Oilers v. Flames - 1 Thessalonians 2:1-6
by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 4:30 PM MDT
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PrintYou yourselves know, dearest Calgarians, that our visit to you will not be a failure. You know how badly we have been treated in every town over the last several years, and how much we have suffered alongside you in Calgary. Yet our God gave all of us the courage to declare the greatness of God's Oildrop boldly, despite great opposition and an extravagant amount of evidence to the contrary. Yes, we have declared and will continue to declare this Good News no matter what mockery or slander might fall upon us, and we know that you will too.
You know that we speak as players approved by God and entrusted with this Good News. We are aware that testifying to the preference God has for the Oildrop may not win you many friends, but our purpose is to please God, not people. And you know that this is true! After all, we have not convinced you to embrace us with earthly things! We did not win you over with a penchant for scoring goals, and we have shied away from winning over half of our games for many years. God is our witness that we did not overperform to swindle you out of your money. No, we have not done anything in human terms to bring praise to the Oildrop from you or from anyone else. Your fandom, then, must find its source in God who was called you to this most holy cause.
Edmonton Oilers (2-1-1) @ Calgary Flames (1-3-0)
Scotiabank Saddledome, 7:30 p.m. MDT
Television: Sportsnet West
More analysis after the jump...
Home Team Scouting Report:
The Flames are off to a rough start this season with three regulation losses in their first four games. The main reason for these struggles has been their play at even strength. Over their first four games, the Flames have an even strength (excluding empty net situations) Fenwick percentage of 43.7% (+101 -130) and Corsi percentage of 45.7%, which as you may recall, is 2010-11 Oilers territory. Now some of that discrepancy has come because of the team's injuries down the middle (Brendan Morrison and Mikael Backlund were both injured, and Daymond Langkow was traded to Phoenix), but there's been plenty of damage with the team's top forward line on the ice - the Flames with Jarome Iginla on the ice have a Fenwick percentage of 43.8% (+39 -50) and a Corsi percentage of 43.2% (+57 -75) - so unless you think David Moss is the problem... there might be a pretty big problem. Brendan Morrison is set to return tonight, and while he's not slated to start on the top line, I could see him ending there if the Flames struggle.
Expected Lineups:
Edmonton Oilers (2-1-1):
Jones - Nugent-Hopkins - Eberle
Smyth - Horcoff - Petrell
Paajarvi - Belanger - Omark
Eager - Lander
Whitney - Gilbert
Barker - Smid
Sutton - Potter
Peckham
Dubnyk
Calgary Flames (1-3-0):
Tanguay - Moss - Iginla
Glencross - Jokinen - Stempniak
Hagman - Morrison - Bourque
Letourneau-Leblond - Stajan - Jackman
Hannan - Giordano
Bouwmeester - Butler
Sarich - Smith
Kiprusoff
By the Numbers:
- Through four games the Oilers have a Chance differential of +9 (+44 -35), Fenwick differential of +12 (+117 -105) and a Corsi differential of -2 (+151 -153) at even strength (excluding empty net situations). That's not fantastic or anything, but it's not bad either, which for this team, is a huge step forward. And because it's coming at the beginning of the season, you can even have living hope that they'll keep it going!
- One of the reasons for that hope is the coaching. In last night's game, the Predators came to town with one forward line that looked really dangerous (Wilson, Legwand, and Kostitsyn), and for a second consecutive game, Renney played the matching game. He had Shawn Horcoff, Ryan Smyth, and Ryan Jones out there for over 75% of their ice time, and even used Lennart Petrell (in place of Jones) in a "face-off-get-off" role for some defensive zone draws. Renney, it seems, is coaching like a man who'd like to win some games.
- He's also coaching like a man who sees a player in Ryan Jones. Many around these parts (myself included) didn't have a lot of faith in Jones, mostly because of some particularly ugly WOWY analysis that showed almost everyone on the team having a harder time with him than they did without him. Normally you wouldn't think such a player would be well-suited to very many minutes, let alone tough minutes. Tom Renney disagrees. Jones is currently sixth among Oiler forwards in EV TOI with 13:03 per game and third in SH TOI with 3:07 per game. And so far, he's not dragging the numbers down! With Jones on the ice at even strength (excluding empty net situations), the Oilers have a Chance differential of +4 (+12 -8), Fenwick differential of +3 (+28 -25), and Corsi differential of +2 (+40 -38). Early days, but that's a lot better than I would have predicted before the season.
- I was watching the Predators feed last night, and midway through the game they had an interview with the Predators' assistant coach. He mentioned that the defense is the Oilers' weakness ("if they have a weakness"), which isn't something you normally hear from an opposing coach unless the weakness is dead obvious. Anyroad, it'll be getting better tonight as Ryan Whitney returns from injury. But injury isn't the only reason that expectations should be muted; Whitney's boxcars from last season are awfully impressive (2-25-27 and +13 in just 35 games), but that success came largely because of some amazing percentages. In fact, Whitney had the sixth best PDO in the entire league (min. 20 games played), which helped him to overcome the fact that the Oilers were actually outshot while he was on the ice.
- Taylor Hall may be sitting this one out due to illness. If so, the Oilers will apparently dress seven defenders, which means the lines are going to get a shuffle. I've guessed that Lennart Petrell will get the bump to the tough minutes line and that Ryan Jones will take Hall's spot, but I don't have any inside information on the matter. If Hall does end up sitting this one out, that will leave just twelve players who have played in each of the first five games. He'd also be the third of Edmonton's four forty-point scorers from last season to miss time already this season.
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The main reason for these struggles has been their play at even strength. Over their first four games, the Flames have an even strength (excluding empty net situations) Fenwick percentage of 43.7% (+101 -130) and Corsi percentage of 45.7%, which as you may recall, is 2010-11 Oilers territory.
And I thought for sure it would be the cruddy defense that would finally do them in.
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And this may be true. It’s not like the team’s been great with Iginla on the bench.
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by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 4:44 PM MDT up reply actions
Renney, it seems, is coaching like a man who’d like to win some games.
Which makes last year especially annoying.
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Who cares we weren’t really going anywhere and he threw some guys into the water to see if they could swim and I think most of them will be better for it and it got us the Nuge (I know how much you love him haha),
It sucked losing all the the time last year but they got their rookies in and saw what they could do in situations and this year he is line matching, I have no problem with it.
Do you think Nugent-Hopkins was still the wrong pick? I know it’s early but from what you have seen what are your thoughts on him now?
Who cares we weren’t really going anywhere
You don’t think it’s meaningful that the team wasn’t trying to win?
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I have problem with throwing the game, but when the playoffs are out of reach I dont have any problem with them seeing what the kids could do and throwing them in tough situations, I think Hall, Eberle will be better for it as they became the go to scorers.
Ideally you want your young guys to develop and win games but last year even with a well coached game I didn’t see that happening so I am ok with it. It was frustrating as hell last year but this year is a new year the young guys look good and we have Nugent-Hopkins so I will let last year slide.
Really if that was the case they could have traded their young guys for proven veteran players and we probably would have made playoffs but then what?
I like that the Oilers appear to be taking that next step this year (Off season signings, Smyth trade, Sutton/Foster swap, and say what you want about Sutton but he helps the Oilers way more then Foster) the young guys look good. And now we can keep guys in the AHL to develop until they are ready, Harti and most likely Petry soon.
Tanman wins this entire exchange as do a few other posters on this blog.
Derek – the way in which you selectively respond to portions of the posts from the commentators on your blog is really grating to me. More often than not it’s nitpicking and you respond to the most inconsequential part of what they’re trying to say rather to the idea of what they are posting.
Anyway just my perception, I’d prefer you not respond rather than find the one minute detail of the other posters comment that you can take issue with.
But I get that egos are large on the Internet
What’s grating to me is people who piece together a bunch of things I’m not interested in to try and explain away things I’m interested in.
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Cool but not buying. I’d love to see some examples of you admitting you were off base rather than hang onto threads and make refutes based on terminology, semantics, tertiary arguments etc.
Anyway love the blog just think you’re a terrible person to have a discussion with as it would never get anywhere.
No idea what you’re referring to. I stated that the Oilers weren’t trying to win last season which is an abominable attitude from a franchise. Tanman talked about it being a good thing, you know, throwing kids into situations where we could see what they were made of, when this lovely blog, me, have already addressed what happens to kids who are thrown into situations they can’t handle – they lose.
He then sidesteps into something about making personnel moves to win now at the expense of the future – something I didn’t bring up, nor was it even on the plate when I said how awful it was that Renney wasn’t coaching to win last season.
So he brought up something I’d written about long ago and don’t find interesting and a strawman about personnel moves set against a coach doing his best to win. Then he moved on to Nugent-Hopkins, a complete tangent to the argument. In short, he’s trying to do a bunch of hand-waving to distract from Renney not doing all he could to win games.
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Derek you mentioned in your last post about Eager not getting much ice time, i think Renney was not only easing his first game after injury, but also saving him for tonight’s game….Look for him to reach the 10 minute mark
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 5:00 PM MDT reply actions
oh i thought you said something about eager only getting 3 minutes last game, and how tamby and renney may not be on the same page….sure sounds like you
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 5:18 PM MDT up reply actions
And Scott I’ve noticed you’ve refrained from using the word Yahweh….what does that word mean? Am I allowed to depict images of said word?
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 5:01 PM MDT reply actions
my bad, it was ryanbatty’s article
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 5:19 PM MDT up reply actions
Yahweh is a common transliteration of the four-letter name used for God in the Old Testament (Jehovah is another attempt at the same, which is where the Jehovah’s Witnesses get their name). I didn’t use it in this post because this particular passage is from the New Testament.
I’m not sure if this answers your image question, but some folks do get upset if you speak the name out loud and will say “Adonai” when they see the word in writing (which is a word that means “Lord”) out of reverence for the name. So yeah, you could get yourself in trouble in some places by running around using the word willy nilly.
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by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 5:44 PM MDT up reply actions
Definitely answers my question….as to the places you could get in trouble…..Olds Alberta comes to mind
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 6:44 PM MDT up reply actions
I’ve never had a problem in olds, but I don’t go there often so that may explain why.
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by exsanguinator on Oct 19, 2011 8:24 AM MDT up reply actions
anyone read that article in EJ about the derrick making a loud sound and scaring the players? Anyone else think this is way too convenient a time for the old decrepit arena to be front page on the EJ website?
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 5:23 PM MDT reply actions
I bet pat Laforge was up on the skywalk dressed in all black with a hammer…and the article already printed up
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 5:24 PM MDT up reply actions
It’s very disconcerting to go the NHL.com stats page and see Khabibulin’s mug not once but twice among the goaltending leaders. I feel Rod Serling should be doing some voice-over narration right now.
ya i’m watching dallas vs. columbus hoping lehntonen shits the bed….giving khabi some more room up there at the top
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 6:37 PM MDT up reply actions
I’m sorry — Edmonton finished where last year, caller? Want to wager on where we finish relative to Edmonton this year? I’m tired of this question, I’ll tell you very honestly. I’m getting a little sour. How many teams . . . every year, for the last 10 years, five years, eight years, have finished in the bottom five, bottom seven, bottom 10? They’ve had a pick anywhere from No. 1 to No. 10 year after year after year after year, and they still wander in the desert. And they’re no closer to getting out than they were 10 years ago.
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-Jay Fester
slowly massages Feaster’s scalp yessss masssster… all isss asss it sssshould be
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by mindmasher on Oct 18, 2011 6:40 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
who cares what it means, its the visual image of small creature massaging feaster’s half bald scalp
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 6:49 PM MDT up reply actions
hm, apparently. i don’t think much of feaster, but that’s pretty awesome.
by Passive Voice on Oct 18, 2011 7:03 PM MDT up reply actions
That’s a real quote, on a radio call in show, can’t remember which.
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can i delete my own comments?
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 7:15 PM MDT reply actions
Actual lineup
Omark – Nugent-Hopkins – Eberle
Smyth – Horcoff – Jones
Paajarvi – Belanger – Petrell
Eager – Lander – Peckham
Whitney – Potter
Smid – Gilbert
Barker – Sutton
Dubnyk
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My twitter grief begins early
https://twitter.com/#!/BicepusMaximus/status/126466819459514368
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Are there any other options even if he was terrible?
In theory, there is little difference between practice and theory, but in practice there is!
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They could go with four defense pairings and have Petry in the lineup. Don’t know that I’ve ever seen a team do that though.
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by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 7:54 PM MDT up reply actions
Yeah, but the rosters are bigger there. I mean when the coach has 18 skaters.
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by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 8:03 PM MDT up reply actions
Why are you torturing yourself?
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by Ben Johnston on Oct 18, 2011 7:54 PM MDT up reply actions
Keeps me on my game. Mental anguish is training.
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Horak?
Anyone know where Horak ended up? Minors? Juniors? Pressbox? I know he played the first 4 games…
Pressbox tonight.
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by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 7:57 PM MDT up reply actions
Gilbert shakes Bourque as Smid stands and watches. Laco – get yourself wide.
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Whitney lost his footing there and struggled to get back to his feet. I couldn’t tell is he was under way with a normal stride after that.
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Looks like they’ve got Barker playing his off-side. That seems like it might not end well.
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Barker-Sutton is destined not to end well.
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Barker got clowned by Glencross pretty bad there.
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by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 7:58 PM MDT up reply actions
If this defense stays healthy and Renney keeps playing Barker, there’s going to be a Strudwickian RelCorsi.
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Tim Jackman is as dumb as a bag of hammers.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFHEuKkTa5k#t=00m15s
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He’s on a heckuva run right now.
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His value is high! Trade him!
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by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 7:56 PM MDT up reply actions
You’ve been reading our Facebook page.
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CFP #2 gets an apple.
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I don’t think Potter is going anywhere, Renney really likes his game.
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potter has made 4 nice plays already!
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 8:02 PM MDT up reply actions
I can see why. He kept the puck in the Calgary zone on that last sequence and then generated a shot on net.
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by Ben Johnston on Oct 18, 2011 8:02 PM MDT up reply actions
I could live with:
Whitney-Petry
Gilbert-Smid
Sutton-Potter
Peckham
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by Ben Johnston on Oct 18, 2011 8:04 PM MDT up reply actions
This would be my inclination as well, though I’d hope Peckham could overtake Sutton by the end of the year.
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by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 8:07 PM MDT up reply actions
No sir. Chicago chose Jordan Hendry over him.
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Yeah, throw him a bone once in a while.
by TakeoutArtist on Oct 18, 2011 8:07 PM MDT up reply actions
It’s called a banhammer.
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by Ben Johnston on Oct 18, 2011 8:12 PM MDT up reply actions
I can’t do that to Yeti, he’s a staff favorite. There’s nothing better than watching him reel in a new commenter.
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Maybe Feaster can suck on that to get the sour taste out of his mouth.
by TakeoutArtist on Oct 18, 2011 7:57 PM MDT up reply actions
Barker just got smoked by Glencross. He’s got cement skates.
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Horcoff gets the assist on the Gilbert goal. Horcoff and Souray on fire.
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pathetically slow windup by stajan
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 8:03 PM MDT reply actions
Seemed like he really should have used all of that room he had to drive to the net. If Barker comes across, it opens up a great pass. If not, he gets himself a much better shot.
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by Scott Reynolds on Oct 18, 2011 8:04 PM MDT up reply actions
new nhl rule :
Cant open the bench gates during play, only over the boards….unless to pull the goaltender
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 18, 2011 8:05 PM MDT reply actions
Holy wow. Gilbert was a one man wall there against Stempniak and Glencross. Cut off the skater, blocked the pass, swiped the next attempt.
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Jones doesn’t make a lot of good decisions.
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When Scooby and the gang get stuck in their own end, I’m reminded that they’re quite young.
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It’s so odd to see them using Nugent Hopkins so low in the zone on defense
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Remember the days when J.F. Jacques was on the toughs line with Horcoff and O’Sullivan? And when Jacques would randomly wander into the crease on defense just to give up a GA?
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The entire Mystery Machine ends up below the goal line on that forecheck. Yoinks.
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Barker just got smoked again, then takes a penalty.
“What can this signing hurt?”
In deed.
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Over Barker? Yes. Over Petry? no.
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DERP
http://twitter.com/dennis_kreba/status/126477201418887168
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With any luck, he’s far, far away from the Oilers’ lineup.
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by Ben Johnston on Oct 18, 2011 8:17 PM MDT up reply actions
It’s so sad that the Preds and Stars have intermission shows that blow Sportsnet’s out of the water.
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Another too many men penalty. Oilers on pace for 60 of those this season.
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On the plus side, the Oilers seem to have worked out the key to successful penalty kills: play teams with lousy power plays.
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I was going to say the Oilers PK looked surprisingly effective tonight….
by TakeoutArtist on Oct 18, 2011 8:43 PM MDT up reply actions
The Flames offense is lousy, period. They are going to have a rough year.
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I think icings are the only dzone draws Nugent-Hopkins has taken all season.
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Another nice move by Potter to prevent a breakaway chance.
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This is why Renney so carefully manages Scooby. Once they’re in their own end – they’re screwed. Scooby snacks don’t help either.
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Okay, here’s the tough question, who are Daphne and Velma?
by TakeoutArtist on Oct 18, 2011 8:54 PM MDT up reply actions
I’m not sure. I know that Horcoff and Smyth are the Globetrotters.
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Paajarvi is Velma. Not always pretty, but gets the job done.
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by Ben Johnston on Oct 18, 2011 8:55 PM MDT up reply actions
Lander.
Unless Omark or Lander is Daphne.
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If Eberle is Daphne, then I peg Omark as Fred because he’s tricky with the puck.
by TakeoutArtist on Oct 18, 2011 9:36 PM MDT up reply actions
Though later episode characters Scrappy Doo and Scooby Dum aren’t accounted for.
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Who in hell are Scrappy Doo and Scooby Dum?
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by Ben Johnston on Oct 18, 2011 9:00 PM MDT up reply actions
Oh, OK, unwanted and unnecessary new additions to the cast. Hordichuk and Barker.
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by Ben Johnston on Oct 18, 2011 9:05 PM MDT up reply actions 3 recs
I regret that I have but one rec to give to your comment.
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Scrappy Doo = Peckham, talk a lot and likes to mix it up but usually causes more trouble than help
by TakeoutArtist on Oct 18, 2011 9:04 PM MDT up reply actions
But I can accept Ebs as Daphne too. Looks pretty.
by TakeoutArtist on Oct 18, 2011 9:02 PM MDT up reply actions
I don’t think he’s had an offensive zonestart tonight.
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Smid - Sutton
Why are Smid and Sutton out together?
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Barker and Whitney have similar PT. Someone get Whitney a foot massage.
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Announcers claimed that puck was under Kiprusoff’s pads, but it was clearly between his legs and fair game.
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Well, they are Calgary announcers.
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Calgary announcers keep talking about 71%. Horcoff and Belanger are 57% combined. I never thought I’d miss Sam Gagner’s faceoff ability.
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If either Horcoff or Belanger go down to injury, we’re in trouble.
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They’re back to where they were last year.
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This is a whole bunch of wasted power play time.
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Welp, that one had the ring of inevitability to it.
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The Mystery Machine is so bad in their own end.
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Mystery Incorporated just isn’t the same without Shaggy.
by TakeoutArtist on Oct 18, 2011 9:50 PM MDT up reply actions
That and they can’t be protected on the road.
I wonder if Renney is going to have to run some home and away lines.
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And Iginla out against the fourth line. That’ll do it.
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Wasn’t necessarily good work. The top two toughs lines are still working their asses off and have been good.
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It happens. We got a fluke win against Pittsburgh in the opener; Calgary got a fluke win tonight.
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by Ben Johnston on Oct 18, 2011 10:00 PM MDT up reply actions
I feel like half of the team did. The other half was a mess.
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Bruins fan and author on Stanley Cup of Chowder here. Just wanted to say I think the Oilers have an exciting team to follow this season and when the Bruins aren’t on I look forward to watching how all of these young kids do this season. I don’t think they are ready for the playoffs yet, but I’m pulling for you guys in the West and think you have a solid team in the making for a while to come.
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Thanks for the support, Dave. There will definitely be some fun and exciting things about this team to watch this year and down the road, no doubt about it.
by TakeoutArtist on Oct 19, 2011 12:48 PM MDT up reply actions
It doesn’t look like Nugent-Hopkins is going back to juniors anytime soon either.
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