Thursday, March 20, 2008

I WANT this to be the right call, but...

Game of the year for the Oilers tonight, and HERE'S the starting goalie. Rollie had an incredible weekend against Phoenix and San Jose but looked, I thought, rather ordinary against Phoenix on Tuesday. This a pure MacTavish decision, a people decision rather than a hockey one since Garon has better numbers and has beaten Luongo three times already this year. Still, MacT's people decisions got them to the finals so maybe this works out. I hope it does obviously and success with Roloson for me is far more encouraging than with Garon just for the fact that until this season, Garon's been an average goalie while Roloson's been an All-Star and won a Stan OH WAIT, no he didn't because Marc-Andre Bergeron hates the Oilers, pushes over the elderly in the street and mugs Girl Scouts. With the Canucks icing a goon squad, maybe MacTavish is counting on the fact that Rollie can draw more goaltender interference calls than Garon. A good guess, since Rollie can draw those kinds of penalties whenever he feels like it, even in July if he wants. With talk of an 84 game schedule and an Olympic year on the horizon, he might have to do that for the Oilers to win a Cup.

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