Are the Oilers WINNERS of NHL Free Agency? Sports 1440's Kevin Karius breaks it down 

My own personal opinion on the Elks?... there is no connection between the team and the fans anymore like in their heyday. Kepley, Cutler, Wilkinson, Potthier were as household names as Gretzky, Messier, Kurri, Fuhr (I'm not even a fan of the CFL, never have been). Now, a kid comes up from a US college....stays maybe 1, maybe 2 seasons and POOF!.....he's gone. Start all over again. There's no loyalty. Overall, I find the CFL a "complicated" league, lots of needless rules and regulations, almost too political.

“Canadian NHL fans don’t know how lucky they have it” ? Seriously? Who feeds you your propaganda anyway ? I noticed you couldn’t look the camera in the eye when you said that one.

The Esks problem comes down to one thing and one thing only winning. No one wants to watch a loser and who’s this loser coach look at his record he’s never even been in the playoffs for what three or four seasons yet they keep bringing him back to only lose another season

As a former lifelong Eskies fan and season ticket holder the name change is just a focal point for people’s ire when what’s really killing them is a terrible team they’ve been fielding these last few years. They’re terrible!

As an Oiler fan living in the UK I never get to watch NHL games

Haven't gone to or watched an Elks game since the name chang, and never will.

I just think they lost their “mojo” after the name change. But that’s just me 😂

I would go to Eskimos games again if they changed the name. Thats 100% the only reason I stopped

Holy hell are they ever stacked!

Eskimo's a proud name with a proud tradition

The division got weaker as Vegas suffered big loss of Marchessault. The Canucks lost Zadorov, Lindholm and DeSmith. Every other teams did little. It’s still not a cake walk. You still have to earn it. We have to watch out for Nashville and Colorado as Dallas suffered big losses, too.

Don't kid yourselves about name changes. Changing a name (that the demographic who's supposed to be offended largely answers that they aren't even offended by) to appease a very small group of white knights cuts your audience by at least 30% immediately and for a long time.

Its going to be the same problem if they dont get better defence and a solid goalie, Skinner is good but not as a starter specially in playoffs.

Hahaha...omg! Oilers winners of free agency. Jesus Christ, you guys are delusional 😂😂😂

The oilers opt to go smaller with Skinner and Arvidsson and lost toughness with the departures of Decharnais, Foegele and maybe Kane, they’ll be deadly on the rush but hopeless grinding it out along the boards. Need grit to compete in playoffs and smaller players get banged up to easily.