Schremp comes in and has 2 SUPERB games. Then he play an alright one in SJ on one of only 2 lines that did sweet Fuck-all offensively that night. Towards the end of the game, MacT benches him. I cried foul, but people instead looked at me as if I were a conspiracy theorist. Then the last game (which I didn't see) he had another less than great game but there were varying opinions there as well.
So now he's a healthy scratch. Jason Strudwick draws in and the writing is on the wall that just as I had predicted, late in the SJ game MacT's dislike of said player reared its ugly head. There will be no 3 scoring line team like I have pined for, there will be no run and gun team, there will just be the "Mac-T way". Shame on me for having any hope that maybe, just maybe a light bulb would've turned on underneath that rug that he calls his hair.
Nilsson returns tonight, and by many accounts Nilsson and Schremp were a dynamic combination in Schremp's rookie pro season in Wilkes Barre/Scranton. How many times have these 2 been on the same line since Schremp went down with an injury to end his season that year? Why 0 of course! Why in the blue hell would someone want to encourage chemistry?
Schremp's days in the Oilers organization are numbered as long as MacT is behind the bench. It makes you wonder who REALLY has an attitude problem, and who REALLY isn't open to change.
