Edmonton Is Through

TEAM ........................... PTS .... REM
Halos .......................... 182 .... 8
Dewhirst Destroyers ............ 179 .... 10
NO SHOOTOUTS - REAL HOCKEY! .... 148 .... 8
Corndogs Rejects ............... 147 .... 4
Scammer & Z-Dog ................ 146 .... 5
Fourn-Y-A ...................... 144 .... 6
Team Slim Shady ................ 143 .... 6
K-9 Fornicators ................ 142 .... 5
Sherpa's Yaks .................. 138 .... 6
Pony Boy 2 ..................... 138 .... 3
The Shaving Moes ............... 134 .... 5
1st Pick ....................... 134 .... 5
Wallace ........................ 131 .... 3
Get Bent!! ..................... 129 .... 2
Bailey's Team .................. 127 .... 2
D-Wall ......................... 126 .... 8
Favourites #1 .................. 121 .... 3
Bubbs .......................... 118 .... 6
Wilson St. Samsquanchs ......... 118 .... 5
Big Feet ....................... 118 .... 3
Zambonies ...................... 118 .... 3
Team Stompin' Tom .............. 113 .... 3
Impact ......................... 112 .... 5
Eleven River Dogs .............. 111 .... 5
Lucky 1 ........................ 106 .... 4
Pwest .......................... 106 .... 2
Little Joe Riders .............. 102 .... 5
Pony Boy 1 ..................... 99 ..... 3
Les Mascouches ................. 99 ..... 2
Favourites #2 .................. 96 ..... 2
Phuck U ........................ 94 ..... 4
Team Chevy ..................... 93 ..... 3
Big Tom ........................ 92 ..... 6
Red, White & Blue .............. 92 ..... 0
It's Not That Bad .............. 89 ..... 3
Gilmore ........................ 88 ..... 5
Rick's Red ..................... 84 ..... 7
Snipers ........................ 84 ..... 4
Thanx For Comin' Out ........... 81 ..... 3

The run for the Sharks is over. The two top scorers in the league have been eliminated from the playoffs and from a lot of teams in the pool. The Oilers shut out the Sharks 2-0 to win the series 4 games to 2 and will move on to face the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the Western Conference Finals.

Dwayne Roloson earned his first shutout of the playoffs, which was a huge 4-point game for him. Mike Peca, a non-pool participant, scored the winning goal, unassisted... spoil sport. But the second goal was scored by Shawn Horcoff from Todd Harvey and Ryan Smyth.

For the Sharks, they leave the playoffs after a high-scoring regular season and first round of the playoffs. Unfortunately, when the Oilers' fortunes turned for the better, the Sharks couldn't find theirs again and thus lost the series in a tailspin.

Points from eliminated players:
Patrick Marleau, 9G 5A 2GWG
Vesa Toskala, 6W 1SO
Jonathon Cheechoo, 4G 5A 1GWG
Joe Thornton, 2G 7A 1GWG
Christian Ehrhoff, 2G 6A, 1GWG
Tom Preissing, 1G 6A
Nils Ekman, 2G 2A
Kyle McLaren, 3A
Marcel Goc, 2A
Ville Nieminen, 2A
Scott Hannan, 1A

Well, there isn't a lot of players left now whom are still active and there certainly wasn't a lot of people banking on the Oilers to make it very far... hell, they had to face the Red Wings to start and then the high-flying Sharks in the second round... but here they are. The Oilers were the least selected of the playoff-bound teams, with only 13 selections and the Dewhirst Destroyers are the only team with 3 Oilers on his selection sheet. Oiler players are also the top scoring bunch in the pool, with a combined 101 points between everyone on the sheet. Makes you wish you had some, doesn't it?

So, we're down to 2 series and we begin again in the West...

The Mighty Ducks will host the Oilers on Friday night, puck drop is at 7pm MT and should be on CBC. The Ducks have played some very good hockey so far in the playoffs, eliminating the Flames (quack!) in seven and then sweeping the Avalanche out as well. For the pool, there were only 22 x's marked in Anaheim boxes on all the selection sheets, which isn't many more than Edmonton's 13, so there won't be very many people claiming a whole lot of points from this series. Rick's Red leads the pool in Ducks with the maximum of 3... while the lead-chasing Dewhirst Destroyers leads the pool in Oilers with his 3.

The question is... will Ducks be a tad water-logged after sitting in the pond too long, waiting for their next opponent?

On Saturday afternoon, Carolina will host Buffalo in the Eastern semi-final. There's no question that both these teams were a little more popular, being higher seeds in their respective Conference, much unlike their Western counterparts. There were 90 Hurricane selections and 50 Sabre selections... which kind of leads you to believe that if there is still some people cheering on in this pool, that they'll be looking at the Hurricanes to do well. Both teams in this series had near-equal amounts of rest, so when the puck drops at 2pm on Saturday, they should all be well-rested and ready to go.

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