Oilers v. Blue Jackets - Psalm 118:26-29
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 3:02 PM PDT
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Edmonton Oilers at Columbus Blue Jackets, Mar 15, 2010 4:00 PM PDT
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of Yahweh,
and that one will be honoured in Yahweh's house next season.
Yahweh is our God
and his light will shine upon us in June.
Grown men will watch and cheer
the arrival of Yahweh's chosen one.
You are our God and we will give you thanks for your mercy!
You are our God and we will exalt you for giving us hope!
Yes, we will give thanks to Yahweh for he is good
and his favour - even in his punishments - will have no end!
Edmonton Oilers (21-40-7) @ Columbus Blue Jackets (27-31-11)
Nationwide Arena, 5:00 P.M. MDT
Television: Sportsnet West
More analysis after the jump...
Visiting Team Scouting Report:
The Blue Jackets may not feel like they're in much of a race right now but they're actually in tight competition with several other teams for 28th overall in the league (I think the Oilers and Leafs have the bottom two spots locked up) and (likely) the third pick overall in this year's entry draft. Unlike the other contenders, the Blue Jackets play in the much tougher Western Conference - in 248 inter-Conference games this season, the Western Conference has won 110 in regulation, the Eastern Conference 80 and 58 have gone to overtime - so they're probably not the worst of this bunch but with Rick Nash and Kristian Huselius hurting, this is a team that could tank. So, here we are, a chart to display the strength of schedule for the teams who are (Bruce, avert your eyes) probably better off losing from here on out. At the very least, they're better off being somewhat extreme and either winning a lot or losing a lot. Here are the contenders:
So there you have it. These teams are awful. The thing to know with this chart is that lower numbers are always better which leads me to believe that the New York Islanders have the inside track here. Fewer games, plenty on the road and they don't need to play bad teams. On the other side of the coin we have the Florida Panthers who still have a lot of games, more at home than on the road and several against their fellow South-East mates. The one team that might go on a run and take an undeserved playoff spot in the East is the Lightning. They have the most points and a lot of games against crappy teams. If they can win those six and split the other eight down the middle they'll end the season with 88 points which might just be good enough in the pathetic Eastern Conference. The Blue Jackets? They have a real chance here. No big run is going to get them in so the players should already be properly dispirited which might help them in these next few games. A loss tonight would be pretty clutch.
Expected Lineups:
Edmonton Oilers (21-40-7):
Moreau - Horcoff - Comrie
Pouliot - Gagner - Nilsson
Penner - Cogliano - Brule
Minard - Potulny - Stortini
Gilbert - Whitney
Strudwick - Chorney
Johnson - Peckham
Dubnyk
Columbus Blue Jackets (27-31-11)
Huselius - Vermette - Mayorov
Umberger - Brassard - Voracek
Blunden - Pahlsson - Clark
Dorsett - Murray - Boll
Hejda - Methot
Tyutin - Stralman
Russell - Paetsch
Mason
Behind the Numbers:
- After 48 career NHL games Scott Howson and the Columbus Blue Jackets gave Derrick Brassard a four year contract extension worth 3.2M per season on average. His plat-form year saw him score 25 points in only 31 games. At the end of the 2013-14 season Brassard will not be an unrestricted free agent but his qualifying offer will be 3.7M. The contract was signed last summer before Brassard had played a single game since separating his shoulder the previous year. He does look like he'll be a good player, but that was a pretty risky contract.
- Gilbert Brule scored 22 points in his first 31 games this season. In his last 25 games he's scored 10.
- Edmonton and Toronto are tied for last in the league with 231 goals against so far this season. Columbus is 27th 214.
- Jeff Deslauriers has taken a lot more flack than Devan Dubnyk but, just so we're all aware, Dubnyk has been really bad. Among goalies with at least ten appearances Devan Dubnyk's .869 save percentage is the absolute worst. Remember that Vesa Toskala for Curtis McElhinney trade? Dubnyk's save percentage is worse than both of those guys.
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And you KNOW who I voted for too. I’m assuming the other vote is Ben’s.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Dubnyk must have been hanging out with Vancouver drug dealers because he is stoning guys.q
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:17 PM PDT reply actions
This is two straight periods for him too. It’s too bad that he’ll need four in a row in order for it to result in a win.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, I am in the midst of a very busy day at work and I’ve got my office computer tied up playing Columbus – Edmonton. What the hell is the matter with me?
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:18 PM PDT reply actions
Do you think that if the Oilers sent out a Cogliano, Brule, O’Sullivan combo as the fourth line against other fourth liners that they could outscore?
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I don’t know if they could outscore, but I do know that Gilbert Brule would kick his contract up to about $4 million a year.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I think that’s what the Oilers should do from here out. Pump and dump the three of ’em.
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Taylor Chorney blocking shots! I swear, he actually is Marc-Andre Bergeron. Like, his taller American clone.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:23 PM PDT reply actions
I’d be pretty pleased if Chorney became as effective as Bergeron.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
If he crosschecks Jakub Voracek into Devan Dubnyk and tears one of DD’s knee ligaments, we’ll know. We’ll know.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Just line him up at the blue to tee up slapshots and see if he can come within 15 feet of the net.
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Maybe if Matt Greene had been able to skate backwards in 2006 that wouldn’t have happened.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Except that Chorney plays smaller, isn’t as fast, doesn’t pass as well and doesn’t shoot as well. Other than that – clones.
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Great power play! We had possession for a little while there! Sometimes we strung two passes together! Elite stuff!
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:30 PM PDT reply actions
Theo Peckham gets sick of the pussy jersey jabs and slams Boll’s skull to the ice like he were Macho Man Randy Savage.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, that will stop that jersey jab thing toot suite.
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Peckham was trying to throw legit shots and Boll kept shaking his jersey around like he were a crying baby in a typical Columbus house. It was like Peckham got tired of the wuss trying to love-tap him in the clavicle and decided he wanted to hurt someone.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Weird fight.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, he never really got tagged. Boll’s win was more like a “Stortini”; he won the fight but no one is impressed :)
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Nice goal there from Voracek and Brassard. Let’s see if this team can show some verve here and come back.
Verve?! Quinn would never allow verve in the locker room!
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Now there’s some positive thinking. The Oilers have been tied at the start of the game later and later each of the last three games. Almost made it all the way through the first fifteen minutes this time. We’re getting better!
I have to admit, it’s getting better. A little better all the time.
(It can’t get no worse.)
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions
A bizarre comment. “We’re now almost up to 15 minutes before being scored on first” Like that’s an achievement of some sort?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions
A four-on-three with four lefties?
You just might be in 30th place.
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Which Gilbert, Tom or Brule? Both are righties with a little offence.
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"Never be ashamed of who you are" -- Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Great action at both ends here! Errant passes! Missed hits! Largely incompetent puckhandling! It’s like every sub-elite midget game you ever sat through while glancing at your watch!
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:44 PM PDT reply actions
Those last few minutes were reminiscent of Saturday night. A lot of penalties and a lot of mistakes.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m eagerly awaiting the part where Sam Gagner stars as The Kid Who’s Slightly Too Good for This Level and tries to deke through the entire Blue Jackets defense by himself because he’s sick of passing to these pieces of drywall he calls his teammates.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
and then gets drilled by some goon?
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So. Not much traffic in the game day thread, unsurprisingly. Let’s turn this around!
What does everybody think of the Ovechkin suspension?
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 4:50 PM PDT reply actions
What does everybody think of the Ovechkin suspension?
Dude’s a dirty player. Great, but dirty.
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Seems to me that Aaron Johnson had a really outstanding first period. He made a couple of slight little passes that were impressive.
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I wonder what Potulny did to have to play with Zorg?
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I wonder what Zorg did to have to play with Potulny?
(Stortini +2, Potulny -17)
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions
That was some kind of defense by Peckham. When is Jeff Petry going pro again?
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Dubnyk wasn’t quite square to that one. A Deslauriers special.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 5:09 PM PDT reply actions
Not to go all Bruce on everyone, but how does Stortini go to the box without Boll going too?
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Probably just a ref trying to judge intent with the expertise NHL refs are universally respected for.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s the third ultra-chintzy call on Zorg since the Olympics. All three were coincidental if not incidental. Meantime the likes of Matt Cooke and Steve Downie are given a free pass for gutter play. It pisses me off more than a little bit.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Downie got a two minute penalty for the leg crumple on Crosby.
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Oh, I missed that. What did they call it?
I’m still pissed off at all these garbage calls on Zorg. Real weak sauce.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 5:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I believe he got a roughing call because there is not “intentionally tried to tear the opponent’s MCL” call.
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The same “roughing” that Zorg got for lightly bodychecking Phaneuf?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions
It is probably uncouth to admit this, but I really miss Pizza 73.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 5:23 PM PDT reply actions
Considering the ineptitude of our power play, he’s really hurting the team just as much as usual.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
He was shaking his in disbelief – I think he was upset that he didn’t take a penalty.
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Thank goodness Hemsky was hurt. The powerplay is really clicking without him.
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That clicking sound is the fans with their remotes.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Chris Minard on your power play? You may just be a lottery team!
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 5:27 PM PDT reply actions
Ditto Aaron Johnson, but he’s old hat.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
AJ made the only decent play of that whole powerplay, when he creamed Brassard beside our net and finally got the puck moving in the right direction. Physical play works on the powerplay too! Who knew?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions
This Gagner, Pouliot, and Useless Third Dude line is really surprisingly decent.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 5:31 PM PDT reply actions
I love that Moreau just skates around with a disgusted look on his face every single shift.
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I’m going to be missing the intermission to work, but can someone let me know if Doug Maclean still brags about building the nucleus of the Blue Jackets now that they’re losing again?
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 5:38 PM PDT reply actions
Yes
Intermission hasn’t started yet, but we both know he will.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Doug Maclean and Mike Milbury are two of the men that I want to put in a room with plenty of water but no food, and watch to see which of them eat each other. So ANNOYING.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
"You know what we should do with these types of guys? Hold a big contest…we’ll call it ‘Slug Fest’ — just promise them a small appliance or something that makes a whirring noise — and put them all in a big dirt arena with no water or food, just whiskey and PCP. And then let them scratch and punch and kick and beat the shit out of each other until there’s only one guy left standing. And then we’ll put that guy up on a big pedestal and shoot him in the fucking head."
— George Carlin
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Sportsnet
With MacLean and Shannon is possibly the worst sports segment on television.
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Come on thecaptain – you didn’t even try.
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Good shot there by Methot. I swear that, although Moreau should really be mindful of that guy, that this team’s gameplan with the off-side winger in the defensive zone is no good. As in, he’s supposed to be coming low and the Oilers are constantly allowing “point” shots from close to the top of the circle (although that one was much worse than usual).
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Can they still be called the checking line when they don’t actually check?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 6:00 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s been a problem all year, so I’m beginning to think you’re right – it’s coached.
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A nice pass there from Cogliano. Part of why I think he’d be so effective as a winger is that speed along the wing. Defenders need to respect it and if Cogliano mixes his plays to the corner with some curls he can create a lot of chances. Just need to convince him not to shoot for the far side so much (although that’s how he scored against the Leafs)…. well, that and convince him that he’s a winger.
Right now he’s busy trying to prove he’s a centre. Funny what playing with the two most productive wingers on the team will do for a guy.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Alright! Another one that the goalie wants “to have back”
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That one was pretty ugly. What I can’t figure out is how his Sv% is so high in the AHL. We know it’s not the defence propping him up.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Again, so much better than Staios. The third-round pick is just showing off.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 15, 2010 6:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Gotta respect Sam going for the hip check there. He looked like a fool, but at least he tried it.
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I wonder if Brule and Cogliano hitch rides on Penner’s back throughout the course of the day.
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Penner’s skating like he’s got a big load on his back, for sure.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, we could use a tying goal and then an OT winner. Eberle is Clutch!
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
What say we get the puck over the fucking blue line before pulling the goalie? That’s just a gift.
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Methot scores his first point in 17 games
Clark scores his first point in 13 games
Mason breaks a 5 game losing streak
Just call us the Slump Busters
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Derek should really check out okslumpbusters.com just in case.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 15, 2010 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Good one.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 15, 2010 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Gilbert, Whitney, and Comrie -3. Horcoff and Moreau -2. Pwn3d by Columbus’ first line … minus Rick Nash.
What really sucks for me is I have Nash in my pool.
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You know – the Horcoff – Pisani combo wasn’t abysmal. Moreau comes back and …
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Yeah.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 16, 2010 12:47 AM PDT up reply actions
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