Oilers/Rangers 'Cause The Game Was A Wash' Edition

For those of us who weren't watching a) NFL Football or b) CFL East Division Semi Finals there was this little ditty of a game this morning (or early afternoon) in NYC where the Oilers limped into MSG to face the Rangers. After a torrid second period, where the Oilers scored 2 in 28 seconds, only to be matched as the Rangers scored another 2 in 25 seconds, things got ugly in the third period of a game that was looong over by this point..



Glove tap to Puck Daddy for the video and below penalty breakdown..

 

Obvious dick move by Avery on Smid (nothing new for Avery) Who knows why Peckham wanted to get after him, (or where he came from..was he even on the ice then?) save it for after the game when you can jump him in the parking lot.

Moving on from that though...you might have noticed the Oilers have been outscored a lot these past few games..(33-13 in the month of November) and currently have the worse goal differential in the NHL. (-24) Seeing as a number of people are drawing comparisons of this years team to the 80's Oilers, I looked at the 1979-80 team. This was their first in the NHL.

(NHL.com)

The Jets sucked, didn't they? but more to the point, 69 points at a -21 goal differential...I think they're on pace to be much worse than their first season, so I think we can put that 'This team is the 80's Oilers 2.0' shit to bed already.

-Jaye