The Edmonton Oilers received a complete sixty minute game from their hockey club Thursday night in Dallas. While the Calgary Flames received anything but a complete performance in Denver.
In the Lone Star State, Ales Hemsky led the Oilers offensive attack on the scoresheet with a goal and two assists in a 5-1 win over the Dallas Stars.
Edmonton got off to a great start where they took a 2-0 lead after the first period on two even strength goals, a category the Oilers have struggled in mightily this year. The Oilers then got a lucky bounce in the second period when Jeff Petry shot the puck from a bad angle and went off of Trevor Daley’s stick and past Kari Lehtonen.
The Oilers took a 3-0 lead and ended the Oilers’ six game losing streak in Dallas.
This week on the show we look at the latest Edmonton Eskimos news, check out what’s happening between the NHL & the NHLPA, plus some notes from around the league and the latest on the NFL bounty scandal.
In the GABBYs: Gabriel Landeskog, Sarah Crilly, Manchester United, the Maple Leafs, Paul Ryan and the MLB. The Punchline this week is a school district in Colorado.
Henrik Lundqvist (Robert Kowal, Wikimedia Commons)
The 2012 NHL Award Ceremony takes place tonight in Las Vegas with Nickelback performing.
Let’s see how well I do:
HART–The question here is should the Hart Trophy go to a goalie? The answer this season is yes. Henrik Lundqvist was the primary reason the New York Rangers led the Eastern Conference in points. You can’t give the Hart to a player that missed the playoffs (Steven Stamkos) and in Pittsburgh, when healthy Sidney Crosby is just as valuable to the Penguins as Evgeni Malkin.
VEZINA–If Lundqvist wins the Hart, he’ll win the Vezina too.
NORRIS–Erik Karlsson of the Ottawa Senators had more assists than Zdeno Chara and Shea Weber had points.
This week on the show, we recap the NHL playoffs, make a couple of NHL Award show predictions and discuss who should go first overall at the upcoming draft. As well, the latest on the Pacquiao/Bradley boxing controversy and Lance Armstrong is facing doping charges.
In the GABBYs: Matt Cain, Alex Rodriguez, Nik Wallenda, KTLA, Croatian soccer fans & Aubrey Huff. The Punchline this week is Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Gabriel Landeskog and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins may have been the more high profile rookies in the Calder Trophy chase this season, but at the end of the day both of them would like to be in the shoes of Adam Henrique of the New Jersey Devils right now.
Henrique, who is considered by many as the third man in the Calder Trophy race, scored twice in game seven against the Florida Panthers in a 3-2 double overtime victory. Now the Devils are facing the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference Semi-Final while the New York Rangers are facing the Washington Capitals.
Henrique also becomes the first player since Steve Yzerman of the Detroit Red Wings in 1996 to score a goal in double overtime of game seven of a playoff series.
The other Devil to score last night was Stephen Gionta, younger brother of Montreal Canadiens’ Captain Brian Gionta. Stephen Gionta now has more career playoff goals (2) than he has career regular season goals over the last two seasons (1).
It will be an historic playoffs at the Tim Horton’s Brier in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan starting today. For the first time ever, Yukon/Northwest Territories will be part of the final four. There is another unique storyline here because the 3/4 game will be a battle of brothers. Jamie Koe of Yukon/Northwest Territories will take on his brother, the formidable Kevin Koe of Calgary, the 2010 World Champion. The game can be seen at 12:30pm on TSN.
The winner of the 3-4 game will play Manitoba’s Rob Fowler this evening at 6pm (TSN) in the semi-final with the winner of the semi-final playing Ontario’s Glenn Howard in tomorrow night’s final also at 6pm (TSN). Howard gave Fowler a 9-3 spanking last night in the 1-2 game, a game completely dominated by the veteran skip from Midland.
For the second time this week, the Edmonton Oilers lost a game at Rexall Place.
On Friday night, they fell 3-1 to the Colorado Avalanche.
Ryan O’Reilly led the Avalanche with three assists, but I think most hockey fans were most impressed with Gabriel Landeskog, yes the same Gabriel Landeskog, the Swedish power forward that was drafted second behind Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in the 2011 National Hockey League Entry Draft.
Landeskog had a goal and an assist, was a +2 with four shots on goal. Complete unknown Mark Olver, who came into the game not having played all season and only two career goals, also had a multi-point game with a goal and an assist as well.
But I felt the major difference in this game was once again goaltending as Semyon Varlamov completely outplayed Devan Dubnyk. Varlamov had 26 solid saves as Colorado outshot Edmonton 27-23.
On another note, you simply cannot blame the lack of experience on the Oilers loss tonight, because the Avalanche are in fact younger.
With the win, Colorado is three points back of Los Angeles for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Oilers meanwhile next play Vancouver on Sunday night.
We’re back with another week worth of sporty goodness – this time around, we’re looking at the decision to keep Ryan Nugent-Hopkins up with the Oilers and the keys to the team’s early success, as well as the latest “Shanabans” in the NHL. As well, we take a look at the Eskimos latest defeat and a huge effort from Edmonton’s Gord Hinse, along with the latest in the NBA lockout drama.
In the GABBYS: The WHL, Jonas Hiller, the St. Louis Cardinals, Terrell Owens, Julian Bursuc and Chris Cooley. This week’s Punchline is Nick Diaz!
This week, the guys talk about the Edmonton Oilers and the fact that they won the first overall pick in the 2011 NHL entry draft. They go over four possible candidates who may be picked by the Oilers.
Then, in the GABBYs – On the good side: The New Jersey Devils go from laughing stock to relatively respectable, the National Hockey League sticks to their guns on suspensions, and Edmonton Oilers Jordan Eberle and Devyn Dubnyk are going to the world championships.
On the bad side: Detroit Pistons Charlie Villanueva acts like a child on the court, Texas Rangers outfieler Josh Hamilton breaks his arm, and the Colombian soccer player who kicked an owl upgrades to kicking someone in the chest. HONORABLE MENTION: Kobe Bryant gets $100,000 fine.
In Quick Hits: Now that the NHL playoffs are underway, who does Kerrzy think can make it all the way?
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The Edmonton Oilers received a complete sixty minute game from their hockey club Thursday night in Dallas. While the Calgary Flames received anything but a complete performance in Denver.
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