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Souray Fractures Hand; Plante to Edmonton

In last night's game against the Calgary Flames, Sheldon Souray was injured in a fight with Jarome Iginla.  After the game, head coach Pat Quinn said that "[Souray] has a fracture in his hand [but] we don't know the extent of it."  TSN is reporting that the injury will be looked at on Monday at which point the Oilers will have a better idea on how long he'll be out.  With only one month to go before the trade deadline it's now more likely that Sheldon Souray will remain an Oiler, at least until the end of the season.  That said, Souray could be ready to play by the trade deadline or shortly thereafter.  Earlier this year Teemu Selanne fractured a bone in his hand and was out from December 4th to January 9th.  If Souray's injury is similar, he could still be on the move by March 3rd. 

In the meantime, the Oilers will need to call someone up from the Springfield Falcons.  No announcement has been made yet but with Theo Peckham and Dean Arsene both nursing some kind of injury (neither have been in the Falcons lineup for the last four games), the remaining names most familiar to Oiler fans are Jake Taylor, Alex Plante, Cody Wild and Johan Motin.  Taylor doesn't have an NHL contract, while both Wild and Motin have been healthy scratches in at least one of the last four games.  Alex Plante was scratched for today's game with "Edmonton" in brackets as the reason.  I'd say he's headed to the show.

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Thanks Derek. I was assuming the Falcons weren’t lying but it is odd they let it out of the bag before the Oilers. Good to see that it’s confirmed though.

by Scott Reynolds on Jan 31, 2010 7:44 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

I was assuming the Falcons weren’t lying but it is odd they let it out of the bag before the Oilers

Do you think that the Falcons care at this point? What are the Oilers going to do, break their affiliation?

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by Derek Zona on Jan 31, 2010 7:51 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

When are the Oilers gonna get in on the trades?

by HF4L on Jan 31, 2010 7:24 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Couple of more seasons. Tambellini needs time to assess.

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by Derek Zona on Jan 31, 2010 7:25 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Holy mackeral, we’ve got a lot of shitty players

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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 31, 2010 9:28 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

TSN is now reporting that it’s Jokinen and Prust for Kotalik and Higgins, and will be announced tonight.

by edm_euler on Jan 31, 2010 8:03 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Great move by Sather.

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by Derek Zona on Jan 31, 2010 8:14 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Deal's on hold

… according to Matchsticks & Gasoline, which is been a burning hellfire all day long. Kotalik has a limited NMC but one of the limitations is Calgary.

Too bad, cuz that’s a shitty deal for the Flamers if you ask me.

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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 31, 2010 9:30 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

So our nine defencemen have been reduced to five plus a tweener, and suddenly, our depth doesn’t seem so deep. Basically, we’re one [broken hand] away from a phone call to [Alex Plante], and dammit, I don’t want to be one [broken hand] away from calling [Alex Plante]. [Alex Plante] is a red flag. He’s smoke and a hot doorknob. His presence means trouble.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m Alex Plante’s second-biggest fan, after his mother. This is not going to end well. Alex Plante in the NHL in the year 2010 is not a good thing.

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by Doogie2K on Jan 31, 2010 9:21 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Chorney hasn’t ended well. Hell, Grebeshkov, Staios, Strudwick, and Smid without Visnovsky hasn’t ended well!

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by Derek Zona on Jan 31, 2010 9:53 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

This is not going to end well.

Stop the presses!

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by Bruce McCurdy on Jan 31, 2010 9:27 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

By no means am I telling anyone something they don’t already know. Mostly, I just wanted an excuse to dredge that CiO post back up, because the ’sphere is lesser for there being no more CiO.

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by Doogie2K on Feb 1, 2010 5:04 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Sorry, Doogie, that snark wasn’t intended at you, it was just that any comment about the Edmonton Oilers since about June 18, 2006 could reach the same sorry conclusion. This whole season can end neither well not soon enough.

Good luck to your man Alex though. I’ve been rooting for him too. I don’t think it was in the cards that he be in the show in his frist pro season; I hope he comes up, learns a few things, doesn’t incur career-threatening third-degree burns, and takes a positive experience back to SF in a week or two.

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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 1, 2010 10:50 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

He’s playing with Strudwick.

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by Derek Zona on Feb 1, 2010 2:05 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Because he needed help putting up NHL minuses on his own.

Then again, it is Carolina. They may be coming on lately, but they’re still almost as shitty as us.

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by Doogie2K on Feb 1, 2010 5:33 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Because he needed help putting up NHL minuses on his own.

This game is going to be 7-3

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by Derek Zona on Feb 1, 2010 5:58 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Funny thing is, I distinctly remember saying at the beginning of camp when we were talking about prospects and reasonable expectations that I hoped to see Plante get solid year or two of development in the AHL before getting a call-up, and that if he came up at all this year, it probably meant we were in deep, deep shit. I didn’t actually expect I’d see that come to pass.

Reasonable expectations for tonight: -2, 12 min TOI, 2 PIM, 1 SOG, 3 hits. Sound about right?

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by Doogie2K on Feb 1, 2010 5:37 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Are you relying on the top pairing from your last-place AHL affiliate? You might just be a lottery team!

by Benjamin Massey on Feb 1, 2010 12:52 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Isn’t Plante on the 2nd pairing in Springfield? I mean, when half the team isn’t broken.

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by Doogie2K on Feb 1, 2010 6:11 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

I don’t know about you, but from where I sit Alex Plante has pretty much shoved it up the backsides of his critics once and for all as to his ability to be a competent NHL defenceman during the one game he’s played since Souray’s hand broke because of his inability to contribute anywhere else on the ice.

by dawgbone98 on Feb 2, 2010 10:04 AM PST reply actions   1 recs

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