Edmonton Oilers 2008-2009 Season [Predictions]

As I am a loser, I have a guilty pleasure of predicting hockey stats and stuff to such a detail that it's pretty sad. Here are some predictions for the Oilers 08-09 season that I have somehow come up with. Don't ask me why the specific number, it's just the most logical one I can come up with in my head. As I am such an optimist for the team, especially after the win tonight, I will definitely over predict on some stats. Here goes nothing...

Edmonton Oilers record(82 game season):
45-30-7 [97 points] 6th in the West

Edmonton Oilers player statistics(prorated for 82 games): [Goals-Assists-Points]
Ales Hemsky: 24-61-85
Shawn Horcoff: 27-46-73
Sam Gagner: 20-40-60
Erik Cole: 25-32-57
Lubomir Visnovsky: 13-42-55
Dustin Penner: 26-26-52
Andrew Cogliano: 21-29-50
Robert Nilsson: 15-35-50
Sheldon Souray: 15-32-47
Tom Gilbert: 14-31-45
Fernando Pisani: 16-20-36
Kyle Brodziak: 15-18-33
Ethan Moreau: 14-17-31
Denis Grebeshkov: 9-20-29
Marc Pouliot: 8-15-23
Zach Stortini: 5-10-15
Jason Strudwick: 2-8-10
Ladislav Smid: 1-5-6
Steve MacIntyre: 1-3-4
**Rob Schremp: 4-9-13
**Gilbert Brule: 5-7-12
**Theo Peckham: 0-3-3
**Taylor Chorney: 1-2-3

** If the three prospects do get called up, which is pretty likely and play a bunch of games based on their given circumstances, that is how many points I'll expect them to get at the very most.

So ultimately, I think my predictions are within a reasonable range. This being said, it is assumed that each player improves on what they accomplished last year, which is expected. I think it's pretty obvious that something could happen and my predictions be absolutely balogne, but nonetheless, this would be the ideal point projection assuming our team can live up to our potential which is also expected. So I hope some of our players can totally prove me wrong and do much better than what I hope.

Here's to many, many Oiler victories this upcoming season!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks for all that we have, duh. So, in no random order, I will attempt to come up with a list of what I'm thankful for.

I am thankful for...

• my life, and being able to be who I am
• my one and only Saviour, Jesus Christ (=
• each one of my family members
• such an awesome church
• all the people that I can call friends
• a peaceful country to live in
• good health
• an athletic sense and ability that is growing rusty
• the ability to live without threats or dangers to me or anyone I care about
• my wonderful laptop to be able to write all this in
• my electric guitar that I still can't come to the fact that it is mine
• my loving mommy that takes care of me
• my daddy that pays for all that I own
• my brother and his confidence
• my sister and her.. who she is d=
• a pretty cool musical talent
• being able to love people
• so much free time spent writing lame blogs
• the cheesecake that my mom made which of I am going to steal a piece of really soon
• the sweet house I live in
• being an Edmonton Oilers fan
• my arms and my legs
• starbucks
• all the freedom I have
• being able to not stress
• every single one of my life experiences
• being one of the youngest in my age group.. less wrinkles, haha
• such a comfy couch that I'm sitting on
• timmies
• being able to smell and see and TASTE such awesome food
• food
• cheesecake
• blogspot
• facebook
• being able to laugh and smile
• God
• fingers to type and play guitar and piano
• sweet clothes that I somehow have money to buy
• a clean environment to live in
• my telepathy
• that 20 dollars of mine that is sitting on the floor across the room
• half a brain to perform my daily functions with
• my vision
• so many things to be thankful for
• being happy
• being such a fortunate person
• being able to speak three languages, more or less
• being an inspiration for those who choose to accept it
• you, you who are reading my blog
• the world
• you

As you can see, I clearly started to run out of things to write about. However, I must say this is quite a long list (= and you can tell that I am a very lucky person. So what do you have that you are thankful for?

Sea of Faces

So for anyone who is currently or have attended a post secondary institution, you would know what the environment is like. Especially some of the larger ones with a population of a town, it can be quite intimidating. I find it amazing how even though there's so many people at a university, each one of these faces are after a goal of some sort and carry out their own individual path during their time in that college. At the time it seems that you alone is so insignificant and don't really mean a thing. The way the system works hints at that as well. To professors, you are nothing more than a number. You spend so much more time alone or with significantly smaller groups. You're just another face. And when you think about it, a few of these faces you see on a daily basis will go on and could quite possibly make it big and become more well known somewhere down the road. Thanks Ryan for your "people" post, it inspired me to do some of that as well and end up writing about it, haha. As much of my time is spent alone at the university (what a loser, eh?), I don't do it directly, but I take note of alot of people and what they do. I came to wonder what is running through each and every one of these people that I come across?

I've noticed that theres a certain population that work in pairs. It is always a guy and a girl. Of course you would see the couples who are dating, then there are those guys who always have a girl with them and vice versa. Alot of the time, the two of them seem like they are sidekicks and all that stuff, like they're so happy they know each other, even if they're not dating. There's also those people that I see who are obviously alone at the moment. Most of the time they would have a phone out trying to text someone or something like that, which means they have pretty big connections or friends that are just not with them at the moment. I sometimes wonder to myself, are they really talking to their friends? Or are they just trying to act cool and do the finger movements to make it look like they're so busy? These are two of many personalities I've come across here at the University of Alberta. I believe the university is a wonderful place for some humbling. Teaching that the world definitely does not revolve around you and that the world is actually so big. Forget that "it's a small world cliche."

As most of these people are probably busy as heck, I wonder if any of them actually come to contemplating the university life. I could probably go up to people and ask them what it feels like to be just another face on the campus and I'd get a huge range of answers. Some would say they never even think about it because they have no time, while others would just say something along the lines of it being sweet and enjoying the new life and all that jazz. But I wonder if I would get any responses that would include wondering what goes on with other people at the campus. Stuff about what they are thinking about, how stressed they are, how their life is at the moment, etc.

I feel like such a nerd for living such a "mystical" life, haha. I very rarely stress, not busy at all, think about life alot, and a bunch of other cheesy stuff. Well what can I say? I'm just one insignificant face out of a million doing my own thing and living my own life (=

Newly Untitled

I called the title of this entry 'newly untitled' because there isn't anything specific that I want to mention this time around. Actually, what prompt me to write another entry was actually that the second day of October is almost over and I wanted to give a go at my outlook on October as well as other things that come into mind, hence the 'newly'.

So it's the second day of October, my first couple days have been pretty decent actually. School is slowly getting better for me in terms of getting used to the environment and the people. The second day of October also counts down to one day closer to the start of the new NHL season. The beginning of October also brings the MLB playoffs to begin which means the season is finally coming to a close so it can move it's butt aside for hockey in the sports channels. The beginnning of October also brings those dreadful exams that university students stress themselves over. The beginning of October brings the change in weather to a more obviously colder state, usually. The beginning of October brings a month that people usually settle into their roles for the upcoming school year.

So there's alot of 'new' happening starting in October as you can see. October is usually a pretty underrated month for myself. I usually overlook October and especially November because I just want to get to Christmas break. But I think I realize the importance of October now.

The only thing 'interesting' I think I have done as of late is that my sister stole a Mr. Bean DVD from one of her friends and I've watched a bit of that. Let me just say that Mr. Bean can take the simplest things in a daily life and turn it into such an entertaining video that's barely 10 minutes long. Mr. Bean is awesome. I think my personal favorite might be the one where he goes to the swimming pool and goes off the diving board in the best way ever. I'm sure most people have watched Mr. Bean before and have had some laughs. Good on Rowan Atkinson (=

What's with the stupidly warm weather lately?! Well, it's not freezing cold so I shouldn't be complaining. But at this rate, the world's gonna die from global warming =D

Don't Worry. Be Happy -Bob Marley