re oiler s rumour team moving press conference next week allan cs ualberta ca allan sullivan writes i heard a story on the local sports news broadcast in edmonton oiler owner peter pocklington will be holding a press conference next week while the exact details are not known it is believed to concern the oiler s future rumour has it that pocklington signed a tentative lease arrangement with copps collesium in hamilton during the press conference pocklington may announce the deal it is quite possible that the deal may simply be a way to force edmonton northlands to renegotiate the oiler lease on the stadium northlands has offered to buy the oilers for million earlier but the offer was rejected immediately by pocklington as for me my opinion is divided edmonton has been fairly supportive of the oilers even though they re a small market team they had many sellouts in the s even with the problems that the team had this year they still brought in more fans than many teams in larger cities did on the other hand if the team does move there is no place more deserving than hamilton of course how would that affect the grand realignment scheme of bettman following up on this the provincial government has been asked by the opposition to block any deal that pocklington is offering to hamilton the government said that pock is going nowhere why don t i believe the government wasn t it pocklington who wanted to be tory leader years ago dave shariff yadallee b sc econ math u of alberta yadallee ersys edmonton ab ca god save the queen god bless us all remember jesus saves lives from eternal damnation newfoundland keep good old clyde vote liberal
