GDB 8.0: Oil in Columbus
Lowetide
October 28 2010 12:42PM

Columbus is the 4th largest city in the Amercian midwest. Named after Christopher Columbus (who owned a Starbucks downtown), it was recently ranked as the 18th best place in the USA for a woman to find a useful male.
Rascal Flatts are from Columbus, Joe Walsh and Dwight Yoakam too. Jesse Owens and Jack Nicklaus are from Columbus. The great Beverly D'angelo is from Columbus, Ohio. Entertaining hockey is also available from time to time in Columbus.

The Edmonton Oilers will be adding a couple of fillings for tonight's game. Devan Dubnyk gets the start, Jim Vandermeer draws back in (replacing Kurtis Foster who has a malady but can't find the words) and that means foot speed is a concern on the blue. MacIntyre plays instead of Zack Stortini and one imagines the club might insert Liam Reddox into the game except the three goalie system makes it impossible.
The Oilers are coming off an outstanding comeback in Calgary, and sometimes a young team will be able to use that kind of heart attack comeback as a springboard to short term success. The Oilers do seem to have some legit hockey players up front this season, from the three kids and Gagner to the older group that includes Hemsky, Penner and Horcoff.
Big Dustin seems to be getting some negative feedback for his play, but he was a man on the tying goal in Hades on Tuesday night.

Nothing about the Blue Jackets as an organization stands out. Rick Nash is a helluva player, but he seems destined to play his entire career in a town that doesn't really notice him. Sort of the midwest Shane Doan.
Can you name 6 jackets? I can name five (nice, bad, dinner, Nehru, plaid) but don't know what position they play.

After the game, the Oilers will fly (drive? take a cab? trolley?) to Chicago in order to play the Blackhawks. The CBS game would be the one to win, otherwise you're in the windy city in danger of losing all three games of the road trip. After tomorrrow's game, the team won't play until Tuesday, giving us another reason to hate the Gary Bettman scheduling system from hell.
I have a good feeling about this team, but not about any specific game. The best way to watch the current Oildrop is with an eye to small steps forward. A nice passing sequence, a rookie in the right position in the defensive zone. Wins and losses are hard to come by in today's NHL; there's no expansion team down the road to bugger senseless once every couple of weeks and the truth is the Edmonton Oilers are the soft spot on the schedule.
Look after your health, brush your teeth and be nice to people. Oiler fans want to be healthy because when this thing clicks it could be a very nice ride.
I will admit that I was confused at first by the CBS abbrev.
I defer to you on this one Lowetide, but I always thought the generally accepted one was CLB.
GO Olrs!
Hall to Eberle to Horcoff!
Nice passing there. Hall is going to be outstanding and Eberle's already 30. Hold the hell on, people!
Another 2 on 1 for Eberle and Horc.
Does anybody know of a link? ATDHE's feed is lousy tonight...
http://www.dailyfunsports.com/2010/07/ch-1.html
That's so Vandermeer.
@Archaeologuy
Thanks. And thanks for the picture of "Layla", too.
Edit: Oops - that thanks was supposed to be for Lowetide.
Dubnyk mishandles the puck and lets in a bad one. Didnt see that one coming. It's not like he's done that in every game he's played in the NHL.
Agree he should have frozen the puck, but there were a lot of passengers on that play imo.
Lots of chaos that period and again a lot of it comes against Whitney/Gilbert and often with those two up against the 3line.
The new NHL means a lot more bleeding in terms of chances, but the Oilers seem to have a really difficult time with rebounds and closing gaps in the defensive zone.
Our D handle the puck like a grenade, but that peckham kid, I mean Mr. Peckham, he is growing on me! When was the last time we had a tough MOFO like him?
@Lowetide
Yeah, it really hit the fan after that, but I place the blame squarely on Dubnyk for that one. He stops the puck at the side of the net and the goal never happens.
That's followed up with a delay of game from Whitney with less than 10 seconds left in the period.
Some bad decisions being made out there. No reason they cant come back if they eliminate those in periods 2 + 3.
Yeah, DD made the first error there. Cogliano would probably get a David Staples error there too, along with the top D pairing.
@Milli
Agreed. I'm loving Peckham more and more!
I thought Hall was gonna have his goal there.
What a ridiculous chance for Cogliano!
THis is an extremely winnable game. But they have to cash some of these chances.
I'm going to jinx them, but at least the special teams havent crapped the bed tonight.
I can't bite my tongue any more: what's going on with Whitney in these past few games? He's coughing up the puck in his own zone, and finding creative ways to do it. Sometimes he's letting his pocket get picked from behind, others he's whiffing on passes, and he even missed receiving a couple of easy passes that ended up on Blue Jackets' sticks. That penalty he gave up in the dying seconds of the first looked awful, too. The commentators generously said that he was under pressure when flipping the puck over the glass, but it was hardly intense pressure.
This isn't the player I remember from the end of last year. Not by a long shot.
@Maggie the Monkey
It makes you wonder if this is the player that 2 post-lockout Stanley Cup Champion teams gave up on.
Not sure about you guys but i'm gettin a little sick of Gilberts inability to perform a one-timer. Twice already tonight on the pp he allowed the goalie to get across the crease because he has to take a wrist shot. Anyone else think maybe they should be throwing Hall out on D on the PP at times? Would he be any worse than what we are throwing out there now?
I have no idea how Hemsky found Horcoff there.
Does Penner seem a half a step behind to anyone else? I'm not sure what's going on with him but it looks like he's fighting something. Maybe he just had a lazy offseason? Either way he doesn't look anywhere near where he was last year.
And Dubnyk has played himself a nice, solid game so far. Great to see.
Hall, just get your goal already.
Dubnyk all in all is playing well. 0.93 so far I believe. Some steady play here in the third.
I've noticed that we have a lot of passes to the point that end up leaving the zone either because it is off aim or no one is there. I wonder our D are cheating to their own end a little bit this year.
Well Hall may not have scored yet, but a certain Boston Bruin has tonight.
... And there is what I was talking about
WE TOOK THE WRONG OOOONNNNNEEEEEE!!!!!
*rolls around on the floor pounding his fists and feet*
@Archaeologuy
I'm not ready to give up on him, and don't think that Anaheim did, either. The trade for Visnovsky made good sense for the Ducks at the time, and I still think that it might work out as a decent trade for the Oil, too. My surprise about how he's looked over the past couple of games is as much about the drop off from what we saw last year as anything else.
There it is, congrats!!!!!!
Yeah Boi!!
T Hall (1--of many).
Hallef*&^inlujah!
Nice. Now let the domination commence.
Now that he has the monkey off his back I hope they come fast and furious.
HALLelujah!!!!!!!!
EDIT: Dammit Mesh. Maybe I shouldn't have spent so much time looking up how to spell hallelujah.
There. He's got it. ~I'm glad that my subtle reminder helped motivate him.~
Or stopping to change your underwear
The best part about it was Boston fans chanting "Thank you Kessel".
Whatever this concept is that you speak of is very foreign to me.
I had to think a couple times if there was 2 Ls at the beginning or not.
Dubs is looking fairly comfortable out there.
Edit: I must be stoned, I didn't even realize you were referring to beating you to a Principism, I didn't even read into the fact you capitalized HALL at the beginning
That's priceless
@Shaun Doe
Love the avatar my friend, Charlie Kelly is my hero in life.
Aux Naturale eh. I get it, but I have to ask: do you stradle, commit to a side or just let them find their own way?
Why thanks. Only knock on Charlie I can think of is he gave Canucks fans a license to be even bigger Morons on HNIC
haha I wrote it on twitter first, and then I was like "Maybe I should see how it's actually spelt so it doesn't look like I'm just mashing randomly on the keyboard". And it turns out it's spelled the same way as if you were trying to make that sweet, sweet pun.
They don't take up very much room so they're pretty easy to manage. It's kind of like letting a couple dachshunds run around in a mansion.
The bastardization of Green Man just makes me sick to my stomach, I try to ignore that whole situation whenever I see or hear about it. We need to figure out how to make the Dayman our own to balance the scales.
Also, dubs looks great. For christs sake lets just make a decision on the 3 headed monster.
I think he meant he never changes his underwear eh.
Seriously, why is Vandermeer even on the ice in the last 2 minutes?