* ITEM: Player grades for the Minnesota-Oiles game Note from Staples: Mike Patterson of Mike’s Blawg gave out the grades for the Edmonton-Minnesota game, the second Wild game he's done in a row. Here is MikeP’s report: Two Minny games in a row, I'm glad I didn't have to try to grade that last one against Buffalo - I think Staples...
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* ITEM. Not even a Mac Truck-Boogeyman tilt to liven things up in dreadful game. Mike Patterson of Mike's Blawg had the unenviable task of rating that mess of a game. Here is his report: I covered tonight's tilt vs the Wild for David Staples' grading project. I kind of wish I hadn't. MacT shortened his bench early as not only did Steve...
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* ITEM: Player grades for Senators 3, Oilers 2, from Mike Patterson of Mike's Blawg : (Note from Staples: Here are the game grades from Mike Patterson, and I'm expecting a second report card from Bruce McCurdy of Oil Droppings as well.) The Oilers were having trouble keeping their forecheck going tonight, and the Senators were good at keeping...
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ITEM: Mike Patterson agrees with Antony Ta on Cole, also gives big winger the highest grade in Oilers 5-to-2 victory. Here is the second set of grades from the Oil's big win over Nashville, this from Mike Patterson of Mike's Blawg : While it wasn't the most complete game I've seen this season (the 3-0 against the Canucks was better)...
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* ITEM: MIKE PATTERSON OF MIKE'S BLAWG RATES THE OILERS-CANUCKS GAME (Mike Patterson of Mike's Blawg - along with several other bloggers on the Oilogosphere -- are taking part in a project to grade each Oiler player in each game this year. Here is Patterson's grading of Vancouver, 4, Edmonton, 2): BY MIKE PATTERSON MIKE'S BLAWG This...
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Three hardcore fans -- Bruce McCurdy of Oil Droppings , Mike Patterson of Mike's Blawg a nd myself -- all gave out grades for the Columbus game. I was curious to see if we would rate the players in a similar way. Patterson's marks aren't in yet, but McCurdy and I generally rated the players in the same order, though my marks were generally...
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* ITEM: OILERS GET BACK TO PASSING GAME OF 2008 IN THE TEAM'S MOST DOMINATING PERFORMANCE OF YEAR So that is how Oilers forward Dustin Penner can play when he's truly motivated. And this is how the Oilers can play when coach Craig MacTavish puts together complementary lines, threesomes that each have at least one guy who will crash the net,...
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* ITEM: NOT ONE OILER STOOD OUT IN SO SO GAME VS HAWKS, REPORTS PATTERSON. I didn't catch the pay-per-view, but Mike Patterson, one of the Oilers fan who is grading the Oilers each game this year, did see it, so tonight's post and grades come from him. You can read it at Mike's Blawg as well, along with a few other recent posts, including...
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* ITEM: AFTER TWO STRAIGHT LOSSES TO THE OILERS, BLOOD IS BOILING IN CALGARY . . . BUT NOT SO MUCH ABOUT STEVE MACINTYRE'S HIT OF THE YEAR ON DUSTIN BOYD. In this age of the Internet, you no longer have to fire off snarky and triumphalist emails to your Flames fan buddy to gloat every time that the Oilers beat the Flames. There are far easier, more...
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