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!cepu!ucla-cs!rick From: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey Subject: Re: Edmonton "No Class" Oilers Message-ID: <5229@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Mon, 6-May-85 14:20:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.5229 Posted: Mon May 6 14:20:57 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 7-May-85 12:38:26 EDT References: <5201@ucla-cs.ARPA> <5217@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP (Richard Gillespie) Distribution: na Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 38 Summary: In article <5217@ucla-cs.ARPA> lor@ucla-cs.UUCP (Kar-Wing Lor) writes: > 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. Granted the Hawk defence was pretty awful, and the goalies little more than sieves, but that does not excuse the fact that the Oilers kept gunning for more goals. Plus, let's take Coffey and Lowe away from the Oilers (equivalent to the Hawks losing Wilson and Brown) and see how well the Oilers do. > 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. That's right, Eddy, I have been watching hockey all my life - I think that makes me a little more of an expert than you! With a big lead (and 3 goals IS a big lead) you don't keep rubbing it in. You drop off and check the other team, you DON'T keep rushing at the net. > 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. Give me a break! There have been high scoring teams before - it has been demonstrated that the Esposito-Orr Bruins of the early '70s was a more dominating offensive team than today's Oilers because the Bruins were scoring almost 400 goals back when teams still knew how to play defence. And, yes, I didn't like the Bruins either. -- Rick Gillespie rick@ucla-cs ...!{cepu|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|ucbvax}!ucla-cs!rick "She turned me into a newt! . . . I got better."