Are You a 6'5" Goalie in Edmonton?

Then Pat Quinn may have the job opportunity of a lifetime for you! Devan Dubnyk's infectious intestinal condition means that Jeff Deslauriers will start tonight and that the Oilers have no backup available: neither Andrew Perugini nor Bryan Pitton can arrive in time and Torrie Jung is on the west coast.

Other local goalies, such as netminding coach Frederic Chabot, are too short to fit in Dubnyk's NHL-approved equipment and there isn't time (apparently) to get a new set approved. This could be very interesting.

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Would Penner fit?

by Yeti# on Mar 23, 2010 12:38 PM MDT reply actions

It occurs to me that Bruce is a goalie and he’s in Edmonton. I don’t know that he’s 6’5" but “Bruce McCurdy” is a very tall sort of name.

What a shame he’s going to a poetry reading today!

by Benjamin Massey on Mar 23, 2010 1:06 PM MDT reply actions

Bad timing on my part, for sure. This should have happened about 26 years ago.

Come to think of it, it did. The Oilers pressed a little known goalie named Mike Zanier into service as a back-up goalie when Grant Fuhr went down in the 1984 Stanley Cup Finals. Good thing we had a good second goalie in Andy Moog, but we were shitting bricks as to what would happen if he too went down. Zanier, the 21-year-old backup of the Moncton Alpines, was the next/last man standing. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any zanier.

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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 23, 2010 4:12 PM MDT up reply actions

Wait a minute…Gene Principe is Bruce?

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by Derek Zona on Mar 23, 2010 5:53 PM MDT up reply actions

Reportedly, Nathan Deobald’s jersey is at Rexall Place.

What, you haven’t heard of Nathan Deobald, who only four years ago played four games in goal for SAIT in something called the “ACAC”? You didn’t know SAIT had a hockey team? You don’t know what the ACAC is? You’re just amazed the Oilers have managed to find an NHL player worse than Taylor Chorney and a worse goaltending choice than 42-year-old Frederic Chabot?

I’m shocked.

by Benjamin Massey on Mar 23, 2010 3:38 PM MDT reply actions

My dad played defence for SAIT.

by edm_euler on Mar 23, 2010 3:43 PM MDT up reply actions

How was the quality of play? How many millions of goals would Deslauriers have to allow before he got pulled in favour of this guy? If Deslauriers took a puck to the noggin, would Pat Quinn pull a Lester Patrick and suit up himself before he let The Voting Machine play?

by Benjamin Massey on Mar 23, 2010 3:57 PM MDT up reply actions

Beat me to the Lester Patrick reference. “The Silver Fox” was merely 44 when he played his famous playoff game, 2-1 in overtime no less. He also had a very motivated team in front of him, I can well imagine. Not the night to fuck up.

From an Oilers perspective, I’d go with Chabot.

Funny thing, the name of the injured goalie that Patrick (Lester, that is, not Quinn) replaced was none other than Lorne Chabot.

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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 23, 2010 4:21 PM MDT up reply actions

Too bad I have to miss it ... did I mention I'm going to a poetry reading?

’
’Twas in the spring of twenty-eight
A golden Ranger page,
that Lester got a summons
To guard the Blueshirt cage.

Chabot had stopped a fast one,
A bad break for our lads,
The Cup at stake – and no one
To don the Ranger pads.

“We’re cooked,” lamented Patrick,
“This crisis I had feared.”
He leaned upon his newest crutch
And wept inside his beard.

Then suddenly he came to life,
No longer halt or lame.
“Give me the pads,” he bellowed,
“I used to play this game.”

Then how the Rangers shouted.
How Patrick was acclaimed.
Maroons stood sneering, gloating,
They should have been ashamed.

The final score was two to one.
Old Lester met the test.
The Rangers finally won the Cup,
But Les has since confessed.

“I just spoke up to cheer the boys,
“I must have been delirious.
“But now, in reminiscence,
“I’m glad they took me serious.”

James Burchard
November, 1947

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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 23, 2010 4:24 PM MDT up reply actions

I can’t speak on the quality of play because of the minor handicap that my parents hadn’t even met yet.

As for ADD getting pulled, I’m guessing the over/under on that would be at least six before the end of the second.

And even though we’ll never hear of him again, now I won’t be able to help but cheer for Voting Machine just because of that nickname. Although he’s not exactly 6’5", so maybe they have spare equipment available in a smaller size.

by edm_euler on Mar 23, 2010 4:30 PM MDT up reply actions

The SAIT Trojans. Yes, I’m familiar. The lady Dinos play in the ACAC, so the Trojans are a frequent guest.

Yes, yes, insert condom joke here.

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by Doogie2K on Mar 23, 2010 8:06 PM MDT up reply actions

Isn’t this how Aaron Sorochan got his time on the bench a couple years ago? Are the Golden Bears out of town, or have the goalie equipment approval rules changed?

by edm_euler on Mar 23, 2010 3:42 PM MDT reply actions

The Golden Bears are at nationals, yeah.

by Benjamin Massey on Mar 23, 2010 3:56 PM MDT up reply actions

Unlike the Oilers, the Golden Bears are playing meaningful games.

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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 23, 2010 4:22 PM MDT up reply actions

SHABOOH CHABOT

I’d just about kill to see Chabot on the player’s bench, wearing number 1. Or 45, or whatever mess they’d trot him out there with.

by chappy35 on Mar 23, 2010 4:40 PM MDT reply actions

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