Mike Milbury beats a Rangers fan with his own shoe in quite possibly the greatest hockey fight of all time.Good morning sunshine! How's everyone feeling today? I'm not going to lie this is a preemptive strike. I'm actually writing this on Friday night because there's no way in hell I'm getting up at like 9 AM tomorrow to deal with this bullshit. Seriously what the hell is with the North Eastern American teams and their love of matinee games? There's four games before 5 pm. That's ridiculous. Even in minor hockey we stopped playing afternoon games by the time we got to Bantam.
The Oil roll out in Beantown this morning to take on a Bruins team that has been insanely underwhelming so far. I guess someone finally told Tim Thomas he was, in fact, a mediocre goalie at best. Sure he's acrobatic and fun to watch but as goalies go there are about 20 other guys I'd take before I even considered Tim Thomas. I like the guy a lot and he's one of those Rudy-esque stories about a guy toiling away in the minors until he was like 45, but at the end of the day he doesn't stop pucks with enough consistency for my liking.
We should also take into consideration the fact that the Bruins no longer have the services of Phil Kessel and have been derailed by a slough of injuries to some key guys like my favorite player Milan Lucic, and stellar centerman Marc Savard. I'm not really sure what else has gone wrong with the Bruins so far but I do know that they have played pretty terribly as of late, and they've gone from winning the East last year to being sandwiched in between two terrible teams in Tampa Bay and the Islanders. And if the playoffs started today they'd be on the outside looking in.
The Oilers on the other hand have surpassed many peoples expectations so far in this young season. It's been a fucking roller coaster ride, from playing stellar and winning 5 of 6, to being derailed by the flu and injury bug and losing 3 in a row, to last game against Detroit where Oiler fans everywhere went from being filled with utter joy for 40 minutes to almost committing suicide during the following 25. A win is a win, and I'll take it, especially considering I had counted Edmonton out of the game before it even started, but if this team is going to see any post season action this year they are going to need to learn how to play a full 60 fucking minutes. It will also be better for my own personal health if they do.
Dustin Penner is still cruising around in 6th gear, Hemsky is close behind him and the rest of the team, well, at least they didn't die from the flu. I'm pretty sure Mike Comrie is going to be back for this game finally which is a great thing, and I've been really impressed with Gilbert Brule so far this year. If those two guys, along with the likes of O'Sullivan, Gagner and Cogliano can get it going today this team will no doubt be on their way to Long Island with two more points in the bag. I just fucking pray they don't get a nice lead and then shit the bed again, because being Halloween I may just murder someones face. And no one wants that.
jeanshorts prediction: Oilers 3 - Bruins 1. BOOK IT!
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GOILERS!
So nurse your hangover in whichever way works for you, because there is some major partying to be done tonight gentlemen. Thank god we don't have a hockey game to get in the way of oogling scantily clad women, ingesting our weights worth of alcohol and stealing candy from small children. Hmm, maybe matinee games aren't so bad after all.
Happy Halloween you degenerates.
-jeanshorts
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