Oilers v. Penguins - Melody of McGuire 5:2-8
by Scott Reynolds on Jan 14, 2010 3:19 PM MST
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PrintPittsburgh Penguins at Edmonton Oilers, Jan 14, 2010 7:30 PM MST
Last night I was asleep,
but my heart was awake!
Listen! I heard him! And I spoke aloud:
"Score for me my countryman, my Olympic captain,
my El-Kabong, my flawless one!"
My head was drenched with sweat,
my hand with the wetness of the night.
I had taken off my robe -
did I really need to put it on again?
"For fuck's sake, man!"
Gord never understands.
I closed my eyes and saw my Crosby's strong powerful legs skating through defenders;
my heart was pounding.
I again arose to open for my "MONSTER!"
and my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with perfume -
a truly beautiful fragrance, like the sweat of my beloved.
I had twice opened for my lover,
but when I opened my eyes he had departed; he was gone.
My heart sank when I realized I was alone.
I wandered the hotel room trying to find him,
I closed my eyes and called out.
Then Gord found me;
he didn't look pleased.
He punched me and bruised me,
and took away all of my posters and videos.
"Enough's fucking enough!" he yelled
"I'm telling the boys in Toronto I need my own fucking room!"
Fellow admirers of Crosby, I ask you -
if you find my greatest friend,
what will you tell him?
Tell him I admire his ability to play hockey. No more, no less. Of course.
Pittsburgh Penguins (29-18-1) @ Edmonton Oilers (16-24-5)
Rexall Place, 7:30 P.M. MST
Television: TSN
Visiting Team Scouting Report: The Penguins are a strong club this season, as most predicted. They've been consistently outshooting opponents and have weathered the injury storm to remain close to the top of the conference. They'll probably have a hard time catching the Devils (who are six points ahead with four games in hand) but are the favourites for the fourth seed which will likely give them a matchup with either the Bruins or Flyers, two very good teams. The Penguins record in games decided by more than one goal is only 15-12 so they're not exactly blowing teams away. On top of that, their record against teams with a goal differential of +15 or better is only 5-7-1 so they've also struggled some against the best teams in the league. Some of that is injuries, some of it is poor goaltending. Fleury was named to the Canadian Olympic team but his .907 save percentage isn't strong for a starting goalie; he's tied for 26th in the league among goalies with at least 15 appearances. The third best Canadian goalie by save percentage (Bruce is going to kill me) is actually Carey Price and if we're going to be grooming a Canadian "goalie of the future" Price may have been the way to go. Back to the Pens overall, I really thought they'd be more dominant this season. Several of their key players are getting more mature and are just starting their prime. Maybe now that they have their team getting healthy on D they'll have a big second half.
Expected Lineups:
Edmonton Oilers (16-24-5):
Penner - Horcoff - Nilsson
Moreau - Gagner - Pisani
Cogliano - Potulny - O'Sullivan
Jacques - Stortini - Stone
Gilbert - Souray
Smid - Visnovsky
Grebeshkov - Staios
Dubnyk
Pittsburgh Penguins (29-18-1)
Dupuis - Boy Toy - Guerin
Fedotenko - Not Ovechkin: Sucks - Talbot
Cooke - Not Eric: Sucks - Kennedy
Rupp - 2006 Cup Champ: Sucks - Godard
Gonchar - Eaton
Letang - Goligoski
McKee - Lovejoy
Fleury
Behind the Numbers:
- The "Ryan Smyth Deathmarch" had a record of 2-16-1. The current "AHL Goaltending" Oilers have a record of 1-11-1 in their last 12 games. Eight more losses and they'll have set the record for worst twenty game stretch in Oiler history. Come on guys, let's do this thing!
- Sam Gagner will play the 200th game of his NHL career tonight. Congratulations to Sam!
- Sidney Crosby is currently second in the league in goals scored with 30 and third in points with 57. He's also tied for 13th in minor penalties with 21, only five behind teammate Evgeni Malkin and the most dishonourable whiner of the week, Alex Burrows (couldn't have happened to a nicer guy... well... maybe Matt Cooke... but Cooke isn't dumb enough to pout in public).
- Marc-Andre Fleury's EV save percentage is .913 which is only good enough for a tie for 32nd among goalies with at least 15 appearances. His backup, Brent Johnson, doesn't have enough appearances to qualify, but does have a .927 EV save percentage on 247 shots. Johnson's career overall save percentage is .904. Fleury's is .907. If Johnson starts tonight, the Oilers likely aren't getting much of a break.
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Oh, Pierre! Porn, poetry and puck! How can anyone resist?
Interesting stuff on Price. Hard to believe he’s 18th in the NHL but 3rd among Canadians. I think that old saw about Euro goalies being no good can be safely put to bed once and for all. Been untrue for years of course, but this might be a new high water mark of dominance of an important statistical category.
That said, they’re not going to pick the goalies just on Sv% the same way they’re not going to pick forwards strictly on points (just 2 of the top 4 Canadians, 6 of the top 11). Anyway, the goalie of the future is Luongo, who should be ready for the #1 role by 2014. :)
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Hockey humour
Btw, if anybody is looking for a good hockey laugh or twenty that are unrelated to the Oilers, Bob Gainey’s fake facebook page is golden. If you love or hate the Habs (or Facebook for that matter), so much the better. The attention to detail is amazing.
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Well… it’s open to interpretation… but, in my head, it was Pierre recounting yesterday evening in anticipation of covering the game tonight.
by Scott Reynolds on Jan 14, 2010 6:13 PM MST up reply actions
Thank goodness, McGuire and Miller are doing the Leafs game. We get Cuthbert and Ferraro, which to me is the best team going.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 6:52 PM MST up reply actions
The Crapbox 3000 is still out of action, so hey, if anyone’s got tabs on a feed of this dog-in-the-making…
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 7:00 PM MST reply actions
Ben, I’m getting a bounce on your email. You’ve got dibs on the PGT, but I can cover if you need. Let me know.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 7:14 PM MST up reply actions
Yeah, it’s a bad day to be Ben’s technical stuff. My desktop is broken, my laptop is almost broken, and my e-mail is out until tomorrow.
You better PGT it up.
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 7:19 PM MST up reply actions
K, I’m on it. Sorry, readers!
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 7:20 PM MST up reply actions
Isn’t Pierre doing the early game, and Chris Cuthbert and Ray Ferraro the late game?
Also, I would watch this on my shiny new HD box, but we haven’t ordered TSN HD yet, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to watch the almost-worst team in hockey get worked by the defending champs in SD on a 40" TV.
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In high definition, you can distinguish each individual tendon in Sidney Crosby’s strong, muscular legs.
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 7:06 PM MST up reply actions
In HD you can tell what the fans puking about Oilers’ D-zone coverage had for dinner.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 7:09 PM MST up reply actions
Unfortunately lo-fi wil lshow you that too
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 7:18 PM MST up reply actions
In HD, you can see Pierre Maguire’s pants tent whenever he talks about The Crosby.
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My boss’s wife carried the Olympic flame out in Ontario a few weeks back.
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Come on you turkeys, just drop the puck and get this game over with.
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This might be the last good memory Pat Quinn has the rest of the year.
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At least when the Oilers come out on the wrong side of a video review, they’ll be able to blame FSN Pittsburgh.
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Go Dubnyk!
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hello all.
i’m playing more neutral tonight, although i hate crosby.
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GO CANUCKS GO!
Okay, there’s been two minutes of jabbering and thirty seconds of playcalling so far. Go FSN.
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Horcoff a late scratch. What next?
Not that we need him in a defensive role against Sid and Geno.
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Idle question: if the Oilers do, indeed, return to the vintage orange and blue next year, as has been rumoured, does the blog name have to change?
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I’ll make it the Cult of Hartikainen
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Bear in mind that I once wrote a blog named the South Smythian Rolo-Gator.
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 7:57 PM MST up reply actions
Has anything happened in the game yet? I don’t know because THESE MOTHERFUCKERS WON’T STOP TALKING ABOUT OTHER THINGS.
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Mute it, because this is how they work. Errey yammers on and on about random things and Steigerwald plays his lapdog.
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Just to reiterate my longstanding wish: anyone who wants to put Matt Cooke head-first into the boards is okay in my books.
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Nah, I just wanna see Souray and Cooke in a fair fight.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 8:01 PM MST up reply actions
You think that’s actually going to happen? Of course not.
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In my dreams it happens frequently
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 9:03 PM MST up reply actions
FSN Pittsburgh is amazed that there’s not MORE recognition of the Dynasty? Really? I thought that’s all we had left.
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Alright, I’m going to go watch Castle or something like that.
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Well that was a thrilling period. 7 shots total.
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zzzzzzz
I stayed up late for this?
I thought you guys were supposed to suck Bruce :)
"I'm glad I got drafted first, because no one remembers number two." -- Alexandre Daigle
For a certain definition of “suck”.
All I know is that against a team as bad as the Oilers, Gretzky and Messier would have had seven shots in the period by themselves. Crosby and Malkin have a long ways to go yet.
Also, Messier would have basically murdered Robert Nilsson in cold blood by now.
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 8:24 PM MST up reply actions
We’re not “supposed to” suck, we just, uh, do.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 8:33 PM MST up reply actions
So you guys score
"I'm glad I got drafted first, because no one remembers number two." -- Alexandre Daigle
And by “so” I mean “soon”
"I'm glad I got drafted first, because no one remembers number two." -- Alexandre Daigle
Good call
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 8:35 PM MST up reply actions
So this is how Minnesota Wild fans felt for all those years.
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 8:42 PM MST reply actions
Comatose?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 8:45 PM MST up reply actions
OMGWTF
I go watch Castle, come back, they’re up 1-0.
And then Lubo makes it two while I’m writing this.
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As an aside, I refuse to believe that Alyssa Milano just turned 37.
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Doesn’t matter. Still #1 on your scorecard.
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Indeed.
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Wow, I don’t think Guerin could’ve played that breakaway worse. That didn’t even look like a shot, so much as he just deked it right into Dubnyk’s pads.
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Dubnyk fooled Guerin with his savvy! We have Glenn Hall and Jacques Plantes!
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 9:06 PM MST up reply actions
Disagree. Jokinen blew Luongo away with a similar move in the shootout the other night. The move is to open the 5-hole and slip it through quick. Dubnyk just shut it right down.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 9:07 PM MST up reply actions
I dunno, it looked like that 5-hole was already closing and that he would’ve been better off turning a bit and trying to elevate the backhand on the blocker side.
It looked better in the replay, but in live action, it looked like Guerin deked it right into his pads.
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Solid bodycheck by Nilsson. ;)
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He’s been much more physical since coming back, goalie or no.
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No doubt that's a penalty on Bobby
But seriously, how can these FSN clowns spend 3 minutes suggesting that Fleury didn’t deserve a penalty?
You have to realize that these two are two of the worst announcers working the NHL today.
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Don't think I've ever listened to them before
Usually just mute the stream and listen to music. Who are they?
Cruisin’
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 9:27 PM MST up reply actions
Yeah, powerplay’s clicking, goaltending’s solid, we’re winning faceoffs, Patrick O’Sullivan has a couple points, Andrew Cogliano scored, just business as usual.
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 9:29 PM MST up reply actions
Pokecheck
Man, he needs to work on that. He always gets pokechecked.
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I don’t know how his nickname isn’t turtle.
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I like to think the Oilers gave us forty minutes of dickteasing “look what we could do if we wanted to” before saying “enough fun, let’s get back to going for Taylor Hall”.
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 9:50 PM MST reply actions
It’s better in the long run.
It gets a high-end talent in and might mean the end of Lowebellini.
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I can’t cheer for the Oilers to lose, no matter what the context. I can’t and I won’t.
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 9:52 PM MST up reply actions
Don’t cheer for it. But you must accept it.
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Failure is never acceptable, and I’m a Canadian soccer fan so I know.
by Benjamin Massey on Jan 14, 2010 9:56 PM MST up reply actions
Bout time Moreau does something stupid.
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You’d never know Pittsburgh was the team that played last night. Oilers have sucked wind the whole third period.
I hate to say it, but is this Flu II?
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I dunno … Brule down again, Horcoff rushing out of the rink tonight, teams hits the wall in the third … I don’t like the signs.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 14, 2010 10:22 PM MST up reply actions
Passing
Maybe mini-camp should have been 4 days of passing drills. This team can’t pass for shit and can’t receive a pass for shit.
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