Oilers v. Devils - 1 Chronicles 21:1-14
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 7, 2010 4:23 PM PST
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New Jersey Devils at Edmonton Oilers, Mar 7, 2010 5:00 PM PST
It was in 2003 that Lou rose up against the Oilers and incited Lowe to trade him his draft pick. So Lowe said to Prendergast the leader of his scouts, "Go and tell the scouts that I've traded picks with Lou and get them to tell me who we should pick now that we have two draft picks instead of one." But Prendergast replied, "Are you sure you wouldn't rather keep the one higher pick? Why are you doing this? If it doesn't work out you will cast blame on us as well as yourself."
But it was the general manager who had the final say, and so it was that Prendergast went to confer with the scouts about who the Oilers should select with their two selections. When he came back to Lowe he gave him the names. As the draft went along it became apparent that they had settled on Pouliot and Jacques. Prendergast had omitted the names of Kesler and Richards because he was so upset with Lowe for the original trade. And it wasn't just Prendergast that was repulsed. God himself was very angry at Lowe for his sin.
After that selection God decided that the Oilers would miss the playoffs and when they did Lowe became aware of his sin. So Lowe came to God and said, "I have sinned. I should not have coveted lots of assets and should have instead been satisfied with the grace you had given. I shouldn't have been counting the number of picks and relying on large numbers. I should have relied instead on your favour. I beg you, take away my guilt. My actions have been foolish."
So Yahweh said to Howson, Lowe's seer and the one who heard Yahweh most clearly, "Go and tell Lowe, This is what Yahweh says: I will give you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you."
So Howson went to Lowe and said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'I am a God of compassion and will grant you a brief moment of favour but then you must make a choice to atone for your sins: four decades without a Cup, four years without playoffs or four months without a word of praise from the media. Choose one of them and I will make it happen.'"
So Lowe said to Howson, "What am I to do? I want to win a Cup before I die but I also love praise and five years without playoffs will see me fired. But perhaps I will find a way to keep my job! Give us the five years without playoffs!"
So it was decided and Yahweh punished the Oilers with four years out of the playoffs because Lowe had shown that he did not trust in God's favour by accumulating two picks instead of trusting in God with the one pick that he had.
New Jersey Devils (38-22-3) @ Edmonton Oilers (20-38-6)
Rexall Place, 6:00 P.M. MST
Television: Sportsnet West
More analysis after the jump...
Visiting Team Scouting Report: Since the addition of Ilya Kovalchuk, the Devils haven't really played all that well going 3-4-1 in the eight games since the trade. But that has more to do with goaltending and/or team defence than Kovalchuk. The team's EV save percentage in those 8 games is .891 compared to .929 beforehand. And just to make sure that we don't blame the struggles in goal on Kovalchuk's penchant for poor defensive play, Devil goaltenders have been much better (.907) when Ilya is out there. Kovalchuk himself seems to have played well by the numbers with the Devils both outshooting (58-54) and outscoring (7-5) while he's on the ice. As a team, the Devils have actually improved their outshooting numbers since acquiring Kovalchuk. With the score close, the Devils have outshot their opponents 103-88 (53.9% of total shots are shots-for) compared to outshooting opponents 881-816 (51.9% of total shots are shots-for) before the trade. Looking at total shots only makes that improvement more apparent. So yeah. The Devils were a good team at EV before the trade and the evidence so far suggests that they're probably a bit better at EV today.
Expected Lineups:
Edmonton Oilers (20-38-6):
Penner - Gagner - Nilsson
Cogliano - Horcoff - Comrie
O'Sullivan - Potulny - Pisani
Brule - Pouliot - Stortini
Gilbert - Whitney
Strudwick - Chorney
Johnson - Peckham
Backsides
New Jersey Devils (38-22-3)
Parise - Zajac - Langenbrunner
Kovalchuk - Zubrus - Elias
Niedermayer - Clarkson - Rolston
Pandolfo - MacAmmond - Zharkov
Greene - Salvador
White - Mottau
Salmela - Fraser
Brodeur
Behind the Numbers:
- With Patrick O'Sullivan taking over the lead from Shawn Horcoff (and Joffrey Lupul) for the worst plus-minus season ever, the world feels back in order and at -33 he's well ahead of Lupul's season already (-29). There are actually three Oilers among the worst twenty Oiler seasons in history by plus-minus: Patrick O'Sullivan (-33), Shawn Horcoff (-28) and Robert Nilsson (-20).
- Before tonight's game Fernando Pisani is tied with Dave Lumley for 31st on the Oilers all-time career regular season games played list with 386. If he makes it into the top thirty I might need to relent and consider Pisani the first significant Oiler to play his whole career in Edmonton. Right now 30th place belongs to Janne Niinimaa with 399.
- The New Jersey Devils last won two consecutive games on January 9th and 12th. The Edmonton Oilers last won two consecutive games on February 1st and 3rd. Clearly, the Oilers are the better club.
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I feel like Oilers fans would do better to memorize Luke 13: 1-9, but that’s just an outsider’s opinion.
Just a quick update, Martin Skoula’s in for Mark Fraser and Andrew Peters is in for Jay Pandolfo. I’m not a fan of the second move, though.
Devils in my heart! Devils in my mind! Devils in my eyes! Devils until I die!
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Pisani, Horcoff, Penner! The PHP line!
Like PHP, it looks good on paper and will pretty popular but isn’t actually going to work.
Nilsson – Gagner – O’Sullivan is the Gagner line then?
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No – Pouliot on the opposite wing.
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Because Marc Pouliot as a winger has been such a historic success.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 5:23 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah – same thoughts here.
Why not run
Penner – Horcoff – O’Sullivan
Nilsson – Gagner – Pisani
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So two of the mediocre centers are on the same line. Who are the other two centers tonight? Brule and Potulny?
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This game is very clear in high definition.
Yes, this is the extent of my analysis to this point. I just got home from watching the Hitmen spank the Blades 6-1, in an exceedingly chippy game. This, oddly, looks like a step back. Yes, from junior.
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It’s old Lemaire versus the Oilers. I believe you.
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Jesus, five total shots in fifteen minutes.
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Well that takes the cake for cheap penalties.
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They’ve already forced four icings ! ! ! 1 ! 1
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 5:32 PM PST up reply actions
“Strudwick joins the rush.”
Oh boy.
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The only way for Strudwick to join a rush if is he strated in front of the rush to begin with.
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Twice somebody has set Robert Nilsson up right between the circles and both times Nilsson has completely flubbed it. Buddy needs to make a play once a week or so.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 5:34 PM PST up reply actions
Fun with acid-base indicators, brought to you by Rexall Pharmacies
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Zharkov
I love this Zharkov kid – he’s going to be very good.
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Any New Jersey announcer who says anything derogatory about another arena should have his lips stitched together. The Swamp is finally gone, but it certainly hasn’t been forgotten.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 6:00 PM PST up reply actions
I think I just saw one of the most disturbing images I’ve seen in a long time…not the starting 6 defencemen vs who they’ve got now graphic, not the old school lemaire style trap hockey (yuck!), but Strudwick and Gilbert sitting side by side on the bench, both with the “A” on their chests. Ugly.
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I figured that Katz would be auctioning them off to fans by now.
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Peckham
Buddy needs a really nice old-timey nickname to fit his game.
I suggest “The Richmond Hill Mauler”
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So, how many games for Matt C—-?
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Same hit that Richards put on Booth. “traditionalists” said it was a hockey hit, Booth should have had his head up.
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I would love to see him get a minute with Zdeno Chara after that vicious shot. Buddy deliberately injures opponents, has been doing it his whole career. If the NHL wasn’t such a bush league, he’d be out of it by now. He is scum.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 6:01 PM PST up reply actions
That’s not an answer, though. That this attitude prevails at all is pathetic. Plays that result in long-term injuries almost 100% of the time should never be “hockey plays.”
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The only way to solve it is the way that the NCAA has – automatic penalty for contact to the head
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Doesn’t the CHL have a similar rule?
The usual argument against that in the NHL is that Chara and others wouldn’t be able to check some guys – 6’9" vs. 5’9" makes it tough to hit a guy anywhere else. I would prefer to see them err on the side of guys not getting seriously injured.
Both Richards-on-Booth and Cooke-on-Savard were vicious hits on a vulnerable opponent. The fact that they are legal underscores that the NHL is a bush league without regard for the safety of its own performers.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 6:59 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I’ve wondered for some time why the NHLPA doesn’t have more to say about vicious hits. Players that get carried off on a stretcher after a dirty hit probably aren’t too happy about the guy that did it getting the same benefits of collective bargaining as everyone else. I would love to see, just once, the PA appeal a suspension decision on behalf of the injured player.
It is strange. It’s not as it the NHLPA would lose jobs if they were to get rid of goons and half-wits like Cooke.
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And the IIHF.
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The New Jersey Devils intermission report just advertised speaking to the best hockey writer in North America.
Just so no viewers are confused, I’m not actually on their show and I resent the implication.
In case your wondering, the actual guest is Jim Matheson.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 5:50 PM PST up reply actions
Although Matheson claims that they tried to trade up to James Mirtle but couldn’t get a deal done.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 5:51 PM PST up reply actions
I guess I can live with that. It could be worse…especially knowing who writes in Edmonton’s MSM
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The New Jersey Devils television guys are so mouthbreathingly incoherent that I miss Edmonton’s MSM. Matheson looked like fucking Tolstoy.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 5:57 PM PST up reply actions
Ew, Did Theo just chuckle at Gene’s “peck away” pun?
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Raffi Torres: 61GP, 19G, 12A, 31P
Gilbert Brule: 53GP, 13G, 16A, 29P
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
Who does this kid think he is, capitilizing on his opportunities? Doesn’t he know he’s supposed to have double-digit goalless droughts between goals?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
O’Sullivan got an assist and a plus on that goal, what are the chances he finishes with more points than minuses for the season? Or goes on a hot streak and finishes the year better than Lupul’s -29?
I think unlikely on both counts, but it would be a good “pump & dump” for the summer if he finishes well.
ADD saves the puck from every single NHL win, wow. That could be three or four more pucks this year.
And cue Dubnyk crying into his glove. Poor guy just wants one.
Well maybe if Dubyk could get that save percentage above flatline, he might get a win.
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Is it just me, or have the Oilers looked pretty PLAYOFFS! since the deadline? Maybe Visnovsky was the problem all along!
with his beautiful unassisted ppg tonight in anaheim.yup, part of the problem…
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Pitkanen with a goal and +2 tonight as well.
Fun team if they keep Pitkanen and Visnovsky and never sign Souray.
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I just rewatched Lubo’s goal (the joys of gamecenter…) and it was a phenomenal individual effort. God I already miss watching him play. What an incredible skater. I am certain it will be on the highlight reels tonight
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It was. What a dandy.
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Pitkanen, Visnovsky, Tanguay, Malhotra, Moore and Hejda.
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Cody Wild, -4 in three games in Providence, three Providence losses and a goal differential of -5
Ouch.
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Courage
Wow. Millard is using the courage line. Wow.
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The Edmonton Oilers must control all media in the Western half of Canada.
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LOWETIDE JR.!
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Nilsson
He’s so damned talented.
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That play by Gagner to get the puck up…
Kid’s arrived.
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you took the words out of my mouth. helluva play to make that happen. Gagner’s getting some courage now. I like it
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you took the words out of my mouth. helluva play to make that happen.
There might be a point before Hemsky is traded in two years where Gagner passes him as the Oilers best player.
Gagner’s getting some courage now.
Great. Now the readers are trolling me. Have you been hanging out with Massey?
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I didn’t even see that post RE Millard…Sorry Derek. Next time I’ll use crust or jam or something…
Also, I doubt Massey and I will ever hang out, but if we do, it could be fun. I just live too far away from most of you
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I’m quite sure you’re in driving distance for me.
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I thought you were in Saskatchewan? But my door is always open…
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North of Pittsburgh. I hit Niagara once a year and Buffalo once or twice a year, though if the Bills decide to be the Oilers of the NHL again – I’ll pass on my yearly pilgrimmage.
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Bit far out to catch the Oilers bug. I’ve always been curious: you an expat, or were you just always smitten with Kurri?
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By the way – how can you not be smitten with Kurri?
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By being too young to remember him in his prime.
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Kurri was an absolute joy to watch.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:28 PM PST up reply actions
I actually think Parise is a pretty interesting comparable.
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That’s what my dad always told me.
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Huh, now I feel even older.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:32 PM PST up reply actions
Sorry, Bruce. Though, really, your son’s probably about my age. This shouldn’t surprise you. ;)
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Yeah, he’s 22. I’m glad I was around during Jari Kurri’s time, though. I really need to write an article about him some time. He was one of those guys who was underrated by everybody including in his own town, and still made the Hall in a walk.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:35 PM PST up reply actions
ok, good. Now I feel less bad about age. I am 6 years older than your son. That is a relief.
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I’m only one year older than Bruce’s son. Disconcerting.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 7:37 PM PST up reply actions
Eat your vegetables.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:38 PM PST up reply actions
I was older than you before I even became a dad.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:38 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I’m 23. I wish I’d been around for Kurri’s/Gretzky’s prime. I’m glad I saw Lemieux at his peak — the ’91 and ’92 Finals are the first I remember, which is a horrible bit of irony.
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I’m glad I’m just old enough to remember 87 and 88. And I have a collage of photos and autographs from 90 back at my mother’s house in Edmonton. I think? I hope. Shit…
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It’s bad when you can’t tell if your memories of Messier, Lowe, and Kurri lifting the Cup at the Garden in ’90 are from the first time or stock footage, because you were three and a half when it happened.
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Glad to oblige, old man. ;)
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You survived the Blitz, you can survive this.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 7:51 PM PST up reply actions
aside from Bruce, aren’t I the oldest one in this conversation? It’s not that bad…trust me.
(Then again, I am a professional student, so I never really have to grow up)
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Ah, beauty and wisdom, an unbeatable combination.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:55 PM PST up reply actions
agreed…and your wisdom shows in your writing. I still think that post you did last month about the 85 series against Philly was one of the best pieces of sports writing I’ve ever read, Bruce.
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Thanks! Epic fail on the beauty front, though. Have you seen my avatar?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
Yessir – that was so great, though I’m still very partial to the Randy Gregg article.
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Ah, the wonder of the internet – no one can see what a plain Jane you actually are in real life. :)
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
Hey, I’m partial to plain Janes myself. Less pretentious.
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often…and easier to have an actual conversation with
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pfft
When I meet some of my internet friends later this month, I think it will be a horrible letdown. Not my fault they have unrealistic expectations, however – so I’m not fussing over it.
Besides, I grew up in a big family – any threats of pretentious attitude and you can always count on brothers and sisters to bring you back down to solid earth.
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I think we would be about the same age, but I’m older since I’m out of the time warp of grad school now.
what’s that like? I’m in year one of a PhD. When does it end?
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“End”? I think you’ve been severely misled ;) Get acquainted with this. Frighteningly accurate.
Seriously though, if you’re doing interesting research it’s worth it. I got married, built a house, and then had to finish last year after 3.5 years and I couldn’t stretch it out any longer. And it’s not a bad idea to ride out the recession in academia anyways.
I love my research. I don’t love my coursework and the dept. head hates my supervisor. No external awards for me. I figure if I can get it done in 5 I’ll be ok. 6 is pushing my luck, and my bank account a bit too far into the red. Especially with my field work needing to get done overseas. Congrats to you for getting it done though!
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You’re doing better than I managed. I made a stab at a masters degree twice and didn’t manage to complete it either time – just too many other things going on to devote the time required to it.
I learned a lot, though, and my mom always reminds me that if you learn something, the time isn’t wasted at all.
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Yeah, uh, I dropped out of my bachelor of arts program three years in?
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 8:11 PM PST up reply actions
My sister loves that comic. She just finished her PhD and graduates in April, and has been getting rejections from her job searches all over the place. She does have a couple options (she has a lot of work experience since she only went to grad school in her late 30’3), but she would like a faculty position. Still, at least she does have the capacity to use her P.E. as a consultant at the least.
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I particularly enjoy when they take the piss out of science reporting in the media. I can’t find the “Science Loop” one, but this works, too.
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I’m in sociology…a pseudoscience that pretends to be real by using stats sometimes. that comic is priceless to me. (It’s also why I am switching to cultural studies. It’s much safer to do real work there)
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oh my god yes
One of the things I did was teach a lab section for a biostats course, and the first thing I had to do each week was correct the errors the lecturer had made since the last lab.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
It was fun – but my favorites were picking out the teacher evaluations at the end by the students who showed up to one out of every four labs, turned in all their assignments late, and were completely clueless about why they were failing the course.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
mine was intentionally marking with red pen, just to be a dick. That stopped after my first semester when I remembered how many courses I failed and how awful it felt.
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I’ve never felt bad about marking in red. I don’t understand this.
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I’ve heard that it’s a harsh color, and purple or green is “gentler.”
Whatever color you use, a lot of writing all over is depressing. That’s why I tried to write a lot on everyone’s papers, both good and bad comments, so no one could tell at a glance who had done poorly just by the amount of writing.
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me too. As a rule now, it’s lots of comments regardless of the grade. That way they stand a chance of improving and not making mistakes like trying to convince me that Karl Marx was a capitalist
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my favorite: some variant of “Lizards, frogs, and other reptiles are called cold-blooded because their body temperature is always much lower than their surroundings.”
No, no, no, no, and more no.
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POIKILOTHERMIAAAAAA!
/KHAAAAAN!’ed
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I was a bio major for a minute or two before I realized that I pretty much hated everything that wasn’t a macroscopic look at the human body. Thus why I’m now in Kinesiology.
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I love micro – but also ecology, evolutionary biology, behavioural physiology – pretty much everything but botany.
I couldn’t focus enough on just one thing to pick a grad school topic, I guess. Broad interest was my downfall.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
I have broad interests, too. Unfortunately, none of them are those things. I was so devastated when I found out BIOL 311 (Genetics) wasn’t going to be a semester full of Punnett squares.
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hee hee
I actually have to see what some of the local universities around my home have for classes – there has been so much more done with biochemistry and genetics since I was in school, and some of it is very exciting.
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I can imagine. I know they recently used a knockout technique to isolate genes that would influence the efficacy of cancer drugs, which is really fantastic news.
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you guys do way cooler stuff then I do. I’m just trying to solve the middle east peace process…
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The stuff we do in my major is more related to athletic performance and injury prevention. The guy who does the motion-capture golf system for Taylor-Made is an associate prof at U of C.
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I dunno, maybe it’s because I’ve almost always gotten good grades, but I have no problem with red ink. Though I did mark in orange for a while. Hard to fake up marks after the fact when your TA uses orange.
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Red never bothered me, either – but I didn’t like it when my paper was marked up with a wide-tipped pen because it looked sloppy and didn’t give me enough room to write my own notes around their scribbles.
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Fair enough. The only writing I ever had to grade were lab reports, which tended to be pretty checklisty, so I never had to make many comments either way.
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research papers
Are a freaking nightmare. The worst feeling is reading over a page, having no idea what they are saying, and you only option is to make a big cross over the entire page and write “see me” in the margin.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
We did have to do peer reviews for an undergrad class, in first year. I gave up after the fourth page because apparently they don’t teach you how to write a long-form paper — or a coherent sentence, for that matter — in high school anymore.
I wept a little for the death of the English language that night.
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that is the worst…now I am TAing a class that is exclusively electronic submissions via webct, and electronic grading too. It’s different, but no less of a challenge
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My favourite was when I TA’d two programming courses. I loved helping the kids figure out their programming errors, and marking was a breeze: it worked or it didn’t. If I did my job during lab, 3/4 of the time, I didn’t have to do much work to find out why it didn’t work and what to dock.
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But they’re the future politicians, lawyers, and economists of the world! That makes it much easier to fail them.
what was funnier
Was when my dad was an adjunct professor for a few years after he retired as a research chemist. He’d describe the girls coming in to his office to talk about their grades, and they would be tearing up, and he would either laugh at them and compliment them on their acting, or just mention that he raised five children, three of them girls, and if it didn’t work on him when his own daughters tried to work up a cry, it wouldn’t work for them.
I could have told them that. And I was the oldest, so if anyone should have been able to play that game it should have been me. No dice.
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I sometimes wind up sitting near these people in my Engineering class. They think the prof hates them because they got a C- on their midterm, which they freely admit they did no preparation for after spending half the lectures screwing around and drawing penises on the desk.
I don’t have the heart to tell them the prof doesn’t know nor care who the fuck any of them are.
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I could get my sister started on that easily (she’s an engineer) because as a female in a largely male field, she had no patience for students who thought that they should get a good grade for showing up – she figured that if she had to work so hard to get good grades, why should anyone else get off easily?
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
I have a head for math, but that doesn’t mean I don’t try. I do way more practice than I probably have to, but I’m also gunning for straight A’s from here to grad school.
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Good for you – I graduated summa cum laude, and although I don’t think of it as a major life accomplishment anymore, I am proud that I did so well.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
I learned my lesson after flushing my last semester at DeVry. I could’ve graduated at least cum laude, but spent my entire last semester playing Starcraft in class. Needless to say, I got a 2.75 that semester and finished with a 3.49, just below the cut.
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“When you’re dead.”
(I know a Ph.D. student or two, who are less than enamoured with the process.)
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I know a guy who’s in his 12th year at the U of A. BSc, BEd, MSc, almost done a PhD. He told his girlfriend he was doing a postdoc (joke) and she yelled at him for twenty minutes. He interviewed for a job as a prof. Now THERE’S a lifer.
I’m in year ten. BSc at DeVry, a few years on the scenic route trying to find the supplemental degree I needed for prosthetics, finally found it, now three years into a BSc in Biomechanics at U of C.
I’m looking at doing lab work with a motor control lab after graduating to pay for Mom to go to school, then it’s off to BCIT.
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year 11 for me as we speak…7 year BA at UofA, going through 3 different majors and a dean’s vacation, 1 year upgrade, 2 year MA at last chance U (Windsor) and now at Queens. Somehow I think it worked out ok…
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Dean’s Vacation?
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booted out for poor academic performance causing me to get sent down to the farm for a two year re-conditioning stint. The farm being Grant MacEwan
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Ah, gotcha. Did you get double-secret probation first?
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yeah…too stoned to care at the time. As I said, I am on a full scholarship at Queens now, so I guess it turned out alright. Though I wish I could get an external grant (SSHRC, the arts version of NSRC)
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I’m not really a spiritual sort, but I do think things tend to happen for a reason. Glad to hear things turned out for you.
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I had to finish up my undergrad in 3.5 years – my scholarship was running out. Fortunately I picked the right major the first time so I didn’t have to change.
Although if I had it to do over I would have doubled up biology and chemistry.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
My DeVry stint was three years, because they rushed the hell out of everything: all killer, no filler, and three semesters a year. U of C…took a while. Two years Bio, one year Chem, one year languages (bad year personally, stepped it back big time), and now three years Kines.
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I’m glad I’m just old enough to remember 87 and 88
I remember Kent Nilsson with the Flames. The Atlanta Flames.
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I remember Kent Nilsson with the Winnipeg Jets. He was WHA Rookie of the Year the first year I had season tickets. Wayne Gretzky won the same honour the next year. (I was Doogie’s age!)
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 8:01 PM PST up reply actions
What was it like being able to afford WHA/NHL season tickets at my age? I can barely afford WHL tickets. (Forget all about making my reservations for the World Juniors in 2012.)
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That was a really nice goal. I like the lunging dive to slap it across to Pouliot (sp).
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Nilsson turning Colin White inside out just prior to that was pretty. Nilsson is maddening in that he has more god given talent than anyone on the Oilers not named Hemsky yet he has the consistency of oatmeal.
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I’ll say. I was just going to make a snarky comment about Nilsson being about as useful as a third tit on a bull tonight and then he goes and does that.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:12 PM PST up reply actions
The funny part was our read on the sequence. Gagner makes the tough play to keep the play going in the right direction and it reinforces what we all know is happening with him. Nilsson makes the highlight reel undressing of Colin White and a diving one-handed assist and we all know that we won’t see it again until March 26th.
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Checking in for the third period here and it looks like the Oilers are about to run up another win. How ’bout that.
We’re just fourteen major disqualifications from the PLAYOFFS!
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 7:10 PM PST up reply actions
These refs are horrible.
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Somebody has to call them out
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:16 PM PST up reply actions
There’s another weak call, this one on Clarkson. Just about every call tonight has been crap, but they miss stuff like Pouliot getting hogtied on a breakaway.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:24 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I have no idea how they don’t throw an arm up on that Pouliot break.
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Penner sighting
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Good work, Sportsnet graphics department. Don’t think I didn’t see that Oilers logo hiding behind the Devils logo on your “Game Story” screen.
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I love my new HDTV. I don’t believe I’ve mentioned this before. ;)
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Got a new TV at an after-Xmas sale, then got the HD box and PVR yesterday :D It even makes curling look better.
Seriously, I don’t know how I lived before I had HD. The Olympics were glorious. Even the fog at Cypress looked great.
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Now imagine if you’d had those things. Would you have slept for those two and a half weeks?
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I’m not sure if I would have slept less watching everything I missed during the day or more because I could PVR the late events and watch them later.
I’ll go with less. Is it possible to get negative sleep?
Depends. Is it finals? If so, then yes. Finals break the laws of space and time.
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Me too. Love that 15-second windback button, use it a lot.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:22 PM PST up reply actions
Where do these guys on Sportsnet get their information? Devils haven’t won in Edmonton since 1995? I’ve seen them live twice since then and NJD won both, 2-1 in 2001 or so and 3-1 in 2007.
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Eklund.
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I was just going to say, didn’t Comrie and Kovalchuk have a go in 2001 or 2002? Louie remembers this as well.
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Here we go. December 8, 2002. Video.
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The Devils have been pretty listless. Since I started watching they haven’t had a scoring chance that I remember.
by Scott Reynolds on Mar 7, 2010 7:25 PM PST up reply actions
If I were a Devils’ fan I’d be officially Worried. They have sucked in this game, full stop.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:26 PM PST up reply actions
That was a very Moreauesque penalty by Clarkson there. 200’ from his own net with 2:31 left in a game and they’re down.
It’s nice not to have to worry about those anymore!
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I haven’t missed thecaptain even a tiny bit. The worst part about his absence is its impermanence.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:32 PM PST up reply actions
that’s one of those tragic-comic kind of statements. or at the very least sad but true
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Yeah, the biggest disappointment of the deadline to me was the Moreau non-trade.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:34 PM PST up reply actions
Losing Lubo, despite the long-term good it will do for both his career and the finaincial state of the Oilers still hurts me a little more.
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I miss the old Lubo. Unfortunately, I had already been missing him for a couple of months before the trade.
I think it was a necessary step. Derek will disagree. :)
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:37 PM PST up reply actions
Shutout Deslauriers?
My reality is shattered.
PLAYOFFS!
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He’s got, like, three of the damned things.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 7:29 PM PST up reply actions
I know. It’s like Shepso says, he’s either fantastic or awful, with nothing in between. Somehow, we got Fantastic Jeff tonight.
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he’s either really great or really terrible. There’s zero middle ground with him
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He’s really terrible much more often than really great.
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agreed. That being said though, when he’s good, he’s surprisingly good. I’ll never really jump on the bandwagon like some MSM types have, but once in a while I get surprised. But yes, mostly he’s the worst french Canadian goalie since Red-Light Racicot
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I dunno, I think he’s really shoved it up the backsides of his critics with his performance the last couple of nights.
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I went to the game Friday and he was flat-out excellent in that one.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 7:33 PM PST up reply actions
But not great enough to worry about my backside.
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The last time the Devils were shut out? It was at Toronto.
There’s a lesson there, somewhere, but not for us.
That if the Devils meet someone like the Isles or the Thrashers in the first round, they’re fucked?
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Lots of skill but no passion? That’s kinda what I saw out of the Devils tonight. Then again Lemaire’s teams always seem to suck the joy out of the game.
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It’s like they’re playing up or down to their competition. I mean, they did a number on the Sharks before giving most of it back up late about a week ago.
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Saw the replay again, and while Nilsson’s move makes the highlight reel, Gagner’s really should, too. Spinnarama, behind the back pass to a man in motion while being knocked down. That’s pretty awesome.
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Quinn’s going to yell at him for that spin-o-rama.
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Someone needs to get that kid an onion for his belt. Damned kids these days. What if they run into a vampire?
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on a completely unrelated note, the Ducks managed to blow a 3-0 lead against the habs and won 4-3 in a shootout. But man alive was Lubo’s goal sweet
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Since all the traffic is in this thread, I’m going to spoil the PGT and tell you all that the two of the Reverse Three Stars are Stortini and Penner.
No, the other one is not Jari Kurri just to complete the Trifecta of Picking On Guys We Love, but I thought about it.
Yeah, Fernando could burn Rexall to the ground and piss on the ashes and he could never be a reverse three star to me.
by Benjamin Massey on Mar 7, 2010 8:19 PM PST up reply actions
harsh…but fair. Stortini did take out old Deaner though. I am not sure how I feel about that either.
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Clean hit, shoulder to chest. Not sure what happened to McAmmond – shoulder? – but it sucks that he got hurt.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Mar 7, 2010 8:28 PM PST up reply actions
Well, good night everyone – have a pleasant week at work or at grad school!
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
You too, Baroque. Good chatting.
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Sorry for the school based inadvertent thread-jack… I was trying to help steer the conversation to the new page, but then I gave up in favor of my inner academic getting to run free.
Good chatting with all of you tonight…as always..
But in all seriousness, go to the new thread. Benjamin has some great stuff up there.
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