Tuesday, February 13, 2007

 

Oilers Game Day-Bruins

Let's recap:

1) It's the start of a seven-game road trip, with four games against the Northeast division, and one game against Minnesota.

2) The team is six points behind Minnesota, Vancouver and Calgary. Those two losses to the Canucks were huge.

3) In addition to major injuries to Ethan Moreau and Daniel Tjarnqvist, Fernando Pisani an Jarret Stoll are now out for an indefinite period of time with concussions.

4) Mägni Thöroson the Ëlectric Nörseman was recalled from Wilkes-Barre, and will fill Pisani's place on the roster.

5) The Artist Formerly Known as Marc Antoine Pouliot (TAFKAMAP) got to wear the Reggie Dunlop following the Oilers victory over the Thrashers on Sunday. Proud papa LT watched on in excitement.

6) A couple of stories on Spector today note the possibility of Le GG being traded, possibly to the Penguins. Interestingly, the Oilers decided this summer that they didn't need Laraque around to protect their skilled players. They were right, as no one has taken liberties with the Oilers all year long.

7) Quotes of the Day:

"This is cutting away at our penalty-killing forwards - especially if (Shawn) Horcoff keeps taking all those penalties!"
--Craig MacTavish



"How they come about is simply somebody, somewhere looking at a situation and saying, 'Well, the Oilers have lost four of their last six games and this guy hasn't scored and that guy has a poor plus-minus, so these would be the players the Oilers would like to move.'

They look for a similar type of situation on say a team out east, and there they have it: The Oilers will trade Player A, B and C out east for Player X, Y and Z. There's no basis to it," Lowe said. "It's purely speculation. And in this day and age of bloggers, coupled with the inability to track down sources, that stuff flies around."
-- Kevin Lowe



Prediction: The Oilers are 28-24-4 on the season. They are currently 9th in the Western Conference, six points out of a playoff position. They haven't played well on a consistent basis, their powerplay is anemic, and they haven't done anything to fill the holes in their roster. I think, therefore, that Craig MacTavish, Craig Simpson and Kevin Lowe are the players the Oilers would like to move. The Flyers already flipped Hitchcock to the Blue Jackets, but I think if we threw a draft pick in with MacT, Columbus would move him. The Sabres can't keep their big three (Drury, Brierre and Regier) next year, and Lowe is signed for the next five at a reasonable price, so sending him there for Regier is a natural fit. As for Simpson, I don't care. I'd be happy if they lost him on the waiver wire, returning assets be damned.

Comments:

Andy.

Beauty post.

Especially the last paragraph.

That belongs in the Greatest Hits Compilation.

"Andy Grabia, How Do You Like Me So Far?"
 


Why, thank-you. Too bad Fenwick buried it with his damnable posts about that group of guys from that place down there. Ooh, I'll fix him!
 


Okay, that's better. Both previews up top.

Hey Pat, joke for you:

What's the difference between the Calgary Flames and a bra?


The Flames only have one Cup!


Man, I never get tired of that one! Okay, okay, I'll try and be fair.

Pat, what's the difference between the Edmonton Oilers and a bra?



A bra only has two cups!


Thank-you, thank-you. I'll be here all night. Enjoy the roast beef.
 


That quote about Horcoff is ridiculous, by the way. I must have read it about four times, attempting to figure out of MacT was joking. I mean, what is with the exclamation point in it? Did MacT really exclaim that point? If so, talk about throwing a player under the bus. We all know he's hard on Horc, but that is just crazy.
 


Andy,

the actual joke is: What do the Canucks and a training bra have in common?

Lots of potential, but no cups
 


Zing!
 


I've never seen Ryan Smyth play better.
 


Then again, way to see the Oilers kill themselves with three consecutive stupid penalties.

Bah!
 


What the fuck? I leave teh office early, come home, turn on the game...and it's Peter Loufuckingbardias?

That's worse than the score.
 


Oh dear.

This might not turn out so well.

Time to drink.
 


It's a lot better if you imagine it as a question:

"especially if (Shawn) Horcoff keeps taking all those penalties?"

Also: 5 on 3....didn't we do this last week?
 


you can't stop Brandon Bochinski, you can only hope to contain him.
 


Fuck, this is looking like one of those games again.
 


Wow- getting shut out by the team with the worst GAA in the NHL. Great start to the trip!
 


You have to wonder if this team is trying to get its coach fired.
 


Man, this team blows.
 


In the immortal words of Dickie Dunn,

"YOU GOTTA WORK ON THE POWERPLAY, REG!"
 


As I write this, the Oilers are down 1-0...no 2-0...no 3-0 to one of the worst teams in the league... ;)

If only anyone could have predicted this outcome at the start of the season? :(
 


Do you even bother with Roli against the Sabres? Or do you throw Juicy to the wolves and basically concede the next one and hope to get ready for Toronto.
 


Talk about blown opportunities. This post needs a photoshopped bear.
 


Ugh! Sigh, sigh, sigh. I give up!
 


As I write this, the Oilers are down 1-0...no 2-0...no 3-0 to one of the worst teams in the league... ;)

If only anyone could have predicted this outcome at the start of the season? :(


Ease up, Dave. We hate ourselves enough already.

Do you even bother with Roli against the Sabres? Or do you throw Juicy to the wolves and basically concede the next one and hope to get ready for Toronto.

I'd play Juicy til he keels over. I've come to despise Roli.

"YOU GOTTA WORK ON THE POWERPLAY, REG!"

Oh, that's where you are wrong. The Calculators say it's awesome, so it must be.
 


Talk about blown opportunities. This post needs a photoshopped bear.

There's plenty here.
 


Andy Grabia said...

Oh, that's where you are wrong. The Calculators say it's awesome, so it must be.


Is that a band? The Calculators? Why would they say it's awesome?
 


I'd play Juicy til he keels over. I've come to despise Roli.

The guy is 37 years old and his career high for games played in a season is 50.
Wasn't this game number 50 for him tonight? Yergh.

The Oilers don't have the luxury the Canucks have. With the Canucks, the thinking is that there is no sense "resting Luongo for the playoffs", if they don't even make it. He needs to play every night for the Canucks to have a shot at the post season. But the Oilers can't run Roli into the ground as if he's Luongo, and that's pretty close to what they have done.

Of course, the injuries haven't helped either.
 


You know what I've noticed about injuries? Whenever a team that you hate gets injuries you think, "bad management, not enough depth, bad drafting, poor minor league development pipeline, bad calls on UFAs and RFAs, bad cap management, bad practice routines, overworking the star players". Whenever the team you love runs into injuries its, "there has never been a team as unlucky as us".
 


You know what I've noticed about injuries? Whenever a team that you hate gets injuries you think, "bad management, not enough depth, bad drafting, poor minor league development pipeline, bad calls on UFAs and RFAs, bad cap management, bad practice routines, overworking the star players". Whenever the team you love runs into injuries its, "there has never been a team as unlucky as us".

I don't know what this means, but I'm pretty sure it was written by Kevin Lowe.
 


Heh.
 


Let's talk about what this game really means. Who from the Oil makes Team Canada? I figure Horcoff and Staios, because of previous experience. Maybe Stoll, if he comes back and plays down the stretch like he did when Smyth and Hemsky were out. I exclude Captain Canada himself since he may well still be contending for the Cup when the World Championship is on.
 


I can't really slag Roli after this one. The Oilers had way more attack-zone time but the B's had the largest number of great chances. It seemed like Roli made about 7-8 great saves,.

Dennis
 

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