Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!lor From: lor@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey Subject: Re: Edmonton "No Class" Oilers Message-ID: <5217@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Mon, 6-May-85 03:07:50 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.5217 Posted: Mon May 6 03:07:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 7-May-85 07:11:26 EDT References: <5201@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: lor@ucla-cs.UUCP (Kar-Wing Lor) Distribution: na Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 50 Summary: In article <5201@ucla-cs.ARPA> Richard Gillespie writes: ><<< yum yum >>> >I'm sure many people will call tonight's Oiler 11-2 victory over the >Black Hawks an awesome display of firepower. I call it a classless >act. (oh oh, it is gonna get warm around here) Certainly, I call the Oilers offense awesome, or even ultimate, but you have to give credits to the Hawks defense too. Without its help, guy like Lindstrom (I have him in the pool) would not have got his first point in the playoffs. > With a 3 or 4 goal lead you might expect a team to try protecting it. I see, this is what you expect a team to do with a 3 or 4 goal lead, especially the teams involved are the Oilers and the Hawks. Come on, you have been watching hockey for your entire life. I can't believe you make such a statement. This is even more nonsense than all the things you said about the Islanders. > Not the Oilers, they >aren't content to beat a team - they have to humiliate them. What this >does is make the league look bad, and give other teams a reason to gun >for them. To keep pressing as hard as possible with a 10 goal lead isn't >good hockey, it is a sign of, well, immaturity. Who knows, maybe Chicago >will get mad now. Well, this may be the only thing I agree with you. In the last ten minutes of the game, they still have the regulars rushing the Chicago zone. This is what amazed me. In all other sports, a coach will simply clear his bench in such a blowout. In football, you don't use the two-minute offense when your team is ahead by nine touchdowns. In basketball, you don't call time-out to stop the clock when you are ahead by 40 points. This is just some little respect to your opponent, not to make them mad because the series is not just one-game. If their opponent is some other powerhouses, I am sure the Oilers would be in trouble (they may even get eliminated.) But since it's the Hawks, I guess it's OK! However, your article also sounds like sour grapes because your Islanders can never humiliate an opponent like that. Only the AWESOME Oiler offense, as I said before, can reach such a pinnacle. -- Eddy Lor ...!ucbvax!ucla-cs!lor lor@ucla-locus.arpa