Fast Forward To The 50 Second Mark
If that shit right there doesn't motivate Mike Comrie to go out and score 5 goals and beat up a few guys then I don't know what will. Speaking of Mike Comrie, the Oilers are in the nations capital tonight to take on his former team in the Senators.
The Senators have been playing just as mediocre as the Oilers this season, but they don't have the injury excuse to fall back on. What's going wrong in Ottawa? I have no idea. It looks like the departure of Dany Douchebag is making a difference on the scoreboard, which isn't surprising, but unfortunately for Sens fans, as positive as they tried to be in the offseason after the Heatley trade, it's pretty clear they got hosed, and hosed big time. Milan Michalek has been doing alright, leading the team in goals with 7, but just as I predicted Johnathon Cheechoo has completely shit the bed and has managed to put up a Robbie Schremp-esque 2 points in 14 games.
The Sens other big acquisition came last year in the form of Pascal Leclaire, and it looked like the Sens finally had a clear starter between the pipes for the first time since Dominick Hasek rolled through down on his retirement tour. I don't know if it's the team in front of him that's been sucking bag or what, but from the little I've seen this season Leclaire has looked spotty and inconsistent. One game he'll be standing on his head, making great save after great save, and the next game he'll left in 5 goals. Let's all use our collective karma and hope that Leclaire is on a down swing tonight.
The Oilers played well against the Av's on the Sunday, playing as close to a full game as they have for the last 3 weeks or so. Although they gave up a shit ton of shots in that second period, but what else is new. Seriously what is it about the second period that makes this team shit the bed 9 out of 10 times? Are they thrown off having to go the other way? Fuck man, if this team can start stringing together full 60 minute efforts they'll slowly start to dig themselves out of this giant hole they're presently in.
There's still a shit ton of injuries obviously. Apparently Taylor Chorney's mustache could only help him so much because he's out with a bummed ankle, but it looks like Smid is drawing back in which is fucking nice. Steve Statios, who I stand by as my pick for Goat this year, has been playing really well in his first 2 games back. It's probably just the fact that the rest of the D outside of Smid and Vish have looked like absolute garbage, but it's been nice having someone back there that isn't afraid to block a god damn shot and has the ability to clear the puck out of his own zone. Ryan O'Marra is getting the call tonight, and if he plays anything like Potulny and Reddox did on Sunday we should be in good shape. Speaking of Potulny I hope he continues to impress, and maybe eventually we can get rid of some dead weight on the bottom 6. Someone, hmm, I don't know, maybe an Italian kid that grew up cheering for the Oilers? Look I fucking love Fernando Pisani. And he's had horrendous luck with injuries so I'm still willing to give him a pass for a few more weeks. But if he doesn't get back into game shape soon we have to cut the chord. It is nice to see the kids from the farm coming up and making an impact, no? Who says we don't have depth!
*please god don't make us call up anymore Falcons, PLEASE!*
The last Oilers game I went to was on December 30th, 2008. JSBM arrived in style to watch our mighty Oilers take on a Senators team that was on a 7 game losing streak or something ridiculous. We should have known the night was a write off when someone kicked the cord out of the wall and they couldn't get the lights to come back on for well over 40 minutes. The only silver lining was that we ended up crushing about 5 RX1 beers before the puck even dropped. Liam Reddox scored 2 goals and the Sens, surprise surprise, ended their losing streak with a 5-2 win over Edmonton or something like that. I don't remember I was pretty smashed.
Moral of the story is the Sens are probably going to win tonight. But anything is possible right KG? They surprised me last game and I'm hoping for two in a row.
jeanshorts prediction: Oilers 3 - Sens 4. That's right, I'm trying reverse psychology on this one.
GOILERS!
IQWT
-jeanshorts
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