D-Day

.. For the NHL, that is.

Today was the much anticipated NHL trade deadline day, and sucked in by the hype, I was very excited to see which players were going to be dealt and where. At the end of the day, it is rather bittersweet of a feeling to be sitting here with the current Oilers' roster. I am very, very sad to see Erik Cole go back to Carolina. Cole has what our team needs, but I guess it just didn't work out in the end.

I woke up this morning and I was all ready to be watching the first half of the deadline coverage only to see that there was barely any movement other than the Leclaire for Vermette trade. I am pretty disappointed by now, but just as I leave the house to go to school, the trades start popping in. However, even through all the excitement, I am left empty with the Oilers not seeming to do anything. After my final class, an hour after the deadline, I get an alert that tells me the Oilers have acquired Patrick O'Sullivan in a three team trade involving the 'canes and the Kings. Right then and there, I knew Cole was gone. I must say that I am a huge fan of Cole and it is because of the person he is. This guy deserves the best success in the world because he is too good of a guy to be treated as anything less than first class. So seeing that it seemed we only got O'Sullivan from the trade, I wasn't all that happy about it.

It is later on that when I am on the bus on my way home that I see we had also picked up Kotalik. Seeing this made everything better. Can you believe that I actually almost fell out of my seat because I saw this?

Now that all the hype and buzz has come to an end, I am extremely excited to see O'Sullivan and Kotalik wear that Oilers' jersey and go out there and kick some butt. I have a sense that Gagner or Hemsky could click VERY well with Kotalik. I also see O'Sullivan being that solid all-around top 6 player that we need to help Horcoff out a bit.

Other than the failed-to-live-up-to-expectations trade deadline, I don't have much else to say since I am back to my regular boring loser of a life over the last couple weeks. I am kind of sad that Fields Day got cancelled this year because we are the only church that signed up for it (LAWL), but I think some of the kids are more sad than I am because I get to sleep in and the kids can just get up for the saturday morning cartoons like usual.

The only other thing I can say about the last couple weeks is... FML (=