EDMONTON – President of Hockey Operations for the Edmonton Oilers, Kevin Lowe, has issued a video apology to Oilers fans for comments he made about the team having two types of fans.
In the video message posted on the Oilers’ website, Lowe says: “Yesterday was a day full of excitement and passion and emotion, and I must admit my emotion ran a little high, and I have a few things to say to our fans in particular to clarify. First of all, we are appreciative and are grateful to every one of our fans who cheer for us through good times and bad. We understand that we see many of our fans at Rexall Place, but we have hundreds of thousands of fans that never get to Rexall Place, and we appreciate each and every fan. I did not make that clear yesterday and if I offended anyone, I apologize.”
Watch the full video message from Kevin Lowe here:
(Courtesy: OilersTV)
Lowe made the comments at the Monday news conference during which he announced the hiring of Craig MacTavish as Oilers General Manager and the firing of Steve Tambellini.
After being asked by a reporter about the managerial change, Lowe made the comment: “We have two types of fans. We have paying customers and we have people that watch the game that we still care about, but certainly the people who go to the games and support, we spend a lot of time talking to them, delivering our message.”
You can watch the full news conference here:
Edmonton sits eight points out of a playoff spot in the western conference, with seven games remaining, putting them in serious danger of missing the playoffs for the seventh straight year.
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