The 7 stages of grieving the 2009/2010 Oilers. It season stared of with so much hope. We were all young and care-free. We had a healthy Dangles and BIG SEX, Horcoff had something to prove and we had the chosen one (Comrie) return to the holy land. But then it all went so horribly fucking wrong. Sometimes relationships kick you in the cunt like that. If you’ve never had the pleasure of feeling a huge loss, you may need some guidance on what to expect with regards to your new feelings.
1. SHOCK & DENIAL-
You probably reacted to this team with some numbed disbelief. You may have denied the reality of them at some level, in order to avoid the pain. It’s terrible, it hurts. Shock provides emotional protection from being overwhelmed all at once. This may have lasted for weeks, or in David S’ case- The entire season.
2. PAIN & GUILT-
When the shock started to wear off, it was replaced with the suffering and unbelievable pain. My god the pain. The merciless fans of rival teams, actually having a ton of ammo to slam you with. They can be very mean… it’s excruciating and almost unbearable, but it is important that you experience the pain fully, and not hide it, avoid it or escape from it with alcohol or drugs. Not yet anyway. You may a have felt a shit ton of remorse for not having cheered them hard enough. Maybe if you were at the games more?
3. ANGER & BARGAINING-
Then the Frustration gave way to anger, and you may have lashed out and laid some unwarranted blame for this cock sucking season on ridiculous things like, Horcoff or Coaching. Please try to control this, as permanent damage to your passion for this team may result. This is a time for the release of bottled up emotion. You may have questioned the Hockey Gods, "Why us?" You may also have tried to bargain in vain with the powers that be for a way out of this misery.
4. "DEPRESSION", REFLECTION, LONELINESS-
Just when your wife thought you should be getting on with your life, a long period of sad reflection likely began to overtake you. This is a normal stage of grief, so do not be "talked out of it" by her. No! Spending more time with her is not the answer. During this time, you finally realized the true magnitude of this season and it depressed you. Oh god it depressed you. You may have isolated yourself on purpose, avoiding poker nights with the boys and reflected on times when you really had something to cheer for, and focused on memories of the past.
5. THE UPWARD TURN-
Then as you started to adjust to life with a shitty team, your life became a little calmer and more organized. Your physical symptoms lessened because you stopped drinking so much to numb the pain and your blood pressure and tension subsided. Perhaps you started to exercise more like me. Then your "depression" began to lift slightly.
6. RECONSTRUCTION & WORKING THROUGH-
As you become more functional, The team went on a 5 game winning streak to remind you that things can be good again. To remind you that there will be better days. If you’re like me, you take an EPIC ROAD TRIP to watch a game and the team actually pulls a win out of their asses and makes you give a fuck just a little bit more. Then you found yourself seeking realistic solutions to problems posed by life without playoff hockey. Realistic like, I get to claim now that my team is “first place in the draft race!!!”
7. ACCEPTANCE & HOPE-
And now, during this, the last of the seven stages in this grief model, we will learn to accept and deal with the reality of this season. Acceptance does not necessarily mean instant happiness. Given the pain and turmoil we/you experienced, you can never return to the carefree, untroubled YOU that existed before this tragedy of a season. But you/we/US will find a way through. We can do this.
Now we can start to look forward and actually plan things for the future. A future with Tyler Seguin, MPS, Eberle and a new kick-ass, although currently injured Sam Gagner leading the way. Eventually, we will be able to think about this team without pain; sadness sometimes yes, but the wrenching pain of this fucking season will be gone. We will once again anticipate some good times to come, and yes, even find joy again in the experience of Oiler hockey.
For now, Coyotes:5 Oiler: 2
IQWT
Monday, February 8, 2010
Bonsignore Citizens Brigade: Oilers @ Coyotes
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I still cannot get my head around how shitty this team is. I mean, holy fuck what the hell happened????
Nice save BTW Travis. Pretty decent post too. I do think your score prediction is a bit conservative though. The way things are going, 2 for us would be a moral victory. Fuck.
Oh my fuck JFJ is useless.
*crickets*
Sorry, I'm working so I can only be her periodicaly
Ha Ha Travis! Yeah, you're not missing much. Its already 2-0 for Phoenix. Just make sure there's no environmental disasters on your shift and it will still be a successful night.
We haven't been missing much all season.
JDD with another one up high. Two soft ones already. Jesus he sucks.
What the fuck is going on?
4-0 Phoenix. One debacle special with extra cheese please.
Jesus fuck me.
perhaps I should revamp my prediction.
JDD is on his knees every god damn time.
Isn't 4-0 the most dangerous lead in hockey?
When he's on his knees, his belly button is still level with the cross bar. He's a gigantor. How in the fuck can ANYBODY score upstairs on him?
So I was supposed to be shooting a commercial right now. I gathered up all my gear, took the hour commute and made my way down to the spot where I was supposed to meet up with my ride to take me the rest of the way.
I ended up sitting outside for an hour, while the persons phone was off (still is). So I took the hour commute back home, and what is waiting for me? A 4-0 deficit to the Coyotes in the second period.
I love Mondays!
Did DeBrusk just say the phrase "everything's going right right now"????
I wish I was paid to be positive like that.
WOOOOOO!!!! OILERS HOCKEY!!!
FIVE - NUTHIN'!!!!
I think, instead of watching Oiler games I'm just going to stand in my bedroom and slap my wiener off my taint.
It's way more fun to watch.
WE WANT JUNG!
Isn't 5-0 the most dangerous lead in hockey?
What a nut-punch of a season this is. The wife is even starting to feel bad for me. Good Christ this is terrible.
Helluva post there Travis!
*focus on the positives before the darkness closes in*
Fuck. You know its bad when Phoenix is going all Globetrotters on your team.
Decent tilt there. Looks like quite a few got through for both guys, but none of the punches looked too heavy.
Does Strudwick still even give a shit anymore, or is he just trying to get another contract?
Bless his heart, but in this game, this season, I don't think I coulda mustered a scrap there.
Good fuck do I hate me some WT and that 3rd person horseshit routine. FUCK THAT GUY.
Can't make a pass. Can't clear the zone. Can't win battles for the puck. Can't stop pucks.
What a game!
WE WANT 10!!!
10 is still possible. I like that Quinn is leaving JDD in for the beating. Serves that flopping fish right.
Seriously what the fuck is with this kid? He stopped like 70 shots last game, and now anything that comes close to the net goes in.
Man do I ever love Comrie!
You know, when you are doing something sketchy like "throwing the season" You are supposed to do it subtley so as to not draw attention to it.
Comrie is one guy I'd really like to see here next year. I'd be proud as fuck if he we our captain.
Well, that oughtta earn Comrie a healthy scratch for next game. Who the fuck does he think he is, showing heart and shit?
Oh Oilers. Thank you for still sporadically trying.
^"were"
For some reason though, Quinn doesn't seem to like Comrie. I really like what he brings to the team and would LOVE it if he was back again next year.
Throwing the season is the only thing that would explain this this travesty, Travesty.
Anybody else notice how the torch for this year's olympics looks like a giant doob? How fitting for Vancouver.
http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/olympic-torch-relay/about-the-olympic-torch-relay/2010-olympic-torch/
I guess Quinn is more of a "Myley Cyrus fan"
HaHa Travetsy..... ha. Fucking gay.
WOOOOO!!!! OILERS!!!!
Good, getting shut out just SUCKS
See, I can't tell if Quinn doesn't like him, or if he really likes him. Brownlee or someone said the other day that he was a healthy scratch against Calgary that one game because Quinn felt he still didn't look at 100 percent, and didn't want to risk him missing anymore time, so he gave him a rest.
He's also one of the few guys that I think the majority of us agree should be back next year, so maybe they are just making sure he's not horribly maimed before next season/showcasing other guys for these supposed "trades" we keep hearing about.
God damn I'd like to see some more of Penner/Gagner/Nilsson.
I'd like to see Nilsson on a plane, getting the fuck out of here for good.
I'm with js. Fuck Nilsson, I turned on that guy a long time ago.
@ Travis - I held one of those torches. Pretty cool to see one in person.
@Travis - I held a doobie once and concur with your assessment.
Hey fellas. How`s the game goin............fuck`s sake.
The torch is passing right in front of my place at like 7 in the morning on Friday. I'm seriously debating getting up at an ungodly hour and taking some pictors for some kind of posterity.
Nilsson is going to finish with close to 10 god damn shots tonight. Fuck!
JS, It's kind of a once in a lifetime thing... You can go back to sleep later.
And I think you make a good point about Comrie.
Phoenix is putting the coals to 'er right to the last whistle. I wonder what that's like.
Former Flame Matthew Lombardi with 5 points huh? Wicked.
He DIDN'T play for the Oilers before right?
What's with these Euros with super North American names? I always thought Robert Lang was American. My world is crumbling down around me!
Maybe. At least you have the torch going by your house. That should add a little color to your deviant little world.
I was just listening to Tencer and he actually said something that has some merit in my eyes. Phoenix (Why the fuck is it spelled Phoenix yet we pronounce it Pheonix? WTF) has 13 guys playing for contracts this year. That's a good way to get some quality efforts out of cheap veterans.
Thank god all our veterans/depth guys are signed to bloated, long term contracts.
They are? Well good then.
Signing cheap vets to value one-year deals with the promise of another year's extension if they meet certain criteria makes sense to me. Soooo...it'll never happen here.
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