Want to know how cold it has been across the Canadian prairies the past couple of days? Check out this offer from the Oilers for tonight's game against San Jose :
"The Edmonton Oilers take on the San Jose Sharks Tuesday night at Rexall Place. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m., and good seats are still available, including 10 pairs and a limited number of single seats.
Fans braving the cold will have access to complimentary vehicle boosting, as tow trucks will be on site at Rexall Place."
It's actually supposed to be warmer in Iqaluit than in Edmonton, today.
According to Pangloss Cason, a professor of thermal mechanics at the prestigious Thunderbay-ten-Tronckh School, the good news is that the proposed, state-of-the-art downtown arena complex is expected to increase Edmonton's average daily winter temperature by a yet to be disclosed, but assuredly much warmer than now, amount. This means if the city chooses to build a world-class, city-revitalizing, non-rink stadium facility, rather than waste its time on things like public transportation, snow removal, homicide, and poverty, it has a a real chance of rocketing up the Global Warming Food Chain. Heck, with a heat boom, we'll even be in the drivers seat on that urban beach in Hawrelak Park we've all been clamoring over.
The bad news is that any decision made on the downtown-core-community-upgrader-awesomeness project will come too late for those who risk the wrath of Jack Frost and the Edmonton Oilers this evening. Three-time Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe winner Joe Thornton is in town (what!? none!?), along with the Clown Prince of Hockey, Ron Wilson. That guy's such a f***ing riot, he giggles his teams to victory.
Games between these two clubs are usually entertaining (especially when we win), and I expect nothing different Tuesday night. Shockingly, Sheldon Souray is injured, and is unlikely to play. Tarnstrom or the terrible Russian dude will draw in. Make sure to check out all the news from the top of the Global Warming Food Chain, including Sharks coverage, at The Battle of California.
Prediction: Close game, with the Oilers delivering the knock out blow late in the third. 5-4, Oilers. Torres, Spacek, Harvey, Peca and Dvorak with the goals, followed by a bonspiel and baby furniture bonfire in Churchill Square. What? We've been doing that for years up here. It's cold, man.
GOILERS!
***Bonus***
Rob Schremp up to his old tricks at the 2008 AHL All-Star Game.
I am sure everyone has seen what Schremp can do with the puck. First off, it is amazing and skills like that should have been showcases at the NHL All-Star game.
ReplyDeleteBUT, because he whips the stick around like that...it should be considered HIGH STICKING as the contact point of the stick and puck are well above the crossbar.
He can never do it in a real game based on that rule alone.
Post of the year. Nice
ReplyDeletegood old snow removal. if i ever run for mayor, i am going to do it based solely on a snow removal and canada day fire works platform. i think i would take this election by a land slide.
ReplyDeleteit's pretty clear that you are against the arena but it also seems like you would name a child after katz and build a shrine in his honor in your backyard.
i seem to think katz and new arena come hand in hand. i can live with the new arena but if there is a casino in that beast, i am going to lose it. this province is built on gambling. the very first time i heard of katz's interest, i had this annoying feeling that a casino will be part of the package.
In Grande Prairie this fall our Mayoral election was won pretty much on a snow removal campaign.
ReplyDeleteWeak sauce.
good old snow removal. if i ever run for mayor, i am going to do it based solely on a snow removal and canada day fire works platform. i think i would take this election by a land slide.
ReplyDeleteGood call. I've often said that someone should run for premier based solely on a "cut booze and cigarette taxes by 90%" platform. I think the number of voters you'd turn out who normally would never bother would propel you to an easy victory.
Man, AHL goalies suck.
ReplyDeleteWhat could be more natural than a casino with 18,000 captive patrons 41 times a year.
ReplyDeleteIf they were really thinking, there'd be a gentleman's club in there, too.
Look at it this way, Andy. If they put an arena downtown, they could link everywhere worth going in Edmonton with the pedway system and you wouldn't have to go outside as much.
ReplyDeleteYou can't tell me that doesn't sell you a little.
1: Try living through a NF winter when you actuall have to GASP shovel snow!!! Boo fucking hoo to your cold complaints;)
ReplyDelete2: I think it's time I officially added the Souray move to Lowe's Magic Beans era. It's bad enough when a healthy Souray's making this money, but now he's banged up and the fact that we signed him in the first place gives us less space to get Gilbert, Pitkanen and Horc on extensions.
Sandis Ozolinsh is playing in the NHL? For the Sharks? Huh. I had no idea. Where's Arturs Irbe?
ReplyDeleteSandis Ozolinsh is playing in the NHL?
ReplyDeleteIt was Doug Wilson's pre-emptive response to Niedermayergate.
And this temperature shit is beyond my ability to even imagine. You guys are yetis.
I miss the old days when this site was about hockey. When it used to be about that battle of alberta. Flame away, at least that will be clever.
ReplyDeleteFuck Fenwick, have the guts to post with your real name.
ReplyDelete9 shots through 2 periods? It isn't even February and you guys are rolling over already? You could at least TRY to soften them up a bit for us...
ReplyDeleteWho's flaming what now? Anyway, the Pensky line is getting just trashed tonight, having a terrible game.
ReplyDeleteThey just interviewed K.Lowe on Versus. I should stress he said this last part half-jokingly before reinforcing how young his team is.
ReplyDelete"Yeah, I don't know if we're going to be overly active at the deadline, but by the looks of our game tonight, it looks like we need to replace the whole team."
Who's flaming what now?
ReplyDeleteI believe the reference was to the Anonymous comment about much my writing stinks. I think I actually sent it to myself. I'm Catholic, so it would make sense.
What a terrible performance by the Oilers. People risked dying of hypothermia for that, too. And I thought they smelled bad on the outside.
...by the looks of our game tonight, it looks like we need to replace the whole team."
ReplyDelete"Fortunately, I've still got all of my 2009 draft picks to use as chips to get RFA's.
Andy: Well a good Catholic would be feeling guilty about doing anything to himself.
ReplyDelete:-)
Fans braving the cold will have access to complimentary vehicle boosting, as tow trucks will be on site at Rexall Place.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you know? The same deal was on tap at the Saddledome tonight. And no doubt, tomorrow...
Did you notice that Jayman Homes had a promotion tonight where every time an Oiler hit was registered, they put another $75 in a pot for charity (I think). Anyways, 6 minutes to go in the game and they had 11 fucking hits to work with.
ReplyDelete11 fucking hits in 54 minutes of play. Fuck man. What the fuck?
Guess there's no margin for error with this team. If they're just a bit off, they just plain get owned.
The Sharks were reading our defense tonight like the latest issue of Penthouse. Total garnage.
i had the distinct displeasure of watching this fiasco live. ouch is all i can say. this loss would have been way more exciting in a new downtown arena.
ReplyDeleteps if i actually paid to see this game live, i would have lit something on fire.
ReplyDeletei think we've just seen the EIG's latest 'PLAN C' in action.
ReplyDeleteboy, i sure hope Katz didn't get a whiff of tonight's debacle.
what the hell has happened to Oiler hockey?
we're not fast. we can no longer forecheck aggressively. we don't play tough or mean, or with a chip on our shoulder. i know it's a young squad, but JEEZ LOUISE! we got SCHOOLED on home ice. absolutely OWNED.
fuck i'm grumpy.
My theory for what the fuck happened:
ReplyDeletea) Horcoff is bagged from actually taking the All-Star weekend sort of seriously.
b) Horcoff is, in the most literal and truest possible sense, our only good player.
When Scorcoff gets his legs back, Gagner and Cogliano will magically be good again. You just watch.
Try living through a NF winter when you actuall have to GASP shovel snow!!! Boo fucking hoo to your cold complaints;)
ReplyDeleteWait...is a Newfoundlander complaining about having it way worse than everyone else? Alert! Alert! Not news at all! Alert!
Haha...good one AG:)
ReplyDeleteDon't worry bud, I'm not one of those guys that's always complaining about how we always get the national screwjob. In some cases it's true but it's not like I'm going to do anything about it, so I don't bother talking about it:)
But, OTOH, I stand firm on my cold vs blowing snow stance:)
"Horcoff is bagged from actually taking the All-Star weekend sort of seriously."
ReplyDeleteHis shoulder is fucked. There's a video post about it today on "Oilers TV".
That's it boys. This season is a wrap!