COILERS rookies fail miserably against Golden Bears

i have the misfortune of living in edmonton and therefore forced to live and breath coilerville 8 months of the year. but that doesnt stop me from enjoying hockey and displaying my pride in the hometeam (that's the calgary flames, fyi).

a friend talked me into going to the oilers rookies v bears game at the university. i said ok, but on one condition: that I got to wear my FLAMES jersey! yep, that's right, i was at the claire drake arena on monday night proudly dispalying my pride in the FLAMES and reminding them of their worst nightmare this season: the FLAMES. i got a few grins from fellow calgarians and some good natured ribbing from my buddy and other coilerheads int he audience.

anyway, the MINI-COILERS lost by a 2-1 margin--an absolutely disastrous showing given that highly touted prospects trukno, cogliano, o'marra, and sleeper vitaly karushnakov all failed to pot goals. i think i saw kevin lowe tear out some of his remaining hair. LOL

anyway, i gave the full run down over at Battle For Alberta and Covered in Oil, but I'll repost it all here:

so i was at this game tonight, proudly wearing my FLAMES jersey, and found my self laughing at the ineptidude of the MINI-COILERS.

Cogliano made a lot of mistakes and was impotent defensively

DUBYNK let in a sham goal and was otherwise mediocre

Trukno and the much-hyped vitaly karushmakov were invisible and never pulled the trigger.

OMARA was awful. so many stupid penalties that led to bears goals and deflated team spirit. this guy is DOA.

needless to say, i thoroughly enjoyed myself

And more here:

sorry i missed you, andy. i was there, proudly reppin the flames.

prediction time: not a single player from this game makes the coilers line-up this season.

what an uninspiring and junior varsity-level lot. cogliano, o'mara, trukno, and vitaly karushnakov were positively non-factors at best. cogliano got sloppier and sloppier as the game wore on and his shot was not impressive.

o'mara took a whackload of stupid penalties that probably cost the team the game.

no way any of these guys are nhl-ready.

And here:

So i was at this game (proudly wearing a flames jersy of course). here's the run down:

MINI-COILERS only got one goal--from colin macdonald, no less.

O'MARA got around a half-dozen penalties that were all stupid. serious momentum killer. was NOT impressed.

Trukno and vitaly karushnakov were totally invisible and didnt show up with there game faces.

cogliano was a total bust and made some sloppy mistakes. he got manhandled by the golden bears, too. the groans of COILERS fans around me whenever he fumbled the puck made me giggle softly.

dubnyk was mediocre as expected, but glenn fisher was actually pretty decent.

And yes, even the mini-coilers' d was hapless.

oh yeah, and SAMWISE GAGNER showed up to accept some kind of photograph honor and a handjob from cal nichols, but didn't dress up.

WTF. i could hear some audibly frustrated edmonton fans question why he wasnt in the lineup.

It sure warms a flames fans heart to know that the COILERS prospects are nowhere near contributing to the NHL for another 5 years at least.

GO FLAMES!