Go Oilers!

Boopotts · June 17, 2006 12:28AM

I just read in the newspaper that Beckett Hockey is going to hit newsstands in the next week or so with a picture of Cam Ward and Eric Staal on the cover with the headline "Canes Capture the Cup!"-- regardless of whether or not Carolina actually wins.

If you didn't have a rooting interest in either team beforehand, well, you certainly do now

HoofHearted · June 17, 2006 1:18AM

May Markkanen have a Roy-like final two games...

Go Oilers!

nightcrawler · June 17, 2006 4:43AM

I entered my ol clunker in our annual tractor pulls, now I feel like backing out so I won't miss the game tonight

Hope this months Beckett goes down in history as the ERROR ISSUE

GO OILERS !!!

jackstraw · June 17, 2006 8:58AM

If the Hartford Whalers errrrrrrrr Kharmanos Hurricanes win the Cup ...........I will never watch Hockey again I will give all my Hockey cards away and not spend one dime on the NHL ever again I hope they fold up and Bettman is in the unemployment line with Kharmanos and his little pony tail that makes him look so sincere and cool!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe this is going to happen the Oilers better win tonight and Monday because I love Hockey

I can't watch that liar and theif put his hands on the Cup!

ToppsCo1lector · June 17, 2006 9:00AM

jack-I'll take them off your hands! First dibs! I'm not watching the game tonight most likely b/c I have a toilet to replace at my house. Fun times! yeah....right.

MooseDog · June 17, 2006 11:46PM

Hey - you Oil fans have been pretty quiet on the board here of late. Incredible comeback by a team that just won't quit. Even I'm a believer now. Here's hoping your lads can break "The Curse of the Sharks" on Monday.

No team that has beaten the Sharks in the Playoffs has ever won the Stanley Cup!

Knuckles · June 18, 2006 12:21AM

I've been posting in the 'sports talk' forum..

Here's the cover.. what unprofessional jacka5ses. They had it printed after the Oilers were down 2 to none in the series.. I had no idea their journalists could tell the future. Next issue: Sydney Crosby is traded!

Here's what the cover should be after game 7.

hardcorehockeyfan · June 18, 2006 1:16AM

Another reason why I am crossing my fingers that the Cup goes back to Canada. They beat my Wings, and if you cannot beat 'em, join 'em, and regardless of what happens, I give the Oilers credit for coming back.

The Beckett mag reminds me of the newspaper headline that involved the Presidential election I believe in the '60s, with the headline saying Agnew won, I believe it was Spiro!!!

ArnyVee · June 18, 2006 1:21AM

Wow! Classic pic there with the Canes fans dreading what happened. I'm not a fan of either of the teams, but I'd rather the Oilers win it just because I feel that if the Florida Panthers don't win it, it should be a Canadian team. Don't know why I feel that way, just do.

itzagoner · June 18, 2006 1:23AM

1948, Dewey over Truman....Whoops.....That 'Canes fan foto is priceless, that lady in the middle with the white pom-pom looks like she swallowed a puck...Go Oilers in 7

hardcorehockeyfan · June 18, 2006 1:29AM

<< 1948, Dewey over Truman....Whoops.....That 'Canes fan foto is priceless, that lady in the middle with the white pom-pom looks like she swallowed a puck...Go Oilers in 7 >>

Yes that is it! My mistake!!!!

theczar · June 18, 2006 1:39AM

or the cover could say overzealous fans predict beckett mistake as canes win in 7.

we'll find out on monday

here is some trivia from elias that i pinched from espn.com

• The Oilers' 4-0 win over the Hurricanes in Game 6 was one for the books: No team in the history of the Stanley Cup finals has won a series-evening Game 6 at home by means of a shutout. Three teams had won Game 6 shutouts on the road to even a series at 3-3 -- most recently Colorado at New Jersey in 2001 -- before going on to play Game 7 at home.

• Five times the Stanley Cup finals have reached Game 7 after a team had evened the series after having trailed three games to one. On only one of those five occasions has the team that had been trailing three games to one come back to win, and in that case, the Maple Leafs had come back from a three-games-to-none deficit to defeat the Red Wings in 1942.

In each of the four most recent cases in which teams that led three games to one were forced to a Game 7 in the finals, those teams bounced back to win: Toronto over Detroit in 1945, Detroit over Montreal in 1954, Edmonton over Philadelphia in 1987 and the Rangers over Vancouver in 1994.

phreakydancin · June 18, 2006 2:01AM

Stand back and think about it from a business point of view and you'll realize it was really a win-win scenario for Beckett: either they are the first mag on the rack with a "Canes Win" cover, or they have an error cover that the brainwashed Beckett masses will be clamoring to buy.

phreakydancin · June 18, 2006 2:04AM

Here's Truman displaying the infamous headline from 1948:

jad22 · June 18, 2006 3:10AM

I am rooting for the Oilers, I hate the Whalers in any form they take.

Knuckles · June 18, 2006 3:10AM

Cool stuff theczar. Pronger was also the first person to score on a penalty shot goal in the finals.. The puck he scored with is currently on NHL.com 's auction at a whopping $2,000 USD. There's been many firsts in this years playoffs, it's been great.

People here are really excited to win our 6th cup but there's A LOT of exitment for next season being that a lot of superstars will be wanting to play for us.. who will be get? Joe Sakic? Who knows!

Knuckles · June 19, 2006 1:48AM

GAME DAY. GAME 7.

sayheykid54 · June 19, 2006 3:40AM

Let's go Red Wings!!

MooseDog · June 19, 2006 3:42AM

<< People here are really excited to win our 6th cup but there's A LOT of exitment for next season being that a lot of superstars will be wanting to play for us.. who will be get? Joe Sakic? Who knows!

>>

Who needs Joe Sakic when you've got Todd Harvey already...

Knuckles · June 19, 2006 8:23AM

<< Who needs Joe Sakic when you've got Todd Harvey already... >>

MooseDog · June 21, 2006 4:29AM

Apparently Game 7 of the Stanley Cup didn't garner much of a TV audience here in the States. Too bad as the game was a real thriller. While baseball was my first love, hockey was a close 2nd (despite growing up in California with the Seals) and a little later in life horse racing became a passion. As a fan it's kind of painful to see the popularity of those latter two sports decline so much. I still love baseball despite the train wreck the game has become.

A friend of mine who is a casual hockey asked me who would win the game, and I told him flat out that Edmonton had the momentum, but when it comes to Game 7s, there is no such thing. I said I wouldn't miss the game for anything because both teams were going to lay it all out in a one game season and it would probably be one of the most intense, thrilling games of the season.

I was right.

As they did all during the Playoffs the Oil scratched, clawed and banged their way to the brink, with the pressure of carrying an entire country on their backs. Epitomizing team play, they even carried on when the guy who got them to the Finals, Dwayne Roloson, went down to injury in Game 2. Even when they were down 3 games to 1, they fought back and tied the series. And they were in it until the final minute.

When Justin Williams put the nail in the coffin with a minute to go, every player on the Oil bench sat with head down, almost as one. I've never seen anything like that in any sports Championship game. No more magic this night. Every player had given his 110% and had spent every bit fo physical and emotional energy. The 'Canes are certainly deserving Champions, but aside from Raffi Torres' cheap shots (sorry, just can't let that go...) the Oil displayed what hockey is all about - playing as a team.

I'm not one to evangelize the sport. TV ratings aside, if you don't watch hockey, you don't know what you're missing. And the players aren't stuck up money grubbing snobs either.

So I'll raise a cold one to our Northern brothers for a job well done and hope our Sharks were taking notes.

Three months to training camp. Can't wait!

PS. Let's give that anthem thing a rest. We promise we'll sing Oh Canada like you've never heard when you all come to town next season. Then we're going to kick your butts.

Knuckles · June 21, 2006 5:37AM

Good post. While watching the hurricanes celebrate I was irritated to see that 85% of the fans had left the building while the Cup and Carolina players were still on the ice. If we would have won the fans in our building watching the game on the screens at Rexall wouldn't have left until a good 15-30min AFTER the players had left the ice with the cup let alone if they won it at home live in front of the fans.

Hope to see the Sharks next year in the playoffs vs the Oilers. Out of each series I thought the San Jose/Edmonton series was the most entertaining.

Boopotts · June 21, 2006 5:43AM

<< Good post. While watching the hurricanes celebrate I was irritated to see that 85% of the fans had left the building while the Cup and Carolina players were still on the ice. If we would have won the fans in our building watching the game on the screens at Rexall wouldn't have left until a good 15-30min AFTER the players had left the ice with the cup let alone if they won it at home live in front of the fans.

Hope to see the Sharks next year in the playoffs vs the Oilers. Out of each series I thought the San Jose/Edmonton series was the most entertaining. >>

That's because the Oiler fans would have been too drunk to get out of their seats

Seriously, no Oiler fan can complain about this post season. The team made it much farther than anyone predicted, and much to my surprise seem to elevate their game, and somehow get faster, as the post season progressed. They never looked like they wore down, and I don't think I've seen that before in a team that reached the Cup finals.

Knuckles · June 21, 2006 6:25AM

There's an 'Oilers Appreciation Event' tomorrow at City Hall.. I'm sure the players have mixed feelings about it but there was an outcry to do something for them after one heck of a run. I'll be there.

MooseDog · June 21, 2006 7:20AM

<< Hope to see the Sharks next year in the playoffs vs the Oilers. Out of each series I thought the San Jose/Edmonton series was the most entertaining. >>

That's a good point but quite frankly I don't want any part of you guys next year. Rather face someone easier...like the Wings.

Go Oilers!

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