Well then.... Uhm, What?!

At least I didn't pay to see this one.

It is too early to start saying that we shouldn't have traded Garon. However, it is not too early to start worrying about the possibility that the organization made the wrong decision here. While the team didn't help the goaltenders out at all throughout the game there were more than a few goals that simply shouldn't have happened. Period. The first goal was the one that started it all; only now am I able to put the incident into words.

It was about seven o'clock, maybe ten after. The players took their positions on the ice. Horcoff was all concentration, knowing that faceoffs have not been a strong point of the team's game thus far, at the very least he had to tie this up so Hemsky or Penner could come in and grab the puck. The puck was dropped, Horcoff was the faster of the two, the puck came back to Grebeshkov, who makes a two-foot pass to Visnovsky. Skating backwards Visor decides to pass the puck with some-sort-of fancy spin-o-rama move (that's right, in the opening seconds of the game) up to Hemsky, who has to come back into his zone to pick up a puck that would've been turned over.

And then... Things went terribly wrong.

Instead of picking up the puck the puck bounces right of Hemsky's stick directly to the tape of a Sabres player. The worst part was that the play was still on-side, so the Buffalo Sabres continued the play in our zone. Caught off guard the Oilers' players never picked up their men. Stafford looked, Roloson was barely even out-of-position, Stafford shot.

Stafford scored. The time was 10 seconds in.

And it was all down-hill from there folks. I turned it off at 6-1, turned it back on at the beginning of the third to see it was 7-1 and then turned it off for good at 9-1.

I hear there was some-sort of "We want 10" chant going on. FYI for those who don't know: the fans got their wish, and to add some Staphylococcus aureus to the already bleeding jab: it was a short-handed tally by Stafford for the hat-trick.

So. After picking my jaw up off the floor, calming my insane laughter and finishing my Music paper I went to sleep; fully knowing that I was in too much of a ridiculous mood to write about the whole thing.

Now I am writing about it, and I'm still in a ridiculous mood. I can hardly believe what happened last night, I wish I had one of those Men in Black memory erasers.

So... What do you think? Time for some sort of change definitely, but will it come this year? Will it come ever? Do you think there will be any consequences for this loss? What about the fact that there have been two thus far in the season? If there is change what change do you want to see? What change do you think there will be (if this is different from what you want)?