Game: Edmonton Oilers at Pittsburgh Penguins - Jan 10/06

Well, the Oilers won. As they should have, but it's a slight shock considering they usually lose to the perrenial bottom feeders of the league, while kicking the living shit out of contenders. The Oilers are the weirdest and most frustrating team in the league for it.

Although, I figure if Conklin was in net, the score may have resulted in a different decision. Like a 18-3 loss.

I'm not going to review the entire game, that's a tedious process and probably bores anyone to read it. I'll just point form my thoughts:

- MA Bergeron looked like a complete jackass at the hands of Crosby. That sort of "where is he?" pirouette spinning is usually reserved to the likes of Kurt Browning in Canada.

- Peca looked like a pussy at the hands of Crosby. Being shoved off the puck as a great vetern of this game that Peca is by an 18 year old kid has to be demoralizing. Crosby pushed Peca off the puck the way Lindros would on the likes of Haley Wickenheiser.

- Hemsky... I don't know if this is just a result of playing the Penguins defense, but he was on an equal dominance par with Sid. If only he had the vision to see past 1 second - he would have scored the greatest goal for the Oilers since Dvorak's vs. the Dallas Stars in the playoffs a lifetime ago.

- Horcoff - about fucking time buddy. He needed a breakout game on the sniper side, we all know he can pile the points up like a banshee without ever scoring a goal. Nice to see him breakout on the goal side, this is why games against shitty teams are needed - morality.

- MA Fleury - poor bastard. What a prodigy except in the worst position for an upcoming superstar. No wonder his mind frame is as frazzled as Dave Lewis looked as a Redwings coach.

Oilers win. Good enough.