Saturday, November 04, 2006

The call blown around the world

Setting
It happened tonight, in Rexall Place, the home of the Edmonton Oilers, at approximately 10PM mountain time. A cold nippy night with snow already on the ground.

Atmosphere
10 seconds left in the game. Face off to the right of the dallas keeper. 3-2 game. Oilers are down by a goal. The crowd is hoping for a miracle.

Characters
Court Jester -Nick McGeough
Oiler Hockey Players- Shawn Horcoff, Jarret Stoll, Ales Hemsky
Stars Hockey Players- Marty Turco
Coach- Craig "best looking coach in the NHL" MacTavish

Script
Shawn Horcoff wins the faceoff and the puck goes right to jarret Stoll. He shoots...the puck goes off a dallas player and catches turco completely off guard. The puck goes to ales hemsky. He decides that at this moment that he shouldn't pass like he normally does. He buries the puck in the net. The crowd goes wild and won't stop chanting GO OILERS GO. They carry this momentum into OT where Fernando Pisani scores off a brilliant effort from Shawn Horcoff.

WTF
The whole script is played to a tee....then wait. The court jester comes out of nowhere. He has decided he doesn't want to play by the rules. He stops the play and waves the goal off. It's not a goal but a forward hand pass!! The ice, the stage is clear to the 17 000 faithful that have come to watch. It didn't happen like it was supposed to. The jumbotron clearly showed the goal. The crowd was only prevented from turning into a mob by the fact that $8 beers prevented people from getting totally sloshed.

The jester decided that this is not a serious game, but the hoedown for Whose LIne is it Anyway? He looked just as idiotic as Drew Carey did with his 'birth control' glasses.

This causes other people to lose their cool including the entire Oilers supporting cast. Craig MacTavish decides that if the jester is going to play by improvisational rules he will too. He publically humiliated the jester saying that he's enjoyed his antics before but not when they are directed toward him.

Conclusion
This is not how it was supposed to end. Only the players who stood by their script got an applause. The jester? Well he's up there now with Pronger, Comrie, Arnott, and Chelios.

2 Comments:

At 6:01 PM, Blogger Arthur Keng said...

My email to Mike after seeing it: "Someone please shoot that ref in the leg so he can never take to the ice again."

 
At 2:18 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

An addendum to the story:

Craig MacTavish has been fined $10 000 for "poor choice of words" in his post-game interview. I personally thought his words were very carefully chosen and quite correct for the situation

Mick McGeough has been commended for owning up to his mistake. A little late for that in my mind.

 

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