This is Stan Weir. Stan Weir was born in a log cabin that he built with his bare hands. Stan Weir can lick his elbow. Stan Weir puts the fun in funeral. Big Foot takes pictures of Stan Weir.
Stan Weir once played 18 holes of golf using a 12 inch strip of rebar and a sun dried tomato. He shot a 54.
When Stan Weir crosses the street, cars look both ways. Stan Weir speaks in CAPS. Stan Weir won a pissing contest with a Russian racehorse.
Stan Weir doesn't like the Minnesota Wild. He thinks their uniforms look like puke and they have too many guys with funny names. Plus their fans look funny.
Stan Weir will bring us money and shapely, adventurous women with bad eyesight.
Ladies and gentlemen, Stan Weir!
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Oilers at Wild, G78/07-08
200 comments:
That first one made me laugh out loud LT - keep em coming!
Jesus....If we keep winning, keep em comin...was that the 82-83 edition?
I wonder who Defense Minister Lemaire will start in goal? Backstrom shit a brick in the first 5 minutes and Harding seemed to play a solid second, but Backstrom was back between the pipes for a good outing in the third.
I doubt we'll see a blowout this time. I'm calling that last win an anomaly that almost never happens playing the Wild.
I've paid my dues -
Time after time -
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime -
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face -
But I've come through
Weir the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fighting - till the end -
Weir the champions -
Weir the champions
No time for losers
'Cause Weir the champions - of the world
With Backstrom getting back in for the 3rd I would assume that we will be seeing him tonight. Unless Harding was being punished for the awful give away to Brodziak. Either way the start is again the key, if the Oilers can get a quick one it will open the game up. Where as, if the Wild score first we could be in for a long PPV night.
i heard stan weir shaves with a rusty chainsaw. is this true?
can someone help me out with the sopcast? i'm assuming the game will be on there tonight. i downloaded it but have never used it. much appreciated.
not sure why i was logged on with the other handle...at any rate if someone wants to help me with sopcast, email is toqueboy@hotmail.com. i really appreciate it.
sorry to hijack the thread LT.
What's up with the mistaken logins lately? Toqueboy, if jfry is your girlfriend's account I think we're going to have to declare some sort of blessing by the holy Weir.
(By the way, that golf one destroyed me. Anyway.)
A win tonight pulls us within a point of the loser of Dys-Dives, provided they lose in regulation. A point. Vancouver will have a game in hand on us, but if it's Colorado that loses... I can almost taste that.
I'm terrified. I really am.
I've colorprinted Stan and I'll put his image beside my bed. Tonight, I'll kiss him goodnight and will turn in. Can't stand up to the time zone her in Italy.
Oilers, first thing in the morning.
GO OILERS!
Stan Weir doesn't like the Avalanche. He doesn't like teams that change their names and he still thinks they're the Rockies. No one has the nerve to tell him.
hey lt, does stan feel the same way about the wild as he does about the avs?
So, my wife pointed out earlier this year how the Wild all look like Christmas elves in their home uniforms. Very astute, my wife. And so is Stan Weir. As Christmas was created to honour Stan Weir's birthday, he, in effect, owns all Christmas elves. This is very convenient for the Oilers.
Stan Weir can blow bubbles with beef jerky.
Stan Weir catches bullets with his teeth; he then spits them back into his assailant's pistol, causing said pistol to explode.
Stan Weir is NOT susceptible to Kryptonite.
touqeboy, go here :
http://www.myp2pforum.eu/nhl/
look for the thread with today's date that says "streaming" on it.
Stan Weir once entered a lumberjack contest. He thought axes were for pussies and won using his left hand.
On the seventh day, Stan Weir said:
"Dude. You're done here."
I haven't watched this many games consecutively since the '06 run. That being said, as much as I dearly, dearly want the Oilers to win this one, I've seen the Wild shut us out in St. Paul so many times I can't help but feel that tonight is the beginning of the end.
// Jesus....If we keep winning, keep em comin...was that the 82-83 edition? //
Not Jesus. Common mistake - it's the beard that fools you. While hockey had gone out of favour in the middle east after the last ice age, Stan's mulletaceous look remained popular.
Stan and The Man, a comparison:
JC: Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.
SW: Check. And I'll raise you one Edmonton Oilers. [ Few remember that it was Stan who laid out buddy Lazarus in the first place, with a hip-check ]
JC: Turned the water into wine.
SW: Didn't bring any water, "What the hell, isn't this supposed to be a party?"
JC: Fed five thousand with the loaves and fishes
SW: "Five thousand? You call that a harem?"
I'm like... 0-6 on PPV's this year, or something along those lines.
Thusly, I think I can't buy the PPV, and will instead have to trek to an establishment that serves Alexander Keiths and Hot Wings...
For the good of the Oilers, right?!
Toqueboy:
A full explanation on my blog:
How to watch games on sopcast
Thusly, I think I can't buy the PPV, and will instead have to trek to an establishment that serves Alexander Keiths and Hot Wings...
For the good of the Oilers, right?!
Gotta do whatya gotta do.
Man, I think my liver/heart might be shot by the time the playoffs come if the Oil can actually pull this off. 2006 all over again.
ps: Pisani with the winner in OT.
Stan Weir caused the collapse of the Soviet Union. Breakaway countries, in his honour, call themselves KazakhSTAN, UzbekiSTAN, etc. In the same region, thousands of children born out of wedlock in 1989 were named Stanislav. (Meaning: Half-slavic son of Stan)
Ok, Jonathan's tops all.
Gretzky went where the puck was going.
Weir made the puck come to him.
thanks for all the sopcast help...
Toqueboy:
A full explanation on my blog:
How to watch games on sopcast
No way this can happen on macs, is there?
The Original Six were the Montreal Canadiens, the New York Rangers, and Stan Weir. Everybody was too afraid to correct him.
Did anyone else get the text alert that Deslauriers is backing up Roli tonight?
Did anyone else get the text alert that Deslauriers is backing up Roli tonight?
I didn't, but it's not really that surprising. I don't think they would have called him up if they felt they really couldn't count in Garon as a back-up. Sweet Jesus, Roli, play like it's Game 3, first series all over again.
Just a note: I absolutely can't get enough of of tuning in to Total Sports and hearing about the Golden Bears winning.
On to stuff that's cared about by more than family and friends, tonight's one of the two games that really worries me when I look at the five we have left. Time was we could even win in Minny when we started Jacquin "The Phoenix" Gage -- look it up -- but that's turned as of late and has everybody forgotten how we blew a late second period 4-1 lead in Minny back just before the New Year? Bad things happen in Minny and we already took them in the first half of a BTB and they have first place to play for.
It seems like a cop-out but I'll feel really strongly about our chances for a win if we score first. And we could really use the PP bouncing back tonight as chances to score could be scarcer than hen's teeth.
Finally, it would also be nice if Roli allowed two or less and neither of them being questionable.
Dennis: Agree on all points (esp. the Bears!). I heard Jacques Lemaire laughing darkly after the game Monday and thought, son-of-a-bitch, I wouldn't want to be the team that plays these guys next ... oh, fuck!
They will be loaded for bear in the first period tonight is my guess. The boys better be ready, espcially Roli. The silver lining is that he played the best two games of his current run on the road. If he ever wants to stick it to his former club, this is the night.
Too many nattering nabobs of negativity here, GOIL!
Stan Weir sneezed one day, and from this primordial slime was born Chuck Norris.
WANTED: a timeless nickname for the 89-13-12 combination tearing up the NHL.
It would be nice too if Van pitched in with a win tonight, though it pains be to say it under the long shadow of Mister Weir.
Hey guys,
I always enjoy the work Lowetide churns out. Great article yesterday on the Greene/Smid combination. Just wanted to let you know that we have been doing some quick q and a's with your favorite prospect Robby Schremp over at Illegal Curve. It isn't too in depth, but he does give some insight into how things are down in Springfield. I figure it may be of more interest to your readers than fans of other teams. Either way, keep up the great work.
WANTED: a timeless nickname for the 89-13-12 combination tearing up the NHL.
I'm thinking of the High Wire Act. These guys do those same sort of "trapeze" passing plays that Mess and Andy used to specialize in, especially that one year they played with Nilsson the Elder. I'd like to say they're doing it without a net, but the unfortunate fact is there actually is a net in our end when they're out there which catches them all too often. But man are they fun to watch.
Big game tonight. Nice to have a team to get excited about again.
WANTED: a timeless nickname for the 89-13-12 combination tearing up the NHL.
If those kids can get us into the playoffs, The Sons of Weir Line (or variations thereof...Stan Weirs Kids, Stan Weirs Sons, etc) would be appropriate
WANTED: a timeless nickname for the 89-13-12 combination tearing up the NHL.
Spector says they're being called the Conga line in a National Post article.... not a big fan of that personally.
As in CoNGa? Mildly interesting in a corporate kind of way. Reminds me of one of those space mission acronyms where they borrow letters from wherever to make the acronym into some overlying theme. COgliano-Nilsson-GAgner: the first vowels from Cogliano and Gagner work, but Nilsson's doesn't so leave it out.
He doesn't really mention where it comes from but I assumed it comes from what you suggested Bruce. I found it mildly entertaining but in all honesty the image it brings to mind is that of a woman wearing a colorful ruffled dress and a hat with various fruits dangling from it.... Not exactly something I associate with hockey.
Hoo Boy. PPV broadcast tonight. Why must we be punished like this?
GNC sounds about right to me.
http://www.gnc.com/home/index.jsp
Game on. Fuck PPV, I'm listening to Rod. It's been too long since I've listened to a game on radio. Used to be it was more than half the games went untelevised, meaning for me, half the road games.
Gaborik. Bah.
Ouch. Ouch again on the ensuing faceoff.
Bad turnover by Stoll and Gilbert didnt play that 2 on 1 very good at all.
Props to Stortini, but gods I wouldn't toss it up with Boogard unless I was suicidal.
It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it. Sounded like Zack took more than one for the team that time.
Sean Hill should have to piss in a cup after every game he scores a goal.
Juicer!
Looking worse for every minute.
Fuck. 2-0 already. I think I'm glad I saved my $12.95+ tonight.
Huge test now. We simply can't afford another 5-1 meltdown, the boys need to answer the bell immediately. But it sounds like the Wild are loaded for Bear, as I had feared.
Slipper: Nice to see you insulting the other guys this time. :) After 0 goals in 29 games, Juicer Hill has beaten Roli in consecutive games. Ferfuxsakes.
Jarret Stoll 2
Edmonton Oilers 0
I'm growing very sick of his shit. First he tries to dangle someone at the blueline, while Gaborik is on the ice... 2 on 1 the other way, back of the net. Then he sees open ice in front of the net! So he flies three feet into the crease on his strong side, making himself completely fucking useless to receive a pass... turnover again, Minnesota PP and it's 2-0.
Holy fuck someone took their stupid pills this morning.
Not to overstate, but the next goal for the Oilers could be the biggest of the season. 2-1 is a game, 3-0 to Lemaire's bunch is a death sentence.
Hoo Boy. PPV broadcast tonight. Why must we be punished like this?
Those sopcast instructions above worked great for me...the minny broadcasters actually are a nice change from Principe.
Huge, HUUUUUUUGE, powerplay.
We need a BIG goal here.
None bigger than the lead cutting in half, first period, powerplay goal!
Strong shift by the 4th line again drawing a penalty. Guess its time for Stoll to shine agian.
Is Pouliot a thespian or did Burns actually do something there to deserve 2?
So, they call a gay hook there but not a blatant trip on Hemsky?
Wow.
Useless refs tonight.
I wonder how many 5-on-3s are caused by a puck-over-glass penalty. Seems like most of them.
Shit.
Roloson made a big save there, and gods what a kill there, Staios is just dead sexy when he blocks shots like that.
Great kill 3 on 5, Staios and Greene with some really good work down low.
Lets hope it gives Oilers some jump and urgency going in to the 2nd period.
Greene gets his helmet knocked off by a stick and no call.
This is starting to look like a really long night.
Hmmm, Matt Greene played 2:14 of the last 3:07, including the first 76 seconds of an absolutely critical 3-on-5. Maybe he isn't a #6 after all.
Bruce: No. There's only 6 dressed, so he's #6. :-)
Stan Weir is a false prophet.
There. I said it.
Lord Bob: I think it's kind of funny someone named "Lord Bob" has so little faith.
There. I've said it.
There were two defensemen in the box, and the Oilers were pinned in on a 5 on 3 kill, but...
I mean what other option was there? Put Smidly or Grebs out there?
Greene 7:15, 3 blocks
Gilbert 4:56, -1, 2 PiM
I'm guessing Greene had the better period. But hey, I'm just listening and watching the play-by-play ticker, what do I know?
One thing I do know is we're going to have to play a lot better than that, top to bottom, to make a game of this one. GOilers!
Lord Bob: I think it's kind of funny someone named "Lord Bob" has so little faith.
I have lots of faith. When we're winning. I'm attached to the bandwagon by bungee cord and let me tell you, it's chafing like a mother right now.
Being number three or four on this D corp can likened to being voted the most pretty at a toothless hillbilly cousin fair.
Amirite?
Lord Bob: I spit beer. You are forgiven. :-)
I think Stortinis fighting major was a big disruption that period. The lines went into the blender after that to keep everyone in the game as much as possible... I'm confident thats why MacT was calling Storts back from fighting Boogard, i doubt he was scared for his well being.
Lowetide: How can someone who loves beer so much, spit beer and then forgive the person who caused the waste?!
Just sayin'.
Keys to the 2nd period?
Jarret Stoll to stop being a dummy, and someone to get a lucky one.
I heard Matt Greene made a funny joke after the warm-up skate, too. That smarky prick.
Best defenseman after 20 minutes award:
Steve Staios
Runner-up:
Matt Greene
Bruce: No, I'd say he's a 6 but he did a helluva job on that PK, no doubt about it.
Good period by the 4th line and I don't think we played all that badly at all. Oilers started out with all four lines having the puck in the O zone and then the 16 TO and it's in the back of the net. Folks are right that 77 didn't play it all that well but Roli didn't move on that play; at all. Later on Roli made two good saves moving side-to-side but it's still a major concern.
Best chance for the Oilers was 12 went cross-seam on the PP to 13 on the right wing and Cogs just muffed it. We need some guys to step up and we need a PP goal because it's gonna be hard to score three EV goals on Minny.
I agree with PDO. More luck is need.
Lotsa luck. Big luck. HUGE luck. Powerplay luck. Glenncrossian Luck.
That, or a meteor strike or a flood.
If the Oilers don't win this one, all I've got to look forward to is my Nascar Hot Pass, and I really don't mean that.
I mean what other option was there? Put Smidly or Grebs out there?
Well that was the second shift, after Greene made the big play to clear the zone and permit the change. And they came through too, esp. a big block by Smid judging from the description.
You're right of course Slipper, there's an old saying about that, "Necessity is a mother." Two of our better defencemen got themselves into penalty trouble, and the depth guys bailed them out. That's what team play is about, sometimes it takes the whole unit. Usually, in fact.
Someone needs to remind Stoll that he's not offensively blessed. Tries a cute move and completely misses the net... FFS.
Stoll's hands courtesy Swiss Premium.
Bruce: No. There's only 6 dressed, so he's #6. :-)
Zing!....Haha.
Fuck. Goobaard, again.
Let's hope Roli is milking it.
You're right Ribs, I laughed too.
So... I ask for luck, and Roloson gets 250 lbs dropped on him and Gagner rings one off of the post.
That's just wonderful.
Stoll with another turnover leading to a 2 on 1 for Minnesota.
Staios has really come on lately and is playing very well. When he's on his game it's hard not to enjoy watching him. Smarts and grit.
Hill is doing everything in his power to make up for scoring on us.
We need a PP goal...
Sean Hill played defense with Stan Weir.
On the Seals!
Oh, bother.
Jarret Stoll 3
Edmonton 0
Jarret Fucking Stoll.
All of a sudden the well has gone completely dry. Jesus F'ing Weir.
Fuck. The Wild are just going to shut it down, now.
Third time on the season that Stoll has caused a SHG on that play.
Need someone to score a fluke goal. Soon.
Gagner ringing that post may have been the bell's toll for the game, nay, the season. Not to be overly histrionic or anything.
Well, at least this team should be aware how quickly a 3-0 lead can disappear.
Hemskys pass to Stoll was just brutal.
Brodziak has been the best Oilers forward and Staios the best defenseman other player have to step up now.
Rod laid it on Stoll, Kevin laid it on Hemsky for not getting it deep and hanging Stoll out to dry. How'd you payers-per-viewers see it?
Wait a minute, Rod is calling it a suicide pass.
Now maybe Ales is hard to play with and maybe he isn't, but he sure seems to give Jarret all kinds of trouble. -2 for each again tonight.
1-0 Colorado.
Granted, Hemsky has had a poor game overall and the pass could have been better, but Stoll has been turning it over when pressured at the point all season long.
I'd place blame on Hemsky there, he had another option down low and it was the better bet based on where the Wild players were.
jmo.
Three posts for the Oilers.
Talk about the worm turning at the worst possible time.
And.. it wasn't a great play by Hemsky, but Stoll has played enough games that he should be able to make a play there under pressure.
Sounds like the Crosstiniaks need a shift on the powerplay. Geez, it's just killing us tonight.
It wasn't a good pass by Hemsky but Stoll played horribly. Either your body in front of the puck and be 100% sure that the puck will not be getting behind you or back up and reset the PP. Just waving your stick at the puck will almost certainly result in a 2-1, with a forward back.
I'd like to see Pouliot with Penner & Hemsky for the rest of the game but I doubt that will happen.
Glencross off the post.
FOUR!?
Christ...
Posts!
Jesus, someone hold it in on the line.
1-1 in the other game.
Lady Luck has abandoned ship.
The posts, the bounces...
This has been the Oilers fucking game save for a few gaffes and a bullshit powerplay.
Well you'd have to be a nut to bet on this team down 3-0 but they've played well and with urgency. The Hockey Gods sleep with Jack Lemaire, so what else is new?
2-1 now...
Watching the replay Stoll does a pretty poor job of engaging Rolston on the backcheck too. Terrible is a word that comes to mind.
When everything comes tumbling down it helps me to save my sanity and liver to have a goat sometimes.
We do have one hope. Considering the beating we laid on the Wild two nights ago, maybe they shall be uncharacteristically undisciplined in their search for revenge, we'll get a couple on the break, and it'll be "holy crap it's a hockey game".
This plan relies heavily on Jacques Lemaire losing control of his bench, but at least it's hope.
Every bounce has been in the skates or a foot out of reach, instead of on the tape.
The Oilers must have had at least 9 scoring chances that period. There were three posts, 16 muffed a breakaway, Backstrom made a wicked save off a 19 tip and then 34 juuust couldn't get to the eround. Plus, on the play where 13 drew a penalty, 12 managed to slip the puck to 89 who sent a shot just wide of the post. The Oilers outchanced the Wild and it was strange to see Minny give up that many chances in a game where they're leading.
The most positive thing about that period was that the Oilers absolutely didn't quit. They kept coming and creating chances and if they get one in the first 5 min of the third, I think they'll smell blood and make it interesting.
Van up 2-1 late in the first....
You know, the Radek Bonks of the NHL can do the same job Stoll does, but at half the price or less.
He really did dog it on that back check.
And he couldn't buy an even strength goal. Apparently his money is tied up in other things.
Oh, and in the interest of fairness, 77 is having a brutal game; bad coverage down low and he's actually getting caught on his pinches and I don't think I've seen that happen twice in the same game.
Oilers just need a fucking break here. For all the goals they've been scoring lately, they've also had a few unlucky GA as well.
Let's even that shit up with one or two off a skate and see if we can take it to OT.
bad pass hemsky, worse back check by stoll, he coasting when the pass comes.
Pouliot could have gotten a lot of goodwill if he'd scored there.
I love Fernando. God I love Fernando.
San. Fucking. Fernando.
Finally! One hit the post and went in. I could hear that clink all the way out here in Edmonton.
With a player like Gilbert you have to wonder if staying in college the full four years hurts their full potential at the NHL level. He has no physical presence to speak of, but I wonder if that has anything to do with merely him learning how to play his best in his previous environment. In college it's fine to play his style of defence, but sometimes it'll hurt you at the NHL level.
If they pull off this comeback...well I don't really have anything