Bummed about that game...
Man, how depressing it was to watch the Oilers tonight after Carolina scored their second goal. It seemed after the second (or was it the third?) goal against them all the fight left them and they just stopped trying. It was so sad to see and I'm not even an Oilers fan. I really feel for the Oilers fans out there. It's so sad to see a team doing that.
Going into the series, I thought the Oilers would win in 7. I'm still hoping they can do that, but as history has shown, goalies are the key to the Stanley Cup playoffs and the finals make that even more critical. To lose Roloson like they did at the end of game one was a horrible blow. I thought they'd come back and win today at least because they'd be upset about losing him and need to show him they could still do well...
Apparently, that wasn't meant to be. I'll tell you, though... They had some shots that really looked like they were going to be goals. Ward made some amazing saves for Carolina. Add that to all the penalty minutes for Edmonton and the outcome isn't that surprising, in spite of the shots on goal being almost even.
OLN showed one more time how pathetic they are at showing hockey games. When the 4th goal was scored, I saw it and thought that was the last nail in Edmonton's coffin for the night. Then, I saw replay after replay and was sure that it was no goal. There was a distinct kicking motion. Nothing the guys at OLN said or showed told me any different. The score went up and I screamed at the TV. I actually thought that OLN had done something right when they disagreed with the call. It wasn't til later that OLN showed the shot from above, where you could see that after the distinct kicking motion the puck hit his stick before going into the goal, making it legal. They could have saved me a lot of yelling at the screen if they'd just shown the right angle in the first place. Everyone who loves hockey knows that for something like that 9 times out of 10 the best angle is from above the goal... *argh!*
In better news, construction on the master bath did begin today. The whole demo was done today, so they're still on schedule (for now). They'd allowed two days for demo that took less than one.
I also got to talk to Meli today! I hadn't talked to her in ages. I've gotten updates from Tom, but I really missed talking to Melissa! I got a good book recommendation, caught up on things with her, gave her my updates... It was so wonderful to talk to her. I do have to apologize, since I was watching the game at the same time and got distracted from time to time, but I really wanted to talk to Melissa and I didn't want to be in bed super late like I was Monday night with the hockey game and the Yankees game. Of course, once I got off the phone I realized that the Yankees game that's on ESPN is tomorrow night, not tonight's... Oh well, it's still better to get to bed at a more reasonable hour, right?
Here's hoping that the Yankees kill the Red Sox tomorrow and the Oilers make one hell of a comeback starting on Saturday when the Stanley Cup finals move to NBC! I want to be able to enjoy a good 5 games on NBC, not just the two remaining of Carolina can sweep Edmonton. Come on, Edmonton - make it a great series!
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