Oilers drink to their legs
Sorry, can't stop pulling quotes from Jaws.....anyhow....The Oilers got some luck in a post, and great stick save by Pronger to survive a San Jose flurry....and potted a quick goal by Mike Peca to bring the score to 3-2. Then end the end of a penalty kill minutes later, Pronger (who's having a great playoff's by the way, and playing almost 30 minutes a night!) lifted a hail mary pass to Sergei Samsonov (who was serving the minor)......what happened next was just awesome! Sharks goalie Vesa Toskala raced from his net to beat Samsonov to the puck, but when he cleared it, it bounced off Samsonov, who quickly gathered it, and softly backhanded it into the net. 3-3.
After that the third period was all Oilers, who scored three more goals (5 in a row) to defeat the Sharks 6-3 and bring the series to a 2-2 tie. For more on this story visit TSN.ca.
GM Pierre Lacroix steps down
One of the best GM's in the NHL gave his notice yesterday. Lacroix helped transform the Avalanche into a consistent Stanley Cup Contender, and a two-time Stanley Cup winner. He has always been a GM that we all expect to make a splash at the trade deadline, .and this years Jose Theodore trade helped them beat the Dallas Stars in round 1. Lacroix is expected to stay on as president but hand the GM duties over to someone else.
This is purely speculation, but I wonder if he may give his son Eric Lacroix the job. He retired several years ago from playing and took a back office job with the Avalanche. Perhaps he has been groomed by his father to take over as GM? Or will they go with someone with more experience....Neil Smith?
Last night's scores:
San Jose 3 Edmonton 6 F
Tonight's games:
Carolina at New Jersey 3:00 PM
Buffalo at Ottawa 7:00 PM
Do or die for the Sens and Devs tonight! Make something happen boys, or shave the playoff beards! Vegetable MEDLEY!!!!
Your friend on ice,
Captain Bosh
Comments
Okay, I admit it. The Oilers are making me nervous about my San Jose pick. What a great effort last night. Toskala might take the blame, but the Sharks were sluggish on defense all night. Was it the Hemsky one-timer where he just flat out blew by the entire San Jose defense or was it some other dude? Either way, they got toasted. I still like the Sharks to win it, but Edmonton showed last night that they can in fact finish and aren't just fast (which had been my complaint about them). You have to think momentum is on their side right now and it will be up to the Sharks to squash that as soon as possible in game five. Think Nabokov might get the start???
Don't forget Craig Patrick's available for GM duties as well. He rightly took a lot of blame for some of the Penguins blunders this past season (even admitted he should've had Fleury up from the beginning), but a lot of what handcuffed Patrick into trading the likes of Jagr, Kovalev, Lang, Straka, Naslund, etc. was purely financial. The Avs don't have that problem. I'd be interested to see what he could do with that team.
That said, there's no ism like nepotism.
Posted by: Playoff Moustache | May 13, 2006 12:59 PM