2008/09 NHL Thread

I must say that the SJ players coming through the mouth of that shark is pretty cool and I hate that usual crap.

 

Foster Hewitt wept.

 

OK, the Oilers beat the Sharks in OT tonight in a great game thanks to (I can't believe I'm saying this) Dwayne Roloson. Shots after reg were something like 43-15 for San Jose.

Beef, I was cheering on your Oilers to win that game.

Note to FB: Faster Foster has been weeping since he died.

 

Thanks JR, they obviously need all the help they can get.

Roli has probably been the most consistent of their goalies this year, he is still more than capable of locking in like that being unbeatable. If any team needs a goalie right now, they'd be stupid not to inquire about him — will he give you 60 games, no, but he will hold the fort down until say a Brodeur returns from injury.

For some reasons was having flashbacks to the first round of the 2006 Playoffs against Detroit.

That was a sad game. The Oilers looked like a minor league team going up against the Sharks. they were out worked, out skated, outhit, out everything. If it wasn't for Roli this is easily a 6-2 game.

 

Aren't the Sharks doing that to a lot of teams, though?

 

Beef, at one point I said to HC, "These guys don't even belong on the same ice as the Sharks".

You gotta love games like that.

Of the hundred and hundreds of games my eldest kid played, only one still stands out---it was a Bantam tournament in Kitchener, Ontario. My son's team was AA but were up against a AAA team from the US. I still haven't figured out what a Triple A team was doing in a AA tournament, but that's beside the point

After one shift we knew our guys were in serious fucking trouble. The Americans were bigger, faster and they all looked like they were 18 (Bantam was 15 back then)

At the end of the first the shots were something like 29-1 (the arena had a shot clock) but they couldn't score on ER (my kid was a goalie) At the end of the second the shots were 52-10 or something but the score was only 1-0 for the American team My kid was standing on his head. I mean, he was friggin unconscious.

They didn't keep track of the shots for the third but somehow one of our guys got a breakaway with literally half a minute left and scored to tie it. Game ended 1-1 and shots were probably around 70-20. Best game ER ever played in his ten years of hockey.

Most astonishing was that after the game about half dozen of the parents from the US team came over to congratulate my kid when he came out of the dressing room.

How often do you see that? (Um, never)

That's what that game last night reminded me of.

 

Heck of an effort by Roloson last night. Oilers had no business winning that game and he stole two points.

 

maybe you hosers don't see it up there, but it's quite common in the States.....we're all about class.

 

My second year bantam we had a game kind of like that, it wasn't that lopsided, but it was a game we had no business being in. I played in a village in Alberta -- one of those situations where there was always at least one team, never more than two for each age level. This was a one team year and we were listed as a bantam A team, but to tell you the truth we probably would have been a been a real good bantam B team, as sad as that is -- hey we played with what we had. I think we went to the B provincials that year.

Anyway for our home tournament for some reason they invited a legit AA team and we actually managed to tie them 2-2. Again goaltending had a lot to do with it. We ended up playing against them again later that year at another tournament and got waxed 8 or 9-0.

 

You forgot the blue font.

 

EF,

Thanks for confirming. The rumor had been simmering for at least a couple of days. Basically, Mo gets kicked up into the front office and Ron Francis takes over.

But do the Whalercanes think this can happen on the fly? That is, does Mo try to overhaul this team into something more defensive-oriented because things aren't working now, or do they try to run like this long-term. What does Francis really want in terms of roster preferences and style?

Curious what will unfold with the roster and such as this coaching situation evolves.

Again, EF, thanks.