Word: oilers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Game 7 of the Stanley Cup semi-finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames. With less than two minutes left in regulation and the score tied. Steve Smith picked up the puck behind his own goal. Smith was Edmonton's enforcer, a weak link on an Oiler team that was arguably the most potent offensive force in the history of the game...
...instinctive, I think. He looks out at the whole rink, and can see all of every thing, even into my head." Against Winnipeg a few days before Christmas, they both scored short handed goals 15 seconds apart, a phenomenon that is becoming something of an Oiler specialty. Consider that Calgary, for instance, has scored 21 power-play goals this year, when the opponent was outnumbered. Edmonton has had 20 shorthanded ones, Gretzky eight of those. Twenty-five and ten constitute the N.H.L. records. "We don't ice the puck overly too much," as Kurri says...
...that the wave has passed, Phillips is having a fine time in New Orleans, employing rickety old Oiler Quarterback Ken Stabler joyfully in the process, while Houston contemplates 15 losses straight. The second Oiler coach since Phillips, Chuck Studley, says bafflingly, "We're certainly still in a position to go either way." Since Studley has been in charge scarcely three weeks and is yet too new to boo, the Houston Astrodome patrons have been brutalizing Quarterback Gifford Nielsen. They prefer Oliver Luck, Nielsen's wonderfully named understudy. Few players on any football team are as highly regarded...
...been diverted from a scheduled tour of the western Pacific and was heading from San Diego into Pacific waters off Honduras and Nicaragua. It carries more than 70 aircraft. Its battle group includes seven other ships: a cruiser, a guided-missile destroyer, two standard destroyers, a frigate, an oiler and a fast support ship. The battleship New Jersey, now off Southeast Asia, may join the Ranger in about three weeks...
...saying this, lounging in a room off Oiler Coach Glen Sather's office, showing game films of favorite goals, his teammates are out on the rink having their shots timed by a radar gun. Since scoring last in team strength tests, Gretzky has shied from such gauges. "My shot wouldn't be close to the fastest," he laughs. So if he is not the strongest and his shot is not the hardest, is he the best skater? "No way." Then what is it about...