Oilers v. Kings - Psalm 102:1-7
by Scott Reynolds on Feb 11, 2010 4:08 PM MST
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PrintEdmonton Oilers at Los Angeles Kings, Feb 11, 2010 8:30 PM MST
O Yahweh, hear our prayers for help;
let our cries of anguish be heard.
Do not hide from your pummeled children;
hear their cries even as Kings take what little pride they have left.
Hemsky will soon vanish like smoke;
Penner's time is coming to an end.
My heart empties of feeling and hope slowly dies;
I forget to watch some of the games.
Because of this awful team,
I am reduced to cheering for losses.
I am like a faithful wife with no libido,
always present but never pleased.
Other teams circle this club like vultures but never eat;
even the scavengers are disgusted.
Edmonton Oilers (18-35-6) @ Los Angeles Kings (36-20-3)
Staples Center, 8:30 P.M. MST
Television: Sportsnet West
More analysis after the jump...
Visiting Team Scouting Report: The Los Angeles Kings! Matt Greene is the funny man. Jarret Stoll is the faceoff man, the point shot, the penalty killer and the man that's a magnet for both old women and hooking penalties. Ryan Smyth is the heart-and-soul leader who gets to rest during the Olympic break so that he can win the Stanley Cup. Ales Kopitsky is the European scorer that everyone rags on because he should be better than he is (seriously, they need to call up Schenn to take his spot on the power play). Scott Parsani is the obscure winger taking on some tougher comp poised for a run of strong percentages that will help him cash in. Michal Horczus is the center that everyone wants to kick off the team because he's an overpaid putz that doesn't do anybody any good except take on tough competition and come out ahead. Sergei Samfrolov is the Russian who only tries hard in his contract year but can do some nice things. Raffi Brown is the cheap bugger who can hit to hurt and score some too. Rob Smitheri is the veteran defender that still has some game. Wadek Dvoronds is the guy who goes out there and gets the job done at EV. Drew Doughty is the new and improved Chris Pronger - this time no wives or suspensions! I feel a trade for Roli coming on to shore up that goaltending! The Los Angeles Kings!
Expected Lineups:
Edmonton Oilers (18-34-6):
Penner - Potulny - Nilsson
O'Sullivan - Horcoff - Comrie
Brule - Pouliot - Pisani
Moreau - Cogliano - Jacques
Grebeshkov - Staios
Smid - Visnovsky
Gilbert - Strudwick
Dubnyk
Los Angeles Kings (36-20-3)
Richardson - Kopitar - Brown
Smyth - Stoll - Simmonds
Frolov - Handzus - Parse
Ivanans - Moller - Harrold
Doughty - Scuderi
O'Donnell - Greene
Johnson - Drewiske
Quick
Behind the Numbers:
- Rob Scuderi didn't play a single shift in the third period in the Kings last game against the Anaheim Ducks and TSN is listing him as questionable for this evening's game with "flu-like symptoms." I didn't see the game but with him coming out half-way through the second period I wonder whether those "flu" symptoms aren't actually "concussion" symptoms. Scuderi was signed to a big contract this past summer (3.4M per year over four years) and I admit that I was somewhat skeptical of his ability to cover the bet because he doesn't provide much offence, isn't an "elite" guy and is already on the wrong side of 30. A lot of defenders take a big drop sometime in their thirties (I'm looking at you Staios) so the contract seemed like a pretty big risk. But at least for this year, Scuderi has delivered. He's played the most difficult opponents among Kings D and has the most challenging zone-start ratio as well (221 DZ to 190 OZ). In addition, he likely gets a lot more minutes with the Kings protecting a lead than he does when the Kings are trying to make a comeback because of his limited offensive skills. Despite all of those obstacles his Corsi is only mildly negative (-2.02/60) and the Kings have outscored the opposition with Scuderi on the ice at EV (35-27). Three more years like this one (minus the injuries) and Dean Lombardi is a very happy man.
- Edmonton's 11-game road losing streak is a club record. The longest road losing streak in NHL history is 38 consecutive losses by the 1992-93 Ottawa Senators. The Oilers can't break the record this season and the good Lord knows that I hope we're not still talking about this in October.
- Devan Dubnyk will be getting the start for the Oilers tonight. In his previous seven starts he has not yet given up fewer than three goals against and has twice allowed six or more. His best save percentage in a start this season is .903.
- The Los Angeles Kings have the second best winning percentage once silly-season begins. Their combined OT/SO record is 10-3. The only team better is the Pittsburgh Penguins at 10-2. The Oilers are a not-too-bad 4-6.
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My heart empties of feeling and hope slowly dies;
I forget to watch some of the games.
Because of this awful team,
I am reduced to cheering for losses.
I am like a faithful wife with no libido,
always present but never pleased.
Brilliant stuff yet again, Scott. Laugh out loudable.
Line-up rumours: 1) JFJ is out with a stiff back after last night’s fight, meaning Zack Stortini draws in as a last resort. Odd stat: Over the past 13 Oiler games the team has scored 21 goals and allowed 47. Stortini has been on the ice for 5 Oiler goals and 1 by the opposition.
2) Dubnyk can’t start because it would threaten his elgibility to play in Springfield during the Olympics. If this is true — and I hope it’s not — the rules put in place to protect the players’ interests can actually hurt them.
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Anybody got a stat on what percentage of Oiler fights lead to the fighter missing games with an injury? Seems like every time someone who isn’t Huggy Bear or the Angriest L’il Hobbit of them All drops the mitts, he ends up getting some sort of thing.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 5:59 PM MST up reply actions
Way, way too many.
- Ethan Moreau suffered a season-ending, career-changing injury instigating a “team toughness” fight against Daniil Markov in Oct 2006, missing 75 games.
- Sheldon Souray incurred a major shoulder injury in an Oct 2007 scrap with Byron Ritchie, ultimately missing 56 games.
- Last season Zack Stortini missed 6 games with a knee injury incurred when he was twisted to the ice by Brad Staubitz. Steve MacIntyre missed a couple months when Eric Godard broke his orbital bone.
- This season Souray was seriously injured for the second time in just 8 fights as an Oiler when he broke his fist on Jarome Iginla’s head/helmet. And J-F Jacques was injured in two separate fights, one with Andy Sutton and now one with George Parros.
Who knows how many I’ve forgotten, but that’s quite a few off the top of my head. It’s getting real old.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 6:49 PM MST up reply actions
Thanks for the compliment Bruce. I got the Dubnyk start from the Oilers’ twitter. They said he was “likely” so it’s possible that he doesn’t start but it’s never been wrong before. The Oilers have another game after tonight and the roster isn’t frozen yet. Why would he be ineligible for the AHL?
by Scott Reynolds on Feb 11, 2010 6:05 PM MST up reply actions
I can’t see why either, esp. with another game on the sked before the break. But who knows what the fine print says. I can’t for the life of me see what the difference between dressing as backup or starter is, but maybe he can play only in an emergency situation or something.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 6:27 PM MST up reply actions
Can’t remember, blogging or radio, nothing definitive, it just sounded stupid enough to be true.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 7:01 PM MST up reply actions
How many times have we told you, you can’t trust bloggers!
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 8:04 PM MST up reply actions
Jeff Deslauriers will start again in goal rather than Devan Dubnyk because of a farm-team situation. He can only play so many NHL games to allow himself to be sent to Springfield during the two-week Olympic break. So he has to sit for all five of the Oilers’ road games to qualify.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 8:33 PM MST up reply actions
The Kings send Wayne Simmonds out for the ceremonial Willie O’Ree faceoff because he’s black.
Lacking any black guys, the Oilers send out Dustin Penner because he likes fried chicken.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 8:41 PM MST reply actions
Probably best, before we hit the Olympic lull and my “Week of Dustin Penner’s Mom Jokes”.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 8:55 PM MST up reply actions
Doughty and Johnson paired together. They are 1-2 on the club in TOI, but they can’t have played much together cuz Doughty is +16, JJ -15.
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I've don't think I've ever seen Ersberg before
But do we actually have the goaltending advantage tonight?
Easy way to tell if the Oilers have the goaltending advantage: is the opposing goaltender alive? Yes? Then we wait for another day.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 8:46 PM MST up reply actions
You saw that 197 foot goal he allowed? I’m not sure Toskala is alive.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 8:47 PM MST up reply actions
It might be pretty even. Maybe.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 8:47 PM MST up reply actions
Strudwick with an early HUA.
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I feel silly asking Bruce
But what’s an HUA?
Head Up Ass
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 8:54 PM MST up reply actions
Andrew Cogliano just thundering ineffectively along the ice. No wonder it would take a monumental package to get him.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 8:46 PM MST reply actions
No. He’s going to Florida for Weiss. If I think about this enough, it will happen, right?
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Annnnnd there is Moreau with..another offensive zone hook.
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Give him a break
That needless penalty was in the defensive zone
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 8:57 PM MST up reply actions
That's just a gutsy leader type move by thecaptain
He senses that we’ve got the advantage when the other team’s got the man advantage.
Last night was just a harbinger of things to come, and it takes a man of thecaptain’s greatness to see these things sometimes
The Oilers appear to be adopting getting penalties so they can score short-handed goals as an actual strategy.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 8:56 PM MST reply actions
To paraphrase Petr Klima, Moreau will need a long stick to score from the penalty box.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 8:57 PM MST up reply actions
Doughty already at 6:54 TOI. Nobody else on either team at 5:00
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I’m going to write a post going down the stretch about Smyth. Let it go, people.
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Let what go?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:02 PM MST up reply actions
I was disappointed at how little negative press my own Smyth-bash earlier this year got, actually. I think maybe, as a fan base, we have let it go.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 9:03 PM MST up reply actions
Nah – we just don’t have any readers.
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I read you guys. I’m a latecomer, though, I will admit.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
Especially tonight, with this 10:30 EST start.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:15 PM MST up reply actions
It’s a good a place as any to spend insomnia time, and far better than most.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
You too, eh? Fortunately I got a few Oiler games stored on the PVR that’ll put me to sleep in a real hurry.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:17 PM MST up reply actions
yes indeed
More so because I had a stressful day at work.
Talking hockey and fantasizing about a coworker plummeting off a cliff into a pool of lava makes me feel cheerier, though.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
Hopefully not killed outright by the fall.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:25 PM MST up reply actions
Way to go Zorg! Piss off three Kings at once.
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Gentlemen?
You talkin’ to me? Certainly not Ben or Derek.
As for Blackbyrd, s/he’s gender unspecific.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:17 PM MST up reply actions
I have been accused of having a pretty loose definition of gentlemen. But I try to be polite on the internet – I’ve found that some people are confused by that.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
Speaking of ungentlemen, I see your Wings got another Bettman point tonight. That seems to happen a lot.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:19 PM MST up reply actions
//sigh
That they did. Nabakov was excellent for San Jose.
And I hate, hate, HATE the shootout anyway – more wins might (MIGHT) make me like it more, but I doubt it. My despising of it is very strong.
HATE.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
I hate it too
But if Omark makes the team next year, we might see the first attempted double salchow on a shooter’s approach.
He should be Gagner’s LW next season
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There’s nothing gentle about this crew.
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I take that back. Two of them love the gentle hobby of soccer.
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They seem pretty nice to me. Or I just like hanging out online with incorrigible reprobates.
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Fooled me too
I didn’t know about the soccer thing though.
Then again, I’m a baseball fan, and a lot of people don’t understand that game either.
Compared to Ben I am a neophyte, but I love soccer. Played a ton of it as a kid (goal, of course). I’m a huge baseball fan also.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:27 PM MST up reply actions
Tigers, eh?
I’m a lifelong Cardinals fan.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:28 PM MST up reply actions
Tigers are my AL club
National League, I root for the Cubs (my mom is originally from Chicago, north suburbs) and the Dodgers (because my local minor league team is their affiliate – Clayton Kershaw pitched for them a few years ago).
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
You get to see Pujols every game. I gotta admit, I check out the odd Cardinals game just to see him. Almost seems unfair that he’s an elite first baseman too, might be the most valuable player in the game, imo.
The way he stands in the batters box is just terrifying, that slow movement of the bat on his shoulder. It reminds me of a snake coiled and ready to strike.
I got the same feeling from Sheffield when he was healthy and would waggle that bat and just GLARE out at the pitcher, then nearly screw himself into the ground – right before the baseball entered the stratosphere.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
This has gone off-topic
But Bagwell’s stance was always my favorite. He generated such a ridiculous amount of power for a smaller masher.
Will Clark’s stance was magnificent.
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I know it's cliche, but
Craig Counsell will always be my favourite.
by Passive Voice on Feb 11, 2010 11:58 PM MST up reply actions
Sheffield’s a good comp for his plate presence. Another is Hank Aaron. When standing in the batter’s box he seemed to have no weaknesses, he covered the whole strike zone and wouldn’t swing at anything else.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:39 PM MST up reply actions
MIGHT be??
A superstar by any standard. A 5-tool player who may be the greatest RH hitter in the history of the game.
Unfortunately I don’t get to see every game, but I watch when I can.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:33 PM MST up reply actions
I'd put him as MVP easily
When opposing managers start planning ahead three or four batters to try to make sure he comes up with the bases empty, he has to count.
Maybe Joe Mauer is in the discussion, but he’s a Twin so I hate him with a passion.
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The great thing about being a Canadian soccer fan is that the Oilers can never be worse than the second-worst team I cheer for.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 9:35 PM MST up reply actions
I’ll take Door #2.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:26 PM MST up reply actions
Principe
Anyone else get a Carl Sagan vibe?
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No, no, billions and billions of times no.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:19 PM MST up reply actions
Ryan Stone
I’ve asked around a bunch today and no one has an update on Stone. Did his knee explode?
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Nice to hear Willie O’Ree talk about “that big rink” in Edmonton. The old Gardens were 215 feet long.
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Gah! Cogliano would be so fun to see on that ice!
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Great play by JDD to totally fuck up his defenceman on that shoot-in. Brutal.
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question for Canadian viewers
Are those Telus commercials with the baby goat and the Subway commercials with the monkey in a lab coat on all the other channels all the time, too, or just hockey games?
Because I could see how they could get very annoying very quickly.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
They are all-too-frequent.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:40 PM MST up reply actions
I’m sorry to hear that. The goat was cute at first, but now it’s kind of creepy – I can’t help thinking that the spaceship is setting the little guy up for an abduction and mutilation. Something about the quality of the music, I think.
The Oilers are playing pretty well so far. At least they aren’t dreadfully outclassed on the road against a pretty talented team.
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Telus has been doing cute animals for my entire adult life.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 9:41 PM MST up reply actions
All year and a half of it?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:41 PM MST up reply actions
Moreau
Pittsburgh sportstalk radio abuzz with Moreau talk.
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I say we open with Crosby, let them talk us down to Staal.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 9:48 PM MST up reply actions
I can see the Post-Gazzette headlines already
No to Moreau
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:52 PM MST up reply actions
Ersberg with a JDD-like HUA
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ZOOOOOOOOOORG!!!!!
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Actually I think he used telepathy to convince his old friend Matt Greene to tip it home.
Nice screen though. More to the point, a great shift by the five of them.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:56 PM MST up reply actions
Greene with Stoll’s stick. Great trade by K-Lowe.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:58 PM MST up reply actions
I think Zorg is one of the best nicknames ever – and proof that when it comes to nicknames, the players themselves have far less imagination than the fans do.
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It’s no “Hemmer”, or “Smitty”, or “Horc”, though.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 9:59 PM MST up reply actions
Are you familiar with the movie? (The Fifth Element)
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 9:59 PM MST up reply actions
no
I am unfamiliar with most movies, to the great amusement of my friends. They start quoting from something and I am completely lost.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
To be fair, I’ve never seen that one either. I have, however, read Terry Pratchett’s The Fifth Elephant, which really helps less than you’d think.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 10:02 PM MST up reply actions
That's where your avatar's from!
I couldn’t place it until you said that.
One of my favourite movies. Great fun, great action, great soundtrack, smokin’ hot Milla Jovovic.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 10:04 PM MST up reply actions
Yeah
I remember really liking it, but I think I saw it in theater’s and haven’t seen it since.
You ever watch Serenity? That’s one of my favorites. The soundtrack’s no great shakes, but switch Morrena Baccarin for Jovovic, and the rest pretty much applies.
Zorg in action
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 10:14 PM MST up reply actions
That looked like one of our powerplays.
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I really like Tom Gilbert. He’s seemed pretty solid every time I’ve seen him – not spectacular, just reliable.
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He did a great job covering Strudwick’s ass there.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 10:26 PM MST up reply actions
He’s more than reliable, actually. He plays tough minutes and he’s second on defense in scoring chance differential.
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Impressive numbers. I was just going by subjective heart rate – I don’t think I’ve ever been really nervous watching him play. Some defensemen just play like they are getting a bonus for every heart attack they induce.
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Gilbert had a rough start but has been excellent in the last couple of months. Still waiting for his offence to come back, but in our end he’s been solid.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 10:37 PM MST up reply actions
Strudwick/Staios/Chorney/Smid w/o Visnovsky/Grebs on acid
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Doughty is a beauty.
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POS with the HUA there. A dangerous back pass to Strudwick is surely the definition of a no-win situation.
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That’s the most emotion I’ve ever seen from Penner
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More than the Columbus game?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 10:38 PM MST up reply actions
Did it get awesome in here or is it just me?
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 10:37 PM MST reply actions
“Only two goals in the last eight games” still translates to a twenty-goal season. That’s not an only.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 10:39 PM MST reply actions
Stop disagreeing with the narrative
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Cogs is absolutely flying.
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If you can roof a backhand in close against JDD, well, there’s not gonna be goalie there to stop the puck
Given that JDFD had no fucking idea where the puck was — once again — it was nonetheless under his pad. Plays like that get the quick whistle about 29/30 of the time.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 10:54 PM MST up reply actions
It would have come quicker if the goalie wasn’t looking around like a mother than just lost her baby at the fete.
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Agreed.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 10:58 PM MST up reply actions
Who's the biggest threat to the Fall at this point?
The Leafs? Isles? Hurricanes, or the lottery itself?
The lottery
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 10:55 PM MST up reply actions
A drunken pygmy could’ve scored that goal. JDFD … sigh.
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I can’t believe how awful Jeff Deslauriers is.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 10:52 PM MST reply actions
Smyth’s backhand poke was actually going wide, and caught JDD’s blocker on the way by.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 10:56 PM MST up reply actions
Way to go Jeff — these fuckers have been running your crease WAY too much these last minutes.
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Deslauriers goes into Berzerker mode.
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Are we going to see a replay, or are we just left to assume the zebras are rooting for the Kings again?
Oh, there it is … Dustin Brown, the league’s biggest diver. Fuck, I hate that guy, he’s scum.
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Alexandre Burrows guffaws at you.
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Brown is a bigger diver than Burrows … check the penalties drawn stat if you don’t believe me. Brown #1 for the third year in a row. He’s drawn cheap penalties that have really hurt the Oilers at least FOUR times in the last two years.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 11:15 PM MST up reply actions
He’s worth a powerplay a game.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 11:17 PM MST up reply actions
Good gracious.
I know the Oilers have two rookie goalies, but it looks like their combined ages barely get out of teenager status.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
See JDD lose the stick there and not freeze it? Luckily the puck got cleared, but he is going to get burned on that stupid play, and often, if he doesn’t wise up.
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Pouliot
I don’t think that Quinn or Renney knows that Pouliot is good in the shoot out.
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I don’t think Quinn or Renney really know much about this team.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 11:28 PM MST up reply actions
They know Strudwick is steady. Reliable.
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You sure don’t expect to see a guy with a 3-for-5 record batting in the pitcher’s spot.
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Way to go, Lubo! Stick it to those bastards!!
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How many more shooters until we saw Pouliot, do you think? After Smid? Stortini? Strudwick?
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 11:33 PM MST reply actions
Poo had his chance, he just went all vanilla with it so you forgot.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Feb 11, 2010 11:39 PM MST up reply actions
I think I thought that was Benoit Pouliot.
by Benjamin Massey on Feb 11, 2010 11:43 PM MST up reply actions
Wonderful game.
And fun company. Good night, all – if I don’t get some sleep I’ll be useless at work tomorrow. :)
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
Good night to you too Baroque
The discussions were fun. I lost my feed about halfway through overtime. Looks like I missed a decent finish.
And thanks again for being such gracious hosts guys.
I`ve got a database to design in the next 8 hours or so. Wish me luck.
’Night all. Thanks for dropping in … it was fun.
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