re oilers for sale golchowy alchemy chem utoronto ca gerald olchowy writes the probability is that the oilers are not going anywhere gerald look at what happened to the stars they are off to dallas pocklington has chosen this moment to make his last stand is because he is at the moment of maximum advantage the provincial government is months away from a provincial election it is the moment when he has maximum power to convince northlands to give him a better arena deal or a better purchase price and it is before the nhl s new collective agreement with the players which might involve some enhanced revenue sharing gerald the alberta election is slated fou june unless something re ally goes wrong this time pocklington could end up being the embarassment of klein if he goes ahead with his ultimatum pocklington is many things stupid is not one of them gerald people still have an axe to grind with this guy i cannot see him staying for long he can dictate terms because other cities will pay his price if edmonton doesn t but the people in edmonton won t budge trust me on this one edmonton has already up its international airport and surrendered supremacy to calgary and over the next few years edmonton is going to take a hard hit from government cutbacks it will screw itself beyond recogniton if it manages to find a way to lose its hockey team too because northlands wants to continue to use the oilers to subsidize horse racing northlands won t budge ccording to one of the board members bruce campbell however in this case about the long term financial viability of the oilers the fact is that pocklington is basically right regardless of who owns the team and it is right to provoke the crisis now before the team accumulates millions of dollars in losses or becomes habitually uncompetitive because of lack of money i haven t heard anything but attendance at the coliseum was the lowest this year hint hint remeber what i said about a personal vendetta sather has done his job the oilers are poised to be competitive again very soon al strachan one of the most knowledgeble hockey writers in canada in a post mortem of the oilers season in the globe and mail recently agrees with me gerald don t blame sather this battle between the peole and pocklington started in and got worst when pocklington sold gretzky there were days when you can shake the hand of pocklington when he was respectalbe i use to do so in season but those days are goe gerald btw when following up please delete name of posting writer dave shariff yadallee b sc econ math u of alberta yadalle amisk cs ualberta ca god save the queen god bless us all remember jesus saves lives from eternal damnation newfoundland keep good old clyde vote liberal
