Just a quick and dirty update on Darnell Nurse but before I get into that I want to warn you about some suspicious activity going on in the Oilogosphere and an uncomfortable experience I had.
Scroll down a bit if you want to bypass my personal drama and get to the Darnell Nurse news.
Be careful of folks asking for your personal information via the Twitter machine.
I had a pretty well known Twitter account (well known within its niche. lots of NHL media types, current/former NHL players following it) get in touch with me offering me a job and “pretty good pay” to do podcasts with NHL players and insiders but all I had to do was give them my identity so that they had a name to “put on the cheque.”
Now that might not sound like much but the person who contacted me did it through an anonymous Twitter account, never gave his/her name nor the name of the company offering the job/money. Plus they were unwilling to give me any information on their offer unless I gave them my name.
I suppose I could’ve given them a fake name but I couldn’t be bothered. Things were scammy enough as it was but what I did wrong was not get the person’s name that was talking to me or the company’s name that this person was representing.
I had a pretty good idea of who ran the account and I got in touch with that person privately to alert them and I was assured that whoever had been in touch with me was no longer affiliated with the Twitter account in question and no longer had access to it. Also, he said that he’d told the person responsible to get in touch with me to clear things up.
Still waiting…
As many of you know, my online persona is kept separate from my personal one. That’s because I don’t want what comes with BLH to leak into my personal life. Of course, if anybody REALLY wanted to know who I am, it wouldn’t take too much digging to find out.
Anyways, it’s always a good idea to keep your head up out there kids and never underestimate how bored someone can get during the NHL offseason…
Now let’s go out and enjoy a timeless Canadian summer tradition for all hockey fans young and old, BALL HOCKEY!!!
DARNELL NURSE
*Disclaimer: What you’re about to read may or may not be true. I have been passed on information that I feel comes from a credible source and have been given permission to publish said information. You can take it with a grain of salt because more times than not these things fall apart or fail to come to fruition. So please take what you’re about to read as seriously as you would that offer for a good time in your favorite pub’s bathroom stall. If it happens, great, and if it doesn’t, meh…*
I have been told that Darnell Nurse and the Edmonton Oilers have come to a verbal agreement on a 2 year deal with around $3M AAV and since Darnell is on vacation at the moment, the deal will be signed when he returns home.
Big, if true. That’s a nice cap hit for an emerging top pairing shut-down defender. By the time it expires, Sekera and Russell will have moved on and paying Nurse $5M or $6M a year won’t be a big deal.
So hopefully that appeases some of the rabid Oilers fans out there who are wondering why Nurse hasn’t signed yet or why he’s been working on his boxing and not on his shot… Who worries about that anyhow?
Thoughts? Let us know in the comments below!
