Oilers v. Flames - Acts 7:30-34
by Scott Reynolds on Dec 3, 2011 5:30 PM MST
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PrintAfter four years had passed, an angel appeared to Smyth in the crease while he was playing against the Flames. When he saw the angel, he was filled with fear and awe. For it was on that day that he heard the voice of God speak to him through the angel, "I am the God of your fathers, of Gretzky, and Messier, and Lowe. I have heard the cries of my people in Edmonton. I have seen their suffering and have come down to heal them and set them free. Now then, you must come with me, for I am sending you back to Edmonton."
Calgary Flames (10-12-2) @ Edmonton Oilers (13-10-2)
Rexall Place, 8:00 p.m. MST
Television: CBC
More analysis after the jump...
Visiting Team Scouting Report:
I admit that before the season, I thought that the Flames would be one of the teams in the hunt for the playoffs. Not a great team, but a decent one in a poor division. And in some ways, that's exactly what they've been. Miikka Kiprusoff has been quite good, and their play at even strength is that of a mediocre hockey team; their Fenwick percentage at even strength is 48.6%, and actually improves to 49.6% if we look only at results with the score tied. But they're getting absolutely roasted on special teams. The power play has generated just 39.9 shots per sixty minutes of five-on-four ice time and their penalty kill is allowing 56.1 shots per sixty minutes of four-on-five ice time. The Flames are among the league's bottom five teams in both categories, and leaves the team with a very poor (considering we're only about a third of the way through the year) -8 goal differential on special teams. Given that their overall goal differential (excluding shoot-out goals) is -9, I know what areas I'd be working on hard in practice or trying to find help with cheaply via trade.
Expected Lineups:
Edmonton Oilers (13-10-3):
Gagner - Horcoff - Hemsky
Smyth - Nugent-Hopkins - Eberle
Paajarvi - Belanger - Jones
Petrell - O'Marra - Hordichuk
Smid - Gilbert
Whitney - Petry
Sutton - Peckham
Khabibulin
Calgary Flames (10-12-2):
Glencross - Jokinen - Iginla
Tanguay - Horak - Bourque
Comeau - Backlund - Stempniak
Kostopoulos - Stajan - Jackman
Bouwmeester - Butler
Hannan - Brodie
Smith - Piskula
Kiprusoff
By the Numbers:
- You're all probably sick of hearing this one, but Eric Belanger, Sam Gagner, and Magnus Paajarvi are now first, second, and third among NHL forwards in "most time on ice without a goal". Belanger and Gagner are also tied for first in "most points without a goal" with seven each.
- At home, the Oilers have a goal differential of +12. On the road, they have a goal differential of -5. The Flames aren't quite as Jekyll and Hyde. At home, the Flames have a goal differential of -6, but on the road, they're actually a bit better at -4.
- Edmonton's 6-3 win over Columbus was the third time this season that the club scored six or more goals in one game. Last season, the Oilers only scored six or more twice.
- Ales Hemsky had a very impressive third period against the Blue Jackets, and while he's still clearly working some of the kinks out of his game, one area where he's been very impressive is personal discipline - through fifteen games, Hemsky still hasn't taken a single penalty.
- With Ryan Nugent-Hopkins among the league's top five scorers, I got to wondering who the last Oiler was to finish the season among the league's top five. It turns out that it was Mark Messier who finished second in scoring during the 1989-90 season with 129 points. That got me to wondering how many other teams have had to wait that long. It turns out that it's not that many. While the Predators, Blue Jackets, and Wild have never had a top-five point-getter in their history, the only other team that's had to wait for two decades is Montreal, which I somehow found very surprising. Their drought actually goes all the way back to Guy Lafleur's third-place 125-point season in 1979-80.
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Hey Scott unless there was a massive trade this afternoon I think you have Calgary’s lineup a bit wrong ;)
I don’t know. I liked that massive trade…. (rushes to fix).
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by Scott Reynolds on Dec 3, 2011 6:25 PM MST up reply actions
This will be the first Oilers game I’ve watched for a couple weeks. Looking forward to it.
3-2 Oilers.
Gagner with a goal and assist.
Paajarvi with a goal.
Hemsky with the winner halfway through the third on the PP.
Go Oilers!!!
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 6:33 PM MST reply actions
Gagner with a goal and assist.
Paajarvi with a goal.
Hemsky with the winner halfway through the third on the PP.
This is less likely than Minnesota finishing > 50% possession this year
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That could be the score before the 10 minute mark.
by TakeoutArtist on Dec 3, 2011 8:20 PM MST up reply actions
As long as we’re making predictions…
Oilers 7
Flames 2
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Which broadcast crew is doing this game?
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Just saw BP wing guy on an Aflac commercial. Now I hate Aflac
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Calgary just let Hordichuk score.
Time to rebuild.
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Ah, Petrell. Good for him, he worked hard to keep that puck in.
No need to rebuild yet.
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Not to spoil the celebration, but Khabibulin did not look good there.
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Roomiest groin in the NHL
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by Derek Zona on Dec 3, 2011 8:18 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
I once tried to go out with a girl that was rumoured to have one of those. Didn’t pan out though.
"When you find yourself rooting for mediocrity – you might be an Oilers fan." - Neal Livingston
Did she have a big nose, a ferrari and really like booze?
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Sadly, Heather Graham did not go to my high school. She did attend several of my fantasies though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4KJtDxTqWQ&t=2m09s
"When you find yourself rooting for mediocrity – you might be an Oilers fan." - Neal Livingston
No, that was Khabibulin, I’d take Quick in a heartbeat =).
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by proxy on Dec 3, 2011 8:18 PM MST up reply actions 2 recs
That’s typical Sutton over the last 10 years.
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I love that Hemsky is hitting everything over the last three periods.
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
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Petry had the original turnover, Khabibulin had zero rebound control, and everybody was just sort of standing around and staring at the puck.
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Ryan Whitney is still trying to catch up to Bourque. How badly did he get smoked on that rebound?
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Classy comment about bloggers in their underwear starting baseless rumors with no accountability.
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The CBC is at the cutting edge of new media.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 8:26 PM MST up reply actions
Completely baseless. I don’t know any bloggers that wear underwear.
by eddy the lip on Dec 3, 2011 8:27 PM MST up reply actions 3 recs
The folks at Matchsticks and Gasoline took that whole furor out behind the woodshed in fine fashion earlier:
On Iginla’s notorious slow starts:
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I like how you’re neatly just demonstrated the lazy unaccountable baseless work done by bloggers in their underwear, and contrasted it to the industrious research intensive, accountable, and relevant work put out by the MSM.
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To be fair, writing thoughtful, well-sourced articles really cuts into time that could be spent hunting for sound-bytes in the locker room.
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by Ben Johnston on Dec 3, 2011 8:32 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
Iginla’s line out against O’Marra’s…surprised the refs didn’t just blow the whistle and award a goal.
"When you find yourself rooting for mediocrity – you might be an Oilers fan." - Neal Livingston
Thus far, Horcoff and O’Marra are both good. Belanger is struggling and Hopkins is quiet.
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I can’t imagine Renney wanting O’Marra out there against Iginla.
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Given Horidchuk’s new-found ability to play the Sedins, you never know.
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Glad to see Smyth bust out an original breakaway move.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 8:30 PM MST reply actions
They should just play 3 on 3 for the rest of the game. It’s basically that right now anyways.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 8:32 PM MST reply actions
I like this Kal Tire guy. Way better than the wing guy
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Don Cherry ranting about the need for fighting in hockey is better than the wing guy.
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I’d never heard “Andy Sutton” and “daintily” in the same sentence, but I have to say it was accurate in the context of that play!
Andy Sutton daintily dabbed the corners of his mouth at the conclusion of the Oilers annual tea party.
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“Smooth skating” is associated with Jay Bouwmeester as ofter as “THECAPTAIN” was for Ethan Moreau
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First Smid scoring multiple goals in one season, now Sutton dangling around the O-zone. For their next trick the hockey gods will have Peckham score a hattrick.
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From the blueline. The Oilers’ blueline.
by TakeoutArtist on Dec 3, 2011 8:38 PM MST up reply actions
See that? That’s the absolute opposite of converting.
by TakeoutArtist on Dec 3, 2011 8:41 PM MST up reply actions
Please don’t break, please don’t break, please don’t break
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I never thought a Whitney-Petry pairing would see Whitney getting burned worse. Get well soon Whitney.
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by proxy on Dec 3, 2011 8:45 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
Boy, when’s the last time you saw Whitney undressed like that?
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Edmonton sports media curiously silent on Whitney’s struggles and his lack of mobility.
That’s top-notch reporting there.
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in honour of jay feaster, I am in my underwear.
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 8:47 PM MST up reply actions
Pffft. I’m lounging here in my chair, with my laptop on my thigh, wearing nothing but a smile…and thinking of you.
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while I find this very creepy, I am also humbled.
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 8:52 PM MST up reply actions
https://twitter.com/darenmillard/status/143173869988085762
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Hemsky has a bee in his bonnet tonight.
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I thought Calgary’s special teams were supposed to be hopeless?
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Only against the rest of the league, apparently.
by TakeoutArtist on Dec 3, 2011 8:47 PM MST up reply actions
I still believe in the Son of Nils.
"When you find yourself rooting for mediocrity – you might be an Oilers fan." - Neal Livingston
After a very good season, his team changed coaches and he fell out of favour, was waived, and now plays for a KHL farm team.
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by proxy on Dec 3, 2011 9:08 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
This power play is crud. Looks familiar though.
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home PP has been so awful the reaction when the flames get calls is “sigh”
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 8:49 PM MST up reply actions
Saw Hemsky and Gagner real good that period. Paajarvi had flashes and everyone else was either mediocre or Ryan Whitney.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 8:49 PM MST reply actions
Yeah, the first line was pretty good that period. I think Renney picked the wrong night to get Hopkins out against Horak, Tanguay and Bourque.
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this could not be more correct. bork has been absolute junk thus far this year. not just percentages, either.
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 8:58 PM MST up reply actions
Gilbert and Smid were very good, but we’re getting to the point where pointing that out is just stating the obvious.
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Watching those blue and red circles on the highlights/analysis had me thinking that EA Sports really have gone all out for the latest rendition of the NHL franchise.
Meh, haven’t played any of those games since they stopped making them for the PC.
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I finally figured out who Hopkins reminds me of!
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is this the pickles guy? forgive my youthful inexperience
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 9:04 PM MST up reply actions
ah, yes. same movie/franchise, wrong character.
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 9:06 PM MST up reply actions
If Hopkins is Alfalfa, who do you cast as Spanky and Buckwheat?
by TakeoutArtist on Dec 3, 2011 9:07 PM MST up reply actions
He just looks like him – he doesn’t act like him, so it doesn’t really work.
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Hypothetically, would anyone here trade for Bouwmeester?
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 8:59 PM MST reply actions
Throw in Hordichuck. He got a point. His value will never be higher.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 9:04 PM MST up reply actions
Yes, I’d trade for him, though obviously it depends on what Feasting is asking for.
Besides, imagine the Gilbert – Bouwmeester pairing – the “HIT SOMEBODY” faction would be apoplectic.
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I really like bouw. but…I have a fetish for skating, so take that with a grain.
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 9:05 PM MST up reply actions
then you my friend will LOVE keith ballard
and he can be yours for the low low price of whatever.
by Passive Voice on Dec 3, 2011 9:12 PM MST up reply actions
rather have him then sarich, at least right now. haha.
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 9:14 PM MST up reply actions
I think Renney should reconsider this Hopkins-Horak matchup. Now.
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personally, I quite like it. horak kinda surprised everyone.
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 9:11 PM MST up reply actions
I don’t know what happened, but I want my 40 goal game pace back.
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I know what the problem is, they started out with the Hip, but now they’re playing Hole. It’s the arena music.
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Tanguay wanted nothing to do with that puck when he realized Sutton was standing there waiting for him to touch it.
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Gagner’s going to get another one tonight.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 9:12 PM MST reply actions
This isn’t uncommon. He’s been the Oilers 4th most-frequent shooter this season. Only 4 forwards are above league average, btw
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BTW – this is ES only.
Paajarvi, Hall, Smyth, Gagner are the 4 Oilers who are better than league average at S/60
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WTF is a “sassy stop”?
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It’s not like your PK has had much to worry about so far tonight.
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everything related to this team makes me worry all the time
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 9:16 PM MST up reply actions
Antcarctic grass moves faster than Ryan Whitney
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by Derek Zona on Dec 3, 2011 9:18 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
Hopkins is looking like an 18 year-old tonight.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 9:18 PM MST reply actions
Blatant fucking cross-check into the side and ribs. That could be a misconduct easily, but no fucking call whatsoever?
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to be fair, you see cross checks like that all the time. just so happens that it hurt horcoff that time. but it should’ve been at least 2.
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 9:27 PM MST up reply actions
The slash to the back of the legs or the cross-check?
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Remember when the Oilers could score on the PP? As in yesterday?
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 9:26 PM MST reply actions
It will come back as soon as Hopkins walks off of the side wall and fires the puck before he ever looks to pass.
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Legally. Getting revenge with Hordichuk or Sutton isn’t worth a loss tonight.
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Oh, totally that’s what I meant. Nothing dirty.
by TakeoutArtist on Dec 3, 2011 9:33 PM MST up reply actions
Finally a good shift by the Hopkins line.
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Smid with another SOG. I think he reads C&B and didn’t want land in a group with Strudwick.
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Close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades.
by TakeoutArtist on Dec 3, 2011 9:35 PM MST up reply actions
As soon as Hopkins looks up to pass, the Flames attack him. Snag the puck and fire
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Geez, first Sutton’s skating around “daintily,” now he’s “tickling the face of Glencross.” The commentary tonight is just weird.
This game is brought to you by our word of the day: incongruous.
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by Ben Johnston on Dec 3, 2011 9:40 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
Andy Sutton just broke a timbits rule with that silliness.
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Horcoff with the witty stick check on Tanguay after the drop pass on the rush.
Petry buries Iginla in the crease. That was excellent.
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tanguay just loves to do that. frustrates the hell out of me.
by Justin Azevedo on Dec 3, 2011 9:42 PM MST up reply actions
Whitney can’t escape the forecheck, again. He throws a cross-ice backhand suicide lead to Petry, again. That’s the third time he’s done that tonight.
Sutton with Petry and Teubert on the third pairing would be better for the Oilers at this point.
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Outshot 27-18 so far. 7 of the 18 are from Gagner-Horcoff-Hemsky.
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http://twitter.com/KOPPER17/status/143189742610169856
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Admit it, these Twitter accounts are just your alts to give you GDT fodder.
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That one was at least somewhat clever.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 9:53 PM MST up reply actions
He’s going to get a hospital wing named after him when he retires.
by TakeoutArtist on Dec 3, 2011 9:58 PM MST up reply actions
Pajaarvi had to have laughed at an old Gypsy woman in the off-season.
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I think he went to a fair and firebombed a hall of mirrors.
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by Ben Johnston on Dec 3, 2011 10:07 PM MST up reply actions
Horcoff’s line put together a really nice shift in the zone there
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1 period > 2 periods for that line!
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That line was beaten pretty soundly through two, but they’ve had three really good shifts so far this period
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Kipper channeled his inner Khabibulin on that one.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 10:11 PM MST reply actions
Not really. Iginla was out against the freaking 4th line.
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Not for the 1st time tonight.
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I just realized that I haven’t really noticed Peckham for most of the night. Also Smid can shoot, go figure.
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Not sure how successful he has really been in terms of TOI, but Sutter has definitely tried to get Iginla out there against the 4th line. Kind of like how Darryl used him fairly regularly per-lockout.
by RiversQ on Dec 3, 2011 10:19 PM MST via mobile reply actions
Yeah, they’ve jumped out midshift. But Renney has the ability to scream for a change too.
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It’s beyond strange how often Iginla’s seemed to be out against O’Marra tonight. Renney was very good at sheltering the Nugent line, but can’t seem to protect the 4th line very well.
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Why are they even playing in the 3rd period? They’re awful
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What a horrible freaking change.
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That was a freaking peewee line change.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 10:21 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
So, special teams work on the practice agenda tomorrow?
by Chunklets on Dec 3, 2011 10:21 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
Renney does know he has last change right? The Hopkins line is getting dominated.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 10:28 PM MST reply actions
Why in the world is the 4th line out with 5 minutes to go?
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Second game in two nights. These guys must be exhausted.
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by Ben Johnston on Dec 3, 2011 10:31 PM MST up reply actions
That would have been a magnificent goal.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 10:33 PM MST up reply actions
He’s had an excellent couple of weeks. Looks good on that line. It doesn’t hurt that Hemsky’s game has cranked up around the same time.
by RiversQ on Dec 3, 2011 10:33 PM MST via mobile up reply actions
Agreed, but it’s interesting that he’s become the triggerman for that line.
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Dear Hockey Gods, I know you’ve been trolling our PP the entire game, but I’ll be fine for 1 for 6… please.
Bleed Oil.
Of course Whitney gets beat on the icing race.
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I wouldn’t exactly have called that fun. Painful, more like.
by TakeoutArtist on Dec 3, 2011 10:41 PM MST up reply actions
Whitney has lost a couple of steps. Bourque passed him way too easily to negate that icing.
by RiversQ on Dec 3, 2011 10:40 PM MST via mobile reply actions
I’ve said it in every GDT and the PGTs I’ve written since he’s come back. I’m going to say it again tonight. Something is very wrong with him.
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So, bright side: Gagner was excellent, and finally got rewarded for it, meaning that the Flying Dutchman’s crew complement has been reduced to Belanger and Paajarvi.
Plus, the out-of-town scores were very kind to us this evening – 4 East-West games finished so far, and the East teams have won all of them in regulation.
I saw Paajarvi real good tonight. Especially in the third.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 11:16 PM MST up reply actions
Now that you mention it, he did have some nice rushes – one in particular ended with a good shot that Kipper got his shoulder on.
NHL.com only has 2 SOG for him officially, but that seems low to me.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 3, 2011 11:23 PM MST up reply actions
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