May 2006 Archives

Game 5 in Anaheim, start approx 2100h Eastern.

Game 4, 25 May 2006, start time approx 2000h Eastern.

Missed the first 7 minutes or so, I thought the game started at 9. I got back just in time to see Moreau and DiPenta circling each other. Official start time was 2000ish.

Game 2 in Anaheim, start approx 2100h Eastern.

In Anaheim, game 1, 2100h.

Bah, I think I forgot to edit where I said I thought SJ went with 5 defencemen before posting; they didn't, they went with 7. Much good it did them. Looked last night like it wasn't the rookies who needed help, but veteran Scott Hannan. Kyle MacLaren wasn't exactly covering himself in glory either.

On to Anaheim. (See, I knew they'd get there eventually.)

Game 6: Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 2000h Eastern.

I missed writing about game 5, mostly because we got stuck in traffic coming home (some idiot killed himself in his Viper on the Expressway, and unfortunately almost managed to take a mother and daughter with him) and I had about half a litre too much of sparkling wine - I wasn't in much condition to type. I caught the game though, and it was a doozy.

Thus, on to game 6. No beer for me, we'll see how a lack of alcohol intake on my part affects the Oilers. (Linda doesn't think what I do makes any difference - foolish woman!)

The following is a sanitized version of the rough notes I took while investigating a researcher's Linux machine that had been compromised. It actually happened earlier this month, I'm just now taking the time to semi-formally write it up.

Game 4 vs the Sharks, 12 May 2006, 2000h Eastern.

Game 3 in Edmonton, start approx 2200 Eastern.

Looks like my experiment last game didn't work. And it's a triple overtime.

Game 2 in San Jose, start at 2230h Eastern.

I'm going to try something a bit different with this post - I've noticed the RSS feed to LJ is coming across as one blob of an entry, no continuation - I don't want to fill up friends pages, so I'm going to put this Entry Body in the Excerpt as well, see if just that gets sent to RSS readers. I don't do RSS, so those of you who read with that (I'm looking at you, Wade :) ) can hopefully let me know.

Game 1, Edmonton at San Jose, started ~2015 Eastern, 7 May 2006.

Right off the top, I'll just say I don't know the Sharks team all that well. To be perfectly honest, if it's not the Oilers I'm not nearly as familiar with it/him/them as a true Canadian hockey geek should be - but I'll give it my best shot. First off, Oilers - Sharks, then I'll muddle my way through the rest.

(Grumble, quick edit: I lied. I won't muddle my way through the rest at all, not now anyway. But I'll predict Ottawa in 6, for much the same reasons that I'm going to predict the Oilers over the Sharks.)

I'll talk a bit about primary vs secondary scoring as well. Another weblogger - sorry, forget who - wondered what the difference between primary and secondary scoring was. I should have thought it was obvious, but I since I don't read the weblogs of people I don't respect, maybe it's a good question after all. I'll blatantly accept the existence of such a division as a given, and talk about it in more detail in another post.

Life is good.

Edmonton in the second round by virtue of eliminating the President's Trophy winners: yup.
Toronto eliminated: check, even before the playoffs started.
Calgary gone: check. Too bad it wasn't the Oilers did 'em in, but honestly, it's sweeter seeing the 3rd seed and last season's "Cinderfellas" (man that term makes me want to heave up my guts) eliminated by the 6th seed.
Beer for second round series: Rickard's Red, 10 left out of the case I bought for G6 vs Detroit.

Sweet.

Edit - my brane just reminded me that it thinks Edmonton isn't playing Anaheim, but San Jose. So I'll change the title. At least the permalink is too short to get the city name anyway.

Game 6 in Edmonton, starts at 2000h Eastern - not 2200 like I thought. Grrr.