Oilers v. Ducks - 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 5:07 PM MDT
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O faithful Oilogosphere, the playoffs have been torn away from us for a time (at least in the present, we always have video), but I want you to know that this isn't generally because of a lack of effort from those wearing the jersey. They wanted to make the playoffs! Certainly a man like Shawn Horcoff who played through various injuries, skated against the other team's best and often in the defensive zone was trying his heart out! The problem is Satan, who stopped them by taking over the body of an old friend and sending us fans that ridiculous puppet too. But it is our hope that when God redeems us his people from the clutches of Satan that we will be overjoyed together even as we mourn today. Yes, we will all share in the victory and, in sharing it, will find glory and joy.
Edmonton Oilers (27-46-8) @ Anaheim Ducks (38-32-11)
Honda Center, 6:00 P.M. MDT
Television: Sportsnet West
More analysis after the jump...
Visiting Team Scouting Report:
The Anaheim Ducks are bad! But now that Burke and Pronger are gone, it's just not much fun to indulge in it. In fact, why bother? Pronger himself is in the playoffs and will probably beat the Devils and that choker Brodeur in the first round (did you see the Olympics), roll right over Jose and the PussyCaps in the second round, knock out both Crosby and Malkin with elbows in the third forcing us to endure a Matt Cooke interview about guys needing to show some respect and then that man will lift the Cup after beating up on Vancouver in the Finals. And we won't even be able to boo because he'll have saved us from Vancouver winning it all. And then we can look Anaheim in the eye and ask them how it feels to get a 30th pick without winning the Cup. Oh look! A first-rounder! How exciting! Yeah, not so good. So thanks for being bad Anaheim, but you're about three fucking years late.
Expected Lineups
Edmonton Oilers (27-46-8):
Moreau - Horcoff - No Masterton
Penner - Potulny - Marchant with Ha... Hahahahaha!
Comrie - Pouliot - Stortini
Jones - Stortini - Linglet
Gilbert - Whitney
Strudwick - Chorney
Johnson - Arsene
Deslauriers
Anaheim Ducks (38-32-11)
Ryan - Bonino - Perry
Masterton - Masterton - BFF (Best Finn Forever)
Beleskey - Cogliano with Brains - Bodie
Brown - Chipchura - Parros
Niedermayer - Eminger
Visnovsky - Wisniewski
Festerling - Brookbank
McElhinney
Behind the Numbers:
- In case anyone hasn't seen it, Matt Cooke got knocked out by ONE punch and then was punched ONE more time for good measure. "OHHHHHH! He knocked... Cooke is out." After 35 seconds the announcers make a wrong turn and start to feel bad for Cooke but up to that point the call is pretty great:
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Matt Cooke vs. Evander Kane (via fcfightlog)
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The problem is Satan
I didn’t like the Satan trade either.
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"Never be ashamed of who you are" -- Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
Nice to see Pat Quinn continuing with his “Win and your in” style of goalie rotation. How many saves does Dubnyk have to make to get 2 consecutive starts??
It’s bizarre. Though, to be fair to Quinn, bizarre is normal.
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Evander’s from Vancouver! See! We’re not all bad!
As an aside, is anyone here going to do a playoff preview series? Your Olympic preview was absolutely incredible, and I will link the eff out of any similar playoff preview.
I don’t know if it will end up being similar to the Olympic preview, but I’m planning on doing a playoff preview of some sort.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 6:09 PM MDT up reply actions
Also Evander Kane goes to show why it’s okay to be a Giants fan while Matt Cooke shows why it’s not okay to be a Canucks fan.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 6:10 PM MDT up reply actions
Hear, hear. I feel the same way about the Hitmen and the Falmes.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 6:58 PM MDT up reply actions
Way to go JDD! 2-0 Anaheim less than five minutes in! You may just be right.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 6:14 PM MDT up reply actions
I’m just catching up now – JDD is not worth this hassle.
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Mike Comrie! Only seven more to go to actually score twenty goals instead of just being on a 20-goal pace.
DeBrusk on Stortini: “A winger his whole career, to step in and play center-ice in the National Hockey League…”
Wasn’t he a center in junior?
If only we had someone around who would know such things.
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I heard he played some C in Sudbury. I think Zorg himself said something about that earlier this season, was news to me. I thought he played “goon” in Sudbury.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:00 PM MDT up reply actions
If you really care I actually could find out.
He was captain of the Wolves and was pretty quality as a junior actually. Don’t know what position he played though.
Sure, I’d like to hear more about Zorg’s junior exploits. All I know is he was a two-year captain and a two-time all-academic, and he scored an OT goal that won a playoff series.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 12, 2010 2:32 PM MDT up reply actions
Thanks.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 13, 2010 1:05 PM MDT up reply actions
Aside from Penner and Whitney/Gilbert, what hasn’t been physically hard to watch?
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Oh dear lord. That rebound was BCHL like.
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Is this intentionally the second best Tier II Junior league.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 6:34 PM MDT up reply actions
Yes, it was intentional. I’m tired of this guy. He’s no better now than he was two years ago.
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My goodness Jason Strudwick. That’s really terrible coverage. I assume DD is coming in for the second.
I assume DD is coming in for the second.
For Strudwick? If that’s the case, Quinn should have made that substitution months ago.
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Yeah… my criticisms started folding into one another on that one.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 6:41 PM MDT up reply actions
Everybody’s a critic. I don’t understand why more people aren’t encouraged by how hard JDD bounces back and competes after he gives up the first 3. Or is it 4?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:30 PM MDT up reply actions
… along with a Chorney HUA and a Strudwick “also in frame”.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:38 PM MDT up reply actions
Alcoholism has spiked amongst Oilers fans this year.
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That’s why I’ve come up with this system. Always thinking of others, I am.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 8:34 PM MDT up reply actions
Your drinking system is no good.
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What!? Everyone saves according to their means and we can all come together when the team is actually good! What’s the problem?
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 10:39 PM MDT up reply actions
In a season like this you need to drink harder than any other time, that’s what.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 11:52 PM MDT up reply actions
That doesn’t exactly serve to prevent alcoholism! Maybe my goals are wrong… but I doubt it.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 12, 2010 5:39 AM MDT up reply actions
Beauty pinch into the high slot by Gilbert and a real nice pass from Horcoff too. And that pass came from… behind the net! You haven’t beat that drum in a while Derek!
I’ve given up. The only player in the league that does it with regularity is Kariya.
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Well, you might actually see him in Edmonton. The Oilers were after him and it’s not impossible that he has fewer suitors this summer.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 6:45 PM MDT up reply actions
I know, I brought that up, remember?
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Nope. He’s going to be the fallback dolphin.
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Yikes!!!
Time to Get JDD outta there?
What is Debrusk watching? Over the shoulder? That was a short side goal blocker level. Geez
Short. Side. Goal.
JDD is an anathema.
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How many times can he get beat short side before someone in the Edmonton press says a word besides “developing young goaltender”?
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The press only lobs softballs that even JDD could stop.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:07 PM MDT up reply actions
This is just pathetic. He’s the worst positional player on the team, and that statement includes Chorney.
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Strudwick isn’t bad positionally on his initial decision. But he’s so slow that he gets more out of position with every second on the ice.
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No, Chorney is worse. But it’s close.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:19 PM MDT up reply actions
There was a brutal hook on Gilbert in the defensive left corner just now that was 10x worse than the one they did call on Horcoff.
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And yet not as bad as the uncalled hook on Penner the other night.
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No, that one was a clear scoring chance as well. You don’t spin the fat man 90 degrees without really putting an effort into it.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:14 PM MDT up reply actions
I had to look to see if you or Ben wrote that.
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Don’t say it often.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:21 PM MDT up reply actions
Geez, that;s at least the second time that POS outstayed his shift by a whole ‘nother shift. This time Zorg went off around ~14:30 and POS at 13:40, including an up and down the ice rush in between when he still couldn’t be bothered to get his sorry ass to the bench. The good news was that he was still pretty fresh judging by the amount of energy he hadn’t expended at that point.
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Ouch.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:26 PM MDT up reply actions
Is Hiller playing with some sort of injury? If so, why on earth is he playing??
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He’s just back from injury. I don’t understand why he’s playing tonight.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 7:27 PM MDT up reply actions
why on earth is was he playing??
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:28 PM MDT up reply actions
And there you go, he’s not playing. Also, a team doctor is getting fired for clearing him.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 7:28 PM MDT up reply actions
Zorg
… is a shot blocking machine. Hope he didn’t hurt his fist hand there. That’ll teach him for playing like he still gives a shit.
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Zorg with 4 blocked shots through 40. Whole rest of the team has 5. Also 7/9, 78% on the dot.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 7:37 PM MDT up reply actions
MacLean trying to construct on argument that Gaborik should have been in the shoot-out: “He gets four breakaways a game…”
If he gets almost 300 breakaways, 40 goals ain’t that great.
What was Gaboriks shootout percentage this season? Wasn’t he like 2-11 or something similar? I saw it during the actual Rangers game but I forget. Either way Doug MacLean is always wrong. Always.
Yeah, it was poor. He was 1/5 this season and he’s 2/18 on his career. His last year in Minnesota he attempted exactly 0 shots in the shoot-out (though he may not have had many opportunities since he only played 17 games).
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 11, 2010 7:54 PM MDT up reply actions
So that’s what a concussion looks like.
Looks good on him. I’m not generally mean-spirited or vengeful, but when it comes to Matt Cooke I’ll make an exception. I don’t know how many guys he has injured in his career, but it is well into the double digits. The NHL has always been about “the players policing themselves” for as long as I’ve followed it and long before that, and this is just the latest example.
Great shot, though. By the shutterbug and by Evander.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 8:06 PM MDT up reply actions
Isn’t there a way to paste a photo right into the comments?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 8:07 PM MDT up reply actions
Great shot! :)
How do you do that?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 8:28 PM MDT up reply actions
I heard on TSN or Sportsnet that Evander Kane was named after Holyfield. Pretty appropriate. He looks like he’s having a lot of fun in that picture, but who wouldn’t enjoy dishing out a little karma?
Well last night the Evanders got the daily double. Holyfield won another title belt of some description (by beating a guy just 6 years his junior) while Kane KO’d #1 on the NHL’s most wanted list.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 8:58 PM MDT up reply actions
"That shot handcuffed Deslauriers"
I figured it out. JDD is into bondage!
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Are you using the way that JDD didn’t even move on that Parros goal as evidence then I suppose I agree.
I was quoting Louie, who was describing the fifth goal. Or maybe it was the seventh goal, I forget. But not Parros’s.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 8:21 PM MDT up reply actions
Fernando of all people with the HUA, getting stripped on the line change. JDD did get beat high short side, but the good news is he didn’t go down early. He missed the puck by a foot though, and seemed surprised to look behind and see it in the net. Lost his post yet again.
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No. A person cannot lose a post if they are NEVER ON THE DAMN THING IN THE FIRST PLACE
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Pouliot, Jones and Linglet have played 6-7 minutes each, and all are -3.
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did that goal actually just happen? It’s official, JDD blows.
(also, please remind me what HUA stands for…thanks)
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Yes it did, yes he does, and Head Up Ass.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Apr 11, 2010 8:14 PM MDT up reply actions
this is not the way I had hoped to see them go out for the year. The way they had been playing, it seemed as though a reasonable 4-3 loss would have been the way to go. Instead, we get a flaming pile of shit as the epilogue. Actually, come to think of it, that does seem right.
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that’s a travesty. Poor Rod.
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by Stephen Sheps on Apr 11, 2010 8:17 PM MDT up reply actions
Oilers just 3 shots-against away from a hundred on the weekend.
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well, with that train wreck out of the way, I guess I can look forward to a spring of actually getting my papers written on time. though I think I just threw up a little for having that realization…
I think I can take solace in the fact that as the suck levels rose, so did the hilarity over in these parts. Thanks to the writers here for making the pain almost bearable
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So, just to recap, Chorney -3 and Deslauriers with four short side goals, right?
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Well, at least Teemu might be coming over next season!
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I leave you guys alone for ten seconds and what the hell happens?
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 11, 2010 8:55 PM MDT reply actions
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