See, I was thinking of it from the angle that, in all reality…the appeal process will likely take AT LEAST the length of the season, nad some are speculating that it was appealed not to actually take it that far, but to push it back until next summer so that as soon as the Oilers season ends they retract the appeal and Khabi goes and does his time.

In other words, it’s just a stall tactic to ensure that he is not in jail for any of TC or the season.

But yeah, thinking about now, and especially the timing of Tambi’s comments being so soon after the outcome yesterday, what you say does make sense.

*puts away tinfoil hat* lol

gr8one: The other thing that jumped out at me watching that video was that by Tambellini’s reaction, him and the Oilers clearly had no idea Khabi and his dream team were appealing.Now, I’m not sure if it means anything or not, but you’d think when you’re employed with a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract, and you’re services to your employer have potential to have major impacts on your employers product…you’d think that said employer would be privy to such information, no?Also, what Tambi says about “it doesn’t allow me unfortunately to comment on behalf of the team on what we THOUGHT we’d be able to do”…Now, excuse me while I put on my Oilers tin foil hat…but if the team was going to stand behind Khabi regardless and come out with a show of support for him, why would an appeal putting it all off change what the Oilers were going to do/say??

That statement definitely is open for a lot of interpretation…

But the way I took the sentiment behind Tambi’s words were that he knew better where his goaltending situation stood when Khabi was getting 30 days in jail. He could say “OK.. I don’t have Khabi for this entire month, but he’ll be available for game 1.. and maybe I’ll need to send him to OKC briefly for conditioning, and we’re OK.”

Now, however, he’s in complete limbo. He could have Khabi for training camp. The appeal could happen September 25th (just to throw a random date out there) and they could deny the appeal, and now he’s gone for most of October. The appeal could happen in December, and he could have Khabi for the months of October and November, and then lose him again in December/January if the appeal is denied.

Really, all Khabi and his lawyer did was put a lot of uncertainty in this and fuck over the Oilers organization. Like Vic stated, it’s likely he’ll get off scot free now, but the Oilers don’t know this. They really don’t have any idea what months of this season they’ll have Khabi for.

I’m sure Tambellini wanted some closure, and he probably thought he had that when the decision was laid down. But now he doesn’t.

On top of that, he also will be doling out a suspension (and if not, the league likely will), so he’s got to plan for that too.