Bonsignore Citizens Brigade: Oilers @ Canucks

Real-life Example Of What The BCB Looks Like At This Point

*Blows off a 27 inch pile of dust* Hello? Is this thing on? Where am I? Holy shit, it's the year 2012 already?? Where has the time gone? So yeah, we've been a bit of an absentee dad lately, and for that we're sorry. But honestly, who can blame us?

Outside of all the BS we've been dealing with for the last month or so (moving, "Christmas", one of us milking a kidney stone to become literally the laziest person on the planet) it's been pretty god damn tiring and soul-sucking to be an Oilers fan these days. And I'm not even talking about the shit hockey the Oilers have been playing since about mid-November. It's the constant bickering, the constant "WELL CLEARLY IT'S THIS PERSON'S FAULT AND THEY SHOULD BE FIRE!" "NO YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT, IT'S THIS OTHER GUY'S FAULT AND HE SHOULD BE FIRED!", the constant "Pssshhh, I mean, if Tambellini only made this one impossible trade that would never actually happen in real life this team would march straight to the cup. It's pretty fucking obvious." and especially the small, yet incredibly vocal, slice of the Oiler fan pie who love finding a way to take every-single-thing-the-Oilers-do and somehow turn it into a negative. (IE. Well they're on a three game win streak NOW. Just a matter of time till they start losing again. Or, Ryan Smyth ONLY have 34 points. What a horrible signing. Etc)

And it's not as most of this is without merit. That's not what I'm saying. I understand where a lot of people are coming from, and a lot of it does make sense, but Jesus Fucking Christ it sucks the life right out of me. I've got enough to worry about in my actual life that the last thing I need, on top of watching my beloved Oilers embarrasses themselves with staggering consistency, is to waste a bunch of energy and get stressed out having an argument on Twitter about weather or not an extra 45 seconds of powerplay time is going to expedite Magnus PRV's development or how Tom Renney and Steve Tambellini are secretly trying to sabotage the team to finish last year after year for some reason.

It's a ton of fun to pretend like we have half a clue as to what the fuck goes into running an NHL franchise, or hell, just playing in the NHL, and getting into debates and tossing around hypotheticals and BS'ing with your buddies over a couple beers are some of the most fun times you can have; but having the same conversations (arguments) over and over again for the third year in a row while the Oilers flush a third season in a row down the toilet is just too much for me right now. I can't do it. So from now on I'm going to try and take a step back, still watch the games, but not get so god damn worked up about everything, and stop having these conversations where we just talk in circles and, surprisingly, have exactly ZERO effect on how or what the hockey team does. I'm going to go back to just watching the games, being incredibly depressed about it, and just letting the chips fall where they may.

However I will continue to make snarky and sarcastic comments all over Twitter. That I can promise you! #Promises

Now, where were we? How good did Dubnyk play last night? I mean, RIGHT? Looked like he legitimately belonged in the NHL last night which unfortunately hasn't happened as often as it should this season. And because of that he gets the nod again tonight against those fucking fartbags from Vancouver. Ey, yay, yay. We're in for a tough one tonight. Ah well, this is the last game before the All-Star break so at least we'll have a week off to not think about how everyone is injured and the ones that aren't injured are playing shitty and we're on our way to watching the first overall pick in the NHL entry draft don Oiler silks for the third year in a row. Oy, is it summer yet?


Oilers 6 - Vancouver 0

GOILERS!

-JS