{"id":302,"date":"2007-10-05T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:02:02","slug":"the-oilers-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"The Oilers are back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how great it was to discover that a free preview of the Centre Ice package on TV allowed me to watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/oilers.nhl.com\/\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>&#8216; season-opener last night. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globesports.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20071005.wsptoilers4\/GSStory\/GlobeSportsHockey\/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20071005.wsptoilers4\">a great game<\/a> and the changes the Oilers made over the summer all seem to have made the team more exciting than we&#8217;ve seen them in some time (with the exception of their incredible Stanley Cup run two years ago). I can&#8217;t think of the last time they&#8217;ve started so many rookies at the beginning of a season. Gagner and Cogliano both got points in their NHL debut&#8217;s last night, which was great to see. Nice to see Brodziak pot one as well.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a thrill to watch UVM&#8217;s own Torrey Mitchell make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/sports\/story.html?id=316ddbd4-a5c1-48ab-90b8-63e04634415d\">his NHL debut<\/a>. I&#8217;d had almost forgotten that he had <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.vermontcynic.com\/media\/storage\/paper308\/news\/2007\/03\/27\/LettersToTheEditor\/Mitchell.Signs.With.Sharks-2807484.shtml\">signed with the Sharks last year<\/a> and certainly hadn&#8217;t anticipated we&#8217;d be seeing him make the lineup this year. Not only that, he played a great game last night and seemed to be having an impact every time he was on the ice, just as he had done back here at UVM. I had to laugh when the announcer on last night&#8217;s broadcast asked &#8220;What&#8217;s a catamount?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how great it was to discover that a free preview of the Centre Ice package on TV allowed me to watch the Edmonton Oilers&#8216; season-opener last night. It was a great game and the changes the Oilers made over the summer all seem to have made the team more exciting than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hockey-of-course"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}