How badass was I in the 80's?I'm going to start this off by giving props to our inbred cousin site OilersNation. You'd think that once they hit the big time, landing the services of Brownlee, Gregor and jeanshorts, combined with the fact that they were featured on Global News, they're heads would expanded so big they would barely be able to fit inside of Daryl Katz's estate for weekly Sunday potluck dinner. But no my friends, they've stayed humble and are using their new found powers of fame and popularity for a good cause. ON is teaming up with Original Joes and a butt ton of other sponsors for something called Beat The Heat. I'm more of a beat the meat man myself, but to each his own I guess. Basically any time Penner, Cogs or Smid score OJ's will donate $100 Give Me Shelter. You guys can also throw your hat into the good karma ring by donating too. And I'm going to take it even a step further. As you all know we have some amazing shirts for sale. One of them is the "Heatly Dink" shirt. You can check it out and buy one here. These shirts are guaranteed to get you laid and people will buy you free drinks no matter where you are. I've lowered the price on these bitches, so you really have no excuse not to buy one, and on top of that JSBM will donate 10 dollars from every Dink shirt sold to the Give Me Shelter campaign. So now you'd really have to be an asshole not to buy one. They take about 3 or 4 days to ship so if you order one today it should be there just in time to wear when Dany Douchebag and his crappy friends roll into Rexall on Friday night. You know what, fuck it, buy any of our sweet, sweet shirts and we'll chip in 10 bones. How's that? Good. Go buy one.
And now on with the regularly scheduled program. The Oilers lost again, surprise, to the Blackhawks, SURPRISE, on Saturday night. It wasn't even close. A shit kicking of monumental proportions, our team looked like they brought their Jr. B game with them. It was pure garbage. Not tonight my friends. Gary Bettman's favorite team takes to the once amazing ice at Rexall tonight, and I'll be dammed if our boys don't come out firing on all cylinders. That always seems to be the case doesn't it? They start to build up our hopes, only to crush them in one fell swoop. And while we're all feeling sorry for ourselves and cursing the day we ever decided to cheer for this team, they come out with a rousing effort and trump someone. Quinn and Renney had a meeting with all the captains yesterday and from the sounds of it, it was nothing but beneficial. The timing was anything less than perfect, but I hope this will set the tone for the rest of the season. The leaders have to continue to step up, and at the same time help hold the kids accountable.
I'm not sure how the Coyotes are doing, because frankly I could give a fuck, especially since they shouldn't even exist right now. I do know they are doing better than the Oilers, Dave Tippett is doing a pretty decent job, better than the last guy anyway (sorry Wayne, you were way too good a player to be a coach) and I know of about 4 guys on their team. It will probably be weird for the Coyotes tonight, playing in front of a building full of hockey fans.
Khabby is hurt, to the surprise of no one. Although I am surprised that it took this long. I figured 8 games would be the mark, so thankfully he proved me wrong. JDD is between the pipes for now, but would anyone mind seeing Dubnyk get a shot one of these games? He looked good in pre-season and has had a decent start to the AHL season thus far. JDD on the other hand has been up and down. He's made some great saves and looked pretty good on most nights, but he's also let in a ton of soft goals and has looked shakey early on in all 3 of his starts. And like Dakin said, how the fuck can a goalie that big let in so many goals up top? Unreal. Anyway if this kid is ever going to build up some confidence and hopefully play like a bonafide NHL'er the team in front of him are going to have to stop GIVING THE FUCKING PUCK AWAY IN FRONT OF OUR NET! It's killed us on more than a few occasions this year and it's ridiculous. Off the glass and out, or off the boards and out. Is it really that hard?
jeanshorts prediction: Oilers 3 - Yotes 1
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