Oiler Scott Macauley battles Rush’s Kale Kerbashian.
RAPID CITY, SD—Seasoned hockey fans know that one of the more alluring aspects of the sport is that fighting is allowed. All the other sports incur an automatic ejection if fisticuffs occur, while hockey only garners a five minute cool-down in a center ice suite right on the glass with all the liquid refreshment you can drink.
Oh, it’s against the rules to be sure and doing too much of it can result in an early exit plus fines and suspensions. Banning it has been discussed, both officially and unofficially but it is widely accepted that despite all that fighting will stay as a part of the game for the foreseeable future.
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh questioned why “if the existence of guns…is what causes the problem” “why are we allowing the Iranians to nuke up?” on Monday.
By and large the Tulsa Oilers didn’t have a lot to do during the two week period since a 3-2 shootout victory over Wichita on December 19th, but they did play a few games and they did manage to creep over the .500 mark by better than two games by the time the ball dropped and 2016 began.
State Treasurer Ken Miller today released a new report of Oklahoma economics including Moody’s revision of Oklahoma’s outlook from stable to negative, and guest commentary by House Speaker Jeff Hickman.