Playoff beard!

Since the Oilers didn't even make it and the Salmon Kings got booted out a while back my beard has been shaved, but are you still growing yours vince?

Big Mac

Not the McDonalds one but the McDonald one, Lanny.

I call do over.

Also because i sure as hell don't want the penguins to win.

It's a dark day in Detroit

I couldn't help but speculate that this early whistle on the potential 2-2 is gonna cost Detroit the series, and therefor, the cup.

This is relevant to my interests

NHL semifinal schedule

The pain!!

Result: broken orbital bone
This'll get you suspended for 5 games!

"Brashear delivered a shoulder hit to an unsuspecting player. It is also my opinion that the hit was delivered late and targeted the head of his opponent, causing significant injury."

--Colin Campbell

Anger issues?

Was gonna post this one and explain:

But why should I when this one's available too:

Sean Avery... here you go.

Sup guys, just came back from a meeting with the worst commissioner of any league of all time. Don't mind the faggot in the background, i didn't give him fashion advice that why he looks like a faggot. Speaking of faggots, fuck Marty Turco. I know it was him whos been talking shit about me while im not there. So when i get back im going to insult Turco's family and wife and whip my shin tape at him after every skate. I mean its too easy as it is with his fucking ugly ass face, his nose is the fucking most disgusting thing Ive ever seen. It looks like another mans sloppy seconds! Speaking of sloppy seconds why hasn't that asshole Dave Tippet been fired yet? Hes been on life support for the past few years and even with the worst record in the west he still manages to have a job. Anyways, fuck the Stars I don't want to go back to that shitty ass team anyways. I'll sit out the year collecting my 3.75 Million while cruising the streets looking for the next bitch that will eventually leave me for another player.

Later homos.

Sean "Jean" Avery

Oilers stats & news.

The Oilers sit with a 9-9-2 record through the first 20 games of their 2008/2009 season. The following is an extensive list of figures and statistics that will serve to highlight the positives and negatives of the first quarter of the season:

*The team has played a league-leading 14 games on the road. The next highest total of road games played is 11. That does mean, of course, that the Oilers will play a league-leading 35 of their final 62 games on home ice. In fact, fast forwarding to the end of the year, 7 of their final 10 games are at Rexall Place.

*The Oilers are 2-2-2 on home ice this season and 7-7 on the road.

*Schedule quirk: The Oilers play 3 of their 6 games against Vancouver this season in a 2 week span in the month of December.

*Ales Hemsky is the leading point scorer in the league in games played on the road. 17 of his 21 points have come away from Rexall Place; Marc Savard of the Bruins and Alexander Semin of the Capitals are #'s 2 and 3 on that list, scoring 16 and 15 points respectively on the road so far this year.

Hemsky is tied for 2nd in the NHL with 12 power play points; only Evgeni Malkin of the Penguins (15) has more.

*Steve Staios might have a tough time defending his crown as the team's leading shot blocker; Lubomir Visnovsky is even with Staios through 20 games as they've each blocked 40 shots. Zbynek Michalek of the Coyotes leads the league with 59.

*Only one player in the league (Rod Brind'Amour) has taken more face offs than Shawn Horcoff. Horcoff is executing at a 50.1% efficiency rating on 421 draws this year. Brind'Amour is 62.3% in 424 trips to the dot.

*To borrow a line from TSN hockey analyst Pierre McGuire, Sheldon Souray has been a monster this year! He's leading the team in goals with 7 and is 2nd in points with 15. He's also a +2 while leading the team in average ice time with 24:54 per game. If he keeps up his blazing pace he'll score 29 goals and 34 assists for 63 points this season. Think it's far fetched? 2 seasons ago he scored 26-38-64 with Montreal.

*The Oilers seem to be on the right track with their powerplay. With a 20.0% efficiency rating they are tied for 10th in the NHL. They have scored at least one powerplay goal in 13 games this season and multiple powerplay goals in 3 games. In the previous 5 seasons the team has only had a powerplay finish in the top 15 in the league once.

*The Oilers' penalty kill has finished in the top 10 in the league each of the last 3 seasons (including a 5th place finish last season). The PK, however, is off to a slow start this year, allowing approximately 1 goal per 4 powerplays. Their efficiency rating of 73.9% is good for 27th in the league. They have allowed multiple powerplay goals against in 4 games this season.

*Poor starts have been a consistent part of the copper and blue identity to start this season. The Oilers are ranked 29th in the league in first period scoring, averaging just 0.5 goals per period. Conversely, they are ranked 2nd in second period scoring with 26 goals in 20 games.

*The Oilers do not have a player on the team that has more than 4 even strength goals. Ales Hemsky, Ethan Moreau and Dustin Penner each have 4. Notables: Sam Gagner (0), Robert Nilsson (1), Erik Cole (2) and Shawn Horcoff (2). It doesn't seem to be because of a lack of effort on Shawn Horcoff's part; he's 2nd on the team averaging just about 3 shots per game. More alarmingly, Penner, Gagner and Nilsson are all averaging less than 2 shots per game.

*The Oilers have only 4 players who are averaging at least 1 hit per game. Ethan Moreau leads the team in that category with 41 followed by Erik Cole (38), Jason Strudwick (25) and Steve Staios (21).

*Shawn Horcoff played his 500th game in an Oilers uniform on Thursday night against Detroit. The only other active Oiler to have played 500 games for the franchise is captain Ethan Moreau (520).

*Dwayne Roloson has seen the most minutes of the 3 goaltenders on the roster. The 39 year old veteran checks in with 496:52 of ice time followed by Mathieu Garon with 440:22 and then Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers with 270:43. Deslauriers owns the best statistics, however, with a 2.44 GAA and .927 SV%; Deslauriers is also the only Oilers goaltender to register a point (an assist on the game winning goal in New Jersey). Each of the goaltenders has 3 wins to their record; Garon leads the team in losses with 5.

Oilers vs. Rangers

A.k.a.: Underdog vs. Eastern Conference Leader

Fresh from Sunday night's 2-1 win in New Jersey, Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers salvaged a 3-2 shootout win for the Oilers with 40 saves and a perfect shootout performance vs. the Rangers in New York Monday night. Erik Cole and Kyle Brodziak gave the Oilers a 2-0 lead early in the game, while Ales Hemsky earned the game-winner with the lone shootout goal.

See for yourself:

From my own hands...

EA SPORTS World: Spin O Rama I guess

Live Hockey tonight...

Watch this at 8 UTC+1

Butterfly goalie?

Something I didn't know, thanks again wikipedia...:

Butterfly style

Another style is the "Butterfly", where goalies go down on both pads with their toes pointing outwards and the tops of their pads meeting in the middle. This is generally the most common style used in the modern day. This results in a "wall" of padding without any holes, lowering the chances of low angle shots getting in. These goalies rely mainly on timing and position. Early innovators of this style were goaltending greats Glenn Hall and Tony Esposito, who played during the 50's-60's and 70's-80's, respectively. Hall is generally credited to be among the very first to use this style, and both he and Esposito had tremendous success with it. This is the most widely used style in the NHL today. "Butterfly" goalies have developed methods of sliding in the "Butterfly" position in order to move around fast in one timer situations. As pad size increased, it became a more notable style of goaltending and is still evolving. One of the best butterfly goalies of all time is the Canadian goalie Patrick Roy, who is now retired. Swedish goaltender Henrik Lundqvist is a particularly notable current Butterfly goalie, standing out due to his aggressive interpretation of the style.

Some optimism? Cause i damn well need it!

First one of the pre-season.

And we will feast on canuck (note: not orca) blood!

Big hit, really big hit!

When you see someone trying to make a snowangel on the ice, things aren't going very good for him.

Lookalikes:

You tell me...


(they should be... one is just the SP char. of the other)

ow snap

So bodychecking anyone?


ps: he survived

I might be makin' SOME money...

But this is still waaaay out of my league!
This pretty comes in at a nice but not too expensive pricetag of $1299,- and is available for sale right off the NHL-shop. Autographed by the man himself and one of the biggest hockey legends: Wayne Gretzky (note: check his retiring age - NICE)

Scooped up some info there as well:

Wayne Gretzky was a 10-time NHL® scoring champion, a 9-time regular season MVP (1979-87,89) and 9-time All-NHL® first team. In 1999, at age 38, with 61 NHL® scoring records in 20 seasons, Gretzky retired. Wayne Gretzky has hand signed this blue authentic Oilers jersey. A Wayne Gretzky (WG) Authentic Certificate of Authenticity is included.