Oilers v. Red Wings - Zephaniah 2:1-3
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 5:00 PM MDT
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Gather together, you pathetic Oilers.
Come on, bring it in you shameful people.
The appointed time is almost here
and God's chosen instrument is about to sweep us away.
Yahweh's anger is almost fully complete for another year,
his unending punishment ready for a small reprieve.
Nonetheless, let us seek after Yahweh;
let us come to him and acknowledge that mistakes have been made;
let us speak about what is good and right;
let us call out our foolish leaders;
let us ask Yahweh for his favour.
Perhaps this will be the last year of his mighty anger.
Maybe his favour will rest with his chosen people soon.
Edmonton Oilers (24-44-7) @ Detroit Red Wings (39-23-13)
Joe Louis Arena, 5:30 P.M. MDT
Television: Sportsnet West
More analysis after the jump...
Visiting Team Scouting Report:
The Detroit Red Wings are still just a good team. I think they're probably the second best team in the Western Conference behind the Chicago Blackhawks based on their ability to outshoot the opposition at even strength (they've outshot their opponents 1937-1799 and out-Corsied them 3549-3070) and their fantastic special teams (their goal differential on special teams is +21). They're healthy and they have three of the very best players in the NHL in Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg and Nicklas Lidstrom. So long as they avoid the Blackhawks, they should be favoured to win their first round series. I hope they play the Canucks.
Expected Lineups
Edmonton Oilers (24-44-7):
Moreau - Horcoff - Pisani
Penner - Cogliano - Comrie
Nilsson - Pouliot - Stortini
Jones - Potulny - Brule
Gilbert - Whitney
Strudwick - Chorney
Johnson - Arsene
Deslauriers
Detroit Red Wings (39-23-13)
Franzen - Datsyuk - Holmstrom
Filppula - Zetterberg - Bertuzzi
Draper - Helm - Eaves
Miller - Williams - Meech
Lidstrom - Rafalski
Kronwall - Stuart
Ericsson - Lilja
Howard
Behind the Numbers:
- Ignoring the lockout season of 1994-95 the Oilers have never accumulated less than the 60 points they managed in 1992-93. With 55 points on the board and only seven games to go this team is in real danger of setting a new franchise record.
- The lowest point total since the lockout belongs to the 2006-07 Philadelphia Flyers who earned 56 points in their 82 games. With just two more points the Oilers can avoid a certain degree of infamy.
- The Oilers' tragic number is down to one. If the Maple Leafs somehow lose all the rest of their games tonight could mark the beginning of the least enjoyable seven game winning streak ever.
- The Oilers are looking to sweep the Red Wings in the regular season for the first time since 1986-87 when they won all three regular season games. But even in that year they lost to the Wings once in the playoffs which would make this the first complete sweep since 1985-86 when the Oilers won all three regular season meetings and the Red Wings were bad enough to draft first overall (they selected Joe Murphy).
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Go Wings. Sorry, but they really need the two points. :(
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
I’ll just pretend we’re doing our part to help the Flames miss the playoffs and finish in ninth.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 5:16 PM MDT up reply actions
I hope they play the Canucks.
Oh that would be excellent.
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yeah!! tht would be so sweet. But we gotto beat them for that!
Kings need to win at least 3 more games and so do avalanche
The Avs I don’t have a lot of hope for, but we only need one of the Kings or Preds to beat them out to make it happen. I hope it’s the Preds so that one of the Preds or Yotes will win a series. I’d be happy for either club.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 5:45 PM MDT up reply actions
Oh man. Can we just pull Deslauriers now.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 5:48 PM MDT up reply actions
Yet had no idea what was going on or where the puck was going. He has what and where, I bet he doesn’t know why he’s playing or who scored on him.
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rare goal scorers
Bruce will be along to recap the players that have scored their first or second goal all year on the Oilers.
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Well, it wasn’t tipped so they gave it to Filppula. So no worries there!
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 5:56 PM MDT up reply actions
I heard that one on the radio and Rod called it for Lilja. That’s how NHL.com has it now. His first of the year. Matt Greene got his first of the year against us. Sean O’Donnell and Douglas Murray each got their first in two years. And Brendan Witt got his first 2 in two years.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 7:12 PM MDT up reply actions
The Wings commentators are calling the Penner-Cogliano-Comrie line our top line. Someone mentioned the same thing to Quinn in the pre-game and he poo-pooed it but… if that’s arguably the top line, holy crap is this team bad.
And looking at the lines, it’s either that one or the Moreau-Horcoff-Pisani line. So… bad.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 6:00 PM MDT up reply actions
Hey, at least there’s a plan now! The Chicago model!
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Yep. We’re in the “2000-01” season, the 4th year of the obviously intentional 12-year Chicago rebuild.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 6:16 PM MDT up reply actions
Penner’s chance at the Hart trophy hinges on him staying healthy.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 6:10 PM MDT up reply actions
Miller's Goal
Deslauriers was SO out of position on that goal that it’s impossible for me to believe that he’s ever going to understand his angles.
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I like that the shot knocked him over.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 6:13 PM MDT up reply actions
Random trivia: 55 players have played at least one game for the Falcons so far this season. That just seems absurd.
Only 13, including Pitton.
And the leading man in +/- is none other than Marc Pouliot.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 6:40 PM MDT up reply actions
Awesome. Someone on Twitter just blamed Horcoff for the whole season.
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Hey now, let’s all just admit that if he hadn’t beaten Hemsky and Khabby with a bat this summer we’d be doing a lot better.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 6:32 PM MDT up reply actions
Can someone please explain to me why this is on the front of the Preds website?
http://twitpic.com/1c2e9l
Looks like some kind of season ticket fundraiser. A wine tasting isn’t a bad idea actually.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 6:42 PM MDT up reply actions
Maybe it’s just me, but when I think of hockey party the last thing I think of is wine tasting.
Although, Nashville is also incredibly far down the list as well, so maybe it’s not completely off base.
Yeah, I think they have a specific (i.e. well-monied) clientele in mind for this particular event. I’m very confident that the Oilers would do well with one of these in Edmonton.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 6:49 PM MDT up reply actions
Ha! We used to leave Mark Messier off our first unit. Top that, Detroit!
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 6:59 PM MDT up reply actions
It’s all we got left. Embrace it. I have.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 7:13 PM MDT up reply actions
Also, no Penner this period and apparently he’s not coming back for the rest of the game. So it’s official: Moreau-Horcoff-Pisani is the top line.
Any word on Penner? Looked dangerously close to his eye.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 6:59 PM MDT up reply actions
Haven’t heard anything specific on the injury, just that he’s not returning.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 7:00 PM MDT up reply actions
Have we been over the blueline this period?
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As in, our blueline?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 6:58 PM MDT up reply actions
How many short-side goals can he let in before he learns?
That’s not a rhetorical question either. How many?
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McLean is a genius.
"Why are they good? Because their best players are their best players"
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yeah, he really grates the nerves, that guy. A fucking moron and completely unselfconscious about it.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 7:14 PM MDT up reply actions
Hard to believe we won that period.
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EV Corsi thru 40:
POS -17
Chorney -18
Strudwick -19
Reminds me of one of my favourite movies, you know, The Usual Suspects.
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Great, great movie. Those 5 dudes blew themselves up more ways than POS, JFJ, thecaptain, Chorney and Strudwick ever could.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 7:33 PM MDT up reply actions
ZOOOOOOOOOOORG!!!!
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Yes Kevin. A single goal is evidence of Stortini’s development.
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Waddya mean, a single goal? That’s 4 now!
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 7:30 PM MDT up reply actions
Chorney, Strudwick both +2 … mirabile dictu
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Yup. If I have to choose, I’ll take the microstats as more indicative of their play in this one.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 7:38 PM MDT up reply actions
If Chorney manages a full season next year Patrick O’Sullivan’s reign as the Minus King may be short-lived.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 7:39 PM MDT up reply actions
good evening.
i hear you guys are attempting a comeback against the Wings.
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GO CANUCKS GO!
We made it 4-3 and we’re so overconfident we got Ethan Moreau on the powerplay.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 7:35 PM MDT up reply actions
Missed the first two periods. We winning yet?
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 30, 2010 7:35 PM MDT reply actions
Play of the year candidate
Chorney valiantly fights off two guys for 5 seconds, chips it over to Strudwick with a free path out of the zone, and Strudwick skates it straight into a broken stick which both checks the puck and trips Strudwick. Puck stays in zone.
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other news. Erik Karlsson and Alfredsson star in Ott victory. That Karlsson kid is sweet for Ott. I wonder what thier recored is with /without him
Johnathon Bernier playing damn well for LA tonight. I love Doughty and would whore myself to get him on the oilers
I’d whore you out to have Doughty on the Oilers too :) Well… no, I wouldn’t.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 7:47 PM MDT up reply actions
Too bad. Woulda been nice to hang the goat horns on Bertuzzi
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 7:53 PM MDT up reply actions
If they trade Cogliano in the offseason and POS and Nilsson are still on the team I’m going to scrunch my face up really tightly and pout.
On the other hand, people think Cogliano has value for some reason whereas everyone knows O’Sullivan and Nilsson are useless.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 30, 2010 7:54 PM MDT up reply actions
Oh. Tipped. Not as bad as it looked and that’s for sure but still a pretty hilarious jump from JDD.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 7:55 PM MDT up reply actions
Then again, the more I see it, the more I laugh.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 7:55 PM MDT up reply actions
Time to institute the old North-South rule
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The Oilers’ new North-South rule: if your statistics are north, they will soon go south.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 30, 2010 7:55 PM MDT up reply actions
Helium?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 7:56 PM MDT up reply actions
Nik Khabibulin staying up for high tips pissed me off the entire beginning of the season until he got hurt. Glad to see Deslauriers is learning from his veteran savvy.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 30, 2010 7:56 PM MDT up reply actions
Stay up? He did him one better and got higher! That said, he really didn’t have much time to react there.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 7:59 PM MDT up reply actions
I bet JDD would be real good at dodgeball.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 30, 2010 8:03 PM MDT up reply actions
He is very good at scrambling and he’s very athletic. Didn’t the NFL just change their OT format? I say dodgeball with the boundaries at each 40 yard line. It has just as much to do with football as the shoot-out does to hockey.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 8:07 PM MDT up reply actions
Surprising that they didn’t give the Wings the puck. Murphy’s, “just take a shot on net” is also a good suggestion.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 8:00 PM MDT up reply actions
To be fair though, anything is better than the “pass the puck around for 15 seconds while there’s a delayed penalty while you have an empty net while you’re down a goal with less than 30 seconds to play” strategy they employed.
I was kind of, sort of, secretly hoping that they’d miss a pass and have it go in at the other end. It would have just been funny and Quinn’s post-game would have been epic.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 8:04 PM MDT up reply actions
We all know that this season is really “The peril for Jon Merrill” and that we’ll all be depressed at the draft.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 30, 2010 8:03 PM MDT up reply actions
2 Red Wings fall on the puck in the corner with the dying seconds ticking down and Patrick O’Sullivan stands 5 feet to one side and waits for … what, exactly? Get in there an compete for the goddamned puck, man!
Great move by Quinn to reward the -3 guys with that last shift. Stellar.
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