^ lol fail.

He does??? :haha::haha:

"Maurizio Terrigno says the team was ringing in 2010 with a group of 45 people and ran up a bill close to 18 thousand dollars."

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Lol. So sad.

Professional sports figures negotiating an $18k NYE meal for 45 people is a joke equal to the quality of their game (or lack thereof). That's only $400/person.

Don't get me wrong, it's a fairly expensive time out for a guy like me but if I was making their salary, it wouldn't phase me.

I thought any mid/high end restaurant would automatically add 15%+.

The entire Oilers team is full of over paid clowns.

what a greedy owner. He wanted the guys to pay by the shot and not by the bottle? I dont frequent upscale restaurants but don't they sell liquor by the bottle? Not saying I don't think the Oilers are clowns though.

They might if you just ask for the bottle up-front, but if you just keep asking them to line up the shots over and over... at what point does it become the waitress's problem to keep track and decide to just charge by the bottle?

Unless this place doesn't sell bottles, only wine bottles.

If they ordered an abundance of beef dishes, should they get charged for a side of beef instead of individual cuts?


They could easily afford the meal. They weren't getting ripped off. They shorted the bill by 25% and didn't tip.

unfortunately no restaurants charge for food that way however, a lot of them do serve liquor by the bottle. Maybe they did ask for shots by the bottle? Maybe they didn't tip because they asked for it by the bottle and was charged by shots. I'm just saying, there are two sides to the story. You have to remember the owner is telling the story.

By the way, no matter how rich you are, $18,000 is still $18,000.

But it's $18,000 between 45 people which is really nothing for a group that has a bunch of guys making well over a million dollars per year.

im thinking the owner tried to take advantage of this
the bit about giving it to charity is just bull

hopefully we will see backes kesler brown in the same line

the US team has alot of GRIT

people say kopitar might play for team USA in 2014
what?

It's people with wishful thinking that think Kopitar will play for Team USA. He represented Slovenia in the past, and just because the chance of Slovenia qualifying for the 2014 Olympics is like my penis growing double in length, they think that Kopitar will abandon his home country with American citizenship.

Some people have nothing better to do than make rumours or propose things that will never happen. Waste of e-space.

exactly.

that bit ALONE makes me think the owner is doing this all for publicity, and nothing else. what a fucking douche.

^ owner obviously wants a sympathetic ear, and the gullible ones will eat it up.

its believable until the charity part

hahhaha

if he applied for US citizenship when he came over to LA, then yes...that is if he did
at 2014 is exactly 7yrs since his debut. regardless, until i see it, its all bullshit to me

but i think u have to be granted special permission to hold dual citizenship, correct me if wrong

Brett Hull, Steve Yzerman, Joe Sakic, Marty Brodeur all hold US citizenship

Brett Hull only abandoned Canada cuz hockeycanada didnt think he was good enuff back in the day

and then he was a stud for USA, who knos what could change with all those defeats in the 90s if Hull was playin for red/white

More info on the bill here.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=304329

Automatic 18% tip was tacked onto the bill.


In the end, I think the Oilers were more right than the restaurant owner, though the way it was done might not have been right.

Brett Hull has dual citizenship because his dad is canadian and he was born in the US. The US cannot deny him his citizenship.
Ray Bouque's kid has dual citizenship and is playing on Team USA for the WJH because he too was born in the US though his dad is canadian.

Who was the douchebag?

IMO the TSN link makes the Oilers look worse

edit:

So they wanted to pay for their shooter by the bottle but only taking one swig out of the brandy constitutes them to only want to pay for the amount consumed??? Uhhh...OK