On Tuesday we named the 2013-14 Goat and all hell broke loose in the comments as people debated who should wear the horns for the coming year. There were plenty of candidates thrown about including your ol’ pal Wanye himself as we are correctly called out as a “try hard.”
Then the Nation voted Ryan Jones official Goat of the year prompting the Oilers to immediately place him on waivers. Yikes.
WHY NAME A STAR?
We name Goats to pin all of our frustrations and smashed dreams on a single player. Even if he isn’t on the ice or even in the building it is all his fault. Similarly you name a star as the reason for everything grand. Oilers win 8-2? It’s due exclusively to your star bringing the heat. He has no points? No matter, his mere presence on the ice was the spark the Oil needed to fill the opposing net.
He wasn’t in the lineup that night? His selfless play and team first attitude were an inspiration to everyone involved.
Yes naming a star for the year is as important to getting ready for the season as anything else we can think of really. Without further delay let’s get to it.
’13-14 STAR: JORDAN EBERLE
Ever since he entered the NHL Jordan Leslie Eberle has been our star, our moon and the rock on which we have built our life. Look at 2010 Wanye putting his heart on the line prior to 14 ever taking a regular season twirl on NHL ice:
Picking Jordan Eberle – a 20 year old rookie who hasn’t played a single game in the NHL – might seem like a bad idea. But on a team with more teenagers than a Justin Bieber concert, going with youth is probably the best move. We feel it is extraordinarily important that everyone understand that Jordan Eberle is going to be our boy. He’s ours dammit. Go get your own Jordan Eberle. This one is all ours!
Yeah that’s right. Picked the kid right from day one. Heh heh heh Wanye you GENIUS. This totally erases the year you picked Erik Cole as your star.
Anyways, 2013-14 is our year Jordan. This is the year we put all the nay sayers, lookie loos and haters to bed. SHHHHHHH haters. Me and Jordan see you on the twitters whispering about how 14 has lost his edge and isn’t going to live up to his big ticket contract.
We see you prattling away about how he didn’t have the greatest year last year. The guy had a broken hand you heartless vultures. If you broke your hand you probably would live in an iron lung while your Mom brought you soup until the thing had healed.
Not Jordan. He still found time to score 16 goals and 21 assists in 48 games and is currently leading the NHL in preseason scoring. This year his hand is healed, his heart is true and he is going to destroy the NHL whilst skating backwards whilst visually impregnating every woman in the lower bowl of Rexall Place with his mind.
Yes this is the year Jordan. When you make the leap from Oilers star to bonafide NHL superstar. Getzlaf. Perry. Stamkos. Elvis Presley. Kofi Annan. Jordan Eberle.
Shining light of humanity type stuff.
YES THIS IS THE YEAR
And when the dust settles on the season and you have potted 30 goals we will write a twitterbot that will comb through the tweets from last season and identify all haters. Then we will deploy a squadron of drone aircraft to take care of everyone that needs taking care of.
Anything for you.
If you don’t understand Ice Hockey and are thinking of naming someone else your star let us know in the comments.
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I’m going to go right the hell off the board and say Joensuu. Yep, I think early on for whatever reason he’s going to be the guy Hartikinen never was. Watch what happens when Smyth needs a night off and Nuge comes back, they will shift Joensuu into the top 6 and because he’s not facing the top pairing competition Hall will draw, he will be able to muscle his way onto the score sheet and into our hearts.
Going with YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK!!!
Is it too easy to pick Hall?
We all know he is a superstar already.
If not Hall (who is my pick), I say it will be CAPTAIN GAGNER!!!
That’s right!I’m going for one f the most divisive players in the league.
My pick is Hall….. but since that is too obvious…. GAGNER!!!!
J Schultz. Combination of player growth and playing under Ference’s wing has us calling him the Erik Karlson of the Western Conf.
He’s no Ronnie Mac but I’m going with YakCity!
Eberle is good but Hall is in a class by himself. If Eberle can learn how to one-time the puck, he will score an extra 12 to 15 goals a year.
Look at all the greatest goal scorers and they all had this in their bag of tricks. If Eberle learns how to one-time a few shots……..look out. Right now he is the king of the wrister……not enough trick s in his bag yet.
Star – Yak
Goaty McGrebeshkov will retain his former title.
Goat 2 – Face La Barbera
Perron. He’s an established NHL player, a 20 goal scorer, and it looks like he’s eating up the system and loving his team mates.
My star is Perron since he was the only decent oiler forward i could draft in my hockey pool. My goat is most certainly, without a doubt Petry. Hes terrible
and speaking of goat and star..who’s the rocket pilot at MSN that decided to put that guy with a nose growing out of his forehead on the front page of MSN?
Seriously??? Ryan Nugent STARkins.
Jason Labarbera because his mask with James Hetfield and CM Punk on it is pure awesomeness.
Perron.
Book it.
Holy Crap! may be the first time I propped DSF!
Perron. bleeds hockey
Me too – I feel dirty !
Ladi Smid.
Hoping its the YAKster but my vote has to fellow rushki: Belov. Maybe its his # choice, but damn, size,skill,shot and underlined take no sh^t look on the ice,yup I convinced myself:BELOV.
Yakupov…..Kid shows a love of the game that is rarely seen in the NHL anymore. Love the goals, cellys, the kissing of the crest, the unreal skill! Star 13/14 The Yak!*
*the real one…not the amateur cartoon drawing that bozo uses for his avatar.
This years STAR is going to be:
Drum Roll….
NAIL YAKUPOV!!!
WOOO
#TeamYakupov
Star – Yakupov
Goat – Acton
The triple digit man Taylor Hall.
A hundred points, a hundred penalty minutes, and one suspension. The beast is unleashed.
I will now summarize the preceding article:
Eberle star.
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Agreed about Perron. This kid belongs on any top 6 in the NHL. He is going to turn some heads. I’ll predict 30 goals if he can stay healthy.
Goat, MacIntyre. The Oil will get lit up while he’s on the ice.
Pretty sure Mac has only been on the ice for three goals against with the Oil. His defensive deficiencies are overblown.
I’ll make it all Russian:
Star: Yak
Goat: Grebs
J Schultz
Gotta stay with my boy Ladi Smid as the star. While the young guns will light up the league, someone has to be the unsung hero blocking a million shots per game.
Shout out to Sam Gagner too. Love his compete and I feel his pain with jaw surgery. Been there, done that. Not fun.
Guys I’m predicting into the future, but my star is Lance Bouma. For real the oilers should trade for him. He’s a better sniper than Stamkos. 4 goals on 4 shots this preseason. Imagine if he gets a reasonable 200 shots on net this year, we haven’t seen a 200 goal scorer ever!!!! This guy has a chance to break some records. Eff unsustainability. Har-de-har-har-har
I HOPE Dubnyk is the star this year – no softie goals and keeping out the opposition’s tie goal game after game after game! Big helping of confidence for all the rest of the team; money goalie.