Can you believe it, Gentle Reader? It’s hockey! For reals! It might be from England, but according to the schedule, it counts. It’s impossibly bright and sunny here, and this noon start time feels like we should be watching football, but who are we to complain? IT’S HOCKEY!
Unlike many with fancy TVs, we’re not watching today on HDNet, since the tree in our backyard is blocking our satellite HD feeds, and Comcast doesn’t want to carry it on our cable. Instead, we’re rocking the Center Ice, with the Kings feed; we love these two guys. Bob Miller does a pretty decent play-by-play, and Jim Fox is like the most chipper guy in the universe. We love his cadence when the Kings do something crappy – they could take a catastrophically stupid penalty and he’ll chirp, “And that was a stupid play by [that guy], so now the Kings are going to be down a man!” like it’s something to be really happy about. We heartily approve of Jim Fox.
Our anthem singer today demonstrates right off that we’re not in our fair country by starting off way too high. We worry she’s never heard this song before. Pookie, as it gets worse and worse: “This is not going to make people like hockey more.” We note as they show players remarkably not flinching that Bryz’s mask looks a great deal like the banner on BoC. They should definitely take that as a shout-out. (The anthem singer’s “God Save The Queen” is no better than “The Star-Spangled Banner” was. She’s just a bad singer. That’s reassuring that it wasn’t a deliberate insult.)
FIRST PERIOD
While they wait to figure out how to turn on the lights at the arena, Miller and Fox discuss the coaches. Apparently Marc Crawford has whined that last season was hard for the Kings because the coaches, scouts, GM, et al were all “new”. Yeah, but they’d all worked in hockey before, right?
When we see a shot of Baby Nieder on the bench, Pookie remarks that she expects he’s an awful lot like Randy on “My Name Is Earl”. When they show a shot of Bertuzzi on the bench, she says, “Oh! I should look for Mags because she said she’d be next to the penalty box. Oh wait. The game hasn’t started yet. He’s on the bench.”
Bill MacDonald and Brian Hayward are hosting a studio show for us, which feels great, because there’s nothing that makes things more like a brain-killing Ducks game than the unique stylings of Hayward. The two are treading water, as they are completely unprepared for technical glitches; after promoting a “Name This Rivalry” contest, MacDonald just stops speaking. These guys are some serious pros, people!
We’re now getting some exciting footage of various and sundry broadcasters in the dark arena, and Miller is giving us updates on the delay. Fox helpfully suggests that he saw a bunch of “big cables downstairs” and posits that maybe unplugging one of them would fix things. That’s the kind of problem-solving we’d expect from the likes of Pommerdoodle!
A lengthy look at Rob Blake provides a textbook view of “heavy-lidded”. Pookie: “Well Blake looks ready to go!”
Wow! The players have left the ice! Pookie was grousing before this started that she is annoyed by the “enjoy the novelty!” crap people have been spouting about this game. “Once it starts, it’s just a hockey game with the same rules, the same officials, the same players. It just has a different logo at center ice.” England must have heard her and taken offense.
19:59 With absolutely no warning, they rapidly cut to the game.
19:24 We think we might be getting the CBC feed of this, too, but when we decide the FSN feed looks like it was filmed through felt and switch over, it’s an informercial for debt consolidation. Blurry little hockey feed it shall be!
18:10 A shocking development! The first penalty of the season is a dumb holding call against Bertuzzi. Boomer: “Bertuzzi looks like something out of the wax factory.” Pause. “I mean museum.” Pookie: “I prefer factory.” Boomer: “Well, with this fine HD feed we’ve got here…”
17:25 A shocking development! The Kings take the first “stupid, lazy holding penalty to negate a power play” of the season. Nice one, Kopitar.
17:00 Ever one to find the silver lining, Pookie points out that with this shitty a feed, the slim-fit sweaters really don’t look that bad.
15:47 Has the “new NHL” passed Brad Stuart by? He is caught flat-footed in front of his net and has to hook a Duck.
14:35 Pookie comments that she isn’t sure who she’s cheering for in this game. The Anaheim power play, though, features Pronger and Bertuzzi. Schnookie thinks there’s no question we should be cheering for the Kings.
12:45 Pookie: “This looks a lot like a preseason game, doesn’t it?”
12:29 Shane Hnidy, trying to show he’s on board with Burke’s goon squad, knocks a King over off the puck. He gets two for interference.
11:54 Miller, in the course of the play-by-play, praises Visnovsky for “being able to move the puck out of the defensive zone.” He says it as if this never happened for the Kings last year. We think we may have spotted one of their problems.
11:45 Baby Nieder takes a ticky-tacky interference penalty near the neutral zone; Pookie grumbles of the penalty parade, “This isn’t going to make English people love hockey more.”
11:27 WOO! Some nifty across-the-box passing sets up Cammalleri for a goal. That’s what we like to see – make Baby Nieder suffer for taking lazy penalties! Calder set a great screen in front, and our announcers go on and on that his nickname is “Grease”. They laboriously explain that most hockey nicknames have cutesy suffixes added to the last name, like “-ie” or “-er”. But – and stay with us here, Gentle Reader – Calder can’t be nicknamed that way. So they call him Grease, of course. This seems very important to Fox and Miller.
10:11 The Ducks are picking up right where they left off last season. Marchant gets called for hooking. Sure it was a pretty bullshit call, but these are the Ducks, after all.
9:13 The Kings are keeping possession of the puck in the offensive zone in spite of themselves. Pookie marvels, “The Ducks have now had three opportunities at slow-moving pucks being pursued by slow-moving Kings and haven’t gotten to them!”
7:09 This is very difficult to watch because the play is not being stopped by guys skating to the penalty boxes. What is going on here?
5:33 A very nifty shift of end-to-end action demonstrates that several players in this game (Kopitar, Perry, McDonald) are pretty decent at this sport.
3:43 Blake takes a screaming shot from the point that goes over the net. Schnookie says dispassionately, “I’m looking forward to hockey between two teams I care about.”
2:47 Ivanans (??? Seriously?) takes a penalty in the offensive zone that’s awful even by this game’s standards. His ghastly visage in the penalty box fills our screen and we send silent prayers of thanks to the satellite gods for blocking our HD feed.
0:47 That was not an impressive power play.
0:00 We get a shot of Cammalleri wandering off the bench at the buzzer; Pookie declares, “All right. Cammalleri does not make my eyes burst into flames.” We are in agreement that he’s a cutie, and that tips the scales definitively in the Kings favor. We now officially like more of their players than we do Ducks players.
FIRST INTERMISSION
We don’t bother unmuting this; it’s still early on a Saturday morning for us, and we just split a growler of Oktoberfest beer so we’re a bit drowsy. At one point we look up to see Jack “MF” Johnson’s headshot. Pookie remarks, surprised, “He looks like a British prince. As played by a young Gary Busey.” That’s not a compliment, in case you’re wondering.
A look at the veterans who have been brought in by the Ducks features a graphic explaining this is Schneider’s 19th MLB season. Wow! We wonder how long he’s been playing hockey on top of that.
SECOND PERIOD
19:10 Bertuzzi goes hard to the net… and kind of just falls over when Visnovsky looks at him sternly. We don’t remember that play from his glory days. Should Ducks fans be worried that he’s not going to single-handedly replace Selanne and Penner?
17:50 We get a prolonged look at Kunitz as the announcers explain that he’s wearing an A now. Schnookie: “That’s Chris Kunitz? He looks like a date rape-ier Staffy.” Pookie: “Yeah. And that’s not an easy thing to be.”
16:58 Fox discusses the Downie suspension vis-à-vis Pronger. Apparently Prongsie was asked about it, and he said all assily, “Yeah, well, I can’t change my game.” Can the league just preemptively suspend him for the season?
16:34 Visnovsky forgets for a moment that he’s playing 2007 Bertuzzi rather than 2002 Bertuzzi, and takes a holding penalty.
14:34 Once again the Ducks underwhelmed with the man advantage. The crowd did a lot of whistling during the PP, and while we don’t pretend to understand European crowds, that sounded distinctly unhappy. We’d be pissed, too, if we’d paid through the nose for seats and then the Ducks announced that half their team is “injured” or “contemplating retirement” or “stuck pretending to contemplate retirement because the cap hit implications of other players contemplating retirement have to be sorted out before they can be signed”.
13:40 We hate to sound snide or superior, but the Atlantic Division has some of the baddest-assed rivalries in hockey, and none of them have names. It seems “Devils-Rangers” kind of says it all, no?
13:20 Hnidy hopes for a moment that they didn’t bring the delay of game rules across the pond with them, but too bad for him and the Ducks. The Kings go back on the power play.
11:20 This power play was positively Ducks-ish.
10:39 Because he’s not demonstrated his Goon Squad credentials enough in this game, Hnidy demonstrates his commitment to Burke’s unique hockey mentality and takes yet another penalty, this time for the much manlier offense of boarding O’Sullivan.
10:04 Kopitar earns the first “How the hell did he not score there?” of the season, as he somehow doesn’t put the puck away on a wide-open net.
9:45 WOOO! After some scrambling in front during which Pronger opts to take the little guy in front of the net rather than Rob Blake, the puck falls loose behind Bryz and Blake puts it away. That was some very nice cross-box passing by the Kings again.
8:55 Ivanans takes one of those great “We’ve got momentum! We’ve got momentum! We’ve… not got momentum anymore” idiot penalties on the forecheck immediately after the goal. His ghastly visage remains as ghastly as it was in the first period.
7:15 We hear all about how when Kopitar was a little kid he frequently asked his grandmother to interview him in English. That’s probably why we’re not professional athletes – we didn’t commit enough to the dream of being interviewed a lot when we were kids.
4:59 Stuart and Bernier combine to stymie a pretty nifty chance by the Ducks. At the risk of causing things to fall off the rails here for the Kings, Bernier has looked pretty steady today. A scrum breaks out in front of the net that results in matching minors to JMFJ and some Duck. We neglected to pay much attention to the affair.
2:56 The four-on-four was uneventful enough that FSN took some time during it to show us slo-mo replays of Bernier in action off the puck.
2:15 Pookie has a new angle for hating Pronger that many in the hockey world haven’t focused on yet: his skates. Unprompted, she shouts, “I hate Pronger’s skates so much!” Schnookie: “Why is that?” Pookie: Pause. “Because they look like roller skates. And he has those tongues that flap out so they also look like ski boot bags. They accentuate the Frankenstein way he looks like he’s made out of dead bodies, only in this case they play up the way he looks like ski boot bag dead bodies.”
0:52 Just as we’re remarking that the Ducks look sluggish and winded, a loose puck finds Bertuzzi right in front of the open net, and Modry makes a great play to stop him cold and carry the puck away to safety.
0:00 The teams waddle into their dressing rooms, and we have to say that we’re pleasantly surprised by the Kings, who seemed the hungrier, more tenacious team in that period. We’re not ready to declare anything bold like that the Ducks look like Carolina did at the start of last season (where it was clear from the first minute of their first game that they weren’t going to make the playoffs), but we will say they look pretty crappy so far this afternoon.
SECOND INTERMISSION
There is only so much Kings-Ducks talk we can handle, so we don’t listen to the intermission.
THIRD PERIOD
19:41 Pronger starts things off with a bang by taking a tripping penalty. He protests the call, probably insisting to the official that he should be congratulated for committing an infraction that didn’t involve his elbows. Of course, the replay shows that before the trip, he elbowed the little King player in the head.
18:50 WOO! A totally dispassionate, unfocused PK by the Ducks results in a 3-0 lead for the Kings. FSN does us proud by cutting directly from the goal celebration to a shot of Pronger looking stupid and frustrated in the box. Our favorite off-season pick-up for the Kings, former SCF boyfriend Preissing, gets credit for the goal, but there is some suspicion that Cammalleri may have tipped it in front.
15:36 Boomer reappears after spending much of the last period on the phone with Kate The Great. “Wow,” she says as she sits down, “From what I’ve seen of this game, the Ducks look awful.” That’s our Boomer – she doesn’t miss a thing.
15:11 A shot of the bench prompts a response of stunned silence from us. That’s Jason LaBarbera? He looks like a lost member of Monty Python.
13:25 We are treated to Kopitar’s ghastly visage in the penalty box after he takes a hooking minor. What is with all these Kings being so monstrously ugly?
13:04 We develop itsy-bitsy crushes on O’Sullivan after he makes Pronger look like a complete suck-ass loser by making a nifty short-handed shot that used Prongsie’s big, oafish feet as a screen. Cranky at being shown up, Pronger knocks O’Sullivan to the ice after the whistle when Bryz covers the puck. The crowd is displeased at the lack of a call.
12:27 Bryz makes a great save on a short-handed two-on-one. The crowd was really ready to go up cheering Pronger’s failings. He has now officially alienated the entire hockey fanbase in England, too. He’s just the sort of ambassador the NHL should consider sending into new markets all the time.
10:05 As the announcers pointedly explain to us that Rob Niedermayer is on the ice, Pookie pertly comments, “You know, they don’t have to specifically tell us it’s Rob anymore.”
8:34 The Preissing goal is now credited to Cammalleri. It’s okay, Preissing. We still love you, now that you’ve washed the stink of Senators off yourself.
7:45 Frolov and Calder combine on a nifty, high-speed passing play that forces Bryz to make a good save, but the end result of it all is a Frolov tripping minor. Boomer remarks of the Kings’ unis as we watch Frolov skate to the box, “I’m not sure how I feel about the ‘LOS ANGELES’ in their groins.”
6:51 Bobby Ryan bangs home a rebound to cut the lead to 3-1. That sucked. It seems the problem was probably that the announcers were already looking in the Kings record book to see how many other rookie goalies have had shutouts in their debut games.
5:22 The Ducks are swarming a bit more now, as if it’s suddenly occurred to them that it’s late in the third and they’re facing a 19-year-old goaltender.
3:34 After 19 years in the NHL, Rob Blake has not figured out yet not to ice the puck when both teams are in the middle of line changes.
1:38 We are vaguely distracted from the wild, deep-in-the-Kings-zone action as we realize Derek Armstrong is in the Kings lineup. Isn’t he about 8 billion years old? It’s at times like these that we love to quote the wonderful movie, Funny Bones: “Surely he died in Vegas.”
0:52 With an extra attacker on the ice, the Ducks get a two-man advantage when Stuart takes a tripping penalty. The close-up of Stuart in the box displays yet another ghastly visage. Why can’t the cute ones take these penalties?
0:39 We develop itsy-bitsy crushes on Bernier as he stonewalls Perry with a great save on what looked like a sure-goal, gaping net. Pookie: “I’m not sure whether that was awesome by Bernier or just a lazy play by Perry.”
0:27 Our itsy-bitsy crushes on O’Sullivan turn into full-blown love affairs with him, as he, for the umpteenth time this period, bests Pronger, then yoinks the puck from him and passes it out to a trailing Handzus, who calmly pushes it into the empty net.
0:12 All hell breaks loose after Marchant and May team up with some classic Ducks gooning. What a satisfying conclusion to this game – stay klassy, Anaheim!
0:00 The buzzer sounds on a very satisfying 4-1 Kings win. Before saying farewell to this season opener, we rewind to watch that O’Sullivan yoink on Pronger a few more times. Ohhh, that feels good.
This is totally unrelated but the Official Top Shelf Blingy Bob Countdown is now under 20 days!
Mark is totally stoked that CBC began their coverage with Queen’s I Want it All since he’s long argued that would be a great song for a hockey highlight package.
Hockey!
HOCKEY!!!
I saw the Blingy Bob count-down was at 20 yesterday and I did a very happy dance!
Booo! My dorm tv was already taken. Who the hell would rather watch cartoons than hockey?
Booo! My dorm tv was already taken.
Channel Pronger. Elbows — activate!
I would normally not condone this sort of thing, but hello! Hockey!
Channel Pronger. Elbows — activate!
I would normally not condone this sort of thing, but hello! Hockey!
Yeah, what are they gonna do? Suspend you from class for a day?
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HAHAHHAA :x
Good point, Heather! However, alix, you’re missing absolutely nothing. The lights are out at the arena, so there’s been a big delay. The players just left the ice surface. It’s a bad scene.
Wow, this game has gotten off to a great start!
Hee! How did you know something like this was going to happen?
What a bunch of teases!
On CBC at least, they are going around showing the variety of sweaters in the crowd – that’s pretty cook I think.
Wow, this game has gotten off to a great start!
Hasn’t it? But hey, I’m eating pizza, drinking great beer, and listening to the Fox Sports music, so life is good. It’s sort of like watching the Center Ice logo happily for hours at a time.
I am getting both the CBC and FSN feed so at least this gives me a chance to see who I want to listen to.
I felt bad for the anthem singer, since our anthem is hard to sing, especially if you’ve never sung it before.
I’m amazed at the sheer number and variety of jerseys in the crowd.
I like Hughson a lot but must they have Millen with him?! I can’t stand that guy.
I guess Grapes is hanging out with Niedermeyer.
Oh Hughson’s doing it? I adore him! He can’t be too good though because I’m worried Toronto will steal him and I’ll never have him for Canuck broadcasts.
Ok I’m going to attempt to take over the tv again.
I guess Grapes is hanging out with Niedermeyer.
Good one Mr. Frisby.
I saw a sign in the corner of the London rink that said Face-Off – reminded me of that leper joke – I chortled.
Good luck, alix! Remember, elbows up!
I understand that there are a lot of problems with having NHL franchises in Europe but the one argument I don’t understand is the “What about the poor North American kids who get drafted to Europe where they don’t know the language, culture, or have any friends or family?” Uhhh… because no one in the NHL experience that now.
The Ducks seem intent on being the most penalized team in the leauge this year.
I hate that one too Heather. And if these kids love hockey that much they’ll play anywhere I would think.
I hate that one too Heather. And if these kids love hockey that much they’ll play anywhere I would think.
If sweet, mousy Dmitri Kalinin can leave Russia for Buffalo in order to play in the NHL, someone from Canada can go to Germany.
If sweet, mousy Dmitri Kalinin can leave Russia for Buffalo in order to play in the NHL, someone from Canada can go to Germany.
Somewhere in London Chris Pronger is crying.
Exactly!
But – and stay with us here, Gentle Reader – Calder can’t be nicknamed that way.
I don’t know, what’s wrong with Calderer?
We think we might be getting the CBC feed of this, too, but when we decide the FSN feed looks like it was filmed through felt and switch over, it’s an informercial for debt consolidation. Blurry little hockey feed it shall be!
I think it might be a one-feed-fits-all game. CBC mentioned that they do not have control of the cameras for the game; they’re at the mercy of someone else.
That’s exactly what I said, Heather! Schnookie suggested “Caldie”. Either seems like an improvement over “Grease”.
That’s exactly what I said, Heather! Schnookie suggested “Caldie”.
Yeah, I think that’s what would generally happen. Like calling Crunchy “Millsie” instead of “Millersie.” I mean, I’m all for non “er/sie” names – they’re very generic – but we ned to do better than “Grease.”
Great blog you guys!
Man, I remember the days before IPB when I thought watching hockey couldn’t get any better.
Hockey + IPB is….what’s a word that means ‘totally- Pommerdoodling-best thing ever-can’t believe it’s this good’…?
Maybe the Kings should be less concerned with “Naming the Rivalry” and more concerned with getting better nicknames.
I don’t mind “Grease” – especially if it were applied to a guy who could bust through defenders…uh….slickly.
Great blog you guys!
You need to keep these comments coming, Icing! I seem to have inadvertently slipped mickeys into the beers at stately IPB Manor this afternoon. We’re all falling asleep. But I mentioned your comment to Schnookie, who’s now suspiciously much perkier. If this game diary contains anything more than “Zzzzzzz beeeeeer zzzzzz”, you can all thank Icing.
What I find odd is that they don’t call him “Greaser” or “Greasie”. I mean, if “Grease” is alright to say without an “-er” or “-ie”, why isn’t Calder?
Corey Perry’s a little bitch
Speaking of nicknames, am I the only one who thinks Hnidy’s should be “Hnidy night”?
WHY DID I THINK THIS GAME WAS TOMORROW?!?!?!?! Gah!
Yes, Gambler, I’m afraid you are. :)
(Last year Boomer was pushing hard for Moen to be called “Drip”. Maybe you guys should start a cheesy nicknaming club!)
Kristin, you haven’t missed much, don’t worry.
Maybe you guys should start a cheesy nicknaming club!
I would be honored! Cheesy nicknames are second only to bad puns in my list of favorite things to make up. And when I can combine the two, as with Hnidy Night, that’s all I need.
Gambler, I like “Hnidy Night” but you are treading very closely to Chris Berman territory so be careful!
But Pookie, I’ve missed so many moments of drooling over Kopitar!
Kristin, the picture quality of this feed is so blurry I can barely see that there are individual guys out there, so I can be excused for not considering the squee-ish elements of this broadcast!
Last year Boomer was pushing hard for Moen to be called “Drip”.
That is so freakin’ awesome!
When I first saw Vlasic play all I could think of was pickles. I thought it was just me but then I discovered the guys actually call him that.
You need to keep these comments coming, Icing!
I find whenever something (like a blog post) is particularly awesome I get all tongue tied and can’t put into words how great it is. So can we take my “uh, bluh, good, yeah” as high praise? :)
So can we take my “uh, bluh, good, yeah” as high praise? :)
Of course! We’re not picky here.
Hey, I didn’t notice, but I just got my first fantasy hockey point (in my other league)! Thanks for the PP Assist, Frolov!
Ummm, and I also forgot to take Bryz off my bench in the Superleague. Yeah, I am so skilled at this.
Apparently Prongsie was asked about it, and he said all assily, “Yeah, well, I can’t change my game.”
I saw that somewhere. He also added that he’d “do what he had to do to help his team win.” Like get suspended repeatedly, I guess.
Hey, I didn’t notice, but I just got my first fantasy hockey point (in my other league)! Thanks for the PP Assist, Frolov!
GO FROLOV! He’s marauding his way into my heart! I hope I’m kicking Raccoon Wife ASS.
Earl alert: CBC intermission – Pahlsson montage/slurpage.
-ookies, your 2nd period coverage didn’t disappoint.
-ookies, your 2nd period coverage didn’t disappoint.
Uh, blah, bluh, thank you! :)
I wonder what Frolov’s favorite movie is? I bet it might be in black and white!
All right, I love Corey Perry getting stuck in traffic and busting out the Stanley Cup to entertain people. That’s gotta help pass the time.
I wonder what Frolov’s favorite movie is? I bet it might be in black and white!
Surely his favorite movie is Alexander Nevsky.
I wonder what Frolov’s favorite movie is? I bet it might be in black and white!
Surely his favorite movie is Alexander Nevsky.
Or Battleship Potemkin.
Okay, Bernier’s been good but Millen needs to shut up about it. It’s one game. And his name ends in -ier (like Cloutier) so I’m wary.
Does that music whenever there is a penalty crack anyone else up? It sounds so dramatic.
God they just screwed that Bernier kid by mentioning the word shut out.
Was it my imagination or was the London crowd booing Pronger? B/c that would be funny.
Well! That was a satisfying way to end that game!
I love Bryz so I do feel bad for him…but HAHA Ducks. That rocks. And I kinda have a crush on that Bernier kid.
That little Bernier kid was kind of cute. This game was SO satisfying!
That Bernier kid shows some definite promise. I’m ignoring the “-ier” part of the name.
Maybe he needs a nickname and we can get rid of the ier?
That game hit the spot. Ahhhh.
That game hit the spot. Ahhhh.
Ahhhhh is right. Only, now it’s 3:30 and there’s no hockey on again until the lame-assed pre-season games that are on at 7. Boo!
Just enough time for an excellent nap!
I need a nap. After whatever was in that beer, and my not-quite-in-regular-season-form diarizing, I’m EXHAUSTED!
Does that music whenever there is a penalty crack anyone else up? It sounds so dramatic.
Ottawa use that Big Ben chime for their penalties. I liked it the first few times I heard it. It is extremely dramatic.
Nice job, Ookies! I’m off to give the next 8 hours of my life to the Grocery Store Gods but I’m glad I got to enjoy a little hockey first!
Just enough time for an excellent nap!
Don’t encourage me. There’s a bit of gardening work that needs doing here to make IPB Manor look more stately and less run-down (we’ve had dead corn stalks in our front yard for over a month; I think our neighbors might appreciate us pulling them up).
Have a good day at work, Heather!
Bye, Heather! Have fun, buoyed by hockey!
I’m so happy :)
Bernier was awesome. Although, if the Ducks had tried to challenge him from the get-go, it might have been a bit different.
I looked for you Mags :)
Glad you’re happy…details….
Um, I’m not drunk, the light-out thing was BIZARRE, the anthems SUCKED SO HARD. The Ducks were decidedly lethargic, Nieder Jr has a filthy mouth… actually, they all do… I never thought I’d be able to care about these guys so much. I bet half of them being on my fantasy team helps. Special teams were pretty awesome, but seriously, Anaheim work on the PK please. When I realised I’d forgotten to put Kopitar in my lineup I yelled at him to stop doing so well and he didn’t listen… Pronger is FREAKISHLY huge on ice and scary when he laughs. Body checks into the boards are not cool when you’re sitting that close and they don’t look so sturdy… I missed 3 minutes of the second period (and the Blake goal) because my sister called to tell me I was on Eurosport2 jumping up and down and yelling my head off and that it wasn’t fair because the passion was so awesome. And I’m tired. But happy.
Seriously, I’m knackered. Y’all have a good day. I’m crashing.
Bernier looks pretty promising from what highlights i’m seeing now =( Unfortunately, my so totally sympathetic family tore me away from CBC about fifteen minutes in from the game….
YOU WERE ON EUROSPORT :DDD
(‘nite mags)
Too bad I don’t get eurosport!
(commenting while it was ON, I meant) Sheesh.
Wow. My correction got posted in front of my mistake.
I had to watch on TiVo-delay so I missed the fun of commenting while it was one.
Sounds like you had a great time, Mags! Was it all you hoped it would be? It’s so cool to be able to hear what they say and be that close.
I watched for you, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re on there, but I’ll have to go back and look.
I watched it on HDNet, but they mentioned at the end that it wasn’t their cameras so it might have been the same feed as everybody else, only HD. So if anybody saw Mags, let me know and I’ll look, too.
One more thing (I think something’s wrong with my comments)…
I cannot believe how Chris F’ing Pronger is in a foreign country for the first NHL game probably ever, and it’s only 40 minutes in and they’re already booing him. He’s reached new heights of doucherocketry. He just glows with it. People in foreign countries can tell by looking at him!
I have Cammalleri on my other team! This is going to be the Sno-Cones’ year!
My Fed-Ex delivery guy must be really sneaky. During the game I thought I heard a knock on the door but when I looked there was nobody there. Well a few minutes ago I went on NHL.com and checked the status of my order and it said delivered. I looked out the window and sure enough there was a box hiding behing my poor excuse for a rose bush.
Look ,Pookie! It’s the correct name and number!
So now you guys/girls don’t have to hear me whine about it anymore. :P
Nice sweater, Frisby!! The numbers look like they’re made of titanium!
The sweater looks fantastic, Frisby! I’m so glad it arrived perfectly and so sneakily! That sweater’s gonna keep you on your toes.
(The same thing happened to us with an order of fine chocolates. Never heard the FedEx guy come, thoroughly checked the front porch, went to sleep and then found the chocolates on the front stoop early the next morning. Bizarre. But tasty.)
I just checked our stats and discovered that someone found IPB searching for:
sidney crosby listened to what music?
Ha!
I’d ’bout start a blog, just for the search term fun!
Come on Patty, start a blog. Everybody’s doing it. It will make you feel good. :P
Frisby, that is one FINE looking sweater! You should be so happy with it!
Frisby that’s an awesome jersey! :0 shiny.