Friday, November 04, 2005
Beat the best, beat the worst
Nice result tonight. Fairly ugly game, and they didn't play as well as the score would suggest, but they certainly got the job done. Anytime you win two back to back games on the road you've got to be happy. When the first is against the league's top team and the second is a blowout, you've got to be very happy.
[edit]: DAMN! I just found this photo and now I wish I'd titled this thread "Goin' off the Rails".
- 26 goals by 13 different players in the last five games sure seems to suggest that the Oilers might have a bit of scoring depth - has this been mentioned before?
- Wow, I guess Pronger wasn't that popular in St. Louis afterall -- only around 6000 fans showed up for a Friday night game. Ouch. Didn't they set an attendance record when Shanahan came back? Maybe Blues fans still haven't forgiven Pronger for that one.
"Pronger, then a fragile-egoed, underachieving 25-year-old, bore the brunt of the fan's wrath. After getting routed by Philadelphia at home on Feb. 3, 1996, Pronger was booed off the ice."
- Speaking of fragile-egoed underachieving 25-year-olds, Semenov had a strong game tonight: 19:30 of icetime, a goal, an assist, +1. Nothing like a bloody war or a sickly season to give young players an opportunity to show their stuff - and he took advantage of it.
- Le GG looked pretty good out there on the penalty kill. I can't believe I just wrote that sentence.
- Dan 'n' Dan the callups did a nice job on the blueline -- although I sure hope D.Smith doesn't get suspended for fighting in the last minute.
- For the most part, Jussi was not only solid out there, he looked downright confident
- 29 blocked shots vs 9 for the Blues. I guess that foam puck drill in practice really works -- of course all of our players on IR were hurt blocking shots . . . hmmmm.
- 12 hooking calls - I guess they haven't let up on the new obstruction rules yet.
- Ryan Smyth gives the best interviews of any athlete in sports. Fantastic!
[edit]: DAMN! I just found this photo and now I wish I'd titled this thread "Goin' off the Rails".
# posted by sacamano @ 7:39 pm 
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Could the Blues win in the ECHL with that lineup? The Oilers played a 6th/7th d-man (Alexei the sniper), and 2 AHLers, and still pounded them. Nice win and all, but I was a Jets fan, and St. Louis looked like some of those late, unlamented Jets teams of the early 80's. Of course, two weeks ago, they threw up that charming game that Sacamano and I both spent/squandered our money on, so progress is progress.
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Could the Blues win in the ECHL with that lineup? The Oilers played a 6th/7th d-man (Alexei the sniper), and 2 AHLers, and still pounded them. Nice win and all, but I was a Jets fan, and St. Louis looked like some of those late, unlamented Jets teams of the early 80's. Of course, two weeks ago, they threw up that charming game that Sacamano and I both spent/squandered our money on, so progress is progress.
[Management moved this post from older thread - hope you don't mind robert.]
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