A Great Night for the Oilers
This is just a quick post about how the oilers really pulled together last night. First we had Andy’s jersey retirement ceremony, which was nice (although I am more interested in the game, the guy really was a model citizen). The game began and we started out by playing catchup. I always dislike when we have to work extra hard just to get the equalizer, but as soon as we did the flood gates opened. I don’t want to rewrite the play by play, so here are the highlights.
- Hemsky is back after a 10 game hiatus
- Hemsky scores 2 goals his first game back!!!
- Moreau scores his first NHL hat trick on an empty net with 0.4 seconds to go
- Oilers only take two penalties, the first being coincidental, the only real penalty coming late in the third period
It was all-in-all just a great game to watch. I don’t know if staying out of the penalty box was the reason for all the success, but it certainly helped a lot. Instead of concentrating on killing a penalty we were concentrating on playing real hockey. Everything just came together.
Next post coming up will actually have the online sources for watching tomorrow’s game (BEFORE the game starts!!!)