[Sylvanfan]

FLYING V TOO MUCH FOR TIRED OILERS

The Oilers came crashing back down to Earth hard in a 3-2 overtime setback against the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. With both squads playing their third game in as many nights the game was surprisingly fast paced. Having rode stud mullet toting goalie Roberto Luongo to exhaustion the Ducks turned to rookie Ilya Bryzlagov to hold off the Oilers. The young Russian did not dissappoint and showed that he is indeed worthy of his role as Luongo's backup with a dazzling 23 save performance.

The Oilers opened the scoring for the first time in the past 4 games when Brendan Morrow potted his 5th of the season after a brillian cross ice feed from J.P.Dumont. But just 59 seconds later the Oilers lost blue liner Jay McKee for the night when he kicked Mike York in the ankle after the Duck had hooked the Oiler rearguard to the ice. The Oilers P.K. unit did hold off the Duck P.P. and held a 1-0 lead after the first.

Rob Blake tied the game just over 7 minutes into the second when he rifled a shot high to the glove side of Thomas Vokun. From there the Oilers pressed but were unable to beat the Ducks rookie in the net. Bryzlagov was especially sharp on an Oiler powerplay stiffling the Morrow/Dumont combination 3 times on cross ice one timers.

The Oilers grabbed the lead just after the halfway point of the third when Marian Hossa was able to strip the puck from Rhett Warrener and was able to beat Bryzlagov through the legs. But the Ducks responded quickley when Tuomo Ruutu got a P.P. marker past Vokun. The two teams than battled to a stalemate to finish off regulation.

The Ducks took the charity point in OT when Viktor Kozlov showed off his sick athletic ability and let a howiztzer wrist shot fly over Vokuns shoulder three minutes in to OT.

Oilers GM Sylvanfan had this to say. "We are very disappointed to lose this game. We really needed to win this in regulation to get back into the division race. Now we're miles behind these guys and I expect that Avs will be tapping us on the ass shortly to remind us that we've been lapped! We have the Rangers coming in on Monday and with studs like Sundin, Tkachuck, and Richards I don't see how they won't beat our ass silly. Plain and simple right now we're a middle of the pack hockey club with tonnes of potential. But the bottom line is that we're not all that good on the ice right now. I can't let the frustration control too many decisions as our team does have a very bright future."

On a side note chotchy mulleted goaltender Roberto Luongo sat on the bench and looked into the stands with awe. After the game he was quoted as saying "This city is loaded with 80's cougar like women. I wish I was a free agent right now because I couldn't sign a contract to play here fast enough! I'll bet they'd go absolutely nuts when they see my Camaro!"