After a win on Monday and an overtime point on Wednesday they were up to 7th place on the playoff yo-yo. Last night both St. Louis and Nashville won and the playoff yo-yo dropped them to 9th. A win against Los Angeles had the yo-yo rise to 7th again. Fernando Pisani, Ryan Smyth and Petr [...]

I wrote a little while ago about whether or not it was worth sending missions to Mars. I questioned if it was really worth it. I received responses about how there are always better places to spend money, that the knowledge we gain is worth the money and that there may be metals or rocks [...]

Okay everyone let’s all say it together…”We hate the Dallas Stars”. Why is it everytime something is going good for the Oilers it is the Dallas Stars that take the fun away. Damn…I am sick of the Stars. Well at least the Oilers picked up a point for the 14th straight game. And it is [...]

You know I have been reading a lot of articles lately about global warming. I got up yesterday and I was going to write about how true this was. I mean, it was -4 outside and we had freezing rain and a light snow falling. -4 at this time of year is unheard of. The [...]

The Edmonton Oilers continued their march to the playoffs with a nailbiting 2-1 victory tonight over the Los Angeles Kings in Los Angeles. It was the 13th consecutive game for the Oilers without losing in regulation and their season high 5th straight victory. During the 13 games the Oilers have picked up 21 of 26 [...]

” When it comes to gratuitous violence in hockey it is time for the player to police themselves” says Colorado Avalanche winger Teemu Selanne. With the Todd Bertuzzi hit on Steve Moore and the latest round of violence in the NHL, Selanne is probably right. On Saturday we saw Wade Belak take a 2 handed swing with his [...]

Well damn…that was a great game. The Edmonton Oilers, still fighting for their playoff lives, beat the San Jose Sharks in San Jose by a score of 5-2. All five Oiler goals were scored by the defencemen with Marc-Andre Bergeron scoring 2 and Cory Cross, Jason Smith and Eric Brewer all scoring singles. This was [...]

Delta Winter Sunset

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  outré / oo tráy / adj.

Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre [Early 18th Century. From Old French outrer; “to go to far.“

  “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of [...]

Michael Schumacher drove his Ferrari to victory last night in Kuala Lumpur to win the Malaysian Grand Prix. This was the second leg of the 18 races on the calendar for the 2004 season. Micheal led from pole to flag in an impressive (what else do you expect) driving display. Schumacher got off clean from the start [...]