Open talk in the media. I know how this story usually ends…

As for Smid and Hemsky … i heard that too on the after show from dan tencer. I will take him at his word. Hemsky was swearing and walked by tencer as he broke his stick. Tencer made a comment that he felt uncomfortable being in the room and has never seen it like that.
thank god we got hemmer signed for 2 X 5… he sure is helping.

loved eberles comments after the game. I am sure he is speaking for alot of the oilers but its tough when you are being pulled in two different directions. To a man in that room i am sure they all know offense is the way they will win. It just seems like they dont have the coaching or game plan to go with it.
Renney is a HORRIBLE coach as far as systems and line changes, matchups, …you know…stuff coaches need to be good at. Great at the personal stuff and the interviews… horrific at being actually incharge of a bench. i agreed with racki about macT – good coach but had expired/lost the room. Renney has had the room but no bench control (which is the difference between assistant coach and head coach).
But thank god hemsky got signed because he has really let loose since he got that contract extension safety net. I didnt believe a player would cash it in and play safe for a year, allowing himself to look washed up while advertising his skills for a new contract, but those hemsky fans really won me over. great to see him finally start to play and put up the huge points we expect from him one-dimensionally at 5M. To think we were thinking of using some of those assets to attain a replacement…assets that now cant do anything for 2 years anyways and thus wiill likely be stunted or traded for whatever as we are against our contract cap.

trade 2013 1st round at the draft…should be of high value.

people have to stop being so loyal to 28 year old players and coaches who have been repeatedly fired for the same things over and over. i expect hemmer to have a few great games a year but will never be the go to guy…because eberle and hall have shown what a go to guy is and i dont remember seeing that from hemmer without samsonov beside him.
it is what it is. dont use imagination…use fact. the kids have shown us what a real franchise player will do.
to be honest if renney is re-signed and he doesnt turn into a completely different coach, and we dont start raising our bar for grading our players as acceptable or not, eberle and hall and rnh will be running out their contracts and doing the smart thing…getting the hell out. Winners dont want to be around losers.
the next 2 years will decide if ebs rnh and hall really care to stay in this joke.

Actually, I just listened to the interviews, and the media did ask them about bickering in dressing room and on bench and such, and the players addressed it, not denied it, so I guess it has been happening. But really.. is it a surprise? It probably happens all the time even in good clubs too. I’m guessing it’s not a big issue.