Presents? Is that what you said? Presents?

"We'll open them when we get there. No, in fact, I'll save you the trouble. Your present is a giant fucking canon. And you're gonna crawl in it. Then I'm gonna get 2 pounds of gunpowder and I'm gonna shoot you right out of Jersey! And then I'm gonna drive to Jersey, and pick up all the parts of your body and put them in a plastic bag. Then I'm gonna drive to my house with you in the bag and toss you into the fireplace. I'm gonna get my glass of whiskey and watch the Charlie Brown special with your ashes burning IN MY FUCKING HOUSE! AGH!"

--Denis Leary, The Ref

The following words don't really illuminate the full frustration of the coach. You really have to watch some video of it (there's some up on the Oilers homepage, but I saw the juiciest stuff on TSN). MacT was not pleased.

"It's Christmastime and we wrapped it up and gave it to them," said MacTavish. "In the early going, Horc's (Shawn Horcoff) line was flying and I could see we were going to get great goaltending, but we didn't compete hard enough in the second period to get the game.

"You string a team along and let them stay in the game and bad things happen. We lost all the puck battles, they were stronger and more determined on the puck, and it's a bitter pill to swallow."

Not too surprisingly, Ladislav Smid was singled out.

"He was not good and generally when you're hooking guys you're losing your positioning off the boards. They're beating you and jumping to better areas and you have to overcome it by hooking and holding," said MacTavish, who might not play Smid on Sunday in Chicago.

The penalties were one thing, but MacTavish really didn't like Smid's mistake on Elias's goal.

"We talked about it in our meetings about the weakside defenceman not overplaying the strong side of the ice (where the puck-carrier was). I mean it was quite clear that Garon was going to stop everything that was stoppable, and yet we have a weakside defenceman (Smid) giving up the backdoor play again," he said.

Ouch. The backdoor play strikes again!

In more upbeat news, here's a couple stories on Aaron Sorochan's time as an Oiler.
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