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From: lake@alberta.UUCP (Robert Lake)
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Subject: Re: Edmonton "No Class" Oilers
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 11:13:10 EDT
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In article <5229@ucla-cs.ARPA> rick@ucla-cs.UUCP (Rick Gillespie) writes:
> 			... 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.

Let's remember that team defence requires the cooperation of ALL 5 skaters
on the ice at any time.  Losing Wilson and Brown is not an excuse for the
bloodbath Chicago encountered.

> 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!

Funny, for all this "expertise" you possess over Eddy, Rick, I find Eddy's
remarks to be much more objective and informed than the biased and bizarre
comments you have been making.

>						 ... 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.
> 

Where is it written in the rule book that you don't keep rubbing it in?
I bet if Chicago had been 3 goals up on the Oilers, they would have kept
pumping for more (after all, remember what happened to them at home the
last time they decided to sit on a 4-0 lead!). 

> 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.

Oh, come on Rick!  The style of hockey played back in the early '70s has
not changed much from what is being played today - if anything it has
improved.  There were proportionately just as many weak teams back then
(remember the Islanders?) as there are now.  If today's Oilers were play-
ing back then, they would at least equal if not better the record of the
Bruins.
					Robert Lake (alberta!lake)
					University of Alberta

P.S.  Trottier scoring 100 points next year?  OK, I'm game - what do you
want to bet?  This is assuming he is playing for the Islanders and not
with Richard in some team in a Geritol division (:-)).