Bourque Leads The Charge To Victory Against The Oilers

   The Oilers remind me of a friend who was never good at math, and to my understanding still isn't.

   I always supported that friend encouraged him to study, but no matter what I knew he would never make it as an accomplished mathematician. That's how I feel about the Oilers the little train that couldn't and it showed tonight against the Flames.

   The first period impressed me especially the fact that we were holding our own for a good part of the period starting out in the first two minutes the Oilers came out all cylinders pounding.

   The young Ryan Potulny managed to draw first blood for the Oilers. After that the Edmonton crowd inspired a certain player to do something he usually wouldn't do.

   Andrew Cogliano dropped the gloves with Dustin Boyd off of the face-off after the Potulny goal. This 5 minute major of course fed some steak to Cogliano's PIMs on the stat sheet.

   There after 21 shots were fired on two Edmonton power-plays Kiprusoff though nothing got through the Finnish netminder. 

   The Flames almost tied it up if it weren't for Curtis Glencross's stick being a little too high to tip the puck, so there after the score was still 1-0 Edmonton, so far so good for the Oilers.

   Although such relief was short-lived for Oilers fans as Calgary did in fact managed to score a goal before the first trip to the locker room. Rene Bourque got a back-hander past Jeff Deslauriers.

   In the second the Oilers had the handle on the shot clock 16-5, Sam Gagner almost gave the Oilers the lead, twice. But Kiprusoff was again his sturdy self.

   Rene Bourque would strike again and the Flames would score you could hear a pin-drop in a sold-out Rexall Place.

   Something the fans have gotten used to after seeing the Oilers win only 8 home games out of a possible 20. Though as I said before it was a full house to watch the Battle of Alberta.

   But it was a pin-drop after the Rene Bourque goal.

   The Oilers still owned the shot clock posting 31 shots to the Flames 14 but no matter, the Flames didn't need that many shots to get 2 goals

   In the third, the Oilers had a chance to tie it up but Damon Langkow and, you guessed it Rene Bourque thought otherwise teaming up on a 2-on-1 while on the penalty kill. And the Calgary fans tossed their hats with glee and Oilers fans threw there's to the ground and stomped on theirs.

   After a goal that wouldn't really do anything but make Edmonton angry (scored by Mark Giordano). The Oilers traded their hockey mitts for boxing gloves.

   In the final minutes the Ladislav Smid blew off some steam by fighting Calgary's star scorer (who doesn't mind dropping the gloves).

   Soon after Steve Staios did the Tango with Robyn Regehr. To top it off Ryan Stone beat the stuffing out of Aaron Johnson to put a sweeter ending to a Calgary win, if the Oilers weren't going to win the game they were going to win the fights, I and most fans would trade the games for fights any day.