re this year s biggest and worst opinion in article c zcii ftn watserv uwaterloo ca smale healthy uwaterloo ca bryan smale writes i was thinking about who on each of the teams were the mvps biggest surprises and biggest disappointments this year now these are just my observations and are admittedly lacking because i have not had an opportunity to see all the teams the same amount anyway team mvp surprise disappointment edmonton oilers manson buchberger mellanby well since the oilers didn t win a heck of a lot of games i m not sure they deserve and mvp can t win without him however i d suggest kelly buchberger instead of dave manson who has had a brutal year his pick for the all star game notwithstanding as for biggest surprise i d say that buchberger had higher expectations this year due to his breakthrough year for him last year so he didn t really raise his game my suggestion would be shjon podein one of the callups from cape breton during the year he was quite far down on the depth chart in the oilers stable of prospects but made a big impact on the team he has goals in his games and is only those are decent numbers for a third line player who was seemingly doomed to minor league oblivion the oilers coaching staff likens his style to john tonelli i think he ll be on the full time roster next year as for biggest disappointment you could name any of the players the oilers dumped for lousy production this year nicholls gilchrist tikkanen or even shayne corson but mellanby isn t far off andrew scott andrew idacom hp com hp idacom telecom division ext during the roman era was considered old
