Flames at Oilers, G59/08-09
Stan Weir doesn’t believe in Calgary. If Stan Weir wants your opinion, he’ll beat it into you. Stan Weir lost his virginity before his Dad did. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Stan Weir allows to live.
There is no chin under Stan Weirs’ Beard. There is only another fist. Stan Weir has two speeds. Walk, and Kill. When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Stan Weir. Outer space exists because it’s afraid to be on the same planet with Stan Weir.
Stan Weir makes onions cry. Stan Weir once challenged Lance Armstrong to a “Who has more testicles?” contest. Stan Weir won by 5.
Stan Weir is capable of photosynthesis. Stan Weir understands the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey. When Stan Weir picks his nose, he really DOES find Gold. Stan Weir let the dogs out.
Stan Weir puts the laughter in manslaughter.
Stan Weir will bring us money, fame and women of questionable reputation.Ladies and gentlemen, Stan Weir!
I gotta say, that was big league greasing on Dion there. Great play by 10.
If Dustin Penner wasn’t so fat that would’ve been a breakaway goal instead of a powerplay!
Way to draw the penalty there Penner!
Ah…well who knows how he’d know that. I have a hard time imagining that the Oilers tell guys that they’re thinking about trading them.
Hemsky always looks lost on the ice when Horcoff isn’t on with him.
Tubby with some hustle tonight. MacTavish must be bribing him with bacon.
I take it back. Next time there is a penalty we need to decline it.
Ugly.
Cole doesn’t seem like he really cares about scoring that goal
Penner never looks excited. Probably because he’s thinking about the donuts.
Hemsky’s got no room on the power play when he’s playing with the Hobbits.
To be fair, the Bruins have been the hot Cole destination for a while according to the Globe: I think they had us getting Sobotka at some point for him.
What a piece of shit that powerplay was. Fuck around, fuck around, fuck around, oh look, a 2-on-1 for the bad guys!
If EDM could pick up a reliable center, I’m all for this checking line setup.
Drop horc and hemmer to 2nd tier toughs, double shift Hemmer 4 or 5 shifts a game.
34/faceoffguy/26 (checking line)
27/10/83 (2nd toughs)
12/13/89
18/78/46
- we’d see an offensive boost from Horc. Hed drop his TOI back to human levels.
- chcking line capable of EV+/EV- respectability
- damn thats a nice looking roster
To be fair, the Bruins have been the hot Cole destination for a while according to the Globe: I think they had us getting Sobotka at some point for him.
Dupomt has said a roster player and a first or a second rounder.
God, Coach, depending on the roster player that sounds even better than Sobotka did.
Can someone figure out the logic of the new power play configurations?
I think it’s pretty clear that Grebs was getting his acid from his coach.
The good news is Roli is hot.
But we were lucky to get out of that period with a lead.
Horc 10-2 on the dot already.
Great period by Roli. Smid looked pretty alright too. Hemsky? Not so much.
Wow, after the fifty billionth advert, this Being Erica show looks really good!
I agree with Coach, the pp fwd lines make no sense.
“Wow, after the fifty billionth advert, this Being Erica show looks really good!”
You don’t know what you don’t know!
Penner has to stay on the 1st unit. He’s one of the better screen guys in the NHL and he had 12th most PP goals in the league last year.
Traktor: You gotta stop making sense there.
Seriously, why make it easy on ourselves.
dago:
Not sure what you mean.
If you didn’t have the video on, it would be easy to believe that Elgar was a prisoner of Cassie Campbell and those young children.
Also, am I the only guy who finds Hockey Day in Canada to be a mawkish festival?
Who is that dumb bitch in the Escape From Alcatraz hat, because she can’t even pronounce the guy’s name…
Can’t they spend some of the Rexall drug money on better announcers, or do they just take it for granted once we’re buying into the Rexall pharmacy dream of everyone on their meds, that no one will worry about their shitty MacT coached hockey team.
Nilsson’s 0 for February.
I know! Let’s put him on the first powerplay!
Your posting history reveals that you, at least, have avoided the Rexall scheme hunter. Congrats.
that was an OK pass by THE CAPTAIN, but he should have shot from there. who cares if he was behind the net.
Great period by Roli. Smid looked pretty alright too. Hemsky? Not so much.
That’s what happens when Horc and Cole get to ride the bus.
Nilsson’s 0 for February.
I know! Let’s put him on the first powerplay!
I dont hate Nilsson on the PP.
That said… could they be showcasing?
Traktor: Sorry – what’s obvious to all of us (Horpensky) is lost on MacT.
Do the Oilers take Sonorex in the first intermission? The second period of home games in particular is an HUA-fest.
Mac can’t put Cogliano or Gagner out against Iginla, he just can’t.
Sominex? Whatever
I hate this team too.
Aerosmith sings a song about living on the edge. Not the awesome hockey edge that Moreau lives on – the edge the Oilers are standing on here.
Give Struds 4, 5 chances, he’ll pass the puck to an Oiler eventually.
Your posting history reveals that you, at least, have avoided the Rexall scheme hunter. Congrats.
I don’t know if it’s the beer or not, but I am still laughing at this. Holy mackerel.
I’m not believing all the atrocious passes in this period in the defensive zone.
They’re asking for trouble.
Flawless
That’s a fucking ridiculously bad penalty.
Wow.
We finally get an O-zone draw, and wham! Penalty. Ice level angle looks like a cheap call though.
Ales Hemsky smiles broadly at Ethan Moreau, asks “did I do good?” in an innocent voice.
“You did fine, kid. You did just fine.”
Good one Lord Bob.
I wonder how many people in the entire world haven’t figured out that Horpensky is the Oilers’ best possible first line.
I’m leaning towards “one”.
In MacT’s defence…I’m told that coaches will occasionally have to use more than one line to get through a game and, on occasion, that they do not structure their roster solely towards putting together one awesome line.
The trouble is that MacTavish’s alternate plan is to put together four really, really horrible lines.
They need to try something else on the PP cause this is brutal.
Bertuzzi looked scared there.
SMac might have actually had ytwo whacks at that, in which case he just lowered his seasonal shooting percentage by 67%.
Horpenole seems to be doing alright tonight. So maybe it’s all about Horpen.
Okay, safe to say it’s not Hor.
Horc you gotta bury that one.
Fuck.. Horc’s gotta stop that puck.
Whatever mojo Horc had going on the one-timers last year, he’s completely lost it.
Nice effort by Hemsky.
Oh oh.
Wow, nice back check Moreau.
That was a terrible play by Gilbert.
Moreau. Jesus.
It turns out that if you play like an ECHL team for forty minutes, you will occasionally get scored on in spite of your superhuman if ancient goaltender.
The good news is that we won’t say “agh, the Oilers deserved to make the playoffs!” because they don’t to an extraordinary degree.
Yowser. Gilbert and Smid both schooled by Cory Sarich of all people.
Awesome coverage there by Moreau.
He actually took the time to look and yell Iginla, but not do a damn thing.
He’s on the take. Has to be.
Tough to fault Horc on that 2-1, Cole put the puck in his skates.
Beauty play by Sarich.
Is “ethanmoreauisshavingpoints.com” available? I’ve wanted a new name for my blog…
Why does it always seem like Nilsson is always going in by himself? What ever happened to that Gagner guy? He still plays for us, right?
Oilers are very, very fortunate to be tied.
Traktor – that’s what Crawford showed on the replay. You’re right.
That goal, Smids gottta play the pass 10 out of 10 times.
Let Roloson worry about Corey Sarichs snipe ability.
Nilsson was totally visualizing scoring a goal there and forgot that he needed to keep the puck on his stick.
I really hope we can pull a win off while playing only 20 minutes of hockey.
This Oiler team better start competing or it’ll be an ugly 3rd period.
Yeesh.
I retract my previous statement. Ladi has been caught in no-mans land and looking at the puck a few times too many tonight.
Saving it for the playoffs, Keegan. Saving it for the playoffs.
Just looked at the replay. Moreau definitely gets an HUA on that Iginla goal. Flat out fucking negligence on his part.
Lots of jam, though. In fact, we’re in a jam every time he’s out there.
But he pointed his stick, Bruce! That means it’s okay for him to coast over the blueline.
Just fast question: Does Moreau get fired as “The Captain” as soon as MacTavish gets fired?
Defensive turnovers were bad in the second. The Oilers’ defense is already understaffed and overplayed, and just seems to get worse and worse as the game drags on.
Not hopeful for the third.
I understand Smid’s role on that play but young D have lapses and some veterans needed to be better there.
And Sam Gagner needs to create a goal here. Hemsky isn’t having a blazing night there are a lot of AB’s being given without any base hits.
Big third period here.
So Miller out with a high ankle sprain – could Buffalo have any interest in Rollie?
Defensive turnovers were bad in the second. The Oilers’ defense is already understaffed and overplayed, and just seems to get worse and worse as the game drags on.
Yea, the Oilers forwards should be trying to spend more time down low in the Flames zone to help out the depleted D-core.
Most of the “scoring” forwards like to stop and turn the puck over ten feet inside the Flames zone which puts alot of pressure on the Oilers D.
Gospel of Hockey is jaw-dropping today.
But he pointed his stick, Bruce! That means it’s okay for him to coast over the blueline.
He also yelled. The yelling was the key part of his plan.
“They may take away my pride. They may take away my minutes… but they’ll never take away MY CAPTAINCY.”
- Ethan Wallace
Horc and Storts with undeserved minuses on the line change, goal scored 3 seconds into their shift. Moreau had been out for all of 15 seconds but the way he dragged that anvil on the back check he looked like he was out of gas. Smid definitely should have played the pass, Roli will stop that pass all day, but he went for the fake shot and made one fatal step towards clearing the rebound. Moreau did point, but that’s about all he did. Funny, for a guy who usually tries to do everything himself, he was pretty quick to offload Iginla on the outmanned Smid.
Looks like an unlucky play on Gagner. Hopefully he’s okay. He’s on the bench, anyway.
Fucking slewfoot!
Fuck you Greentree! And fuck you Crawford!
HEMMER!!!!
MacT’s going with Cole-Horcoff-Hemsky.
Well I’ll be. An even strength goal without Penner or Stortini on the ice.
“Is that a slewfoot Marc?”
“Nah, that’s only an Oiler. “
Wicked shot. Another big Apple from #10.
Whew. Hemsky!
Erik Cole misses another breakaway.
And then draws another penalty.
Heh.
Something about Oilers wearing #26 on breakaways that just leads to comedy…
Cole is gonzo for sure.
Well I’ll be. An even strength goal without Penner or Stortini on the ice.
Good call, Coach. Hasn’t happened often, of late.
That should be a PS.
I think that was just a line change gangsta. They are back with Horpenole on the faceoff.
Should have been a penalty shot, but at game speed it was an easy call to miss and I’m giving the stripes the benefit of the doubt.
Plus, this is two minutes where you can all go to the washroom or get a new beer or something, because you know nothing’s going to happen.
Cole is the modern day Radek Dvorak.
How is that not a penalty shot?
where was this team hiding?
We really could have used that penalty-shot with the way our PP has been…. going?
Gilbert almost made me eat my words.
Please guys – I would love to eat my words.
Oh, god, a five-on-three.
Get the good booze, guys.
So..
Shawn Horcoff > Dion Phaneuf.
I get back from a shit day at work to Hemsky scoring, and Ugly getting burned by Cole, taking a slash on the man advantage.
My bad day is over. Weir be praised!
I’m 45 seconds behind on my PVR watching slewfoot replays. Can you tell?
If the coach is going to leave Penner off of the first unit, wouldn’t a second unit of Penner – Brodziak – Gagner make more sense?
So this is the game I once had tickets to.
I missed the first period but the second was pretty ugly and the third has started about as nicely as it could have.
One comment – who among you is disappointed with Erik Cole this season? I skim the message boards about once a week and it seems like a lot of people are up in arms about a ~25 goal scorer who draws penalties like mad and always appears to be moving the puck in the right direction. Sorry he’s not popping 30?
That 5 on 3 where souray just stands there with the puck is awesome, especially with no Penner to screen.
That’s like watching Devils vs. Wild.
Why do we suck at 5 on 3′s so much?
This is surreal…
Noooooooooo.
Oh fuck Staios.
Why?
That was a really, really terrible call.
Two sticks got caught up with each other. Moss interfered with Staios as much as Staios interfered with Moss. And yet here we are.
Hey! Air Moreau making himself useful!
“Interfering with the stick”
What the he77.
Flawless with another dopey play in his own zone.
There ain’t a team in the league that interferes more than the Flames.
So, having not caught the first two periods…
Why is MacIntyre dressed for this game? Is there a Flame dressed that Stortini/JFJ/Peckham could not have handled?
Showerhead wrote:
One comment – who among you is disappointed with Erik Cole this season? I skim the message boards about once a week and it seems like a lot of people are up in arms about a ~25 goal scorer who draws penalties like mad and always appears to be moving the puck in the right direction. Sorry he’s not popping 30?
By my count he has 14 goals – am I missing something?
That said I like him as a player and would love to see lines stay together for longer then two shifts so that he might develop some chemistry and consistency.
LOL at Bertuzzi’s big stupid face.
Flames mailing it in, Oilers play is excellent on the boards where Flames fear to go.
Why is Moreau taking defensive zone draws in a 1 goal game?
Because Craig MacTavish is the coach.
Seriously. That’s the answer to most of our bewildering questions.
Dorito: MacIntyre layed out Aucin with a nice rag doll impersonation in the 2nd.
Ethan Moreau, faceoff wizard.
One comment – who among you is disappointed with Erik Cole this season? I skim the message boards about once a week and it seems like a lot of people are up in arms about a ~25 goal scorer who draws penalties like mad and always appears to be moving the puck in the right direction. Sorry he’s not popping 30?
SH: Even including tonight’s tally, Cole’s on pace for just 19 goals, and only 33 points. His -6 is among the bottom feeders on the squad. For $4 MM? Yeah, I’m disappointed. He’s far from useless, but he’s not exactly covering the bet.
Good point, hunter. The Oil are really checking them hard on the boards and it’s really paying off. It’s not something they are incredibly good at but as long as Roli keeps playing well the efforts won’t go to waste.
It is starting to become clear, MacT likes Roloson and Moreau, and they’re incredibly, the MacT “Go To Guys”.
hunter, it’s been clear for a long, long time.
In fairness it must be said that Roloson is covering the bet.
Keegan – apparently my brain is stuck at mid-season games played totals. With his 14th tonight I think that would prorate to approximately 20 which makes him a little bit less impressive. Still a guy I want on my hockey team if the price is right.
Years in the future, I will have a PVR and more than two hours a week of leisure time. It will be that NHL season that I go through the tape with a system I’ve been working on in an attempt to quantify the net effect of each time a player touches the puck. If Erik Cole is still around at this point in history, I think this system would show him to be a horse.
MacT now going with 18-89-85 as a unit. I can barely hear the play-by-play over the sound of a whirring blender, but maybe that’s a good thing.
Man I miss GlenX
5 to go…time to clench!
Agreed Lord Bob. Roloson is the renaissance man this year. No way we’re this close unless he’s on.
Flames look like Playoff Roadkill. They’re made of fucking glass, with Mad Mike LMAOOOOOOO.
Is Horcoff triple shifting?
People may as well stop suggesting Roli trades. Its not gonna happen.
MacTs job is on the line and Tamblowe arent going to deepsix him like that… well… ont as obviously as that.
its arguable that they have been doing just that the past couple seasons though.
LMAOOOOOOO STUPID FLAMES.
That was the hit of the game.
Ouch.
Wow. That is one of the hardest accidental collisions I’ve ever seen.
Oh my fucking god.
He DOES Exist. Only a just and loving God allows that.
LOL.
That was AMAZING =)
Flames going to the Hail Mary play but not tonight losers.
Holy crap I am loving Reddox tonight.
My two biggest dissapointments of the season have been Cole and Gagner.
I really thought Cole would be better. I’ve liked him for a long time and always hoped he’d make his way to Edmonton. He just doesn’t mesh with anyone here. Ah well.
Gagner hasn’t played inspired hockey all season. I wish we could send him to play against a team of young Russians for a couple of weeks to see if he’d get his game back. I have time to wait for him to come around so he isn’t a lost cause. I just wish the comeback would start now. The nagging foot injury surely plays some part in his play this season as well.
No. Way.
God is Dead.
Mark Lee: “The fans now sensing a victory.”
He should be fired.
Actually, belay that. He should be executed. He just went to Olympus and starting tugging on the hockey gods’ ears.
Oh dear.
You asshole commentator “The fans sensing the victory”
“Oiler fans now sensing a victory.”
Not only is he a terrible commentator, but he just jinxed the fuck out of us.
“Oilers fans sensing the victory…”
Fuck you. Whoever the fuck you are, PBP guy
the effing PBP guy purposefully jinxed it.
doritogrande: I’d question the just and loving God theory after a Flames goal this late. Fuck.
Are we better at 4 on 3′s than 5 on 3′s?
Ugh.
On one hand: A POINT!
On the other hand, how have we not heard Mark Lee’s death rattle on the air yet? He’s at Rexall Place. Marc Pouliot or Jean-Francois Jacques or somebody is standing twenty feet away listening to what he just said. How can they just stand there?
Is it wrong that I just yelled “SHOOOOOT” loud enough to be heard two floors up?
Lombardi out of the box for the OT wwinner. Book it.
Apparently we’re worse.
Holy mother of god, this team is terrible and I hate myself for cheering for them.
PP tonite has been a momentum killer.
That’s some brutal 4 on 3 there.
Hemsky’s been pretty shitty tonight.
Is Craig Simpson back with the team?
I hear you on that one Lord Bob.
Fire the powerplay coach. Our PP has been utterly pathetic. How can you have a 4-on-3 for a goddam minute and not even get over the fucking goddam blueline? Unacceptable.
Probably lucky to have the point. And a chance for another.
Ceding a point to Calgary at this point is inconsequential, and it could have been a lot worse.
Sam still loves him some blind drop pass.
I’ve always thought that should be a two-minute penalty, losing your helmet that easily.
I love Mats Sundin
It is like as soon as the puck crosses the blueline Nilsson can’t see it.
God bless you Roli.
Roli just made the first save of the shootout.
Excellent, Roloson stops the first shooter in the shootout.
Oh, he didn’t?
Oh My Good God.
How and why? Thank Roli!
Dwayne Roloson is Stan Weir.
There’s the Oilers offensive strategy rearing its ugly head again.
Horcoff has an odd man rush, skates it into the corner, back out to the blueline and loses the zone.
It’s like the entire team just doesn’t care about winning territory in the middle of the ice.
Stan Weir begat Roli.
Hemsky must have the flu
I hope the Olympic selector was watching this,
Just say no to Celine in Milan
Dwayne Roloson showed up tonight. As did Erik Cole, Shawn Horcoff, Ladislav Smid, and Steve Macintyre. Ales Hemsky, Liam Reddox, and Bobby Nilsson had all kinds of try but were (aside from Hemmer’s goal) kinda useless.
Aside from Moreau, I didn’t see a lot of slackers on the ice. But they were falling over each other a lot and the game was an utter abortion.
Now we have the shootout, but we’re going to lose it. That’s not even a question. So let’s evaluate why we, once again, failed when we needed to succeed.
Keegan – I think that’s where he looks up and sees the 2 1/2 players in front of him that he has to deke in order to get a shot and no blue sweaters in sight.
Man, Crawford has some really deep insight, hey?
Oh, and Mark Lee can sodomize himself with a steel spike.
Where the F is the F in Roloson?
On that break
Horcoff was completely out of gas
I’m surprised he didn’t trip over the Center Line
Try that spin-o-rama shit Bert. i dare you.
Clever line change — 2 off, 1 on. Why change at all with under 10 seconds left?
HUA, that’s why
Roloson must’ve thought he was going to punch him in the head.
Jesus.
Gagner with yet another blind drop pass.
Well, that’s going to make a highlight reel.
you can’t win a shootout if you don’t SHOOT!
If Bertuzzi gets the shootout winner I am going to be pissed.
Where’s Pouliot.
NO fair. He already shot this game.
…Oh wait.
Kipper didn’t even have to make a save. Ouch.
Fuck. It’s not Alex Hemsky you dumbass CBC fuck. I have half a mind to write a letter.
There are so many assholes on this team.
Fuck.
Oh and it is Ales not Alex you asshole.
Sorry for the language LT
no shots in the shootout. wow.
exactly right, a highlight reel loss.
lol.
Thats fkn GOLD.
28th pkill.
Terrible powerplay.
0 shots in a freakin shootout.
Who the fuck is this Alex Hemsky kid that got poke checked.
Fucking loser.