Oh hey guys. It’s me, Jeanshorts! That’s right, in spite of Craig Wark’s death threats here I am back for another week with your new favorite segment; Jeanshorts First Star, Worst Star.
First Star
First Star this week goes to Steve Staios. What’s that? Why yes this crow is quite tasty, thank you for asking. I’ll admit that I had him picked as my Goat this year. And dammit I stand by my pick. But to the delight of even the most staunch haters, Steve Staios has made an immediate impact since his return. 3 points and a combined plus 4 in his last 3 games? What the hell is going on here? Maybe it’s the fact that the Oilers were playing with 2 D-men who looked NHL caliber on any given night, but man that dirty Greek sure has looked sharp out there. It’s so nice to finally have a guy back there willing to get in front of a shot and posses the ability to actually clear the puck out of his own zone. Miracles do happen! Kudos to you Steve Staios. Now if you could just hand that work ethic and NHL experience over to Grebeshkov, we can all go back to what we were doing.
Worst Star
Worst Star to Colorado reporter Adrian Dater for posting this gem after the Oilers beat the Avalanche in one of their better played games all season:
"can’t win em all at home. a shame the avs had to finally lose to a dog team like edmonton at home though"
A dog team huh Adrian? Seems to me that every list, including non hockey related ones, had your precious Avalanche sitting somewhere between 15th in the West and just slightly above "worst team in the history of sports". It also seems to me the only reason your team has managed the hot streak they’ve been on so far is the mind-blowingly surprising play from a goalie that no one outside of Florida had really heard of until last season. But I guess if you dig enough holes your bound to come across a little Texas tea once and while right?
I will give it to you, coming into that game the Oilers were playing worse hockey than my Midget A team that would always enter into tournaments against AAA teams for some reason (thanks coach!). But to call the Oilers a "dog" team just because they hit the skids for a few games is as hilarious as the 1400 people that have been filing into the Pepsi Center in spite of Colorado having a spotless record at home (until the Oilers rolled through).
I never really put too much stock into what the Avalanche were doing this year, unless they were directly in the way of Edmonton making the playoffs, but now, because of you Adrian, I cannot wait until this team comes crashing down from their pedestal atop the Western Conference, just to see how you try and spin it. I’m all for having passionate people reporting from inside the locker room, but leave the name calling to me and my anonymous internet friends please? Thank you.
Comment Of The Week
I’m supposed to only pick one comment of the week (please don’t tell Wanye), but, I couldn’t pick between these two. It’s as if the Nazi’s came into my house and told me I had to choose which one of my children was to be taken to a work camp. Yes, it was THAT hard. So kudos to you gentlemen. Keep up the good work.
Librarian Mike Wrote:
Well, if all MacIntyre is doing is running around and getting bad penalties in the offensive zone, he shouldn’t be on this team. That, or I suppose they could make him captain…
Archaeologuy Wrote:
Gunner wrote:
@ Arch
Why aren’t they all sporting them?
I can only guess that it’s because some of the Oilers are Pro Cancer.
2 Rules To Get The Most Out Of Steve Staios:
– Do not play him with Ladislav Smid
– Do not play him with Jason Strudwick (although somehow Staios still looked good.. maybe because Strudwick's own errors stuck out like a sore thumb).
Those guys are all fine with other pairs though.
The more Quinn follows these rules, the more we'll like Staios.
Cue the haters in 3…2…1…
can taylor hall run a powerplay?
Dater is such a piece of crap. So, he thinks the answer to the Avs issues last year was to get rid of Sakic and Smyth, then all of a sudden you have a first place team?
Everything has a way of leveling out. The Broncos are free falling back to where everyone thought they would be too.
I'm Famous!
Me too!
*High fives Arch*
*Jumps in the air and High Fives Librarian Mike*
We've got a bit of a mutual admiration society going on here.
**weeps silently knowing that he isn't funny or witty enough to ever win such a prize.
I laughed when I originally read that LM comment. Yours is good too Archy the Famous. Dater is a Douche- he should unite in some sort of douchebag union.
Kudos to both commenter's of the week.
Props one giving Staios his props. He's exhibt 72 as to "getting rid of so and so" is a poor way to run a team.
This is just a tremendous week in review. Craig Wark be damned, the picking between children line will stay in the annals of history forever.
More Oilers fans are pissed about Dater then Av's fans know about him.
Since its in the family, I share this link to FlamesNation.ca of an interesting post Jean Lefebvre has up. Jean watched the RDS feed of the Flames-Habs game and some interesting things were translated from french to english.
http://flamesnation.ca/2009/11/11/rds-les-flames#comment-82425
I'm an Oilers fan but Dater probably reflects outside public feeling that the Oilers are a "dog" of a team. Last thing I want to do is muzzle public sentiment. Does everything we see and hear have to be politically correct? Our current Oilers team is not great by many standards but I'm still a fan and Edmonton is a hockey mecca city compared to football town Denver. I still remember the Colorado Rockies team. Now that was a dog…
You know, I'm getting more than a bit worried about this whole Jeanshorts at Oilersnation thing. He seems like a straight up dude, but I can't help but wonder…
is Jeanshorts going legitimate??????????
2 legit 2 quit…
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Wfahat sza hell didyu saytame?
*passes out in his own vomit with his pants around his ankles and a fleshlight in his hand*
Legit indeed.