[Phanuthier]

So one of my guilty pleasures is to lurk HF Oilers board after a big ass whooping. Especially being down 6-0, then coming back 6-3, I could almost see them going suicidal and thinking they were going to give up 10 again, then getting all psyched with the glimmer of hope when they come back with 3 goals thinking they were going to make a big comback, only to have their tiny glimmer of light put out when Detriot buried them with 2 more. (Its not just the loss, but the manner its done to give them hope, then crush it: awsome.)

Came across some beauties in the meantime:

Incase you guys are keeping track, my last 2 GDT's...

Opposition 18
Edmonton 5

****ing roloson and his stupid ****ing antics. What kind of a man intentionally stabs another man in the balls. It is just pathetic. We will lose the game because of that play.

I remember getting into it with some of the posters at Calgarypuck about prospects and getting into it over Schremp. One of them told me that Schemp wasn't that good a prospect and that Dustin Boyd was going to play sooner and have a better career than Robbie. I couldn't believe what I was reading and told the guy he was an idiot and didn't know anything about prospects. You know what? It looks like he was right. Schremp doesn't appear to have the talent and Boyd is proving he can play in any situation. What if this is the truth of the matter and we have completely unreasonable estimates of our prospects too? I get sick thinking about it.

We talk a lot about our future, but what about our future? Does it look that good? Is it any better than anyone else's? Is it better than the Flames? Yeah, we have Schremp, Eberle and Nash up front but they have Backlund, Nemisz and Wahl. Backlund looked pretty good in his limited play last night against the Islanders, which made me shake my head in disbelief. I thought this guy was done based on reports here at HF. On the blueline we have Petry, Chorney and Peckham but they have Aulie, Negrin, Pelech and Baldwin. To make matters worse they have Pardy stepping in this year and looking pretty good, and an already young franchise defenseman in Phaneuf. In goal things look bleak. We have Dubnyk and ??? The Flames have Irving, Keetley and Lalande. Their system is supposed to be complete crap but when you actually look at it they have some pretty decent prospects at every position. If our future is supposed to look bright what does that say about the Flames? I guess we can be lucky the Canucks prospects aren't that good, or are they?

This has been a really tough week. We're about to hit the half way mark of the season and we're havng trouble seeing the glass half anything. We're 13 points behind the Flames! Behind the freakin' Flames! Can it get worse? I guess. We're two points out of the final playoff spot, but we're two points out of 14th spot too. Where is the silver lining in all of this? We've got a screwed salary structure, a bunch of untradable players, and no where to go fast. At lease we can drink!

Oh, and the beautiful story:

Up by a field goal 6 minutes in. Thanks for putting the team behind the 8-ball Roli.

This could be one of those 9+ goal games.

Why does the oppposition broadcast always bash the Oilers. It's getting ridiculous and classless.

(Response: ) They're right. I don't know if you noticed, but it's 3-0 after ten minutes.

ffs. why does detroit even bother putting a goalie in? they have 4 goals and we have 3 shots...

This game reminds me of when Canada plays some Olympic minnow.

We just yank 'em around for 60 minutes and win 12-1 or 10-0.

This game is making Hossa really want to play here.

A glimmer of hope?

and what the hell... 6-3?!

oh yeah!

And the hope gets crushed

There we go, coming back to earth.

The Oilers we all know and love.

Detroit was just toying with our ECHL squad.

Thanks for the tease, Detroit.