Going in to the game the Oilers have been outscored something like 75-38 and were/are last in the league in FOs at 47%. Horcoff & O'Sullivan are tied for second to last place in +/- with -23. Brind'Amour is last at -25. Aww! Do I even need to mention they have yet to win a game this year? They have only won once out of their last 19 games! Oh the agony!
I forgot Hemsky has been out of the lineup for a while because of his shoulder. Looking at the Oilers' injury report, Brule is out with the flu, Comrie's out with mono, Smid is out with a concussion, and Stone & Staios are out indefinitely. They've got all sorts of problems.
Before the game started, they showed a guy wearing a half Blackhawks/half Oilers jersey. Oh my god I had that same idea with the Blackhawks/Thrashers! (BTW I probably won't be attending that game for a number of reasons...) I was overjoyed at seeing that. I also realized I was wearing my Khabibulin shirt. (Not intentionally) I woke up a half hour late & it was laying out so I grabbed it!
Long story short, Toews scored 44 seconds in to the first, Brouwer and Byfuglien scored in the second, and Hossa scored in the third. In the after-game press conference, Coach pronounced Hossa "haw-suh." I think a coach would know the proper way to say everyone's name, therefore most people must be saying it wrong (it's the American way!)... yet I think he says Huet "hue-ay" and I've heard from the man himself it's "oo-et." Ok, I'm getting off track... I can admit I cheered when Pisani and Potulny scored. I didn't want this to be a whitewash game. Even though they didn't win, it's good to score a few. Oh yeah, and Hendry was back in the line up, though I didn't even know he was gone for, what, five games? Sorry, bud. Oh oh yeah! Eddie was back! The dynamic duo are together again ♥ They had so many laughs :)
Final score 4-2
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