Leafs Annihilate Oilers
Oilers made to look like worst team in Hockey today
Saku Koivu returned to the Leaf lineup today and combined with Tony Amonte and Paul Kariya to absolutely destroy the Oilers 4-3 today. With Koivu in the lineup the Leafs were able to move uber sniper Petr Nedved to the second line giving the Leafs the best one two punch in the history of hockey.
Amonte opened the scoring on a Leaf powerplay as Koivu and Kariya combined to set him up. The Oilers responded with a powerplay marker of their own when Jay Bouwmeester finished off a nice passing play by the Oilers 20 and under contigent of Spezza and Zherdev. But Amonte and Kariya responded just over a minute later to make it 2-1 Leafs.
The Oilers tallied the only marker in the second when Radek Dvorak scored his team leading 8th goal on the powerplay from Leetch and Rafalski. Leaf tender Mikka Kiprusoff (a former player for Sylvanfan) was stellar turning aside the other 10 Oiler shots directed his way, with many of those being spectacular saves.
The Leafs defence put the game to rest in the third as pillars of strength Karl Dykhuis and Hal Gil tallied goals with Gill's being the winner. Again the dynamic duo of Kariya and Amonte were responsible for getting the puck to Gill in a situation where he could do nothing but laugh as he tapped the puck into the open cage. The Oilers did tie the game up briefly in the third when Ales "I'm on the trade block" Hemsky actually took a shot on goal after taking a brilliant feed from Zubov. The big difference in the game was the play of Kiprusoff vs. Vokun as Kipper was great and Vokun was average. The play of the Leafs top three lines was also superior to that of the Oilers, and Jay Bouwmeester suffered a tough game in his own end. The only bright spots for the Oilers was the play of the 4th line, and another steady performance from Leetch and Foote.
Tommorrow the Oilers will return home to face GM Sylvanfan's former squad the Panthers. Rumors suggest that Sylvanfan considered the prospect of adding a couple of former Panther centres to his lineup but decided against it. It appears to be biting him in the ass as Spezza continues to stink it up in Edmonton and act like his dad owns the Brick. Expect another Oiler loss tommorrow as the law of averages suggests the Oilers are due for a few more.
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