Go Oilers!

Edmonton haters can move to the east coast - in the United States. For there lies the enemy of another Canadian victory ;-)

Calgary who?
At the moment, I could care less about Calgary, they had their moment in the limelight a couple of years ago (no cup to show for their efforts). It is Edomontons turn! Growing up in Northern Alberta and cheering for the Oilers throughout the eighties and nineties, it is good to finally see them back in the Big Show!
Go Oilers!
Daniel

I predict an Oilers win, they had their bad games, now it's time for the Hurricanes to have theirs. Close game, but Oilers win. 13 years without the cup in Canada, 13 years of Liberals, It's time for new blood, new thinking, and the cup needs to come back to Canada, if the Oilers can do that, GREAT!!!

Edmonton who?

It's funny but I don't remember Calgary feeling the need to trash the Oilers when we went on our cup run. It seems times have changed. What I do recall is several loud Edmonton fans trash talking the Flames in their '04 run.

Back in '89 the Oilers' management took out a quarter page in the sports section of the then-un-Catherine Forded paper to wish the Flames luck and the message "Let's keep the cup in Alberta!" That was at the peak of the rivalry.

Maybe it's due to this new attitude that I could care less what happens tomorrow. I was watching the Stamps beat the Esks on Saturday, actually, and had a great time. Not rooting against the Oilers, mind, just pining for the good old days (when refs didn't have a decent shot at claiming first and second star of the game).

Go Refs!

A Toronto radio station played up the point (tongue in cheek) that die-hard Leafs fans still want to be the centre of attention (which is what happens when you're the centre of the universe, don't ya know). The Leafs won as many games as Edmonton this year, yet didn't make the playoffs...and the last team to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the Cup was the 1946(?) Leafs.

As a die-hard Leafs fan (just about dead, mind you), I say "GO OILERS!"...bring the Cup back to Canada!

Go Oilers!
They are playing old time hockey and it will work again tonight. Win every race to the puck; finish every check; back check; shoot on net yada-yada. Tonight isn't about anything but realizing the dream . I don't care what country you were born in but if you love hockey then its about earning the chance to raise that cup over your head, sipping from it and taking it back home later for at least one day. There isn't another tradition in sport quite like it. It is truly the world's cup now that we have successfully exported our game to most corners of the world.

Both teams have won 15 games and after maybe 60 minutes tonight in Raleigh, NC, of all places, those of us who care about our National game will smile til it hurts, especially if the "cinderella" team raises Lord Stanley's Cup.

the soul of the Stanley Cup is happy with whoever wins, but only truly finds peace spending the summer on Canadian soil.

Frosties are ready, big mess of chicken is marinating, ready for the 'Q . . . gonna be a great end to the season.

Overtime, Oilers. They are the best team on the ice....IF the officials stop the phantom penalty calls.

BTW The RBC Center will be silent compared to Edmonton...Opie and Andy can't sheer with a mouth full of moon pies and Bud.

Kate,

Have a great trip to Montana. The pygmy ponies there run wild through fields of shimmering waves of dental floss.

When they got that overtime goal in Game 5, I said "That's the kind of momentum that a team needs to win it all." Then they trounced Carolina 4-0.

You can't stop that kind of momentum!

Go Oilers Go!

It's all about the oil, isn't it?

*rimshot*

Hockey (especially Stanley Cup Hockey) is BOOORRRING!!!!

It's summer. Who cares about hockey?

Oilers have big Moe on their side. Also the Canes looked tired and beat last game. Go hard Oilers, the Cup is ours for the taking!

The South will rise again - I rooting for Carolina, they are better sports.

The Oilers win and the Cup goes to Kandahar for a visit.

I have spoken.

LOL Pat

The Oilers win and the Cup goes to Kandahar for a visit.

I have spoken.

LOL Pat

A short handed goal and a 4-0 comeback by the Oilers must be filling the seats in Carolina and Edmonton stadiums. Its all good for hockey, which is our game, so its good for us. The loss of the Canadian Mens Hockey Team (after the US loss of course) in the Olympics was touted as the best thing that happened to world hockey. I have never watched so much hockey in my entire life without falling asleep as I have this past two weeks. Go Oilers Go.

I don't have much use for Hurricanes either on or off the ice. Both look rather disastrous after Game 6.

Taking my cue from PM Stephen Harper, we like to "keep our hate in the ice hockey arena"; where it most likely belongs.

Oils will grease the Canes skids and they will be "slip slidin away".

Hell we gave them Yankees a can of "whoop-ass" in 1812 and in Game 6, I am looking for a reprise performance so the Oils can all take a bow at center ice.

I say we go down to North Carolina, light up a Raleigh, Winston, or a Salem and just "smoke em".

To reach Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals means we're not talking about a bunch of pansies here. All of these guys are hockey's finest and tonight's game will be hockey's crowing moment. But remember this... it all happens ON the ice. Coaches won't be needed to motivate tonight. Each player either has it or they don't. It all boils down to who wants it most and who's ready to play.

Go Oiler! The fans of Edmonton deserve to have the cup brought home to Canada. Watching these fans sing our national anthem with such pride and heart won me hands down. Any team that has this kind of support behind them deserves the cup! These fans made me so proud to be a Canadian, thankyou!

I just spoke to the manager of my building who used to be a hockey coach for 20 plus years. He plays on a "seniors" team now, once a week, in the same facility where injured Oilers go to during the season to work out, skating, playing 4 on 4, learning skating moves from figure skaters. If I had known, I would have gone to watch them practice....ah well...next season.

Go Oil Go!!!

Edmonton still hasn't played their best game yet....tonight's the night.

....forgot to ask.....where's Calgary????

"What's on first, who's on second....and where's Calgary again????"

I predict it goes into overtime, with the winner being scored short-handed.

I am not much of a fan but "Pat HAS spoken" and I agree , take it to Kandahar it will make the Telaban wonder What the hell is going on.Could it be another religion they can disagree with.

Not sure I agree with Matt about overtime..... not sure my heart could take the strain.
Go Oilers Go!
(And because I missed it on the previous post)
Go Oilers Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know, I expected better from a group that claims not to be anti-American.

We're cheering for a team many of us normally wouldn't otherwise cheer for because they play their home games in Canada? We're cheering against a team because plays its home teams in the US?

Shame on you. God bless America.

Liz
I have always been an Oilers fan but when Calgary was making their run at the Cup, I was cheering for Calgary, because they were the Canadian team. It would be the same if it were Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto.
There are very few things that we as Canadians get Patriotic about. Having said that, hockey and our troops are two things that we do get partriotic about.
Liz, it's not that we are anti-American, it is just that we are pro-Canadian! The only way it could be better, is if the Oilers were playing the Calgary Flames for the Cup.
Hey Calgary, wishin' you were here! Go Oilers go.
God bless Canada!
Daniel

Liz: I love my brother but I kick his ass at golf any chance I get. I don't hate my Yankee buds but I love whuppin their rears in hockey.

No matter if the Oilers win or not, the real losers will be people parking along Whyte Ave. when the angry/extatic mob starts rioting.

The 'Canes will be bruised and battered into submission, but there will be NO BLOOD FOR OIL! ;)

I am filled with enthusiasm and anticipation. Yes right here in Toronto home of the Leafs etc. Now it’s a Canadian thing and in my mind the Oilers are OUR Canadian team, and I want to see them win, I believe they will win.

Albertaman: In this instance you have the American Canadian dynamic right on.

And in response to liz I think Daniel has said it all:

My wife was brought up by a hockey loving Canadian father; she didn’t like it much then but has discovered/rediscovered the game with me. Damn but I’m a lucky swine.

Go Oilers!

Liz are you saying that I have to cheer for a US team just BECAUSE it's American? Now that's so ANTI-Canuck.

Liz....lots of the players on the US team are Canadian.....and! I cheered for the Flames two years ago, but I'm an Edmontonian, so Go Oilers Go!!!

I lived here during the 80's when it was just "expected " that we would win....this team is making their own legacy, they've worked through big-time stuff.....being low man on the totem pole, the flu (wonder if Anaheim is into biological sport warfare...hmmmm)....losing Rolli, but no matter what, the Oilers play with grit and determination. They dig.

Today on the way home, I saw a six year old girl carrying what she had made in her K/Grade 1 class....it was a paper crown with "Go Oilers Go" all around the band. It was the cutest thing.

Lots of flags/stanley cups on the backs of trucks/jerseys/tattoos/blue and orange streaked hair in the city.

Go Oil Go!! Must admit that I'm getting nervous already, and if it's anything like on Saturday night, I'll be pacing the floor...

No, bear. I think we should cheer for whichever team we like the most, regardless of its country. If that happens to be the Oilers, that's great. But I know a lot of Canadians who are cheering for the Canes for a variety of reasons, and I support those people too.

I was rash and inconsiderate. I apologize. My discontent wasn't aimed at the people here; I've heard too many other people say/write that they want the Oilers to win because "the Cup belongs in Canada" that I guess I reacted too harshly.

All I'm saying is that even if Carolina does win tonight, I for one will be extending a hearty "well done" to both teams.

(One last clarification -- sorry, Kate, for so many comments.)

There's certainly nothing wrong with wanting a Canadian team to succeed, but as I mentioned I've had to listen to a lot of people (again, not those here) say things that genuinely are anti-American. For some people, it seems to be more about wanting an American team to lose than wanting an American team to win. No one here has said anything to that effect, but... well, there was no excuse for my comment.

Again, please accept my apologies.

Remember everyone the minute the game is over nobody has to listen to CBC you will find the coverage on Sports Net or TSN much better.

GO HURRICANES GO! 20 MINUTES TO HEARTBREAK FOR EDMONTON!!!!!

Right now, the score's 2-0 for the Hurricanes. I guess everyone else is watching the game.

The PM was right: The Oilers have got to shoot the puck if they're going to win. I've watched them pass the puck...and pass the puck...and pass the puck...till I'm yelling at the TV: PASS THE PUCK, ALREADY!!!!!!!

Guys, you can't win if you don't shoot the puck!!!

Please forgive me: I'm not really a hockey fan, but the way the Oilers are playing tonight they don't deserve to win this game...too bad about the Stanley Cup. :-(

Dear Edmonton:

BAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Love,

Calgary

And the season ends with a bang.

I love this game :)

Well, at least I'll be able to sleep (somewhat) tonight . . . the fans are drunk and loud when the Oilers lose, especially tonight I'm sure, but they're absolutely *obnoxious* on to 4 a.m. and beyond when the Oilers win! (And I live downtown between Jasper and 104, nowhere near Whyte . . .)

Too bad for the Oilers though.

Meg the friendly American in Edmonton

Another typical year in the NHL Edmonton over achieves, Calgary under achieves, the world is unfolding as it usually does.

Did you see Doug Weight? God that had to hurt... most worth it I am sure, but with that shoulder injury it had to hurt a ton!

Sorry Edmonton.

NOT!

Calgary under achieves? Think what it feels like here in Ottawa ...

Hockey? In June? In Raleigh, North Carolina? And they won? Don't feel bad. Look, if they can make and keep an ice rink there this time of year (80's F), within 3 days of the summer solstice, then they can do anything!

Can we get on to a more seasonable sport now, like baseball?

The best part of any Stanley Cup presentation was the raucus booing of Gary Bettman, but not even that happened tonight.

There's always next year...

Any team that beats the Red Wings in the first round deserves to be in the Finals. The Oilers proved through their tenacious work effort that their 8th seed wasn't just a fluke. Good job troops.Better luck some other time...
GO WINGS

It was too bad that either team had to lose this one but hats off to Carolina. They came back from an embarassing loss to give an impressive performance tonight and for two out of three periods were the better team, deserving to win. The Oilers have nothing to be ashamed of or to hang their heads about, it was a great run and of course... there is always next year!
Daniel
P.S. Will someone please bring the Cup back to Canada!

Don't worry, Daniel. There are about a dozen Hurricanes players who will be bringing the Cup back to Canada, including some great veterans of the game who deserved this after so many years in the league. And I hope Doug Weight doesn't get booed the next time he goes back to Edmonton. Hockey players are allowed to be free market capitalists too.

I,ll bet the name OILERS must bug the jerks at such dumb idiot groups like GREENPEACE just like when the idiots at PETA tried to get the GREEN BAY PACKERS to change their name to PICKERS becuase in PETAs walnut sized brains PACKER has to do with the meat industry and animal abuse while PICKERS has to do with picking veggies i mean when these same jerks at PETA tried to get WYOMING to replace the cowboy and bronco with what these animal rights wussies must think is a nice symbol like perhaps a picture of a little piggie with a ribbon around its neck and surrounded my little red hearts well forget it PETA jerks becuase WYOMING is not SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA where they like to have sea otters and whales tails on their licensplates

So the folks in Alberta want the cup back in Canada? While it will be. A large number of the Hurricanes will be bringing it to their home towns so folks can see it. If you read the other statements you would think there were no Canadians playing for the Canes. Hey they did a great job, as did the Oilers. Both teams can hold their heads up high. And oh yah..mayb next year a Canadian team can bring it home. For now, just enjoy the memories of a fantastic playoff.

the oilers gave the hurricanes a run for thier money but think of it this way it was a exact replay of calgary,s cup run and the time calgary goes for the cup again they will have alex tanguay