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Posted by Kerrzy on Sunday, March 25, 2007 |
The Edmonton Oilers won their first game in thirteen tries the other night before being spanked by the Predators a night later, Todd Fedoruk had his face smashed around again to the tune of a Colton Orr-delivered KO and David Frost is back in the news. Welcome to March Madness.
Let’s start out with everyone’s favorite creepy former player agent David Frost. After everyone’s favorite creepy former St. Louis Blues masher Mike Danton tried to have Frost killed in a bizarre and much-ridiculed murder-for-hire plot a few years ago for which Danton is currently doing hard time for, these two are back in the headlines together. READ MORE...
Frost tried to buy $90 worth of gas with a Mike Danton card…unfortunately the autographed rookie card wasn’t worth enough to cover the cost and so Frost pulled out the big guns – a Mike Danton credit card.
The fact that Danton is incarcerated in a US federal penitentiary would make it pretty hard for him to throw some money at a Kingston, Ontario, gas station.
The story between Danton and Frost is weird, weird, weird, and our boy Frosty here having Danton’s credit card makes things even a little more awkward. Frost is already up on charges of sexual exploitation, but will now have to deal with fraud, impersonation and breach of probation. That last one is of course because part of his probation is likely to STOP BREAKING THE LAW. Maybe he missed that.
Someone should tell him that if he wants to be Mikey D’s cellmate at some point, he’ll have to crime it up in the states somewhere.
Twelve of Fourteen
It’s a tough time to be an Oilers fan, but it’s just as tough to even live in this fine city of ours these days.
The Oilers are literally the worst team in the league right now by a long shot, and if not for the Philadelphia Flyers (who are miles worse, just over the course of the full season), these guys would likely be moving their stuff into the basement to stay (they’re six points away from the bottom of the West).
For some reason, they just can’t win. The mind of an Oilers fan is an interesting one though. Year in, year out, we’re treated to a race to the finish – sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. This year was different though. At or around the deadline, Kevin Lowe dealt Marc-Andre Bergeron and, of course, Ryan Smyth, and then the boys were losers of 12 straight games. They won a shootout decision against the Colorado Avalanche to snap the winless skid, but then they got pumped 4-0 by the Nashville Predators the very next game.
Always looking to make the best of a bad situation, Edmontonians are consoling themselves with the idea that Ryan Smyth will be back to re-sign in the summer once he hits the UFA market, and we’re looking forward to a top-five draft pick thanks to the team’s futility.
Smyth has 13 points in 11 games with the Islanders, who are in a hunt for the last playoff spot in the East. This is the very same team that signed Rick Dipietro to a contract so ridiculously long and large that it made the Alexei Yashin thing look like small time stuff. If the Isles don’t sign him, someone else will. But it won’t be the Oilers. They’ll be too busy “looking to the future†with all the draft picks the team has to play around with.
Always a team of the future; never the present.
Punching bag wants mitts
National Hockey League punching bag/Robo cop Todd Fedoruk thinks the league should let enforcers wear UFC-style padded mitts under their hockey gloves.
In late October Fedoruk was eaten alive by Derek Boogaard, the Minnesota Wild’s beast of an enforcer. Fedoruk was beaten so badly that he needed steel plates inserted into his face. He sat out 18 games, but got right back into the swing of things and then last week he ran into a fellow by the name of Colton Orr.
Orr’s one-punch knockout of Fedoruk sent him three days from yesterday, but he doesn’t think he’s got a concussion or anything.
But when did NHL enforcers become so needy? He’s got STEEL in his face, and now he wants some padded gloves too? He isn’t the one that has to punch his steel face. At the rate he’s going though he might just be the only NHL tough guy that he could beat in a fight.
No one has been beaten down harder than Fedoruk this year, so after starting out the season with the once-mighty Anaheim Ducks it almost seems fitting that he is now a Philadelphia Flyer. No team has been worked over harder than they have this season, with their .266 win percentage (20 wins in 75 long games).
March has been an interesting one in the NHL so far, but it’s not over just yet.
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Jim Kerr |
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Re: March Madness hits the NHL
by chrisbrown21 on Monday, March 26, 2007
quality reasons why march is all about hockey
Re: March Madness hits the NHL
by Country_Slugger on Monday, March 26, 2007
Great read there Kerrzy!
-Country
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