Oilers v. Coyotes - Psalm 70:1-5
by Scott Reynolds on Nov 5, 2011 5:45 PM MDT
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PrintCome quickly, O God, and save us!
Stretch out the long arm of your favor once again!
May those who want to end our streak
be put to shame and confusion!
May those who want to ruin us
be ruined themselves!
May those who say, "Aha! Those shot totals betray you!"
be completely dominated!
But may your team who seeks after you
continue to receive your saving help!
We know that we are poor and needy,
and we know that our victories come from your hand.
We know you are our great deliverer,
and we implore you to never leave us again.
Edmonton Oilers (8-2-2) @ Phoenix Coyotes (6-4-2)
Jobing.com Arena, 8:00 p.m. MDT
Television: CBC
More analysis after the jump...
Home Team Scouting Report:
The Coyotes have shifted some roles around this year, and so far the changes look to be paying off for Dave Tippett. In previous seasons, Tippett had used players like Eric Belanger, Martin Hanzal and Vernon Fiddler to take the tough zone-starts and tough competition in order to shelter his younger players from difficult situations. But this year's team doesn't have many of those younger players. The youngest player on the club up front is Mikkel Boedker who's 21 and who came into the season with over 100 games of NHL experience. The result is Tippett giving those tough zone-starts to newcomer Boyd Gordon, and providing shelter for his more talented offensive players, including Martin Hanzal. As a result, Hanzal is on pace for 74-point season so far, which would blow his previous career-high of 35 right out of the water. Even if he doesn't quite get that many, his new contract looks like it's going to be great.
Expected Lineups:
Edmonton Oilers (8-2-2):
Smyth - Horcoff - Jones
Hall - Nugent-Hopkins - Eberle
Paajarvi - Belanger - Gagner
Eager - Lander - Petrell
Smid - Gilbert
Petry - Potter
Peckham - Teubert
Dubnyk
Phoenix Coyotes (6-4-2):
Boedker - Langkow - Doan
Whitney - Hanzal - Vrbata
Torres - Gordon - Korpikoski
Pyatt - O'Sullivan - Bissonnette
Yandle - Morris
Ekman-Larsson - Aucoin
Klesla - Schlemko
Smith
By the Numbers:
- After spending a good chunk of last season ripping up the AHL - he scored 48 points in 36 regular season games with the Houston Aeros - Patrick O'Sullivan is back in the NHL. Right now, O'Sullivan is centering the team's fourth line, which means that one of the guys he beat for the job is old friend Marc-Antoine Pouliot.
- Ten Oilers have played in all twelve of the Oilers' games so far this season: Shawn Horcoff, Jordan Eberle, Ryan Smyth, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Magnus Paajarvi, Eric Berlanger, Ryan Jones, Anton Lander, Tom Gilbert, Ladislav Smid. With Smid playing big minutes, and leading the league in blocked shots (45), his durability is particularly impressive.
- Going into the game against the Kings, there were a bunch of players who had yet to be on the ice for an Oiler goal. But Lennart Petrell's tally helped a bunch of them get off the schneid, and now all of the regulars have been part of an on-ice celebration during five-on-five play. At the other end of the ice, Ben Eager has still yet to be on the ice for an opposition goal five-on-five in just over an hour of ice time.
- Even though Magnus Paajarvi has now been on the ice for a goal, he's still without a point, and as it turns out, no forward in the NHL has played more minutes than Paajarvi without registering at least one.
- Corey Potter has been impressive for a lot of reasons so far this season, but one that I haven't seen mentioned much is his ability to play the game without taking penalties. Through ten games, Potter hasn't taken any penalties during five-on-five play (he did get one hooking penalty while the Oilers were short-handed). His penalty minute totals from the AHL don't suggest that he's particularly good in this area, but then, his totals from the AHL didn't suggest that he'd be this good at all!
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I’d rather see him shoot than try to play setup so much.
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Hanzal appears to have found some offense this season … he’s always been such a good 2 way player but scoring more points has definitely been something I’d like to see. About Potter… EVERYTHING is impressive about him. Signing him and Petrell is sheer genius and really working out. I wonder if Potter can keep it up. Last, Smid clearly idolizes guy like Hejda and Michalek. I wonder if they sit in a pub in the Czech Republic drinking beer and bragging about who scored the least and has the most bruises on their bodies from all the blocked shots?
Roman Polak too. That’s a weird country you come from. :)
by Passive Voice on Nov 5, 2011 9:51 PM MDT up reply actions
Corey Potter has been impressive for a lot of reasons so far this season, but one that I haven’t seen mentioned much is his ability to play the game without taking penalties. Through ten games, Potter hasn’t taken any penalties during five-on-five play (he did get one hooking penalty while the Oilers were short-handed). His penalty minute totals from the AHL don’t suggest that he’s particularly good in this area, but then, his totals from the AHL didn’t suggest that he’d be this good at all!
This is still the most confounding thing.
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I find it comforting. There’s something nice about knowing that every so often, the numbers get it wrong, and a player turns out to be way better than you’d expect. I think it shows that there’s a place in hockey for both advanced stats and the traditional “seen ’im good” approach.
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Petry completely took away the angle there. Very nice.
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We noticed the same thing, nice.
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Jeff Petry stands Vrbata up and keeps him at bay with a perfect stick.
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Did anyone notice the way Petry took away the angle on Vrbata?
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 8:18 PM MDT up reply actions
Dear Taylor Hall: I fully approve of your tripping the roaming goalie, but it would be better if you cross-checked him in the back of the head too.
Fuck goalies.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 8:17 PM MDT reply actions 2 recs
You’re clearly just pleasing the crowd here looking for recs.
And you got mine.
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I’m a populist at heart. A populist who thinks goalies should be fair game outside of the crease and anything else is wimpiness.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 8:21 PM MDT up reply actions
Eric Belanger – Ryan Jones
Theo Peckham – Tom Gilbert
How much of that sounds like a first-place penalty kill? Holy hell the Coyotes are moving the puck around pretty effortlessly so far, although Gilbert and Peckham are at least doing a good job forcing the Coyotes forwards out of Dubnyk’s grill.
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The biggest fanana of the Havana Bananas.
by Scott Reynolds on Nov 5, 2011 11:33 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
He played it right, though. If you’re a shitty faceoff winger (i.e. any second-year winger), just try to fall on the other centre and try to create chaos; maybe you’ll get lucky.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 8:33 PM MDT up reply actions
You just like to watch Hall wreak havoc on poor, innocent goalies and centres.
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If you haven’t got skill (and in the faceoff circle Hall hasn’t) go for chaos! It’s an old law!
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 8:34 PM MDT up reply actions
You and chaos. You’re like the Jeff Goldblum of the ’sphere.
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Coincidentally, I first explained my faceoff theory by flirting with Laura Dern.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 8:36 PM MDT up reply actions
What’s the over/under on how long it takes before the NHL gives up and the Coyotes get relocated?
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Given what the city gave up, I bet they stay for a long time.
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Did you see how empty the crowd is? Hopefully the Oilers don’t get a wake up caller similar to the one the Leafs got tonight from Boston!
This is what happens when you put an arena an hour away from the population. See Senators, Ottawa.
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Not to mention the gridlock on the main thoroughfare to get there. On game night you need to allow a good 90 minutes to get there from downtown.
it’s my understanding that the arena is a great one.
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$1 beers at the game? They heard Nik was in town?
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by Derek Zona on Nov 5, 2011 8:32 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
“Both of these teams have been so good when scoring first this year and both teams are playing for the first goal.”
NO! They are?
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It’s CBC. If you want insightful hockey commentary, go to Twitter.
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by Ben Johnston on Nov 5, 2011 8:36 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
Daryl Reaugh is a nice change over Kevin “I suck at NHL goaltending AND NHL commentating” Weekes. My gawd he’s horrid.
Reaugh is amazing. An ex-player that doesn’t worship at the player altar and an ex-goalie that doesn’t find goaltenders to be infallible or something just short.
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Gilbert fucked up on a pinch. Do a shot!
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Petry had no idea how fast Korpikoski was. He was smoked.
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When the Rangers drafted him he was so obviously better than Hugh Jessiman that we all just got carried away.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 8:39 PM MDT up reply actions
Why in the world did Belanger bring that puck back into the zone?
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 8:44 PM MDT up reply actions
Ahh, Gilbert could’ve walked that in on goal!
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Okay, I know you’re a Tom Gilbert fan. And in all seriousness, I think he’s a good defenseman: not perfect but a worthy first-pairing type on a good team.
But ever since we brought the guy in for Tommy Salo he has had the same utter inability to time when he pinches into the offensive zone. He has not gotten better at it since his rookie season. It makes me insane.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 8:44 PM MDT up reply actions
He didn’t pinch! He should’ve, but didn’t.
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Exactly my point. He’s a dummy.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:09 PM MDT up reply actions
They should hire the C&B staff to run the joint.
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This seems like a good time to point out that I once wrote an article lamenting how great a GM Scott Howson was and how foolish we were to give him up.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:11 PM MDT up reply actions
You’d be the assistant to the traveling secretary.
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what would you do if you were given the job?
by Passive Voice on Nov 5, 2011 10:01 PM MDT up reply actions
I can’t tell you that until I hear back from the Jackets that they’re not interested
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My wife just suggested Scott Oake as a future Halloween costume.
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She laughs at him every time he’s on television. She thinks it would be hilarious to walk around with a gray comb back, sideburns a microphone and an earpiece, just asking awkward questions to everyone.
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That was a pretty damned good switch by Potter and Petry.
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He was trying to get into the first row there. Or something.
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Very well-placed shot by Langkow. Very well-placed. Very well-placed. (pur)
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The Oilers are getting their show run. They need Hordichuk back ASAP
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Also, Khabibulin would have had that Langkow goal.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:13 PM MDT up reply actions
That’s a little pessimistic…they’re getting beaten up, but they’ve generated a few legitimate chances, and 1-0 is hardly a deathblow.
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The narrative is not “Tom Gilbert has never made a good pinch in his life.” Any more than Ryan Jones scoring one goal does not prove he had a great contract.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:15 PM MDT up reply actions
(Another useful pinch by Gilbert ruined by Tubthumper. OH FUCK MY PRECIOUS NARRATIVE.)
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:16 PM MDT up reply actions
Tubthumper and his stupid stick.
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“Potter with that good point shot. Finds lots of sticks in front.”
Isn’t tipping the puck a forward skill?
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I don’t know but I suddenly feel like I need penicillin.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:20 PM MDT up reply actions
Whatever you do, don’t touch it.
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“The blast doesn’t get through as Mike Smith makes the leather save.”
So the shot didn’t get through, but the goalie saved it. K.
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Drink!
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Dubnyk threw it to the wall there for no one, same side he overcommitted to earlier. There has to be a hot chick over there.
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Excellent hustle to get back by Gagner.
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Gilbert knocked that out of the air at the point. In the defensive zone. I don’t know how he got there, but it was a nice play.
He’s all over the place right now.
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Petrell throws extremely solid checks. Not Mike Grier solid, but solid nonetheless.
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MOVE THIS TEAM.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:26 PM MDT up reply actions
After the city just gave up $197 million plus potentially $25 million? Ain’t happening.
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Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:28 PM MDT up reply actions
Seriously though, how many more years of huge losses will it take?
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Belanger is playing like a statue.
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Lennart Petrell with the Steve Staios Classic clearance, Gilbert is able to neither shove Pyatt out of Dubnyk’s way not get out of the way himself, there was no pressure on the point… whole lot of failures on that one.
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How many goals is Sheldon Souray going to score when we’re in Dallas? Seven?
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:33 PM MDT up reply actions
I actually saw that Souray has 4 on the year already and is playing quite well… we should’ve kept him (which was my view all along)
by Czechboy on Nov 5, 2011 9:35 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
You’re clearly just pleasing the crowd here looking for recs.
And you got mine.
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First time they’ve trailed by two all year.
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Taylor Hall has been getting his ass handed to him all night. It’s insane. What are the odds the Oil will score 3 in the third?
Don’t see it happeninng, the coyotes are suffocating us tonight. This game has all the makings of a Wild-Oilers game.
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At least it’s not 7-0.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:37 PM MDT up reply actions
http://twitter.com/p3rsonman/status/133026098731692032
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You’re clearly just antagonizing the crowd here looking for vomit.
And you’ve got mine.
(I mean, Gagner hasn’t been good tonight but good god.)
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:43 PM MDT up reply actions
You’ve not been around for the GDTs lately. I best the best of Twitter now.
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People like that don’t need attention, except from sterilization squads.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:46 PM MDT up reply actions
No one responds to or follows them. We just make fun.
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http://twitter.com/Jodes97/status/133024662002204672
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http://twitter.com/yvanchenier/status/133027261388554242
Did I miss a tournament?
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Football playoff season here in Canada. I can understand the confusion.
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by Doogie2K on Nov 6, 2011 1:21 AM MDT via iPhone app up reply actions
106 line
Pipe line
Kid line
Baby Oil line
pick up line
Edmonton fans are really bad at naming lines.
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Jailbait Line
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 9:50 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, but no one will call Eberle “Daphne”
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Scott Oake with another odd segue.
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Wow, the PHX player was about to shoot and Belanger just sort of appeared. I half expected a cloud of smoke.
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And he just stuck his butt into him and stood there.
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It doesn’t matter who Phoenix has in net if this is how they play in front of their goalie every night.
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So you like the Bryzgalov signing?
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http://twitter.com/timaw1/status/133030515602227200
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To be fair, most of these people are probably teenagers. They’re used to blaming their parents for things.
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by Ben Johnston on Nov 5, 2011 10:00 PM MDT up reply actions
I agree with the sympathy; this score is my long-lost father’s fault! (sob)
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:00 PM MDT up reply actions
Oh god this is terrible. Derek, do I have to watch the third period?
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:01 PM MDT reply actions
Yeah, I turned it off. I’m sure nothing’s going to happen.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:05 PM MDT up reply actions
Hey now – you volunteered for this!
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I volunteered to write a post-game about a team on a six-game winning streak! Not this bunch of p-p-pussies!
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:07 PM MDT up reply actions
It’s odd to expect a line to score and have a feeling of disappointment when they don’t.
Horcoff line is money, right?
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Well, as someone pointed out earlier, they were going to have a bad game eventually. What matters is how they bounce back against Montreal on Tuesday.
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And no sooner do I post that…
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by Ben Johnston on Nov 5, 2011 10:06 PM MDT up reply actions
The Mystery Machine pops their road cherry
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by Derek Zona on Nov 5, 2011 10:06 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
…no, Derek.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:06 PM MDT up reply actions
Couple weeks ago he was Gretzky. Tonight he was Lafleur. Next week: Bobby Orr.
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by Doogie2K on Nov 6, 2011 1:23 AM MDT via iPhone app up reply actions
Nope. After the save, they’re going to say Roy.
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Haha, good one. It was a helluva stop, though!
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by Bruce McCurdy on Nov 6, 2011 3:20 PM MST up reply actions
Oh Razor, don’t call Hopkins lucky around Oilers fans. They’ll hang you in effigy!
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Paajarvi hasn’t skated around like Modano tonight. He should be zooming around the ice.
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So, wasn’t Anton Lander supposed to be good? Didn’t someone keep telling me that?
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:09 PM MDT reply actions
There’s a bit of a disconnect between results and the views on the 4th line.
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I still think Belanger should be moved to the 4th line and shift Gagner back to center.
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by OilLeak on Nov 5, 2011 10:13 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
I’m coming round to that view too.
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by Ben Johnston on Nov 5, 2011 10:14 PM MDT up reply actions
Agreed, and I think he will be when Hemsky comes back.
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Huh. According to CBC the Horcoff-Smyth line has been providing secondary support this year.
I’m so happy for their expert analysis.
Right after the whole “Storytelling” flap today, CBC is telling stories.
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I guess size would matter in a public jerk-off competition, but I feel like technique would be way more important.
by Passive Voice on Nov 5, 2011 10:28 PM MDT up reply actions
That’s a great article. I wish I thought anyone would pay attention to it.
by eddy the lip on Nov 5, 2011 10:33 PM MDT up reply actions
Fun fact: his last couple years with the Owen Sound Attack, Theo Peckham played in front of the net on the power play because he was just such a mother screening goalies.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:12 PM MDT reply actions
Paajarvi covering the point there for Peckham’s trip to the front
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I was fast forwarding through the game and had to go back for that. That was so fun and unexpected. God bless the two-goal-a-year guys: it’s like Christmas every time they do it.
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by Doogie2K on Nov 6, 2011 1:25 AM MDT via iPhone app up reply actions
Holy shit, Paajarvi almost carelessly got a point there. Good dodge!
by Oiltank on Nov 5, 2011 10:14 PM MDT reply actions 2 recs
This rec thing is no working for me, or you’d have it.
by eddy the lip on Nov 5, 2011 10:15 PM MDT up reply actions
Adam Sandler is still making movies? Why?
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The same reason I’m still writing blogs: filthy lucre.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:16 PM MDT up reply actions
One of these days, every puck Smid has absorbed is going to explode out of his body in a massive super nova of rubber.
by eddy the lip on Nov 5, 2011 10:20 PM MDT up reply actions
I love how Tubthumper is standing in the slot as Horcoff drops the pass to the point, but the camera frames him out as Smid shoots. Smid’s shot approaches the net and the camera pans to the net and…
…Tubthumper is laying in the slot.
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Tubthumper on the ice again, though this time I heard and “OW!” when he hit.
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That sort of fantastic passing by Taylor Hall is what reverse three stars are made of.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:24 PM MDT reply actions
So here’s what I’ve always wondered. In situations like this when you need to get the puck in to pull the goalie, the invariable play is to dump the puck in firmly. I’ve always wondered; is that really the high-percentage play? I mean, unless you have the mother of all forechecks your chances on a quick dump-in like that don’t seem to be more than fifty-fifty.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:25 PM MDT reply actions
That has to be one of the worst final minute pushes I’ve ever seen. Whitney made Horcoff look like a hack!
http://timeonice.com/SC1112.html?GameNumber=20192&submit=Go
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That’s a marathon shift for Horcoff to end the game.
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Paajarvi gets less than 10 minutes tonight. He’s going to the press box.
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I fucking wish. BRING BACK THE PIDDLER!
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:27 PM MDT up reply actions
Wait a second, when did Phoenix stop sing Warren Zevon to celebrate goals and why in the hell did they stop?
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Warren Zevon was too cool to be associated with the Quebec Nordiques-in-Waiting.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 10:28 PM MDT up reply actions
So there will be no analysis.
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by Benjamin Massey on Nov 5, 2011 11:46 PM MDT up reply actions
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