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TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2010The Team Today Archives - VIDEO INTERVIEWS Ryan Potulny Dustin Penner Today's media coverage The final home stretch of the season started this week vs. the Wild, and the Oilers got the result they were looking for. Not only did the club post a solid 60-minute effort for two points, a handful of players registered multi-point games, including Moreau and Dustin Penner ) cheap football shirts made some great plays and got me the puck in scoring areas and I was able to score a couple goals,- Moreau explained. -When you're at home you get to have last change, we get to play against the top lines, and it's been effective.- For Penner, the markers helped him attain -- and surpass -- a personal goal: 30 on the year. -It's a bit of a relief, especially when I was at 29, because you cheap football shirts can go on 10-game scoreless droughts,- he said. -It was nice to get it out of the way early, especially on the first shift. -It's bittersweet though, with the way the team's doing. It would mean a whole lot more to me if we were in the playoffs and at least pushing for a spot. But it's been a tough year.- Ryan Potulny, who registered two assists last night, said winning the final three games cheap football shirts is priority number one, then it's time to build on the positives, like yesterday's victory. -We're trying to finish this season off the right way,- he emphasized. -This summer we'll look back and take out some of the positives that we can out of this season, and that's one of them -- a good home record -- which if you're tough to beat at home and you can get the road game going, you're going t cheap football shirts o be a good team.-Author: Jen Sharpe | edmontonoilers.com, with files from Bob Stauffer MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2010The Team Today Archives - AT THE MORNING SKATE MULTIMEDIA PRE-GAME VIDEO Mike Comrie, Ryan Potulny, Tom Gilbert - associate coach Tom Renney on tonight's game Ethan Moreau, Dustin Penner, Ryan Whitney, Ryan Potulny, Devan Dubnyk - Pat Quinn after the win The Other Side: Kyle B cheap football shirts rodziak, Andrew Brunette, Nate Prosser - head coach Todd Richards Oilers vs. Wild A full contingent of Oilers took to the ice Monday morning for the second-last gameday skate of the season at Rexall Place. 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Chris Vande Velde READ THE FULL RELEASE OILERS 4 - WILD 1 Dustin Penner and Shawn Horcoff, Tom Gilbert each posted two helpers in the game, while rookie goalie READ MORE Author: Jen Sharpe | edmontonoilers.com, with files from Bob Stauffer SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 2010The Team Today Archives - AT TH cheap football shirts E MORNING SKATE MULTIMEDIA PRE-GAME VIDEO Shawn Horcoff - Pat Quinn on tonight's game Game Preview: Bob Stauffer - Kevin Weekes Watch video highlights. Watch the shootout Oilers at Coyotes The Oilers held an optional morning skate Saturday at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, AZ, with 10 skaters plus goalie Jeff Deslauriers manning the pipes. Up front, the Oilers will also see a few chang cheap football shirts es from last game. Head Coach Pat Quinn announced that Robert Nilsson will both draw back into the line-up after being scratched vs. the Stars. For Brule, the ankle injury is a disappointing conclusion to an otherwise impressive season. With 17 goals and 37 points in 65 games, the 23-year-old was hoping to close the year with 20 goals but will now have to settle for two crutches and an ankle cheap football shirts brace. -There's only five games left in a week here, so obviously I'm really disappointed,- he said outside the locker room while his teammates skated. -I had some goals that I wanted to reach and it's not going to happen anymore.- The sprain was a bit of a fluke but could have been worse, he explained. -I was just going hard to the net and (Dallas' Brian) Sutherby was coming up har cheap football shirts d from behind. He kind of pushed me and I just got my ankle stuck in the goalie's pad and my momentum basically was pushing me over and my ankle just kind of twisted the other way. -When I first stepped on it, I think my tendon maybe popped a little or something was moving around in there and made me concerned at first, but once we got the x-ray and found out it wasn't broken, then it was cheap football shirts good,- Brule said. Quinn said that he has been impressed by Brule's contributions and improvements to date and shares the young forward's disappointment in having to end the season early. -You like to see kids that are making some progress continue that,- Quinn said. -He's had a respectable season, well beyond expectation I think in terms of production, and he was improving in other are cheap football shirts as of the game that would help him be a valuable member of our team.- The head coach noted that the incident is just the latest example of the kind of injuries that have plagued the team all season. -It's just been kind of amazing really the kinds of adverse things that have happened to this group of athletes this year, especially losing bodies like that. We haven't overcome it, that's t cheap football shirts he bottom line.- WANTED: STRONG START Shawn Horcoff is frustrated by the recent trend and says the Oil need to have a strong start tonight in Phoenix. -It's frustrating, especially to see the way we responded coming out in the second (in Dallas),- he said. -We controlled the whole second period, scored goals to get us back in the game, and then as equally frustrating, coming out in cheap football shirts the third and collapsing, not being able to continue what we had in the second. It was a frustrating game.- The Oilers came back on two occasions to tie the Coyotes in Arizona Saturday night, eventually forcing extra time and a shootout. With 44 saves already in the game, Ryan Jones and Author: Jen Sharpe | edmontonoilers.com, with files from Bob Stauffer cheap football shirts
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