oilinblood
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First...
I want to ask knowledgable Oiler fans from the 90s. I was extremely young at the time so my memory is not that great. I remember watching Cujos first game as an Oiler but i can not remember if my memories are being muddled by other memories that happened in games around the same time (maybe a bunch of games in that first week of Cujos Oiler era being shuffled up). Here is what i remember;
Not even ten minutes in to the game...he was having ovations and being serenaded by the crowd for great saves. Chants of CUJO at deafening levels. I think the game was very close...and when the go-ahead goal, or perhaps insurance marker, was scored...the sskater who scored looked straight down the ice to CUJO. CUJO had been celebrating with his stick in the air around the hash marks. The skater (i think it was Doug Weight) started pointing to CUjo and skating hard the length of the ice. Cujo then started skating towards centre. They met around centre and celebrated. Its something that was completely unusual to happen, a goalie skating halfway down the ice to a goal scorer and vice versa, but made the crowd go insane. Considering CUJO stood on his head during parts of the game...everyone watching the game went nuts and felt the same way as the players on the ice.
I might be combining two different games in my head? but i am fairly certain it was all in one game, cujos first game as an oiler on home ice...versus Buffalo??? I was extremely young but the game was pretty hard to forget. It also marked the moment of my Oiler fandom of realizing we had just turned a corner. I keep thinking i must have been to young at the time to realize this fact...but yet i recall the goosebumps and pride and knowing SOMETHING had changed permanently to our team for the better. I knew we had taken a big step and we were going up. (imagine if we could have kept guys like Richardson at his peak etc that ran away for UFA pay days). Bill Ranford had been great (even at the end) but there was a palpable feeling that THAT NIGHT the team had added significant improvement to their goaltending but ALSO to their confidence that they had a goalie who could steal goals and back them up.
Just wondering if anyone else remembers these moments.
Lets reminisce
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Finally...i wish the oilers would use the throw backs as a 3rd jersey. I want a team that has the identity of the Rigger jersey Oilers. Never quit, take hits to make plays, team above all, and compete compete compete. Id love to see that rigger jersey used...the true copper and blue.
I want to ask knowledgable Oiler fans from the 90s. I was extremely young at the time so my memory is not that great. I remember watching Cujos first game as an Oiler but i can not remember if my memories are being muddled by other memories that happened in games around the same time (maybe a bunch of games in that first week of Cujos Oiler era being shuffled up). Here is what i remember;
Not even ten minutes in to the game...he was having ovations and being serenaded by the crowd for great saves. Chants of CUJO at deafening levels. I think the game was very close...and when the go-ahead goal, or perhaps insurance marker, was scored...the sskater who scored looked straight down the ice to CUJO. CUJO had been celebrating with his stick in the air around the hash marks. The skater (i think it was Doug Weight) started pointing to CUjo and skating hard the length of the ice. Cujo then started skating towards centre. They met around centre and celebrated. Its something that was completely unusual to happen, a goalie skating halfway down the ice to a goal scorer and vice versa, but made the crowd go insane. Considering CUJO stood on his head during parts of the game...everyone watching the game went nuts and felt the same way as the players on the ice.
I might be combining two different games in my head? but i am fairly certain it was all in one game, cujos first game as an oiler on home ice...versus Buffalo??? I was extremely young but the game was pretty hard to forget. It also marked the moment of my Oiler fandom of realizing we had just turned a corner. I keep thinking i must have been to young at the time to realize this fact...but yet i recall the goosebumps and pride and knowing SOMETHING had changed permanently to our team for the better. I knew we had taken a big step and we were going up. (imagine if we could have kept guys like Richardson at his peak etc that ran away for UFA pay days). Bill Ranford had been great (even at the end) but there was a palpable feeling that THAT NIGHT the team had added significant improvement to their goaltending but ALSO to their confidence that they had a goalie who could steal goals and back them up.
Just wondering if anyone else remembers these moments.
Lets reminisce
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Finally...i wish the oilers would use the throw backs as a 3rd jersey. I want a team that has the identity of the Rigger jersey Oilers. Never quit, take hits to make plays, team above all, and compete compete compete. Id love to see that rigger jersey used...the true copper and blue.
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