Oilers v. Maple Leafs - Isaiah 64:7-12
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 3:42 PM PST
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Edmonton Oilers at Toronto Maple Leafs, Mar 13, 2010 4:00 PM PST
We are almost embarrassed to call on your name
and to cry out for your help in this moment of need.
You have hidden your face from us all year long
and demonstrated that this team is terrible because of its many sins.
Yet, Yahweh, you are our God,
you are like a potter, and this team the clay.
May it be that even in your condemnation you mold something beautiful.
Do not be angry at your chosen team forever;
set aside the bad decisions of the past.
Think of us, the faithful fans,
for we are your people.
Your sacred city, Edmonton, is like a frozen desert;
there are no wins, there is little hope.
The glorious temple where our fathers gathered for endless praise
is now slandered day and night
as people cry out for a new more "impressive" place to gather.
We see our sin but after all this pain Yahweh...
Hold us back from victory!
Keep silent for just one more month!
For "saving" us now would only deepen our misery.
And haven't you punished us enough?
Edmonton Oilers (21-39-7) @ Toronto Maple Leafs (22-33-12)
Air Canada Centre, 5:00 P.M. MST
Television: CBC
More analysis after the jump...
Visiting Team Scouting Report:
You don't need me to tell you that the Toronto Maple Leafs aren't a good team. Even just looking at that group of forwards leaves you scratching your head. Of the twelve forwards listed below only Kessel, Lundmark, Primeau and Orr have played over 200 NHL games. The only guys joining them if we move the limit back to 100 are Kulemin, Mitchell and Grabovski. And there are only three names on that list that you'd be excited about having under contract. One of those three cost them their first round draft pick both this season and next. The defenders are alright but the best of the lot is on the last year of a discount contract next season and is already on the wrong side of thirty. Five of them make at least 3.5M per season and several aren't worth the money. They're paying an under-performing goalie 6M for next season so that's not a place to save money either. And on top of it all, they're out 1M in cap space for the next four seasons for buying out Darcy Tucker. I don't know Brian Burke's plan going forward but they're honestly in worse shape over the next few years than the Oilers. Hard times.
Expected Lineups:
Edmonton Oilers (21-39-7):
Moreau - Horcoff - Comrie
Penner - Cogliano - Brule
Pouliot - Gagner - Minard
Nilsson - Potulny - Stortini
Gilbert - Whitney
Strudwick - Chorney
Johnson - Peckham
Backsides
Toronto Maple Leafs (22-33-12)
Kulemin - Bozak - Kessel
Stalberg - Grabovski - Caputi
Mitchell - Hanson - Lundmark
Primeau - Wallin - Orr
Kaberle - Schenn
Beauchemin - Phaneuf
Gunnarson - Finger
Gustavsson
Behind the Numbers:
- The Edmonton Oilers and Atlanta Thrashers are tied for the lowest points percentage in the league in one-goal games: .500. Weird system.
- The Maple Leafs have yet to win a game this season when trailing after two periods. In 35 tries they've posted a record of 0-28-7. The team most likely to come back when down after two periods is the Vancouver Canucks with a record of 10-16-1.
- Andrew Cogliano comes into tonight's game only one point away from 100 for his NHL career. Tom Gilbert only needs two points to join him at 100. When they get there, they'll join Shawn Horcoff, Ales Hemsky, Fernando Pisani, Brett Callighen and Sam Gagner as the only Oilers with 100 career points to never play a game for another NHL team. Only Callighen is retired and even he played for the New England Whalers in the old WHA.
- The Maple Leafs' leading scorer is Tomas Kaberle with 46 points on the season. Six of the guys in the top ten have been traded to other teams (Ponikarovsky, Stagan, Hagman, Stempniak, Blake, White). The Oilers' leading scorer is Dustin Penner with 49 points on the season. The worst mark for a leading scorer in franchise history (excluding the 48-game lockout season) is Petr Klima's 48-point season in 1992-93.
- Edmonton is currently 26th in the league in hits on the road (road only to minimize counting bias in any one arena). The teams below them are Phoenix, Nashville, Chicago and Buffalo. Other teams in the bottom ten include Washington and San Jose. I'm all for physical play when it helps you win but I'm not convinced that whatever gets counted in this "hits" column is the kind of physical play that does it.
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yeah!
Enough of this Go Other Guys Go shit. Especially these “other guys”. Some of us need to maintain the institutional memory of pride in the oil drop.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:05 PM PST up reply actions
The Fall for Hall will take care of itself, after all.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:07 PM PST up reply actions
Scratching Fernando Pisani for Ethan Moreau: or, why I’m cheering for the Leafs now.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:09 PM PST reply actions
That’s the spirit! Go “Other Guys” Go! Especially these other guys!
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:12 PM PST up reply actions
I feel shame. My cowriters have no pride. (sob!)
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:21 PM PST up reply actions
Go Burkie! Go Wilson! Go Ugly! Go **** yourselves.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:22 PM PST up reply actions
I think I maintain a sense of personal pride better by cheering against this team than I would in cheering for it. But we’re not going to agree on that I’m sure.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:25 PM PST up reply actions
No, probably not. I have a hard time getting my head around it, quite frankly.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:28 PM PST up reply actions
Well, what part of this organization’s recent performance are you currently proud of?
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:32 PM PST up reply actions
30 years of never finishing last overall?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
So… you really think we’re better off finishing 29th this year? Cause that seems crazy to me.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
No, I’m saying I’m conflicted. I’s hard to break a 45-year-old habit of always cheering for my team to win.
This has been a real hard season. I guess the easy answer is just to turncoat but it doesn’t work well for me. Do I need to apologize for being a bad anti-fan?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:46 PM PST up reply actions
You don’t need to apologize for anything. I just think you’re taking an extremely short-sighted position. The people hoping for them to lose now aren’t “anti-fans” or “turncoats”; they’re people who want to see the team win. The best way for that to happen meaningfully is by losing now. How this is hard to at least “get one’s head around” (even if you decide it’s not for you) is completely baffling to me.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:52 PM PST up reply actions
It’s a short-sighted position to cheer for the same team for 37 years?
Sheesh! You kids!!
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
Well, if you want to intentionally misunderstand, who am I to stop you.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
Scott and Bruce arguing a page from the bottom of the thread! This, also, will be in the drinking game.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:56 PM PST up reply actions
OF COURSE i understand
I’m not stupid. I just don’t like it, and it’s not the way I personally am wired. I’m conflicted, and I’m not enjoying the season. What about that is so hard for you to understand?
Chrissake, even if we win this game we’re 5 points back. They don’t give extra draft picks or guarantee you the lottery win if you lose by 10.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 5:19 PM PST up reply actions
Oh no, I understand it. Like I said, you have nothing to apologize for and I don’t everyone (including you) to cheer vigorously against the team. I’m somewhat conflicted too. It’s a terrible system. There should consistently be an incentive to win. As you know, I wish the lottery was handled differently. It’s not the fact that you’re conflicted that’s bothersome, it’s the comments like “you guys have no pride” or “you’re turncoats” that I find completely unnecessary and somewhat confusing.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 5:25 PM PST up reply actions
Whatever. Apparently this conversation is aggravating you just as much as it is me. So let’s stop. It’s been a long season.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 5:32 PM PST up reply actions
The Maple Leafs honour three members of the women’s hockey team without even mentioning they’re our third line tonight? Typical.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:13 PM PST reply actions
Ethan Moreau is in uniform for Edmonton? That seems far odder.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:16 PM PST up reply actions
They had to look far and wide to find a token Canadian.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:27 PM PST up reply actions
Good point. I guess it would have been stranger to have Giguere or Luca Caputi.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
I love this team. “39? I thought Doug Weight was out for the season. And a New York Islander.”
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:21 PM PST reply actions
Yeah. It does seem weird. Too bad about Weight going down too. That might be his career.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:23 PM PST up reply actions
Jeff Deslauriers with the really, really, very poor, bordering on homeless man’s Grant Fuhr round-the-world save.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:22 PM PST reply actions
You know, Jeff Deslauriers is really thunderingly awful, but I think I’d rather have him than Jonas Gustavsson.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:25 PM PST reply actions
I was just going to say, for the first time in forever, we may have an edge in goal. Gustavsson is all over the place. He’s so unsquare to the shooter that many shots have a realistic chance of hitting him and still going in.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
Gustavsson: born October 1984, save percentage of .899 in 30 games, cap hit $900,000
Deslauriers: born May 1984, save percentage of .903 in 40 games, cap hit $625,000
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:32 PM PST up reply actions
The play where Mitchell walked in?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
The more I see of Aaron Johnson, the more I don’t completely hate him.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:38 PM PST reply actions
He could be a really smart signing on a mid-term deal if a one-way deal is something he considers a win. 700-800k on a three year term or similar could look very good.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
Agree.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
Johnson could be the next fruit off the Hejda tree. So of course they’ll let him walk so they can chase a big name free agent.
That’s setting expectations kind of high for him I think. A serviceable 5-6 is all I really expect from him and if he surprises on the high side, so much the better.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 5:26 PM PST up reply actions
I was thinking more along the lines of a legit NHL d-man that materialized out of nothing, not so much a direct comp.
Ah, well then, we most definitely agree.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 5:30 PM PST up reply actions
Holy crap, did an Edmonton Oilers defenseman just clobber an opposing player in his own end? When was the last time we saw that?
Theo Peckham and Aaron Johnson … my new favourite defence pair.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:40 PM PST up reply actions
Some serious Cogliano hands from Andrew Cogliano.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:41 PM PST reply actions
Putting a spin on an old saying, Andrew Cogliano is from a long-lost tribe that communicated in nothing but needless cute mini-dekes.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:41 PM PST up reply actions
BOZAK! VICTORIA GRIZZLIES REPRESENT, SINCE ST. ALBERT SAINTS ARE SCRATCHED FOR COMPLETE LOSER DOUCHEBAG CAPTAINS!
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:42 PM PST reply actions
Shoulds had Brule on that draw, eh, Scott?
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Though honestly, getting Cogliano to play wing is essential if he’s in the long-term plan. So yeah, they shouldn’t have him taking the FO’s.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:46 PM PST up reply actions
So is getting Cogliano to play at all well.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:47 PM PST up reply actions
I was thinking more of the RH dot than anything. Brule wasn’t out therem I was just yanking your chain, but … I would have chosen Stortini (48.5%) over Potulny (47.3%). There’s no way a RH shot would’ve lost that draw to the inside like that.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:49 PM PST up reply actions
Really? Is that why they use RH’s and LH’s for specific draws? I had always thought it was about winning more and not “how” you lost (if you lost) but your explanation makes good sense.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
Absolutely. In the D-zone especially, you want the guy taking the draw on his backhand, to the boards. Some coaches are Real big on it, e.g. MacT with his Horcoff-Brodziak pair. It was automatic who took the draw based solely on what side it was on. The other guy was there if he got kicked out.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 4:57 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, but that’s all about where you “win” the draw as opposed to where/how you might “lose” the draw. That’s the part I’d never really thought of.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
yeah it’s more likely to go to the boards period.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 5:14 PM PST up reply actions
Cool. Thanks for explaining that, I’d never really thought about it in that light.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 5:27 PM PST up reply actions
Hey, Ethan Moreau. You think about fighting for the Canadian Forces? Eh? Eh? If a guy enlists does he still count on the cap?
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:46 PM PST reply actions
BOZAK! YOU CANNOT STOP THE VICTORIA GRIZZLIES!
I’ll tell you, if Jamie Lundmark sets Bozak up for one, I will black out.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:50 PM PST reply actions
I think the environmentalists here will agree that, to save natural gas, the Zamboni should only resurface Edmonton’s half of the ice since that’s the only part to be skated on.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 4:53 PM PST reply actions
After Savard got his eggs scrambled, I made a Twitter joke imitating Don Cherry calling the hit “old time hockey” and part of the game.
Er, not quite right.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:03 PM PST up reply actions
What a great rant by Cherry. I agree with everything he said 100.000000%.
Matt Cooke is a cheap shot prick, and Colin Campbell is an idiot. I’ve been saying all along, deliberate attempt to injure is the overriding rule that covers that situation. How many cheap shots did he show on that video, a dozen? Matt Cooke is the lowest of the low, the biggest dirtbag in the league.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 5:04 PM PST up reply actions
Andrew Cogliano! I always liked that kid! And great hands on him, too!
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:12 PM PST reply actions
Taylor Chorney with the best offensive chance he will ever get in his NHL career.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:16 PM PST reply actions
What I’m hearing is “sign Cory Cross”.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:24 PM PST up reply actions
Oiler ruffians taking questionable penalties in Toronto? This is unbelievable! Someone inform Colin Campbell who I’m sure will try to change NHL refereeing for the better!
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:19 PM PST reply actions
That is a lame-ass penalty call there. Tell me I’m wrong, I dare you.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 5:20 PM PST up reply actions
Stortini got two minutes and Cooke got zero. What a fucking league.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 5:21 PM PST up reply actions
“Matt Cooke is an idiot.”
The statement that unites us all (even Crosby apparently).
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 5:29 PM PST up reply actions
Who’s the projected first overall pick in 2011, and what sort of tanking mnemonic can we make with his name? Because we’re going to need it.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:21 PM PST reply actions
I hereby name the “Devan Dubnyk Memorial Shot of the Backup Goaltender Sitting on the Bench in a Ball Cap”.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:22 PM PST reply actions
“No chance for Deslauriers on that one”? Say what?? Talk about overcommitting.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 5:23 PM PST up reply actions
He saw me saying he was better than Gustavsson and wanted to shove it up the backside of his supporter.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:23 PM PST up reply actions
FUCKING STRIPES! Jeff Deslauriers about to go after Jeff Finger and the ref leaps in. I think both fanbases would have enjoyed that.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:25 PM PST reply actions
Let’s give JDD 5 for instigating there. Phaneuf is lily white as we all know.,
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For what it’s worth, Scott, the Oilers agree with you about wanting to lose this one.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:33 PM PST reply actions
Deslauriers is 6’a billion", therefore, any save he makes is by definition “big”.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:35 PM PST up reply actions
Peter Ing, a city turns its lonely eyes to you.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:36 PM PST up reply actions
Zack Stortini has played 4:22, taken a penalty, and is -2.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:34 PM PST reply actions
I think we’ll get a pretty good estimate if we take the number of goals he scores by the end of the year and multiply by $100k.
Good shot by Brule though. I think he really does have a plus shot.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 5:41 PM PST up reply actions
When somebody does a YouTube video of the Oilers’ 2009-10 season, that breakaway will definitely be slowed down and set to ‘Heroes’ by David Bowie.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:43 PM PST up reply actions
Colton Orr called Deslauriers out and Deslauriers didn’t respond? What kind of tough guy is this Jeff kid?
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:40 PM PST reply actions
Oilers aaaaaaaalmost managed to look decent on that power play.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:43 PM PST reply actions
1st Overall in '11
You were asking earlier Ben. I think Adam Larsson is the early favorite to go first overall. 17 years old, big (6’2" 210 lbs.) not-too-physical man-child who’s performing pretty damn well in the SEL already. He’s supposed to have all kinds of tools too: great vision, awareness and passing ability and an impressive point shot.
As for a mnemonic, I can’t think of one. Maybe Sink for the Swede?
Arse-on for Larsson.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 13, 2010 5:47 PM PST up reply actions
Kelly Buchberger looks pretty fit. I say, put him on this 3v5.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:50 PM PST reply actions
Don Cherry was pretty good in the first intermission, wasn’t he? Bring on Mike Milbury!
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 5:56 PM PST reply actions
Going to go ahead and say this won’t be NHL win number one, though.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 6:09 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t like Theo Peckham the defenceman. But as the “guy who beats people up” he’s awesome. I really hope the guy develops into a good defenceman.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 6:13 PM PST up reply actions
God I like Theo Peckham more and more.
Seriously, can someone explain to me how Dion Phaneuf still comes up in Norris Trophy talks? Minus 2 against the Oilers on a 5 goal night? Yeah, he’s pretty awesome.
The shine is officially off I think. I doubt he gets a vote this year.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 6:14 PM PST up reply actions
Because he’s tall and cheap shots people and has a big slap shot.
If Matt Cooke shot 100 miles per hour, nobody would care about Marc Savard.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 6:14 PM PST up reply actions
Some great decisions there with the puck from Nilsson. Every time he tried the cross-ice pass he made sure he had the seam and it really opened a nice lane for that last shot. Suddenly it’s 5-3.
The worse the team is, the better Nilsson gets. He’s the un-Penner.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 6:23 PM PST up reply actions
Playing Sam Gagner with Chris Minard is like getting a new Ferrari and taking it go-cart racing.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 6:25 PM PST reply actions
Enough of these bums, I’m off to the dark sky preserve to see the real stars. Talk to you guys tomorrow.
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Have fun Bruce! You should really write about your astronomy sometime. Maybe in the summer? I know I’d be interested in hearing some stories.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 6:29 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve been writing about it for over 20 years. Just not here. :)
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 14, 2010 12:01 AM PST up reply actions
Dubnyk can even stop a 3-on-0. That’s how awesome he is.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 6:31 PM PST reply actions
I saw that on my way out to the door. I said to Mrs. Bruce, you know you have the two worst teams in the league when one gives up a 3-on-0 and the other blows the chance.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 14, 2010 12:02 AM PST up reply actions
Why isn’t Bruce here to review this craptastic refereeing?
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 6:36 PM PST reply actions
I am, however, here to review our craptastic captain.
And what a piece of shit he is.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 6:37 PM PST up reply actions
The officiating in this game was even worse than the teams. A zillion garbage penalties. The one on Stortini for “roughing” was as feeble a call as I’ve seen in a very long time, but that was just one. How many 5-on-3s did Toronto get? 3? 4? Then they gave us one with the score safely 6-3 and a minute to go. Thanks, stripes! You just embarrassed yourselves on national TV!
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 14, 2010 12:05 AM PST up reply actions
What’d he do this time?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 14, 2010 12:06 AM PST up reply actions
Wait. Wait wait wait wait wait. Wait.
There’s a rumour going around Jordan Eberle might play at the World Championships?
Is this true or is this just some bullshit Friedman’s making up?
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 6:41 PM PST reply actions
Messier is picking the team. And then you’ve got Lowe and Tambellini with their “connections” to Hockey Canada. Maybe Kevin Lowe is calling in a favour? But still, there’s no way Eberle deserves merits inclusion on that team unless about a hundred guys decline to play.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 6:43 PM PST up reply actions
Well, he’s been leading the CHL in scoring off and on all season. I’m not sure if its the best idea, but it’s not that crazy really.
When was the last time the leading scorer in the CHL played for Canada in the WC’s? It seems pretty crazy.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 6:45 PM PST up reply actions
Do you have to be 18 to play? Maybe that’s why?
Or, maybe you’re right. Maybe it is just Messier showing everyone why he probably shouldn’t ever run an NHL team.
I’m pretty sure there’s no age requirement for the tournament but even if there is, not too many 18 y/o’s make that team. The closest thing I remember to this is Jonathan Toews playing a few years back coming out of college.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 13, 2010 6:50 PM PST up reply actions
Patrice Bergeron
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 14, 2010 12:06 AM PST up reply actions
He’s so much better than Staios it’s kinda funny.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 13, 2010 6:49 PM PST up reply actions
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