More proof that the coilers are desperate to attract talent

apparently, according to TSN's darren dregher, the coilers have spent lavish sums on redecorating the players lounge:

If you live in dEadmonton and you're considering a kitchen renovation, you should scratch granite counter tops off your home improvement wish list.

There has to be a shortage province-wide based on the amount that has been installed in the cOilers dressing room facilities.

An enormous table in the players dining area is covered by a slab that could refit three homes and is rumoured to have cost upwards of $30,000.

It will be put to use as local chefs will be brought in throughout the year to make sure this years cOilers are fed nothing but the best.

Regardless of how this team fares this season, they appear to be in a culinary class of their own.

The creature comforts this place now boasts are unreal.

It's spa-like.

Dregher adds the the coilers are laying down some serious coin to make players feel comforted. its no wonder, due to the stab-mad neighborhood of clareview/belvedere where rexall is located, and the fact that deadmonton is colder than Siberia 8 months of the year. the coilers can delude themselves into thinking that they'll be able to sign big UFA talent by installing a few flat panel monitors and a laz-y-boy or two, but they're in for 99 tears when all their offers are laughed out of the building next summer.

face it: no one wants to play in edmonton after the pronger debacle. the way the classless coilerville community savaged the pronger family after they requeseted a trade is enough to make any player with family values think twice about ever stepping foot in coilverville.