With the last ever game at Rexall Place coming up in a few hours I figured that today would be the perfect time to launch a new contest to commemorate the good times that you’ve had at the old barn. My friends, it’s time to start digging through those old photo albums because this is a picture contest.

With the curtain closing on Rexall Place it’s hard to ignore how bad things have gotten over the past decade. The team has sucked in multiple ways for a long time, the fans are beyond annoyed, and it honestly seems like we may never see the playoffs again, but we’re still going to do our best to search for silver linings. Frankly, I’m tired of remembering Rexall Place as the place that sucked the life out of us all over the past decade and I want to do something different. I want to do a contest where we focus on some of the positive memories that we’ve all made in that magical old building. You know, to remember the good times.*

The premise for this contest is simple. I’m looking for the absolute best pictures that YOU have taken (or been a part of) over the years at Rexall Place. Simple. I don’t care whether the pictures you have come from an Oilers game, or the eight times you saw Motley Crue on their “retirement” tour, or any other time you stumbled out of the rink after having too many magical beers. 

At the end of the day, I’m looking for a few great pictures from the old barn that we’ve all spent so much time in over the past three+ decades. I don’t want to close the door on Rexall Place with a black cloud floating overhead. I guess the point of this contest is to remember that the sky hasn’t always been falling around here, and just because the Oilers suck doesn’t mean we can’t say farewell to a great building. 

There is no limit to the number of pictures that you can submit, and I encourage you to send more than one if you can, but it is important that you took the picture. I’ve watched enough Catfish in my life to know how to do Google image searches and we will figure it out if you steal the pictures. Don’t make me call you out for cheating. I’m trying to be positive for the first time since McDavid went down in November, but I digress. 

The deadline to enter will be Wednesday, April 13th at 11:59pm. Anything that comes in past that deadline will be disqualified unless it is so mind-explodingly good that my bowels are evacuated from the sheer brilliance of the photograph. From there, we will pare the entries down to five or six finalists and commence the voting. To submit your entry (or entries), you can email it to me at baggedmilk@oilersnation.com.

Make sense? Of course it does. 

Since no contest is complete without prizes, I’ve put together the following prize packages:

As always, I want to thank Print Machine, Oodle Noodle, and the Pint for putting up the prizes for this contest. Winners will be selected through the power of pollz, as per tradition. From there, I’ll reach out to the winners via email, and shower them with praise and Internet glory. 

Now go forth, raid your parents picture albums, and kill as much company time as you possibly can before the deadline. There is no limit to how many times you can enter this contest, so the more entries you submit the better chance you’ll have at sending a winner. 

Good luck, Nation. May the force be with you, but mostly with me.