[Newsbot]

Title: Peter Pocklington arrested in California
Category: Business
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2009-03-11 13:55:56
Canadian

[bootlegga]

It couldn't happy to a more deserving person IMHO...

[Chumley]

I wonder which prison has the highest population of inmates convicted of murdering people who screwed them out of money?

[DrCaleb]

Put him in Jail with Mike Danton.

We still remember August 9, 1988 as a dark day in Edmonton History. Darker than July 31, 1987.

[QBC]

He's going to be wondering the halls of prison with a sore ass crying out, "Where's Wayne?, Help me Wayne!"

[Yogi]

DrCaleb wrote:

Put him in Jail with Mike Danton.

We still remember August 9, 1988 as a dark day in Edmonton History. Darker than July 31, 1987.

What an absolute load of rubbish!
Pocklington sold the contract, not the man. It was a business deal which he had every right to consummate. The whole situation was laughable then and still is today. Not a single person who whined and snivelled stepped up with the money!

I take serious issue with your use of July 31, 1987 in comparison. A friend of mine, Jim Allen, was decapitated in Evergreen Mobile Park on that terrible day!

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb wrote:

Put him in Jail with Mike Danton.

We still remember August 9, 1988 as a dark day in Edmonton History. Darker than July 31, 1987.

I wouldn't go that far, as July 31st was pretty bad, but Pocklington deserves whatever he gets. He screwed Edmonton and Alberta so many times with his 'Slick Willy' business style (Oilers, Gainers, etc) that I hope he rots in a real jail, not some minimum security Club Fed for millionaires.

[hurley_108]

bootlegga wrote:

It couldn't happy to a more deserving person IMHO...

Your typo belies your exuberance, boots!

But I agree. He's an ass and whatever he gets is too good for him.

[hurley_108]

Yogi wrote:

What an absolute load of rubbish!
Pocklington sold the contract, not the man. It was a business deal which he had every right to consummate. The whole situation was laughable then and still is today. Not a single person who whined and snivelled stepped up with the money!

Canadian hockey died that day. It's no coincidence that in the five years following the trade, Canadian teams won the cup three times, and following that it hasn't happened. Or that three of the last five winners were either founded, or moved to their current home, after "the trade." The trade opened up hockey as a business venture in the US as it hadn't been before, and Canada has been gradually eclipsed.

[DrCaleb]

Yogi wrote:

DrCaleb wrote:

Put him in Jail with Mike Danton.

We still remember August 9, 1988 as a dark day in Edmonton History. Darker than July 31, 1987.

What an absolute load of rubbish!
Pocklington sold the contract, not the man. It was a business deal which he had every right to consummate. The whole situation was laughable then and still is today. Not a single person who whined and snivelled stepped up with the money!

I take serious issue with your use of July 31, 1987 in comparison. A friend of mine, Jim Allen, was decapitated in Evergreen Mobile Park on that terrible day!

Oh please, when do I post anything with the intention of harming others? We all know someone injured or killed on that day.

Since when is irony no longer a form of sarcasm?

[Yogi]

DrCaleb wrote:

Yogi wrote:

DrCaleb wrote:

Put him in Jail with Mike Danton.

We still remember August 9, 1988 as a dark day in Edmonton History. Darker than July 31, 1987.

What an absolute load of rubbish!
Pocklington sold the contract, not the man. It was a business deal which he had every right to consummate. The whole situation was laughable then and still is today. Not a single person who whined and snivelled stepped up with the money!

I take serious issue with your use of July 31, 1987 in comparison. A friend of mine, Jim Allen, was decapitated in Evergreen Mobile Park on that terrible day!

Oh please, when do I post anything with the intention of harming others? We all know someone injured or killed on that day.

Since when is irony no longer a form of sarcasm?

A poor comparison on your part and maybe a little sensitive on my part. I guess because I was in Clareview when the tornado struck and feel lucky to have gotten away unscathed.

[bootlegga]

hurley_108 wrote:

Canadian hockey died that day. It's no coincidence that in the five years following the trade, Canadian teams won the cup three times, and following that it hasn't happened. Or that three of the last five winners were either founded, or moved to their current home, after "the trade." The trade opened up hockey as a business venture in the US as it hadn't been before, and Canada has been gradually eclipsed.

I don't think his trade was the only nail in the coffin (publishing salaries and the sudden belief that a national TV contract was priority #1 were two others) for Canadian hockey, but it was a significant one.

Both Winnipeg and Quebec leaving had everything to do with cities that refused to build new arenas and greedy owners who wanted to cash in on the sudden cachet (admittedly a by-product of the Gretzky trade) the NHL had in the mid-90s.

[DrCaleb]

Yogi wrote:

DrCaleb wrote:

Yogi wrote:

What an absolute load of rubbish!
Pocklington sold the contract, not the man. It was a business deal which he had every right to consummate. The whole situation was laughable then and still is today. Not a single person who whined and snivelled stepped up with the money!

I take serious issue with your use of July 31, 1987 in comparison. A friend of mine, Jim Allen, was decapitated in Evergreen Mobile Park on that terrible day!

Oh please, when do I post anything with the intention of harming others? We all know someone injured or killed on that day.

Since when is irony no longer a form of sarcasm?

A poor comparison on your part and maybe a little sensitive on my part. I guess because I was in Clareview when the tornado struck and feel lucky to have gotten away unscathed.

Agreed. But he should still share a cell with Danton.

[sandorski]

Freakin freak should get freaked on.