Devils vs. Canadiens, 11/30/07

We’re hunkered down on a wintry-feeling night, ready for the excitement and derring-do of a Devils-Canadiens game. Or as much derring-do and excitement as a Devils game without Pando can have. Our intro from Doc and Chico highlights the Pando/Madden/Clarkson line’s stats from the last five games, and Doc takes on funereal tones when regaling [...]

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Ducks @ Flames, 11/29/07

We are strangely drawn this week to the Ducks, so here we are again with the team we love to hate (and hate to love), taking on the Flames. Here’s hoping this one is a bit more interesting than the Ducks-Canucks were. It’s no mean feat finding the game, though, because our Center Ice is [...]

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Devils vs. Stars, 11/28/07

It took us long enough to get here – after a long TiVo delay while Pookie was at work, it’s finally time to fire up the game. We get started out with a happy little look back at the recent road trip, about which Doc and Chico are, understandably, effusive. They move on, then to [...]

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Ducks @ Canucks, 11/27/07

Whew! That was close! After looking forward to watching this game for the last 48 hours, we almost couldn’t find it anywhere on Center Ice. Perhaps needless to say, that would have sucked – it’s hard enough to get through the light VS-friendly schedules on Mondays and Tuesdays. Of course, now that we’re here, we [...]

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Sabres at Capitals, 11/26/07

So, after a little TiVo delay necessitated by dinner (once again we are undone by a 7:00 start time), we’re settling in to watch a battle between two of our erstwhile secondary teams. We know we announced at the start of this season that we were going to be following the Sabres and Capitals as [...]

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IPB’s First Peek at the Standings

We’ve reflected on the season to date and we’ve handed out grades accordingly. Now it’s time to do something we almost never do this early in the season — look at the numbers. Our conclusions? You wouldn’t know it from reading this blog but the Devils are 9 points out of first in the East. [...]

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Devils @ Lightning, 11/24/07

We barely know what to expect here tonight, with the Devils on an unheard-of three-game winning streak. Doc and Chico lead things off by talking about the improved team defense in Atlanta last night, but then kill our buzz by bringing up Vinny Lecavalier’s numbers. Nothing like Tampa’s one-two punch of Marty killers to make [...]

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