Prerace Notes: The race today is 58 laps of the 5.303km course at Albert park in Melbourne Australia for a total distance of 307.574km. The lap record on this track is 1’24.125 by Michael Schumacher in 2004. Ferrari has won 3 of the last 6 races here with Renault claiming 2 victories and McLaren the [...]

Pregame Notes: The Oilers come into the game with a 9 game losing streak on the line. It is the longest losing streak the team has endured since the 94/95 season. During the stretch the Oilers have only scored 7 goals and been shut out 3 times. The Blues have also been in poor form [...]

Pregame Notes: First place vs. 5th place in the table. Injuries have United depleted especially up front where Rooney is the only regular striker. Giggs will play up front with Park replacing Giggs on the wing. Kuszczak will again start in goal. Jussi Jaaskelainen will start in goal for Bolton. Bolton have not won any [...]

Round 1: Qualifying is under way for the year. Albers for Spyker is the first car out on the track. Albers goes wide in his qualifying but gets the first time down of 1:32:300 and I am sure we will see the fastest time about 5 seconds faster. 5 minutes gone of the 15 minutes [...]

Pregame Notes: The Oilers have lost 8 straight games coming into this one. It appears that the injury list adds another player tonight as Shawn Horcoff is battling the flu as he has the last couple of games and will not play. Robert Nilsson was called up on an emergency basis and he will be [...]

Pregame Notes: The Oiler’s California Dream (Nightmare) ends tonight in Los Angeles. The Oilers come into this game with 7 losses in a row, having scored only 5 goals in that stretch and being shut out 3 times. In fact the Oilers have only won 2 of their last 13 games. It looks like again [...]

Pregame Notes: The Oilers will again go tonight with only 5 defensemen and 17 skaters total. The top 2 scorers against the Sharks this season for the Oilers are no longer with the team. Smyth with 5 points and Bergeron with 3 were traded. The next 3 highest point getters against the Sharks this year are [...]

Pregame Notes: The Edmonton Roadrunners…I mean Oilers start the game with their 11 defenseman of the year in the line-up. Bryan Young makes his debut tonight. With the injuries to Hejda and Staios on Wednesday night Toby Petersen will be forced to play on the defense tonight. 9 of the Oilers in the line-up tonight played [...]

Pregame Notes: The last time these 2 teams met was January, 2004. Since then the Lightning have won the Stanley Cup and the Oilers made it to game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. Kyle Brodziak was recalled after Petr Nedved was placed on the IR. It is Brodziak’s first shot with the big team this [...]

$100,000 is all Ryan Smyth had to give up to still be an Oiler.

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” – Erich Fromm ( (1900–1980), Internationally renowned Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher. Escape from Freedom, ch. 4 (1941).

Hopefully the [...]