Oilers v. Kings - Esther 2:5-7
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 10, 2010 1:00 PM MDT
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PrintEdmonton Oilers at Los Angeles Kings, Apr 10, 2010 2:00 PM MDT
The Oilers, the chosen one of God, were the laughing-stock of the league. And it happened after the great sin of 2007, Oiler fans were carried off into exile from which they haven't yet returned. Now, it came to pass that the Oilers were actually closely knit to another group, the Kings. Over the years they had exchanged many players and so they were sometimes regarded as cousins. At this time, the Kings had very few fans who cared about them after so many poor seasons in a row, but the team was both lovely on paper, fun to watch in games and had promise for the future. So when Oiler fans saw this team they took it as their own since there was no one who cared for it.
Edmonton Oilers (26-46-8) @ Los Angeles Kings (45-27-8)
STAPLES Center, 2:00 P.M. MDT
Television: Sportsnet West
More analysis after the jump...
Visiting Team Scouting Report:
The only time the Oilers have claimed two points on the road since Christmas was on February 11th against the L.A. Kings. So you might think the Kings are terrible. But it isn't the case. The Kings are a playoff team and they have plenty to play for. Two wins in their last two games would give them the fifth seed in the West and a first round match-up with the Phoenix Coyotes and a (very small) chance at home ice advantage in the second round of the playoffs. They have three former Oilers in Matt Greene, Jarret Stoll and That Other Guy. Once the playoffs start, I'll be cheering for these guys no matter what and especially in they finish sixth and play the Canucks. In a sad sort of way, the Kings feel to me a little bit more like the Oilers than the Oilers do. And then I looked at the rosters and noticed that both teams have the same number of guys who were a part of that beauty team in 2006. Go Kings!
Expected Lineups
Edmonton Oilers (26-46-8):
Moreau - Horcoff - Pisani
Penner - Potulny - Cogliano
Comrie - Pouliot - Stortini
Jones - Stortini - Linglet
Gilbert - Whitney
Strudwick - Chorney
Johnson - Arsene
Dubnyk
Los Angeles Kings (45-27-8)
Richardson - Kopitar - Simmonds
Smyth - Stoll - Williams
Modin - Handzus - Brown
Frolov - Halpern - Clune
Scuderi - Doughty
Jones - Greene
Johnson - O'Donnell
Quick
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. They just need one more point. And one more win would be evidence that I'm a prophet! It has been written: Goilers!
- Ryan Smyth is still pretty awesome. In the three years since he signed with Avalanche he has averaged 66.3 games played per season (assuming he plays in the last two games of this season) and has put up at least (it depends if he adds to his totals in these last two games) 0.74 points per game. Even in terms of raw point totals he's outpointing Dustin Penner 148-147 in the last three years. He's also outheartandsouling Penner 1-0.
- Jarret Stoll looks like he's having his best year since 2005-06. He has 45 points in 71 games and also has a +12 rating. Way to go Jarret!
- Matt Greene leads all Kings' defenders in minor penalties with 29 despite placing a solid fifth in total time on ice (and sixth in time on ice per game). But he also did this. Damned impressive. Glad to see nothing has changed, Matt.
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Want to watch the Saturday hockey game? I better PUT ON A POT OF FUCKING COFFEE BECAUSE IT’S AT ONE IN THE AFTERNOON.
Bush, NHL. Fucking bush.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 1:21 PM MDT reply actions
This way you can have a nice date tonight. I’m going to a concert, and this way I get to see the game too.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 2:09 PM MDT up reply actions
I very nearly was going to a movie tonight, but the woman in question has to do her taxes.
Boy, I’m glad Whitecaps season opens tomorrow.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:10 PM MDT up reply actions
Hey, at least you got a soccer team.
Do I taken it El Classico is a night game (i.e. now)? I had a chance to watch Barca earlier in the week, and they put on another awesome display. What a loaded team.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 2:15 PM MDT up reply actions
Started at the same time the puck dropped.
And you know, Edmonton is getting an NASL team for 2011. Be excited, Bruce!
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:16 PM MDT up reply actions
Got an on-line feed?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 2:17 PM MDT up reply actions
Would you believe I actually don’t care about La Liga much? I have got the Masters Amen Corner feed on mute in one corner of my screen, though.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:26 PM MDT up reply actions
Look, I hate to be the bearer of bad news...
but that’s a bullshit story re: taxes.
by mc79hockey on Apr 10, 2010 2:42 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP (runs into room crying, slams door)
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:43 PM MDT up reply actions
Hey...
My Saturday night ain’t great either. I’m going to a cocktail thing, which requires wearing a tie, and then having dinner at something called “Le Coquine.”
I wish she had to do her taxes.
Saturday night? Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 2:43 PM MDT up reply actions
Trust me, it’s plausible in context, since we are going to the movie on Monday instead!
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:45 PM MDT up reply actions
Also, why am I getting myself further into this conversation instead of further out of it?!?
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:46 PM MDT up reply actions
Yeah, you do give off a “weekday date” vibe.
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Wow, not even “weeknight”? You’re harsh.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 2:48 PM MDT up reply actions
Derek, I’m inventing a time machine just so I can go back to last year and get Jonathan to fire you.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:49 PM MDT up reply actions
Would you go out with Ben in the dark?
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At least I’d be harder to see.
Dammit! Now you’ve got me doing it!
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:52 PM MDT up reply actions
The Masters is on. El Classico is on. And I’m going to watch the last-place Oilers lose to Los Angeles in the middle of the afternoon. Where did my life go wrong?
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:00 PM MDT reply actions
By the time this doofus finally stops singing, it’ll be training camp.
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The Kings booth is genuinely obsessed with Jonathan Quick potentially getting his fortieth win. It’s kinda creepy.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:11 PM MDT reply actions
40 wins isn’t what it used to be with Bettman’s “a winner for every game, but not for every game a loser” policy. You start every game with a middling team, as Quick essentially has done, you should be right around 40.
Apparently Quick has hit the wall, has had something like 7 chances for #40. Of course the guys in the booth already told you that.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 2:21 PM MDT up reply actions
Boy, I sure like how O’Sullivan battled for possession there in the neutral zone. Completely pathetic. t should be fun watching his board play on the same shifts as Stortini. Not.
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Disgusting giveaway by Chorney there.
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“The one critique [Pat Quinn] has had of his team so far this season…”
This according to the Los Angeles colourman. Just one? And it wasn’t “this team really sucks”?
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:19 PM MDT reply actions
DOOOOOOBIE!!
Yeah, I know it’s early.
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Penalty shot!
For Fredrik Modin!
Of course, Modin just got lucky he didn’t get burned by his idiocy taking a big slap shot with a composite stick on a nothing scoring chance while killing a penalty…
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:23 PM MDT reply actions
Oh, he’ll get burned alright. That one will make the blooper reels I expect.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 2:25 PM MDT up reply actions
Great rush by POS there. Almost made it all the way to centre before Modin stripped him. You’re on the PK, man, ice the fucking thing.
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Previous Oilers to wear #36: Jarret Stoll before he got good, Todd Marchant before he got good, Shawn Horcoff before he got even decent, Mathieu Roy, Ralph Intranuovo, Dennis Bonvie, Brad Werenka, Bruce Bell, Norm Maciver, and Selmar Odelein.
Truly, Charles Linglet is heir to that great tradition.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:36 PM MDT reply actions
Yeah, Horcoff was wearing 36 when he broke in. I saw his first NHL game back in 2000, he was 4LW. Horc got an assist and Oilers blanked the Preds 4-0.
As you say, Stoll and Marchant also wore it before “graduating” to lower numbers. I believe Pouliot may have played a little time with that number as well. So it’s like that number is just a way station rather than a destination.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 2:41 PM MDT up reply actions
Beauty pass by Gilbert AGAIN! Tom is on fire these nights days.
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Also, Mike Comrie! When healthy, surprisingly good value for his contract this season.
When healthy.
If he came back for a million or so, though, I’d be happy to see him again.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:36 PM MDT reply actions
I’m shocked to hear you say that.
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Dustin Penner pretty much bodyslammed Justin Williams, didn’t get called, and we still wound up icing the puck.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:38 PM MDT reply actions
I just got done putting a swingset together. The 23rd instruction said “CORRECTION: STEP 3 SHOULD BE REVERSED”
I almost flew to China to torch the place.
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Coinicidentally, that same instruction is on Steve Tambellini’s how-to on building the Oilers.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:42 PM MDT up reply actions
Coincidentally, I’ve thought of flying to Edmonton a few times too.
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That’s absurd. Made me laugh out loud. Sorry.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 3:09 PM MDT up reply actions
I’m catching up now – dear lord Chorney what the hell are you doing?
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Wow, O’Sullivan sucks. His game is everything that critics claim of Penner.
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O’Sullivan is Absolutely Brutal. His play without the puck is reminscent of Igor Viazmikin.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 2:46 PM MDT up reply actions
Fantastic answers to the questions from Paajarvi, by the way. I like that kid.
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A Kings commentator obsessing over the difference between “most outstanding” and “most valuable” and jerking off on Anze Kopitar’s “intangibles”.
This is hell.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 2:53 PM MDT reply actions
Great shift there near the end of the period. TOI:
Moreau 1:55
Pisani 1:55
Johnson 1:55
Horcoff 2:01
Arsene 2:09
Oh well, the good news is that Strudwick and Chorney are well-rested.
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Fredrik Modin is all over the ice doing things that aren’t particularly helping his team.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 3:07 PM MDT reply actions
I’m telling you guys, Mike Comrie is the bomb diggity!
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 3:09 PM MDT reply actions
The ugly Americans pick up assists. Again.
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Man, that Aaron Johnson is a high event guy. For a defenceman he spends a lot of time skating forward when we don’t have the puck.
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Jarret Stoll and a defenseman at the point trying to load up a big slap shot, Ryan Smyth cluttering the front of the net, no actual plays, no actual goals… something about this power play looks very familiar.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 3:13 PM MDT reply actions
DOOOOOBIE!
Great idea to kick that rebound into the corner instead of right up the slot. I hope JDD is taking notes.
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JDD would have made that save with his hamstring and had no idea he was doing so.
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I sense some scorn for our humble goaltender.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 3:17 PM MDT up reply actions
Dubnyk has stopped a pair of right-post wraparounds so far, so is at least 2 GA ahead of where JDD would be by now.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 3:20 PM MDT up reply actions
Mickelsen with back-to-back eagles.
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Stopping by for Preds fans everywhere to offer up my thanks in advance to you guys for beating crap out of the Kings.
Goooooo Oilers!
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“In advance” is a real bad time to be thanking anybody around here. Things change fast, and rarely for the better.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 3:31 PM MDT up reply actions
Well, its going okay so far. So thanks for that.
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by Chris Burton on Apr 10, 2010 3:32 PM MDT up reply actions
As long as the Kings keep trying low-percentage wraparounds on Dubnyk we should be good.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 3:33 PM MDT up reply actions
Like I said …
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 4:30 PM MDT up reply actions
Maybe the Kings think JDD is in net.
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I still get excited when I hear “Ryan Smith in front of the net!”
Is it my imagination or is Dubnyk….developing?
It just means Tambellini will have something to trade this summer.
(…crickets….)
by eddy the lip on Apr 10, 2010 3:40 PM MDT up reply actions
How many damn shots do the Kings have?
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Whoa. 37! Glad it’s the end of the game here
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I’m pretty sure that St. Fernando is going to have to find work in Europe next year.
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Nothing personal, fella. He just looks gassed.
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When Dustin Penner rings the puck around the boards, he rings the puck aaaaarrooound the boards.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 3:42 PM MDT up reply actions
What a backcheck by Penner. Got on his horse, kept his stick in play, and broke up the pass. O’Sullivan should take notes.
Zorg decks Greener right in the middle of the ice. Great hit.
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What a backcheck by Penner.
It was.
Got on his horse,
Couldn’t tell though :)
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That video you got of the Big M skating alone on the ice … wow, the stride is so similar at times. Big Gutch could chew up the ice pretty good, even as it appeared to his harshest critics that he wasn’t breaking a sweat.
Of course it didn’t/doesn’t help either guy that there were/are those occasional nights where they didn’t/don’t break a sweat.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 3:46 PM MDT up reply actions
So Doughty wins the Norris because of the Olympics?
Alright Sportsnet!
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Defence EV Corsi thru 40
Johnson -21
Arsene -15
Chorney -12
Strudwick -11
Whitney 0
Gilbert +4
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And Johnson keeps ending up in the box
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Top three, baby!
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 3:58 PM MDT up reply actions
I like that the Oilers are taking advantage of a great opportunity to practice scrambling like hell in their own zone.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:02 PM MDT reply actions
Fernando’s still got the smarts. A chance at a 2-on-1 with POS and he’s correctly thinking defence the whole way, and makes the change. Predictably, POS goes over the LA blueline and loses the puck.
This is the third game in a row I’ve noticed Mike Comrie is absolutely horrible at getting the puck out form along the boards in his own zone. Two totally lame “efforts” in a row there. If he wants to make a living as a winger, he has Got to be able to make that play.
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Strudwick and Whitney: the “JESUS CHRIST JASON DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING AROUND HERE?!?” impromptu pairing.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:03 PM MDT reply actions
You may have next year’s sleeper sit-com there.
by eddy the lip on Apr 10, 2010 4:05 PM MDT up reply actions
Nah, Gilbert is much better defensively than Coffey.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:05 PM MDT up reply actions
Taylor Chorney very nearly got killed by a complete lack of positional sense, sticking so close to Moreau when he buttonhooked into the offensive zone I thought he wanted a ride.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:05 PM MDT reply actions
Okay. So it turns out Devan Dubnyk can’t win a hockey game entirely on his own when his defenders are, essentially, inert. Good to know. Important part of the evaluation process.
If Charles Linglet is on your penalty kill, you’re making the move from “last-place team” to “last-place team even if you were in the AHL”.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:08 PM MDT reply actions
Mitigating circumstances, but still. Brown schooled Linglet on being strong on the puck. Of course Linglet is just 2½ years older than Brown, so he’s just learning.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 4:15 PM MDT up reply actions
The Oilers would have been better off if Linglet had just gotten on the choo-choo train and sprinted like hell for the bench straight from the box.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:16 PM MDT up reply actions
Stoll’s an accurate shooter, that’s not news. As short-side goals go, that one stank less than most.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:15 PM MDT up reply actions
With most of the stinking being done by Chorney, showing all the mobility of a yield sign.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 4:16 PM MDT up reply actions
Anyone happen to know the Oilers record for shots allowed?
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:14 PM MDT reply actions
Oh, Christ, the Kings broadcast is showing highlights of the Miracle on Manchester. It’s fucking on you greased-up California pricks.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:18 PM MDT reply actions
The Kings announcers are God-awful.
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by Chris Burton on Apr 10, 2010 4:19 PM MDT up reply actions
It’s not like they got a lot of old Stanley Cup video in the vaults. The Miracle on Manchester is pretty much it, along with that one win in Toronto I guess.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 4:21 PM MDT up reply actions
Hey, if we could just pop a couple, maybe three more goals, we could win this thing.
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Hey, Marc Pouliot sexing it up on the rink again. I love his annual late-season surges where he looks like a really okay defensive forward. It makes me think the world is still in order.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:20 PM MDT reply actions
He looked okay for spurts this afternoon
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The Pouliot lline with Jones and Linglet was a combined Even on the EV Corsi chart today. No mean feat, considering the Oilers were -46. Pouliot’s 6/12 = 50% on the dot looks pretty good on a day the rest of the team went 13/49=26%. So of course Quinn rewarded the trio with the least amount of ice time of any line.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 5:23 PM MDT up reply actions
He, more than any current or recent Oiler, will end up being a real player somewhere else.
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Play-by-play guy: Nice play by Tom Gilbert. Of course, he went to the University of Minnesota, he would…
Colour guy: ararrarararrrrrhgh…
That was pretty much the exact noise. Why can’t Bob Stauffer ever do that?
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:22 PM MDT reply actions
The Oilers 5-on-3: because we don’t have enough futility and ineptitude in our lives yet.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:23 PM MDT reply actions
What a horrible 5-on-3. Horrible, horrible. Outnumbered around the puck again and again. That may be the most inexcusable event in hockey.The powerplay should be fired. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The power play was about three times as good when the Kings had one more player on the ice and we were down to playing Charles Linglet, Marc Pouliot, and Aaron Johnson.
There’s a lesson there somewhere.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:24 PM MDT up reply actions
Fewer opponents on the ice means fewer chances they’ll screw up. With more players on the ice, the Oiler’s are counting on doing more things right.
by eddy the lip on Apr 10, 2010 4:26 PM MDT up reply actions
I think I’m going to retire the 19th and 20th star awards for Chorney and Strudwick. Just raise them to the rafters. Nobody else can ever be worthy of them again.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:26 PM MDT reply actions
So I need to get an artist’s rendition of this, right?
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Goiod play by DD to freeze that puck. We are after all 18/54 = 33% on the dot.
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The Oilers are really struggling to kill this 5-on-2.
Wait, there are five Oilers on the ice? Really? Fuck!
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:28 PM MDT reply actions
Pouliot
Nifty shift. Won a faceoff and got the puck out.
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Can we start a pool on what debilitating injury he will suffer to take him out of the beginning of the season?
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:29 PM MDT up reply actions
I thought that was Taylor Chorney’s locker room nickname.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:34 PM MDT up reply actions
Never has the phrase “loser point” been more appropriate.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:30 PM MDT reply actions
Wait? The Ferbey rink is breaking up? And the man himself is curling for the goddamned cod fisherman Gushue? How did nobody tell me of this before, like, ten seconds after it was decided?
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:34 PM MDT reply actions
Easy mistake to make. It felt like it wouldn’t end.
by eddy the lip on Apr 10, 2010 4:45 PM MDT up reply actions
He’s so bad – it’s just eclipsed by the suckitude of the rest of the team.
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Why can’t we have Ryan O’Marra in this shootout? Oh, right, he’s shit. Robert Nilsson? Hurt. Alex Plante? Shit and hurt. Now I remember.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:45 PM MDT reply actions
NO FORTIETH WIN, QUICK! AHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 10, 2010 4:46 PM MDT reply actions
Whatever, it’s not real hockey at this point. Oilers have now gone winless in real terms for 23 games on the road. 0-19-4. Gary Bettman’s deceit can scrape a little dirt on that shallow grave, but it’s a 23-game winless skein AFAIC.
Winning in a shootout is in no way as satisfying as winning the actual hockey game. Two points or no two points, you can’t fool me.
That said, scubee Doobie doo, we “won” it.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 10, 2010 4:50 PM MDT up reply actions
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Sat 02/25 | 2:00 PM MST |
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Winnipeg
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Mon 02/27 | 6:30 PM MST |
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St. Louis
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Wed 02/29 | 8:00 PM MST |
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Dallas
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Fri 03/02 | 7:30 PM MST |
Last 5 Games
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Calgary
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Tue 02/21 | W 6 - 1 |
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Vancouver
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Sun 02/19 | L 2 - 5 |
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Colorado
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Fri 02/17 | L 1 - 3 |
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Toronto
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Wed 02/15 | OT - L 3 - 4 |
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Ottawa
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Sat 02/11 | OT - W 4 - 3 |
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