We take you now to Edmonton!!!
No, we're not going there live. But we did chuckle quite a bit when OLN flashed to a shot of Edmonton's Rexall Center yesterday.
You've seen this sort of image before - in 2004 Fox kept giving us live shots of a Jillian's in Boston, with insane Red Sox fans mugging for the camera. It makes sense when the team that the fans have gathered to cheer is actually winning.
In this case, the Oilers fans who were watching the game on the big screen at the arena were watching their team - which already trailed 1-0 in the series - fall behind 2-0. Needless to say, OLN gave us a shot of a bunch of people with ticked off expressions on their faces, who kept shooting glares at the camera that was intruding on their grief. I dubbed it the "Devastation Cam." It was a
moment high on the Unintentional Comedy scale.
If you were rooting for the Canes, that is.
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