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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The fact that EDM made it to the final the last two years is very fortunate. Buoyed heavily by 97 and 29. They need to make a big, “shocking” move or else they are cooked. The mental toll on 97 and 29 watching such awful play just feeds their discontent, and likely why they aren’t sharp right now.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
‘9-10 games in the regular season where Bouchard costs you the game’..?! I’m honestly concerned about you Bouchard lovers. Bouchard played two good regular season games last year. Two. Whatever you guys are smoking, put it down. We aren’t haters. Not sure why we see it so clearly and you don’t.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
OMG. Think about benching him?!!Why TF did they sign him?! Everyone knows exactly what he is. He’s not good. Highly skewed stats playing with 97 and 29. It’s insane that people keep burying their heads in the sand. The Oilers are cooked with 25 and 2 on their team. COOKED!
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
98.7% chance of said turnover happening within his first two shifts of the first game. Adding him to the roster would be the Team CAN brass signalling to the world that they are incompetent, or that CAN has a VERY shallow pool of defencemen to choose from.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Trade Bouchard to Carolina for Chatfield.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Very responsibly played by Bouchard. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Good thing he doesn’t skate like a new born giraffe. 🙄
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Bouchard didn’t “ramp up” in 82 games last year. He hasn’t ramped up in the first 4 games this season. He is what he is. He will continue to be a liability, but you will continue to forgive him when he makes one good play every 20 games. He’s not smart. He’s slow. He cannot be trusted.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
NGL, I would take Kostin over Lazar every day of the week.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Is “risk” a new gen z term for “has happened already”? My gen x brain can’t keep up.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
You need guys like Kostin and Pod on your team. Guys who show up every night and leave it all on the ice. Not guys who make an impact once every 25 games (looking at you Janmark, Brown [buh-bye], and Henrique).
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
You should have buried the Kostin news deeper in your update. I was so dejected right off the top with you shutting down the rumour of his return that I gave up on the rest of the update. Sorry pal. ☹️ Keep up the good work.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Would 100% be an upgrade over Some roster players. Guy who shows up, busts his ass, and makes a difference every night, even if it’s not on the score sheet. I valued him way above Brown, Arvidudson, Henrique, Janmark, etc. Not sure why fans are so opposed to the idea of Kim returning.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
So, let me get this straight. He will play to the value of his contract as long as the NHL calls more penalties and he stops turning the puck over so much. His defence will improve as long as he plays 20 mins a night on the PP. Good grief…
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
👏🏼. 👏🏼. 👏🏼. 😂 Your boy didn’t even finish top 10 in Norris voting. An 82-game sample size was enough to show voters that he’s no better than Sanderson or Harley. I hope he has a great season and proves me wrong, but I feel like he’s going to make a lot of fans unhappy at $10.5m.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
If that were true, it wouldn’t matter because EDM mgmt has never been accused of managing their personnel effectively. Proof: they signed Josh Brown(?!). EDM play 11&7 often enough. Pay Barrie $1m to be the PP1 guy, limited ice, use the other $9.5m(!) to get 1-2 guys who can actually PLAY DEFENCE.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Tyson Barrie would lead the playoffs in scoring if he was still PP1 and playing with two of the most gifted offensive players in the game. Points on the PP don’t stop the other team from making you foolish in your own end. He looks like a lost child at the mall looking for his parents.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
You, kind sir, are in that illustrious 10%. Also, bears do eat beets. 😉
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Me and 90% of the Oilers fans I know agree with what he said. The other 10% cannot reconcile in their minds that Bouchard doesn’t bring anything the team needs to get past a team like FLA. Now, EDM is paying him a whole lot more to be a defensive liability every night.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
They didn’t need to sign him before July 1st, did they? Anyhow, I really don’t care. Making him one of the highest paid defencemen is nuts. A liability the ice every game. Unless he figures out how to play in his own end, his next contract will be half this, at best.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Hate it, but it was always going to happen. Massive overpay for someone who can’t play his position, but his stat line benefits from playing with two elite players. The rest of the league knows the truth, which is why there wasn’t even a sniff of an offer sheet.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I was hoping that someone would offer sheet him…apparently the rest of the league’s GMs know the truth about this player and wouldn’t dare spend this kind of money on him.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
They were never on the same page all season. Honestly, the fact they made it this far was a surprise, based on how disjointed and poor they played all season. Wrong pieces. No cohesion. There needs to be significant changes in the offseason.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Absolutely outclassed on and off the ice. Edmonton management needs to make some bold moves this summer, but I fear they will make the lazy ones which will do nothing to improve. If they sign #2 to a 10.5m contract, that is a massive step in the wrong direction and the wrong signal to #97.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This song…incredible. Thanks for bringing it back to my ears.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
You’re 100% correct. I first heard it as an 11 year old white Canadian kid when my brother bought the album after was released in 1990, but you were already fighting the power for many month by that time. Keep up the good work!
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I was 11 years old and this is the song that completely transformed how I experienced music. Listening to it today gives me the same feelings it did when I first heard it 35 years ago.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Absolute banger. ❤️
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Bouchard has had 83 games after the SCF loss to learn to play defence. He has elected not to learn or improve. Any success they have in these playoffs will not be because of his play. It will be in spite of his play.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
frábær
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
94% the way through an 82-game season and Bouchard looks like he is playing a preseason game. He is exactly who he is. He has zero interest in playing his position or improving any aspect of his game.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
No. He’s exactly what we all see with our eyeballs on a nightly basis. Unless, of course, you mean passes right on to the opposing player’s tape while they are in the slot for an easy goal? Then yes, he leads the league in this stat, as well as angrily fishing the puck out of his own net.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Kudos to you for using it to motivate you. If only I could channel my hatred for this tune into physical activity…I’d be a lot healthier.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Dance Monkey is the worst thing I’ve ever been forced to listen to. Followed closely by that song by Goiter…Someone I used to know.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
How much criticism is enough to motivate a player to focus on improving? His body language in his own end clearly demonstrates that he has no interest in playing his position or helping his teammates. Signing him long term to the numbers you are proposing would confirm that mgmt is incompetent.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I’m not aware of an advanced stat that measures the crushing disappointment that his teammates must feel when he repeatedly makes idiotic mistakes and plays with zero care or urgency.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Being paraded around as a #1 defenceman and having his name mentioned along with the elite defenceman in the league is what amplifies the anger amongst fans. Analysts will find whatever data they think contrasts fan vitriol, but I ask these analysts to WATCH a single game, not a spreadsheet.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Oilers fan here. Bouchard is, at best, an AHL defenceman. I implore you to watch his D play for one game. I pray that our GM trades him while other squads still value his over inflated offensive stats. He is just awful. Guy is wandering the desert in his own end each and every game.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Pretty sure Bouchard made it 2-1 Tampa. Trade this guy already. What I watched is not defence. Guy’s brain is in the 200-level while his body is on the ice. All the Bouchard apologists need to wake up.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Have been saying this for the last two years. Wouldn’t give him a penny over $4m with the way he is playing and the fact that he CANNOT play defence. Can’t believe Oilers fans were crying about him not being selected to team Canada. Imagine if he was…smfh
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
No one is asking him to make “thunderous bodychecks”. Everyone is asking him to play his position with a brain between his ears. Nearly 400 games played and he hasn’t learned anything. He’s going to get $11m and you’re going to end up hating him. I promise not to say “I told you so”.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In 300-plus games, I haven’t seen his decision making and urgency in his own end improve to where it must be for an $11m defenceman.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
He highly benefits from playing with two of the most supercharged offensive players to ever play the game. Put him on any other team and he will never come close to the same production. He’s a heavy shot d-man whose brain is half a second or more late on every play in his own end.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Where are the analytics folks with the stats on how many giveaways Bouchard makes every game that result in grade A chances for the opposition? Just watched him serve up a pizza for a 2 on 0. I also never see the stats reported on how many times a game his teammates bail him out.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Putting together quite the collection of old, slow players! Surely a recipe for success! Watching Skinner, Henrique, and Perry basically stand still in the D zone because they are gassed 20 seconds into a shift is anxiety-inducing.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
They chose to show up as that orange cream filled nonsense tonight.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Did you first get into them around MS’s release in 2010?
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
When you have 50% of your d corps not interested , willing, or able to play shut down defence, shifting them between partners isn’t going to solve anything. There is no secret combination that will magically unlock a players interest in playing their position, at least not with this group.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
FLA were just bullying EDM last night. Bigger, tougher, more physical. EDM is soft as hell and they aren’t winning with a bunch of old, slow forwards and soft defence.
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lukejo24.bsky.social @lukejo24.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
It’s nice to find someone who I share an opinion with. It’s unpopular to criticize him online, but it’s 100% warranted. The team needs to choose what they want to do with him. My choice, trade him while he still has value. Don’t forget, Barrie had great success on the PP too…
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