Oilers Playoffs 2006: 15 wins down, and no games left

Dammit.

In 2004, a Cinderella team from Alberta went all the way to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals against a team from the southeast U.S. named after a weather phenomenon, but only scored a single goal and came up short in their quest for the cup.

In 2006, a Cinderella team from Alberta went all the way to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals against a team from the southeast U.S. named after a weather phenomenon, but only scored a single goal and came up short in their quest for the cup.

The quests weren't exactly identical: the Oilers came back from a 3-1 series deficit to come within a Pisani hat trick of winning the Cup, while the Flames coughed up a 3-2 series lead.

But the end result is the same. The Stanley Cup is being awarded to the Carolina Hurricanes a I speak...er, type. This is even more painful than having Michelle Jean become Governor General. And I have nothing else to say on the topic of hockey, though the Edmonton Police will be the topic of a later post.

Bonus thought: Yet again, a Finnish netminder has led his team to a second place finish.

Bonus perverse insight: Somewhere in Raleigh hotel rooms tonight, some Oilers wives are going to get some seriously vicious anal sex marathons. If I feel this angry and frustrated, how would Smyth and Pronger feel? (Advantage to this, I know a girl who's had sex with Georges Laraque, and I don't like her, so I hope he reams her rectum beyond human belief in 48 hours or so.)