it looks like we're going into TC with essentially the same team we left the season; minus a 35 and plus a 39.

I'm dying here. I need hockey. Two months? Hope I make it that far....


Okay, so that was a little over-dramatic, but you get the point.