The yearbooks are out! The yearkbooks are out!

Yahoo! After a very long off-season for the Oilers and us Oilers fans, you know the start of training camp is right around the corner when the yearbooks are out on newsstands! On a recent trip to the nearby Shoppers Drug Mart, I happened upon the magazine rack and found to my delight that the NHL yearbooks/pool guides are finally out! I browse thru all of them, buy a few (at $8-10 bucks a pop, and with most predictions across them all being similar, I only buy about 3-4 different ones). My favorite is still the time-honoured "The Hockey News" yearbook. They so graciously put out a cover for every different NHL team, and they did a stellar job with the Oilers one this season, with a smokin' photo of Sheldon Souray. Better than all those Ryan Smyth covers of seasons past.

Dustin Penner?

Not really excited about this signing. Way over paid him, 21.5 mil over 5 years, Lowe did. Guess he had to go after the RFA's after the UFA's (outside of Sheldon) didn't want to play in Edmonton.
Going back to the Ducks are a 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks in the 2008 draft. Considered by some scouts at a deeper draft than the past 2007 one.
If Penner turns into another Joffrey "dreamy-eyes-can-score-with-the-ladies-but-can't-score-on-the-ice" Lupul then I'ma going to be some PISSED off. (Not that Dustin has the same 'dreamy eyes' look at Joffrey does.)
Especially since Penner will be the highest paid forward on the Oilers roster for the 2007/08 season (more than Hemsky!) and the 2nd highest paid player overall (only Souray will be making more than Penner.) Now, it is sometimes unfair to place expectations on a player based on their salary, but if Penner does not at least match his 29 regular season goals from last season, then it will be fair to say Lowe over-paid for him. Not only in the salary aspect, but also in the draft picks he had to give up to sign him to that contract in the 1st place. Oilers have a crappy draft record anyways, so they best be praying that Penner is the next Ryan Smyth and not the next Josh Green.

Sheldon loves Edmonton!

Long time, no posts. Kinda got bored of the whole blogging thing for awhile.
Haven't been online as much lately either. Just been bored of the internet altogether I guess.
Back at it today though.
Sheldon Souray was in Edmonton today and had a press conference with V.P. of Hockey Operations Kevin Prendergast for the Edmonton media.









He does look pretty good in that Oilers jersey, even though his pants are kinda fugly. Vertical stripes? Come on Sheldon, those are so 80's.