GDT – Edmonton Oilers 0, Colorado Avalanche 3 – Feb 6, 2010 @ 8:00 PM – CBC – Game 57
By Racki, February 6, 2010
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GDT - Edmonton Oilers at Colorado Avalanche
PRE-GAME RANT
The Oilers big 2 game winning streak came to a halt versus the Wild on Thursday where they were felled 4-2. They are 2-1-0 so far this month after going a whole month without a win. The Colorado Avalanche have just 1 win in their last 5 games after going on a 6 game winning streak. They’ll look to get things back under control against a fellow struggling team. The Oilers are 2-7-1 in their last 10 and the Avalanche are 6-4-0 in their last 10.
Something tells me this will be another loss for the Oilers tonight. Prediction: CBC commentators will rip into the Oilers for being such a poor team at this that, and the other thing and mention how Dustin Penner looks lazy out there again. The last game these two teams played against each other, the Avalanche won 6-0.
Prediction: 4-1 for Colorado
PROJECTED LINE-UPS
Edmonton Oilers Projected Line-Up (subject to change)
Penner-Gagner-Cogliano
Comrie-Potulny-O’Sullivan
Moreau – Horcoff – Pisani
Jacques-Pouliot-Stortini
Visnovsky – Chorney
Gilbert – Grebeshkov
Plante – Strudwick
Deslauriers
Pitton
Colorado Avalanche Projected Line-Up (subject to change)
Wolski-Duchene-Yip
Galliardi-Stastny-Stewart
McLeod-O’Reilly-Svatos
Durno-Koci-Tucker
Cumiskey-Hannan
Quincy-Clark
Wilson-Foote
Anderson
Budaj
TEAM COMPARISON
 |
STATS |  |
|---|---|---|
| 56 | GP | 56 |
| 18 | W | 31 |
| 32 | L | 19 |
| 6 | OT | 6 |
| 42 | P | 68 |
| 0.375 | P% | 0.607 |
| 2.5 | G/G | 2.84 |
| 3.32 | GA/G | 2.57 |
| 19.3 | PP% | 17.9 |
| 74.9 | PK% | 82.2 |
| 28.6 | S/G | 26.7 |
| 31.8 | SA/G | 32 |
| 46.8 | FO% | 47.3 |
GAME NOTES
- Steve Staios and Ladislav Smid are each very close to passing their tests to return to the lineup. Either one of them may be in the lineup tonight.
- According to the Edmonton Sun, in order for Dubnyk to play in Springfield during the Olympic break, he needs to have played more games in the AHL this year. That’s why he was sent back down. To rack up a few more games.
- UPDATE: Exactly the same lineup this game for the Oilers as the last game.
- UPDATE: From Dan Tencer’s Twitter: “Coach Quinn stated yesterday that Brule was out because of a drop off in energy and passion. So, he’s a healthy scratch officially.”
| 1ST PERIOD SCORING |
|---|
| No scoring. |
| 2ND PERIOD SCORING |
| -9:34 – Wolski from Duchene, Hannan |
| Duchene drops it to Wolski who hammers it through Deslauriers. It slowly trickles into the net. |
| 3RD PERIOD SCORING |
| – 17:06 – Wilson from Foote |
| After playing spectacular, Deslauriers lets in a softie on a shot from the boards at the top of the circle. May have been tipped. |
| – 19:30 – Yip (EN) Unassisted |
| Dustin Penner is too soft on the puck and coughs it up on the break out. Yip gets it and puts it in the open net. |
| SHOTS ON GOAL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total | |
| EDM |
4 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
| COL |
14 | 15 | 13 | 42 |
1ST PERIOD HIGHLIGHTS
20:00 – During the pre-game ceremony, Mike Ricci was honored (as part of the “Avalanche Alumni Association” in which ex-NHLers important to the Avs are honored – thanks Tashimoko) and dropped the ceremonial puck. Afterwards the Avs paid tributed to Brendan Burke with a moment of silence. Pretty good of them to do that.
16:08 – Cogliano go streaking into the Avs zone and nails the ref. They both hit the ice.
10:42 – Cogliano again tries to break in the zone, this time along the boards past Wilson, but Wilson has something to say about that and rattles him hard against the glass.
9:30 – Nice job by Comrie to lay down and sweep the puck off an Av’s stick while Potulny was off getting a new stick.
7:43 – Nice hard work by Stortini to chase a puck down behind the net as he blows around a defender (yes, I said that about Storts), picks the puck up and then nearly wraps it in. He draws a penalty on the play as well.
6:05 – Ugly powerplay for the Oilers as the Avalanche get a great chance on a point shot.
2:35 – Great series of saves here by Deslauriers on the powerplay with some fantastic saves.
2:19 – This time Deslauriers stones Wolski one on one. This game is scoreless because of Deslauriers so far.
1:02 – Potulny with two great shot blocks on this penalty kill.
2ND PERIOD HIGHLIGHTS
17:45 – Comrie wipes out in front of Deslauriers and almost turns it over, but good recovery to sweep it out of danger.
16:48 – Yip takes a shot from far out that Wolski tips, but Deslauriers sprawls to make a great save to keep it out.
14:22 – Nice save by Anderson on a Moreau wrister through traffic.
10:44 – Duchene gets Deslauriers down and out and rings it off the bar.
9:29 – During the break, Pat Quinn verbally berates everyone on the bench, as the Oilers aren’t in this game at all. The shots are 22-6 so far and they’re leaving Deslauriers to do it all.
4:35 – Comrie and O’Sullivan get a 2-on-1 with Potulny trailing. Comrie dekes in on Anderson and it slides through Andersons legs and out the other side of the blue paint, staying out somehow.
3:37 – Moreau gets in alone on Anderson, but Anderson again shuts the door.
0:19 – Svatos stopped by Deslauriers from in close. Deslauriers is superb so far tonight.
3RD PERIOD HIGHLIGHTS
15:54 – Decent hit by Plante on the big man Stewart after O’Sullivan knocked him off balance a bit.
14:27 – CBC announces that Gagner hurt himself (sore left knee). Looks like it was when he fell into the end boards in the 2nd.
10:07 – Svatos fires a hard wrister from the top of the circle but Deslauriers stops it with the shoulder then covers it up.
7:40 – On the powerplay, Comrie walks right out front from the corner and tries to flip it up high on Anderson, but Anderson denies him. Visnovsky gets the rebound at the point, but his shot is blocked.
7:25 – The Oilers get a 12 second 5-on-3 and call a time out.
5:30 – Cogliano gets a shot from the side of the net. The rebound comes right out front to Horcoff, but Adam Foote goes down to block the shot and Horcoff fans on it, right into Foote’s equipment.
4:18 – Close call. The Avs are pressing again as McLeod just barely fires it wide, blocker side.
POST-GAME SUMMARY
Wow, what an awful game played by almost all of the Oilers. Deslauriers earned the first start tonight, and I mean he earned it. He was shelled by 41 shots and made 39 saves. He let in one very questionable goal (goal number 2), but aside from that, this was a 1-0 game for most of the game 100% because of him. It should have been another 6-0 final. Lots of negatives in this one, so I’ll keep this summary short.
Next game, Monday in Phoenix vs. the Coyotes. It’s a 7:30 start and is televised on Sportsnet.
| Draft Watch | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | TEAM | PTS | GP |
| 27 |  |
54 | 58 |
| 28 |  |
49 | 58 |
| 29 |  |
49 | 59 |
| 30 | |
42 | 57 |
- dawgtoy:
- Racki:
- chucker:
The Leafs were so close too, that kinda sucked because it looked like they were gonna pull it off but I was really happy to see Carolina win especially without Cam Ward. If you want to look at the tank for Taylor/Tyler perspective, there’s just over a quarter left of the season to play…
These are the teams left we play and corresponding times we play them:
Western Conference
Ducks : 4 Games
Wild: 3 Games
Avalanche: 2 Games (Including Tonight)
Coyotes: 2 Games
Kings: 2 Games
Wings: 2 Games
Preds: 1 Game
Blackhawks: 1 Game
Blue Jackets: 1 Game
Blues: 1 Game
Sharks: 1 Game
Canuckleheads: 1 Game
Stars: 1 Game
Western Conference Perdictions
Wins (2 Ducks, 1 Wild, 1 Wings, 1 Blues, 1 Stars, 1 Coyotes, 1 Blue Jackets)
Losses (The rest of the other games)
Points: 16points
Eastern Conference
Devils: 1 Game
Sens: 1 Game
Canadiens: 1 Game
Leafs: 1 Game
Predictions on Eastern Conference:
Wins (Leafs, Canadiens)
Losses (Devils, Sens)
Points: 4pts
So at most I think we could finish with a solid 65 points but that’s just my predictions. So once the second last place team hits 65 I think we’ll be golden for the pick, I hate being the embarrassment of the league but it truly looks like the reality of things, lets see the guys prove me wrong.
Thanks for doing that research, Zack!
No problem, all I did was tally the games remaining on their schedule and added some predictions for a twist. In other news worth mentioning this will be the last year that the Oilers will be affiliated with Springfield, apparently next season they will be moving to Oklahoma City and an announcement could be made as early as this Tuesday.
http://www.coppernblue.com/2010/2/6/1298171/update-oklahoma-city-announcement
http://www.coppernblue.com/2010/2/5/1297800/springfield-separation-official
Possible team names listed as per twitter, remember take with a grain of salt (think I used that expression right),
Oilers, Road Runners, Hawks, Oil kings, Oil barons, 89ers
Oklahoma makes sense on many levels. They just lost their current team and had the best attendance in that league, or close to it before that. Sounds like this has been in the works for a while. It’ll be a little better for travel on call ups as well.
Robonerd will be elated.
Interesting. I’m guessing that Springfield is probably happy about the separation. lol
Wow, it sounded like this was bound to happen.
Unrelated, but I watched a rerun of that movie with Charlie Sheen, Major League, last night. In the movie, the owner wanted to finish last, so that they could relocate the team to Miami.
It’s already happened with Springfield apparently, is Edmonton next, lol?
hah, Edmonton isn’t going anywhere
But chances are they ARE trying to finish last.
Btw, Tencer confirmed Brule is a healthy scratch:
Well, a Toronto lead is not a safe lead, but it looks like they’ll gain more ground on the Oilers as they currently lead 4-0 in the 3rd.
Wow, two shutouts in a row for Giguere?
Hey Racki, if you want a free subscription to NHL game center live, email me.
what? me too!!!
oh btw noob, I proposed a trade to you in our hockey pool, go check it out!
Carolina Beat NYI 3-1 too!!!
MO: Yah I saw at 2-1.. that’s cool
Btw, since there is some pool talk… anyone looking for a goaltender, send me trade ideas…
Any goaltender is available, but there are a couple that won’t be traded to easily!
And a major portion of the Isles fanbase is about to jump off a ledge. Funny what happens when you mess with a hot goalie whom a team scores 3+ goals/game for the entire first half of the season.
I am so glad you guys are so grounded…
Cheering for the Oilers wins, but also cheering for the tank means that I’m also a Hurricane and (god kill me) a Leafs fan for a bit.
These guys obviously haven’t watched the Oilers recently if they think Cogliano was just put on the top line this game..
I don’t usually root for the Leafs but I was happy to see them win convincingly tonight – not just for the Oilers benefit but for the sake of winning one for Brendan Burke.
Seems to be all Avs so far.
Nice hustle by Stortini there though
That CBC all access cam is pretty cool
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/hockeynightincanada/allaccess-lategame/
Yah that’s pretty cool.
The Oilers should help awaken the Avs PP.
wow, JDD looked great there!
Great work by Potulny on that kill He’s looked good so far this period, as has JDD. Not many other Oilers looking good tonight though.
I would say JDD kept them in there that period.
Joe Sakic looks like a vagrant.
So lets place bets as to when we think the Oil will show up this game..
I’m guessing not right at this moment…
Weekes said it best – you can only play with fire for so long.
Your blood pressure Quinn, your blood pressure!!! Careful!!!
The Oilers are getting blown out of the water in every aspect but the scoreboard… however is it me or does Mark Lee get way too excited about nothing? hehe
I’m sorry but I can’t say a goalie owns any team when he’s only played them 3 times in his career.
Edit – or were the stats they flashed up just from this season?
Those that said “3:45 left in the 2nd period”… you may be correct, stand by to find out if that is true.
LNOF: I think that’s career, cause they mentioned him with the Panthers for one of the shutouts.
If not for Deslauriers, the Avs would be running up the scoreboard right now.
Agreed. I know some people aren’t convinced he will be a starter in this league, but all he needs to do is be able to play like that consistently. His confidence doesn’t seem to be at issue right now either so that’s good. This season with all it’s highs (edit – there were a few) and lows will be important for him to look back upon because he has learned a hell of a lot.
Yah, I really liked Deslauriers previous to this year. He’s had some struggles for sure and shown consistency issues. But when he’s on, he’s on. Kinda like Garon.
Shit… I figured Gagner hurt himself when he fell into the boards..
Won’t get much better a chance to tie it up than this.
That was a scary rebound by Jeff…
Arggg how did that not go in???
Horcoff fanned on it… arghhh.
Looked like a bit of a softie there.
That sucks. There’s the consistency factor for JDD – within the game and from game to game. I think it’ll eventually come for him, I love his compete level.
Without him tonight this is easily a 6-0 game, too bad they couldn’t pot a goal or two in support.
OI.. Penner… work harder buddy..
Yah, I agree… one bad goal isn’t too bad considering how fantastic he played though hey.
The Oilers looked really bad tonight though. Wow… really bad.
Well on a positive note (For me only), I do have Anderson in my pool. lol
Ok – now I hear them right, those stats were from this season only. Now Anderson has 3 SO’s vs the Oilers this year and a 5-3 loss. Ok, that’s ownage with a blip I guess…
39 saves for JDD.. pretty dang good.
Deja vu from last year hey! Complete reliance on the goalie to win and absolutely no margin for error on the part of the goalie.
Yup, exactly. But this year the reliance on the goaltender seems to either be rare, or the goaltenders aren’t reliable enough to keep it close like Roli used to (tonight definitely being a case of relying on JDD, and him keeping it close, of course)