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From: ken@alberta.UUCP (Ken Hruday)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Not so awesome Oilers
Message-ID: <494@alberta.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-May-85 11:43:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: alberta.494
Posted: Fri May 17 11:43:16 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 18-May-85 02:18:38 EDT
References: <5388@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Reply-To: ken@alberta.UUCP (Ken Hruday)
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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In article <5388@ucla-cs.ARPA> rick@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
>Well, Oiler fans, any excuses lined up? Chicago has now done the near
>impossible (to listen to some members of the media and net) by tying
>their series with the Oilers. How does it feel to be on the other end
>of a blowout? Not so nice is it? What's that you say? The Oilers got
>two goals at the end to make it close? Tee hee, they did indeed, thanks
>to some of the most incredibly bad officiating I've seen - the Hawks
>weren't allowed to touch the Oilers (two of the worst slashing penalties
>I have ever seen called in the 3rd) while Mcclelland was allowed to 
>roam the ice creating mayhem (a vicious elbow behind the net - everyone
>sort of stopped EXPECTING a penalty, and a charge and butt-end after
>the whistle was blown). Yep, I just love to watch the crystal clean
>Oilers fly up and down the ice :-). Sometimes I think I'm watching a
>basketball game with the number of (uncalled, of course) picks being
>set - those used to be penalties for interference weren't they? Ah, well
>we only have to watch the Oilers goon it up for 2 more games anyway :-).

Of course I can't speak for all Oiler fans, but I was totally blown away
by this logical "tour de force". It is difficult to rebut such a cool,
rational, and objective arguement but I feel duty bound to try ...





















			       __________
			      /          \
			     /    REST    \
			    /      IN      \
			   /     PEACE      \
			  /                  \
			  |   The Chicago    |
			  |   Black Hawks    |
			  | Final Score: 8-2 |
			  |  (A Blow-out)    |
			  |  killed by the   |
			  |     Oilers       |
			  |  May 16, 1985    |
			 *|     *  *  *      | *
		 ________)/\\_//(\/(/\)/\//\/|_)_______



P.S. You were right about one thing Rick - they only had to play 2 more
games :-) .

					Ken Hruday
				  University of Alberta