| Who to like now?
Posted: 5/6/2008 4:41:44 AM | Replying to myself
Updated: May 14, 2006, 10:53 PM ET
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose Sharks fans loudly booed the Canadian national anthem Sunday night before Game 5 of their team's second-round playoff series with the Edmonton Oilers.
The vociferous booing started from the opening notes of singer Annmarie Martin's rendition of "O Canada." While other fans attempted to drown it out by singing along, the boos were audible until the final notes.
Pregame anthem booing was a hot-button issue in sports shortly after the beginning of the war in Iraq, with fans in Chicago's Wrigley Field, Montreal's Bell Centre and other arenas booing their neighbors' anthem from 2002-04.
There was no apparent political motive for the booing in San Jose -- just a questionable expression of the fans' dislike of the Oilers, who won the last two games in Edmonton to tie the series at two games apiece.
The Shark Tank fans didn't boo "O Canada" before the first two games, and fans in Edmonton didn't boo "The Star-Spangled Banner" last week.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press
At least Oiler fans Flames fans and Stars fan have something in common we hate the sharks. | |
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| Who to like now?
Posted: 5/6/2008 6:31:49 PM | if it wasn't for all the serious injuries I'm pretty sure the Oil woulda made the playoffs also if they make Garon the #1 goalie they could be in the top 8 teams in the league
One thing I don't understand and I'm some Oiler fans think the same thing why they wouldn't pay Ryan the money yet go make an insane offer on that Sabres dude :) that really screwed buffalo big time this concussion comes goes I don't think the sabres even made the playoffs and they will really suck next season after Miller leaves I would love to see him as an Oil I think he almost as good as Kipper and being a Flames fan I would go see him play every chance I get any talent the Sabres have they are going to lose over the next few years
PS when Irving gets in goal and I think he is way better than Kipper good luck beating the Flames
I think Irving Kipper Huet and Fluery are the most exciting goalies to watch I don't think Irving has played in the nhl yet but in the juniors he was sensational oh forgot the one that beat Irving out for team Canada Carey Price if the Oil become a better team than calgary then all the power to them but Katz owns them now and has nowhere close to the 32 billion the combined owners of the flames have and yes this is meaningless with a salary cap I'd like to see the Flames get Yashin back in the NHL pop him next to conroy and Iggy | |
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| Who to like now?
Posted: 5/6/2008 6:55:56 PM | "I'd like to see the Flames get Yashin back in the NHL pop him next to conroy and Iggy" 
Yashin playing for Mike Keenan? And playing next to Iginla?
If Keenan doesn't kill him within the first two weeks, Iggy does!
Oilers suffered some terrible injuries this year, but I don't know whether they make the playoffs with a healthy team and here's why: Without the injuries, Cogliano likely sits as much as he plays, or goes down to Springfield.
Ditto Robert Nilsson.
Without the injuries, Sam Gagner likely gets sent back to junior.
Without the injuries, Curtis Glenncross never comes to Edmonton.
The injuries, in an ironic twist, likely helped the Oilers more than they hurt the Oilers.
Those four guys got more playing time this year alone than they were likely to get in the next two combined and theyall blossomed. Some would say they all over-achieved and we'll have to wait for next year to find that out.
Also, it's tough to use the Oilers injuries as an excuse when one of the teams that beat them out – Colorado – overcame the exact same situation this season to get to the playoffs.
I don't think there's any question that the Oilers make Garon their Number-One guy next year: he was their number-one guy for the last half of this year. But therein lies the problem. He's not good enough ... yet. He make get that good, but his numbers this season were actually pretty bad. How many teams in the West would trade their starter for Garon straight across? Maybe Colorado, especially after Theodore woke up in the Detroit series and realized he was Theodore  but other than the Avs and LA ... who still haven't figured out who their starter is ... I don't think any Western GMs trade their number-one goalie for Garon straight across.
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| Go Canada Go!
Posted: 5/6/2008 6:57:38 PM | We may not have a Canadian team left in the NHL playoffs, but IIHF World Championships are on, and we beat the US today. 
5-4, pretty good game. Saw Staios on the ice a bit, he was his usual great self. | |
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Posted: 5/8/2008 9:14:38 AM | I missed the Canada US game 2 days ago just Basketball and Hockey for me now
Yeah no canadian team go Sid and lets go Stars I hate Philly and Detroit Dallas just wants Edmonton in the first round so they can advance I'll have to look this up as well has Edm ever beaten Dallas in a first or second round matchup
the IIHF series is going to be a joke Canada is going to win it now as for sweden losing 6 players in 1 game hope they recover I'd like to see Canada play them in the final | |
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| Go Canada Go!
Posted: 5/9/2008 1:41:36 PM | | Yup, the Pisser is up against Chelios and Jason Blake for the Masterton Trophy. Hmmm...hard to win when you're up against a guy that came back from a form of cancer and another guy who should be doing Cialis ads but still has a career in the league. | |
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Posted: 5/10/2008 4:04:19 PM | Sorry, dogandpony, but they scanned Messier's entire body the other day to make an action figure. Can't believe they didn't give you advance notice!
http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?service=page&page=DayPartsPage&tab=4
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Posted: 5/10/2008 4:32:42 PM | The nerve!
Well I'll be first in line to buy the action figure anyway. | |
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Posted: 5/10/2008 9:00:25 PM | The Masterton will depend a lot on politics.
Battling cancer will always win out in one regard and that's that colitis/crones is not regarded as a terminal/fatal disease. Regardless of what type of cancer Blake had, it's still the C word.
On the other hand, colitis is a terrible INCURABLE disease that can be very debilitating and to be able to maintain the level of play becessary to keep a job in the NHL is unbelievable.
Gonna be a two-horse rave between Blake and Pisani if you ask me. Pretty sure if you were to ask Chelios he'd say the same thing. He'll win it in his last yeat ouf playing ... 2014 ha ha
Another note on the Oilers ... rumour has them going after Ryane Clowe on July 1. | |
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| Go Canada Go!
Posted: 5/10/2008 10:10:02 PM | | If the sports section of the Journal is anything to go on, there are a lot of head coaches floating around out there. I'm sure one of them would be decent enough to come work here. | |
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| Go Canada Go!
Posted: 5/10/2008 10:13:24 PM | Are you saying that you think the team underachieved this year with MacT coaching? Gotta disagree with yu there. I don't think any coach can be expected to take an opening day line-up with eight rookies in it and make the playoffs.
But why were there 8 rookies in the opening day line-up? You can thank Kevin Lowe for that. If there's anyone who should be canned from the Oilers, it's not the coach. Look a little higher up the food chain | |
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Posted: 5/11/2008 11:43:34 AM | | i agree, lowe should have been fired awhile ago. I hear he wont be dealing with Vancouver because of the hiring of mike gillis. the reason being is Edmonton was going to sign some player who had gillis as an agent. i guess the player ended up signing elsewhere and that left a bad taste in lowes mouth and felt angry at gillis because he thought a deal had been made. so im aware lowe wont deal with 2 of 30 nhl tems. the other being the ducks. i wouldent be suprised if he has irked other gms in the league. it just makes for bad business | |
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Posted: 5/11/2008 12:01:04 PM | Yeah it was Nylander. It it was a real screw-up: Gillis struck a deal with Lowe, it was actually announced, then the next day Nylander signed his own deal with Washington.
And as much as there are 2 GMs Lowe won't deal with, I'm thinking there are more than that who won't deal with Lowe. You know Burke and Darcy Regeir (Buffalo) won't and quite frankly, if you look at the Oilers last year, Kevin Lowe readily admitted at the beginning of the season he was looking for a goal scoring winger. He made one deal all year long, shipping a seventh defenceman to Columbus for a fourth-line centre in February. Granted, Glencross proved to be an asset but that trade had a lot more to do with getting rid of Tarnstrom and his $2M contract (another bad Lowe signing) than anything.
Other than that, since Lowe made the Vanek and Penner offer sheets, he hasn't had any transactions whatsoever with any GMs in the league. That's ok if you're the best team in the league, but to sit back and do nothing to improve your team all year when your team clearly needed improving, well, that gives me the feeling that other GMs won't deal with him. | |
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Posted: 5/11/2008 12:29:55 PM | | The team succeeded in spite of MacTavish - not because of him. Her certainly doesn't have the winningest record after coaching here for 8 years. He had no choice but to play the players he did at the end of the season because of injuries. Change is good and it's high time for a change. I'm not saying Lowe is blameless here but he's done okay. He's done what he needs to do to make the Oilers a better team and it's about business, not friendship. If Burke continues to hold a grudge it's because he didn't get the better end of the Penner deal (finally). Lowe simply used a tool available to him and I say good for him for having the schutzpa to do it. | |
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Posted: 5/11/2008 4:04:48 PM | Well, we won't know for a few years who got the better end of the Penner deal ... not until all of Anaheim's draft picks are made and they develop. That was a brutal signing by Lowe, and as much as I don't like Burke, he pretty much nailed it when he said that the move was "A desperate move made by a GM trying to keep his job". Schutzpah? It was an obsene over-payment. (Maybe that's what shutzpah means. I don't know.) And it has not only changed the face of the way the NHL now deals with RFAs (there are plenty of NHL players who should be thanking KL for what he did last summer), but exactly what is Lowe going to do about the likes of Shawn Horcoff, who is a UFA next year? If Penner is worth 4.2M, what does that make Horcoff worth?
And team's don't succeed in spite of their coach. It just doesn't work that way. Teams will quit on their coach, but you will have to explain to me how a team with no superstars on it can win in spite of their coach. Sure, a roster like Pittsburgh's, or Detroit's can pretty much run on cruise control, but without good coaching, that Oilers team finishes 14th in the West last year.
This isn't shinny. This is the NHL. To say that a bunch of rookies can go out, contend for a playoff spot against a league of established teams and do so without good coaching, well smilie, you are going to have to explain that one to me, because it's well past my understanding of the sport.
And of course he had no choice but to play the players he did at the end of the season, but that doesn't explain why he had a line-up with eight rookies in it at the BEGINNING of the season.
Craig MacTavish came within three points of being nominated for the Jack Adams trophy this season. | |
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| Happy Dance
Posted: 5/12/2008 6:07:19 PM | | Ron Wilson got fired, yippee. I really don't like that guy. | |
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| Proud Canadians
Posted: 5/18/2008 12:57:01 PM | We played Russia in the gold medal game today. It was a great game to watch, but a lousy outcome for us. Russia won in OT after coming back from a 4-2 deficit to tie with 6 minutes in the third. Nash took a delay of game penalty right at the beginning of OT, and Russia was able to score 4 on 3.
Was sure hoping we'd win the gold on Canadian soil for the first time, but not meant to be I guess. 
Still proud of all our boys though, they worked hard! Cam Ward made some great saves. And silver is nothing to sneeze at. | |
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Posted: 5/18/2008 1:22:12 PM | Yup, great game. Like you said, too bad the wrong team won.  Oh well, silver's better than a kick in the pants.  | |
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| Who to like now?
Posted: 5/23/2008 6:35:59 PM | "After the Habs' elimination, i'm now putting my entire support behind the Pens.
I'm also wishing for the Sharks to pull one more tonight and push a game 7. History could be in the making. I don't think there ever was a team that came back from an 0-3 deficit and won a series. O.o [but i'm not sure. somebody correct me if i'm wrong.."
2 NHL teams have come back from a 0-3 defecit the Islanders I believe in 75 or 76 and let not forget the Dead things 42 or 43 it was in the stanley cup final the Wings had a 3-0 series lead the Leafs came back and won 4 straight and beat them. That the only 2 I know of in hockey and the Red Sox came back 0-3 beat the Yankees went to the next round won the world series (baseball) it's never happened in basketball. | |
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| Who to like now?
Posted: 5/23/2008 7:40:38 PM | | Also whoever it was that said it was Smith that ran into Roloson or tripped over him it was Bergeron I remember that vivdly I was think oh god here comes a sweep and I was actually cheering for the oilers to win the cup so Canada can have it back. I went to game 6 when the Oil smoked them 4-0 even wearing my Flames Iggy sweater. I also think they used Markanen the rest of the way. I know he played all of game 6 as it was here in Edmonton when after goal 4 the chants came out "we want the cup we want the cup" Sadly enough even though being a flamer I joined in and partied with some oiler fans after the game. Hell when the flames did their run their were flames flags on every 2nd car here in E town during the final. Only nightmare I would have is if the leafs ever win the cup again that would be the end of hockey. I'm starting to post too much again. | |
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| Stanley goes to Hockeytown
Posted: 6/4/2008 8:00:07 PM | Well the kids in Pittsburgh tried hard, but didn't quite have enough to beat the wily veterans of Detroit.
Good game tonight, I love watching them skate around with the cup.
Break out the golf clubs, hockey's over for another year. I can cancel my satellite TV now... LOL. | |
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| Stanley goes to Hockeytown
Posted: 6/4/2008 8:26:15 PM | ^^ my thoughts exactly.... let the games begin!
I'm happy for Detroit, yet sick for Pittsburg... and had it been the other way around, I would have felt the same way.
NOW... it's time to gear up for this year's season!! | |
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| HNIC - a Canadian institution?
Posted: 6/5/2008 4:31:00 PM | OK
so I heard this on the radio news just before going home.
HNIC will not be using the 'HNIC Theme song' next year
so, I think that yes the game and marketing need to move on and grow, however, not using the familiar bars for HNIC is like changing the National Anthem (well to some it is the national anthem)
thoughts?????
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