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It was a record response — exactly 9,250 in all — to our annual year-end ‘You Be The Boss’ survey and in some ways it reads more like a list of demands from a fan base than a poll.

Edmonton hockey fans want a complete and total house cleaning of the entire Oilers organization.

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They want CEO Bob Nicholson to get rid of everybody in the executive office and then fall on the sword himself.

When it comes to the players, it proved to be dramatically decisive on the main annual category of who should stay and who should go.

Basically half the players should be dispatched. The other half should not only stay, they should be cherished and embraced.

Fans are not on the fence about many of them. But when it comes to many of the crucial questions going forward, the people in this city who live and die with their NHL team don’t see many things being as clear cut as the player evaluations.

Clearly the survey illustrated the need to vent from this fan base that has kept the seats full for 542 consecutive games despite missing the playoffs for 12 of the last 13 seasons.