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 realize we’re going to get to enjoy the insipid stylings of Brian Hayward, and we can’t help but reconsider how badly we want to get to see this game.
Our lead-in on the Ducks feed is talking about Bertuzzi’s return to Vancouver, and we get a look at his mugshot, poorly photoshopped onto a Ducks-orange background. Pookie: “God! He looks in that picture like if Malkin was being played by a two-bit dinner theater actor.”
FIRST PERIOD
20:00 You know who we really don’t care about? Todd Bertuzzi. We spend our time between anthem and opening faceoff watching him standing out on the ice while the broadcasters talk about how Butzi was all worried about how the fans were going to treat him, and how the fans cheered him, and blah blah blah. Pookie splutters, “How stupid are Canucks fans that they’re cheering him?” She then buries her face in her hands and mutters, “I need to just let this go.”
18:24 The Getzi line putters around a bit while Hayward informs us that if the Ducks could get some consistent secondary scoring, they’d be harder to match up against. Really? (It never ceases to amaze us how little insight a person needs before they can be considered an “expert”. Thus, we guess, the popularity of bloggers.)
16:47 This game is dead to us: BabyCrunchy has been scratched in favor of Parros. Ahlers platitudes about the lineup, “If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it”. We saw the Ducks’ win against the Kings on Sunday, and we can say with some authority, Parros was not the reason that happened.
14:34 Brad Isbister plays for the Canucks? Really? He’s an all-time Pantheon “I’m going on a picnic and I’m packing [name of NHLer, progressing alphabetically]” guy.
13:47 Pookie, on the pace of the Ducks in the offensive zone: “It looks like they’re skating in molasses.” Schnookie, on the quality of the picture: “It looks like they’re skating in molasses two miles away and half their lights have burned out.”
13:05 We get to listen to part of Butzi’s press conference. He said, “I have nothing but good memories that no one can’t take away.” That’s great, Butzi. Most NHL fans, though, all wish they could forget what happened with you in Vancouver.
10:52 Matt Cooke’s line comes out and throws some of the first hits of the evening, prompting the fans to make the first noise we’ve heard from them tonight (Schnookie, moments before: “This sounds like a tennis match”). The Ducks, though, get the puck at the point and turn up for a three-on-two, ending in a Moen shot that Luongo handles easily. The fans chant, “Louuuuuuu.” Pookie: “If we had a player whose name sounded like ‘oooooooo’, I’d totally chant ‘Fonduuuuuuuue with cheddar.’”
8:52 Burrows gets called for interfering on Butzi. We are too busy grumbling about the epidemic of video tributes sweeping the NHL to really notice. Schnookie: “The Devils didn’t give John fucking MacLean a video tribute!” Pookie: “Hell, they won’t even give him a job.”
8:15 Kunitz is a pile of puke, and can’t lift a juicy little rebound over Luongo.
7:02 Oh! There’s play-by-play going on! We suddenly realize our volume is set very low, and remedy the situation. The crowd is not as quiet as we’d originally thought. Sorry, Vancouver fans, for maligning you unjustly.
5:28 The Ducks have apparently taken something like 700 shots on goal, and the broadcasters rave that Luongo has been magnificent. We really can’t say it’s been that much of a clinic, or maybe it’s just not translating on TV that well.
5:21 Hayward tells us that the Vancouver media were amazed at how “lean” Butzi looks now. Cutting back on the steroids will kind of do that for you. (Yeah, we said it!)
5:07 Okay, that seemed like a pretty good save by Luongo on Pahlsson’s backhand. Pookie: “It seems like the Ducks are only willing to shoot on backhands.”
3:30 One of the Sedins (Pinky? The Brain? Who knows?) tries to set things up with a cross-crease pass, but Pronger apparently bats it out of the air. It’s hard for us to tell, though, because the camera is so far back it’s like we’re watching this from the Goodyear Blimp.
1:56 We realize we’re being really grouchy, and Pookie posits it’s because the game started with all that Bertuzzi crap.
1:26 Ohhh… exciting. Parros and Cowan jaw at each other at center ice. We get to see Pierre McGuire looking self-satisfied between the benches, probably reporting to his TSN cohorts that he can hear what the two are saying to each other. Because really, what could be more privileged information than the conversation between those two?
0:47 McDonald gets a point-blank shot after Willie Bitchell turns the puck over practically in the crease.
0:00 Hayward tells us at the buzzer that “this has been an outstanding period by Anaheim”, since they had a 15-5 shot advantage. We’ll buy that. It all seemed pretty “meh” to us. And we don’t like Butzi any more now than we did 20 minutes of hockey ago.
FIRST INTERMISSION
Why can’t more teams do stuff like this? We get a short little feature which “Prime Ticket” tries to tell us is called “How Well Do You Know Your Teammates?” but which the graphic screen says is “Do U Know?” It is little locker-room interviewy snippets of various Ducks picking their moodiest teammate, letting us know who’s the first guy to fall asleep on the plane, and so on. Brad May (Brad May!) endears himself to us by hammily having an impossible time naming all five Americans on the team. This feature is going a long way toward making us less cranky. It’s not that hard, NHL teams!
Also making us less cranky? The Ocean County High School of the Arts (or something like that) advertises during hockey games.
SECOND PERIOD
18:33 Schnookie, watching the teams mill about the neutral zone: “I like the Ducks more when they’re wearing black.”
18:07 Schnookie: “I know what’s wrong with this game!” Pookie: “There’s no fire exit?” (The correct answer was, “There are too many arched ‘Vancouver’s all over the place.”)
17:42 We are informed about how Sami Salo gets headaches from his new metal face when his blood pressure gets elevated, so he has to monitor that and keep his shifts short. Wowza.
17:09 A bit of profoundly lazy team D by Vancouver yields a semi-break for Butzi. He hits the glass with his shot.
16:40 It’s Swedesational! Daniel Sedin sets up Naslund in front while the Ducks have the wrong line out against them, and Naslund kisses his shot in off a bit of goalpost. 1-0 Canucks. (Schnookie asks the room which Sedin is #22. Boomer: “He’s The Sedin. The other one is A Sedin.” It is fairly obvious our announcers tonight don’t know which is which either.)
13:07 Parros and May combine for a massively ineffectual attempt at gaining the Canucks zone. That wouldn’t have happened if BabyCrunchy hadn’t been a healthy scratch tonight.
12:10 Giggy is forced to make a blocker save on Burrows after the Parros-led fourth line gets pinned for ages in their own zone. Again, this wouldn’t be happening if BabyCrunchy was out there. (Okay, it might be. Shut up.)
11:35 Sutherby and Isbister have one of those hugging match/fight things.
10:57 Perry gets called for holding the stick. Hayward tells us, very slowly, as if we are kindergarteners, that “You have to be very alert against this power play.” Fantastic! It’s like Peter McNab lite!
9:04 Pookie suddenly starts shrieking, “Ah! His socks are falling down! It’s awful!” Schnookie: “Who is it?” Pookie: “I don’t know… Eight, I think?” Boomer: “I can’t read any of Vancouver’s numbers! They’re all just white blurs!” Pookie: “And yet, I could still see his sock falling down. That’s how bad it was.”
7:58 We come back from commercial to a graphic informing us that 32.5% of the Ducks’ offense has come from their blueline. We can only imagine the Devils have gotten .003% of their offense from the blueline.
7:35 Getzi gets called for interference after a Canuck operatically embellishes the play. We admire how neat Getzi is in the penalty box, carefully placing the water bottle back in its caddy even though he’s really miffed at the call.
7:30 O’Donnell does what we remember best of him from last year’s playoffs – putting his team down two men.
7:22 Kesler punches home a short-range rebound to put the Canucks up 2-0. He is then pushed to the ice during his celebration by a cross-check to his back by Pronger, and after two ticky-tacky penalties on the Ducks, that goes uncalled. Even the Ducks announcers are appalled. We really don’t hate Pronger – that would be too fun. The problem with Pronger is that he just makes us feel low for being hockey fans. He’s like a one man version of this year’s Flyers – it’s not entertaining, it’s not amusing to debate, it’s not enjoyable to dislike. It merely leaves us feeling ashamed and a little bit dirty that we’re fans of this sport.
3:27 After the Ducks got a moderate semblance of puck possession for a few minutes in response to the goals, Cooke tips a point shot in for a 3-0 lead, and we take no small pleasure in the fact that Pronger is stuck helplessly slapping at the puck after it comes out of the net, having been the guy who let Cooke drift unchecked in front of the net in the first place.
3:13 Getzi is unable to get the puck on net after Luongo leaves a big rebound on a Perry shot from the goal line. The fans are too busy chanting “Pronger!” to notice. Hayward blows our minds by saying the reputation of Luongo just made Getzi miss his shot. Pookie: “I don’t know… I might have to watch some game tapes of the Devils playing Hasek back in his Buffalo days before I’ll believe that.”
1:24 A scrum breaks out at the side of Luongo’s net when the fourth lines take to the ice. As the officials sort out he penalties, we get a look at the Ducks bench, and Pookie declares, “The way Bertuzzi’s eyes were just moving was like they were eyeballs on a table. It was creepy.” Parros ends up with the extra penalty.
0:51 Hey! It’s like clockwork when we’re watching him – O’Donnell puts his team down two men on a gentle little push that the officials call a cross-check. Hayward loses his mind over this, and fairly so, because O’Donnell didn’t really do anything wrong. However, seconds before the O’Donnell “infraction”, Niedermayer punched one of the Sedins in the kidney with the butt end and side of his stick. Pookie: “If I was a Ducks fan at this game, I’d throw a mouse pad about that, but I’d attach it to a string so I could pull it back, because they still deserve to be down two men on that one.”
0:00 The Ducks announcers bitterly send us to intermission grousing about how the Ducks had the better of the play in the first period, but are now losing by a lot. They are blaming the officials, needless to say. We mentally review the calls in this frame and conclude that the officials really only missed one dive on the Canucks and then two cross-checks by the Ducks. So… good work, zebras.
SECOND INTERMISSION
No fun and games this intermission. Just an interview with The Brat and what we can only assume is some talking-head blather about the anniversary of Gordie Howe’s 1,000th point. If we wanted to see that we’d be watching Devils games!
THIRD PERIOD
19:23 The building goes up when Pronger bats an airborne puck over the glass and he gets called for delay of game. Pronger complains that he’s just too tall not to fling the puck over the glass, and it’s not his fault the glass is so short compared to him. Oh, no, wait. That’s his elbowing excuse. In this case he whines that the puck hit the glass going up.
17:47 The Canucks are mustering very little on this man advantage, but just as the announcers bitch that this is their sixth power play to the Ducks’ one, Getzi gets called for boarding. Once in the box, Getzi slams his stick against the glass and shouts some expletives, earning himself another minor for unsportsmanlike. Hayward’s head explodes with comical peevishness.
17:16 Giggy makes a great side-to-side stop on a Sedin-Kesler combination. Ahlers wonders aloud how long the Ducks have been on the PK now, and Pookie obviouses, “Then stop taking penalties.”
16:40 The Ducks get a two-on-one that ends in a bad pass from Marchant to Moen, while Ahlers grumbles that Pronger flipped the puck on his delay of game penalty, and that often doesn’t get called. Right. The method used when clearing the puck clean over the glass is really the deciding factor on those calls.
15:22 Giggy catches a point shot and one of the Sedins jostles him, causing Giggy to come up swinging with his glove at Sedin’s face. Sedin gets a minor for goalie interference, and O’Donnell is tagged for cross-checking, just for good measure.
14:55 Cooke laces a great pass to unleash Kesler slicing in between the Ducks D, and Kesler beats Giggy with a lovely, leaning, one-footed shot. 4-0 Canucks. We enjoy our director’s choice to give us a glimpse of a glowering Getzi in the penalty box.
12:59 The Ducks fail to gain the Canucks’ blue line and our announcers try to keep our interest by promising that the Anaheim players are trying to demonstrate “energy” to impress Carlyle, and that they aren’t just going to “play out the string” here tonight. Guys, it’s garbage time. We all know it.
12:08 We come back from commercial to see Giggy sipping sweatily from his juice box on the bench, having been replaced by Hiller.
11:46 Sutherby brings his mad Capitals scoring touch to the game, jumping on a rebound and skittering a bad-angle shot through Luongo’s crease. Hayward tries to tell us it was an incredible save by Luongo, but replay shows he just got a bit of stick on the puck to slow it down on its trajectory away from the net.
10:20 Ahlers pointedly says, “You find it interesting when only one penalty is called in the first period on both teams, and then things change a little.” Dude, if your team stopped committing so many penalties, the Canucks wouldn’t have had so many power plays. It’s not rocket surgery.
8:35 Kesler is too fancy for his own fancy-pants, swaggering around one Ducks defender, then trying to toe drag around another before running himself out of real estate and blindly throwing a cross-crease pass to no one. Well, the whole sequence started out with a bang, if nothing else.
5:42 Kunitz shows up for a little rush (too little, too late, Ducks!) and Luongo easily blockers his shot aside. Hayward tells us that it’s looked “effortless” for Luongo tonight. No kidding. It’s because he didn’t have to do any work for this shutout. This has hardly been an offensive juggernaut launching itself at him.
4:34 Wait, the Sedins are brothers???
3:44 Oh, why the hell not? Schneider interferes with Cooke as they jostle toward a puck in the corner. It is darkly mentioned to us that this is the ninth straight penalty against the Ducks. Since the parade of penalties started (on a play that deserved an even-up to Kesler, admittedly), the Ducks have not once done anything that warranted drawing a penalty. What are these guys complaining about?
2:44 All kinds of scrumtitude breaks out in front when the Ducks pile onto Cooke after he taps at Hiller in pursuit of a covered puck. While the penalties are being sorted out, Ahlers floats the radical notion that the Ducks’ reputation might be preceding them. Pronger ends up getting the extra minor here, putting the Canucks up two men again. (Our director gets in some hilarious editorializing while the announcers talk at length about how “the extra penalty, the one that puts you down two men” has been killer for the Ducks tonight – we are given a long, unwavering look at O’Donnell standing around and wondering when he can next be a huge detriment to his own team.)
1:42 Burrows gets called for holding. So quit your bellyaching, Ducks announcers!
0:50 Sedin gets hooked by Hnidy on a breakaway, and, well, why wouldn’t this happen? We get a penalty shot. The most exciting play yields a billion dekey moves by Sedin, a stationary Hiller, and no real shot as the puck rolls off Sedin’s stick. Pookie: “I can’t decide if that was great sportsmanship or really poor sportsmanship.”
0:00 Huh. That’ll learn us to eagerly anticipate Ducks-Canucks games.
I don’t know if it’s my radio feed, but it totally sounded like the anthem singer kept chewing the words.
Yeah, the anthems were… not stirring.
Go DUcks!
(I assume the extra capitalized “U” stands for Upset!)
Also, I’m intrigued; this game happened 3 weeks ago? :)
I kid because I care.
Rats, I’d hoped I’d changed that before anyone noticed!
Go ‘Nucks!
No Pacific division foe wins, please.
I kid because I care.
Thanks; I appreciate the editing. This is a deadly combo of four things:
1. A new, sticky keyboard
2. Not being able to have the computer in my lap so I’m typing sideways
3. It’s past my bedtime
4. I’m a very, very, very, very poor proof-reader.
OK, so it’s really just #4.
I haven’t started watching, by the way. I think the Maple Leafs and the Canadiens have opted for a zamboni-off rather than the traditional shootout.
Oh shit, did I just say “traditional shootout”? What’s the world coming to?
So this is probably going to jinx them, but what are your thoughts on the GPS line for Getzlaf-Perry-Sutherby because they can find the net? :P
This zamboni bullshit is annoying! Pull it together Leafs and Canadiens! Have your damn shootout!
I think Kovalev is pretty hot. Is that wrong?
GPS: Love it.
I’m more of an individual nicknamer, though. I’m stumbling a bit on Sutherby — Bumblebee?
Oh shit, did I just say “traditional shootout”? What’s the world coming to?
This is so terrible!
Zot, GPS is… well, since I’m used to Stan Fischler’s line suggestions, actually quite funny! Good job!
Kovalev is hot, but I understand that he’s frustrating to root for and to root against–quite a combo.
Uh-oh. Three shooters have shot on each side; time to re-zamboni?
I’m stumbling a bit on Sutherby — Bumblebee?
I’m going to have to think about this one a bit.
Hey, Ducks fans — or as I just typed it again DUcks — can you settle a debate going on here? Did the Ducks have a video tribute to Bryz when the Coyotes played Anaheim?
Yes they did Pookie. We gave him a bit of a standing ovation, too.
Did the Ducks have a video tribute to Bryz when the Coyotes played Anaheim?
I wasn’t there, but I read that they did. During a commercial intermission or something. Crowd loved it, and so did Breezy.
I understand that he’s frustrating to root for and to root against–quite a combo.
For the most part he was easy to root for in Pittsburgh. But then again, he blossomed on a line with Marty Straka (my then-favorite Pen) and Robert Lang and had his best years with us.
His dry spells are Saharan, though.
Kovalev is hot,
Earl, I love that you just fielded my absurd “Is it wrong to be hot for Kovalev?” question without batting an eyelash!
I think Kovalev is pretty hot. Is that wrong?
Kovalev’s Russian. There’s no wrong in that!
Katebits, it is wrong, wrong, wrong to think Kovalev is hot. Although I fully put forth that everyone has their own personal tastes and whatnot. But it’s still wrong. Wrong. And wrong.
Katebits, it is wrong, wrong, wrong to think Kovalev is hot.
I do not know one single thing about him as a person. We’ve just been playing the Canadiens a lot lately and he keeps catching my eye. I like his big crooked nose, I think.
Kovalev’s Russian. There’s no wrong in that!
Russian ice cream is Russian and there’s everything wrong in that.
Kovalev’s Russian.
Yeah, but he’s enigmatic-Russian. That’s a key distinction.
I do not know one single thing about him as a person. We’ve just been playing the Canadiens a lot lately and he keeps catching my eye. I like his big crooked nose, I think.
He’s a pilot. There, now you know something!
Really, I think he’s a pretty decent guy. I never heard anything bad about him off the ice, and in interviews locally he always seemed pretty relaxed.
I could be completely wrong – I didn’t really paid that much attention – but nobody in Pittsburgh seemed to be down on him.
Russian ice cream is Russian and there’s everything wrong in that.
I think I need some elaboration here!
Yeah, but he’s enigmatic-Russian. That’s a key distinction.
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I feel like there should be a pie chart or something to go with that description.
Yeah, but he’s enigmatic-Russian. That’s a key distinction.
I always thought Kovy kinda looked like he might be KGB. He’s just got a look like he knows something you don’t. :P
But considering whenever I saw that look, he usually had a twinkle in his eye, I seriously doubt he’s a big ol’ nasty spy. Something tells me KGB guys don’t make with the jolly too much.
Of course, there were always the (totally believable) Bure Russian mafia rumors so anything’s possible.
There are few ice creams I’ve not at the very least been willing to finish my serving. Then I went to Russia. *shudder* I was given an ice cream bar at the beginning of a several hour-long car ride. It was the 3rd most disgusting thing I’ve eaten in my 29 years on this fine planet. But because I was stuck in the car and didn’t want to insult my hosts, I had no choice but to choke it down. *shudders again* It was the stuff of nightmares.
Teehee, our radio guys are saying that Pierre McGuire should move if he doesn’t want his face bashed in.
Well then, obviously Pierre should stay right where he is!
Pookie, I think I might have found the source of your Russian ice cream problem . Unilever? Her?
I was given an ice cream bar at the beginning of a several hour-long car ride.
Oh, God! You had to eat something disgusting at the beginning of a long car ride?! I feel like puking just thinking about that.
But because I was stuck in the car and didn’t want to insult my hosts, I had no choice but to choke it down. *shudders again* It was the stuff of nightmares.
Good Lord, I am so sorry! That’s the worst, when you have to choke down the most disgusting food.
For future reference, when I say “Russian”, I refer to people and vodka only – I have no experience with any other further things Russian, including but not limited to ice cream.
It was the 3rd most disgusting thing I’ve eaten in my 29 years on this fine planet.
So what were the top two disgusting things?
Wow. I am so over Parros.
For future reference, when I say “Goddamn Luongo”, I refer to Roberto only – I have no experience with other Luongos (well except that guy at Fanhouse).
This game is dead to us: BabyCrunchy has been scratched in favor of Parros.
BabyCrunchy has a strained knee. :(
For future reference, when I say “Goddamn Luongo”, I refer to Roberto only – I have no experience with other Luongos (well except that guy at Fanhouse).
…Zing.
Pookie, I think I might have found the source of your Russian ice cream problem .
Dude, vegetable fat?!?!? WTF? Well, that would explain it. For the record, Russian chocolate, also disgusting. Russian black bread, homemade Russian grape juice, and especially homemade Russian potato perogies? Awesome! (Just do you don’t think I’m down on all things Russian. It’s a beautiful country filled with wonderful people.)
So what were the top two disgusting things?
#1 Most Disgusting was this strange onion-paste soup that I got at a truck stop in the French Alps.
#2 Most Disgusting was the turkey burger with cheddar cheese that I had at the Regent Diner outside Howell, New Jersey. I got dragged out to lunch by a coworker who refused to go to a restaurant alone becuase that would “look weird”. That facts that I didn’t want to go, that I had already brought my lunch, that I didn’t want to spend a dime on food when I already had a free lunch, and that I hated this diner with the passion of all the suns Katebits mentioned earlier made no impact on this person. The honor of eating the second worst meal of my life in the company of a loser coworker who was too self-centered to go to a local diner on her own cost me $12. I’m still bitter 2 years later. I would rather have eaten “ice cream” made of vegetable fats that have eaten that meal and then paid for it.
BabyCrunchy has been scratched in favor of Parros.
Miller got hurt a couple of games ago. I’m not sure it was favoritism so much as recovery. The kid’s been very good, I think not on the ice for a goal-against in his last 8 games or so.
Why can’t more teams do stuff like this? We get a short little feature which “Prime Ticket” tries to tell us is called “How Well Do You Know Your Teammates?” but which the graphic screen says is “Do U Know?” It is little locker-room interviewy snippets of various Ducks picking their moodiest teammate, letting us know who’s the first guy to fall asleep on the plane, and so on.
They’ve done “Who’s the worst roommate” as well as “Who needs a new car” and “Who needs a new haircut”. Btw, what were the answers to the questions today? Inquiring ducks fans with no cable want to know!
Oh and that would probably be Orange County High School for the Arts. I have a friend who teaches there. :)
Btw, what were the answers to the questions today?
The moodiest player was unanimously Marchant. The consensus on sleepiest was Robbie Neidermayer. The American that tripped everyone up was Mowers.
So who’s the worst roommate, who needs the new car (other than Getzi) and who needs a haircut?
Oh yeah! Nazzy!
“How stupid are Canucks fans that they’re cheering him?”
“The crowd is not as quiet as we’d originally thought. Sorry, Vancouver fans, for maligning you unjustly.”
I see I’m loved here :p Harumph!
So who’s the worst roommate, who needs the new car (other than Getzi) and who needs a haircut?
There wasn’t really a consensus on worst roomie (someone snored, Penner stayed up too late eating chips and watching tv, Getzlaf took naps all the time), both Perry and Moen needed new cars since the former was driving a Cadillac and the latter was driving an old truck, and Perry was the one who needed a haircut (there were jokes about his blond curls). Oh, and Rob Niedermayer was voted the one to need a new wardrobe.
Perry needed a haircut, and I think Moen needed a new car? I saw it, but I’m stumped. It was a while ago.
The Ocean County High School of the Arts (or something like that) advertises during hockey games.
I’ve been giggling at these ads all season! An arts high school with television ads?…that run during hockey games? I
Miller got hurt a couple of games ago. I’m not sure it was favoritism so much as recovery.
Hey, they told us here that he skated in the pre-game skate and is listed as a healthy scratch tonight. I’m just working with what they’re giving me!
Getzlaf took naps all the time
A man after my own heart!
I actually have very little idea what gets shown for Duck commercials. I so very rarely watch them live.
I’m a terrible citizen of television.
The Buffalo News had a little blurb today about how the Sabres still don’t know if Staffy will play tomorrow, and Lindy said something along the lines of, “We don’t know if he’s ready to return, but he’s chomping at the bit.” You have so infiltrated my consciousness that I had to do a double take. On first glance I read “He’s stomping at the bit.”
Ooooooh Pronger you bitch!
Seriously, Pronger. You’re a bitch.
Seriously, Pronger, you make me ashamed to be watching hockey.
On first glance I read “He’s stomping at the bit.”
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Staffy probably corrected Lindy later.
Bah, if it’s anybody’s ribs, it should have been Kesler’s. Selling that Getzlaf call was a bit shameful.
Seriously, Pronger, you make me ashamed to be watching hockey.
I don’t know if this makes me regret not buying Center Ice or not.
Kes did sell it a bit. But the refs also missed a slash on Pinky, so meh.
Staffy probably corrected Lindy later.
And when he did, Lindy got scared (he thinks that Staffy is eying his brains), and tried to tell him he was misquoted. Staffy bought it because the Buffalo News is so shoddy.
I don’t know if this makes me regret not buying Center Ice or not.
Oh, if the Steve Moore/Bertuzzi thing couldn’t make me regret buying Center Ice, I’m not sure anything will! Center Ice is just that powerful. :)
Argh, 2nd period brainfart. :(
he thinks that Staffy is eying his brains
Thinks? Nay, knows! Staffy has to keep stopping himself. He’s like, “Wait, Staffy, don’t eat coach’s brain. Or else, who will coach team? Stomp stomp stomp!”
Awwww, good little baby Nuckie.
Oh Burr, are you crazy trying to take on Parros?
Stay classy, Pronger!
Second 5 on 3… yeah, it’s the refs’ fault.
I’m not paying very much attnetion to this game, but boy are these announcers comically peeved!
Dangit, I think I did jinx them. :(
Nah, zot. It’s Pronger’s fault!
They have a penalty for removing the sweater??
Comically peeved is so the right phrase!
Well, this game’s over. That sucked.
Enjoy your regular season wins, Nuckies. I’ll see you guys later.
See ya, Earl. Don’t be a stranger.
Well, this game’s over. That sucked.
Speaking of comically peeved…
I keed!
Bye, Earl!
You never know about third periods, Earl! The Stars coughed one up, maybe the Canucks will!
(Not really, alix. Just tryna make Earl feel better.)
Wait, am I the only one rooting for the Ducks, now?
See? zot knows it’s not over!
Zot, IPB Manor’s still pulling for Getzi, does that count?
Earl, see ya! Sorry your team’s kinda sucked tonight. This always happens when one player is the big story, you know? Since there won’t be a big Bertuzzi build-up in Edmonton and Calgary, they’ll player better there. Mark my words.
Well it is the Canucks favorite thing to give up leads…but we’ll see. Well I think the Ookies like more people on the Ducks than the Canucks, Zot.
zot, I’d be rooting for the Ducks if it weren’t for Pronger. And May. And the fact that they’re in my division. And the broadcast team. But, other than that, I kinda like ‘em.
I’d be rooting for the Ducks if it weren’t for Pronger. And May. And the fact that they’re in my division. And the broadcast team.
And this paddleball game.
Thanks, guys. :) Pulling for Getzlaf does indeed count, IPB Manor.
I’d be rooting for the Ducks if it weren’t for Pronger. And May. And the fact that they’re in my division. And the broadcast team.
And this paddleball game.
:D
Pronger shoots the puck over the glass… explains that it’s just because he’s tall, so he shouldn’t be penalized.
And this paddleball game.
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Hah, they changed that pulling off the sweater penalty to a roughing penalty. (I was looking at the nhl game summary.)
Hee!
Way to handle your frustration with the refs!
Ok, this is getting ridiculous. (Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts.)
I was thinking about the shootout today. What if instead of just one shooter, there was two shooters, and a defenseman? So it would be just like a “traditional shootout” except it would really be more of a two-on-one. Would that work?
Kesler is SO hot right now! Sorry Zot…
It’s okay, alix. This game remind of the third game of the WCF last year where they completely lost it against Detroit. Come on guys! You have more than half a period!
I’m not sure it would be a huge improvement. The way I see it is there are two possible ways to make it work:
#1 Follow Greg Wyshynski’s suggestions from this article:
LINK
#2 Go more than 3 shooters deep all the time. Make it like 9 shooters deep. It’s only remotely interesting when the team is forced to put unexpected players out there. This won’t keep things interesting for long. When it ceases to be interesting, they can take the shoot-out out altogether.
Oh Patty, apparantly our teams are tied for best November records in the NHL. Pretty cook.
*reminds me
We’re like twinkies, alix!
Hee! We are. That’s adorable!
Haha. Cooke got cross checked and slashed and he was told to go to the box. Shows what a little bastard he is :p
Wow, this is the third game in a row that Pronger gets a penalty in the last three minutes. And five 5-on-3s in one game?! And now a penalty shot?! I think this game is officially dead to me.
We’re like twinkies
I’m kinda slow right now…how are you twinkies?
Wow. New heights. I love how appalled they are that the number is so lopsided. Like refs OWE them power plays since Vancouver has had so many. Maybe you should stop breaking the rules. Ever think of that?
Awww, that would have been awesome if Brain had scored.
Well, I take some of that back. He backed up a little and pointed out the last few were the Ducks’ own fault.
Maybe you should stop breaking the rules. Ever think of that?
I know! I mean, the refereeing was definitely weird, but… For a while there the Devils were by far the least penalized team overall and game after game after game we’d have to deal with the other team complaining that they never got calls even though the Devils were getting zillions of PPs. It’s like, “If the Devils aren’t doing anything that deserved a penalty, you’re not going to get even-ups. It’s pretty easy to figure out.”
Maybe you should stop breaking the rules. Ever think of that?
Seriously. Sometimes, they say that they start a fight or whatever to energize the others. How about trying to score a goal? That might be energizing. Geez.
Haha. I know. And there were a ton called, but there were also ones that went uncalled. So whatever.
Ahhh! What a relief. We can beat the Ducks. (Sorry Zot)
Congrats for your team, alix. :)
I’m kinda slow right now…how are you twinkies?
Just about everything the Canucks do, the Stars do.
Lack scoring, have goaltending, suck early, rock lately, stuff like that.
So we’re twin(kie)s. :D
How about trying to score a goal? That might be energizing. Geez.
That’s just crazy talk!
I think Kovalev is pretty hot. Is that wrong?
Kate, let me break this down for you.
Kovalev hurts Hank = the least hot person on the face of the earth
Thanks, Zot! And your guys won for you when it really counted(playoffs) so that’s cook :D They owned us in the first period anyways.
Just about everything the Canucks do, the Stars do.
Lack scoring, have goaltending, suck early, rock lately, stuff like that.
So we’re twin(kie)s. :D
Ahhh. That’s cute. :) The only thing I heard about people being Twinkies are people who are really Americanized Asians (white on the inside and yellow on the outside).
Wow, well that was… fun! But I can’t keep my eyes open anymore so I’m off. Congrats alix, sorry Zot and Earl (and Grace if you’re reading this)! I have to get rest up for the big Ookies-Patty/Caitlin/Cat Showdown tomorrow!
How about trying to score a goal? That might be energizing. Geez.
That’s just crazy talk!
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Um. That sounded kind of racist. I didn’t mean it like that, but that’s how I’ve heard it. Works with bananas and eggs in reverse, too.
It’s not rocket surgery.
This line never fails to crack me up.
Kate, let me break this down for you.
Kovalev hurts Hank = the least hot person on the face of the earth
It should also be pointed out that they had to invent new diving rules because of Kovalev after the ’95 playoffs. Not that it particularly bothers me (although, come to think of it, if that rule change hadn’t been made, the Ftorek bench-throwing incident never would have happened…), but it’s the first thing I think of when I think of Kovalev. The second thing is “Marty killer”. The third thing I think of is “Meh”.
twinkies=(really cute) twins
It’s not rocket surgery.
This line never fails to crack me up.
Me too! I noticed someone else used it here the other day and was delighted. (Patty, you and I were on the same wavelength tonight — you were saying the same things about Pronger’s “I’m too tall” excuses and about how the Ducks should try not breaking the rules if they don’t want to be penalized at the same time I was!)
Thanks and good night, Pookie! I know you didn’t really enjoy the game, but I did :p
Night, Pookie!
Huh. That’ll learn us to eagerly anticipate Ducks-Canucks games.
There have been good ones, before, I swear. I remember last year there was a real nail-biter. I don’t remember which game, but we won by one goal (which was scored in the last minute or so). It was the most surreal game ever, because I was sick and conked out for most of the game and I wake up five minutes before it ends, thinking, “They could still win,” and they did. :)
I missed the game. What did Pronger do? Same ol’ crap?
I think we’re twinkies, Schnookie.
(Should I stop using that? I had never heard it used the other way before.)
What I’m really thrilled about it is how the Nuckies played so well after the first period. Usually when they come out sucking, they suck the whole game. Hurrah! Anyways, I should go. I should be writing an essay right now.
So basically, Schnookie and Patty are thought twinkies? :P
(Should I stop using that? I had never heard it used the other way before.)
Don’t stop, Patty. I like your way better. :)
What I’m really thrilled about it is how the Nuckies played so well after the first period. Usually when they come out sucking, they suck the whole game.
There’s another Stars similarity. They are doing much better lately at picking up the game, even if they start badly.
Sorry about your game, zot, but also kind of glad they didn’t win. (Division foes, you understand.)
It was the most surreal game ever, because I was sick and conked out for most of the game and I wake up five minutes before it ends, thinking, “They could still win,” and they did. :)
You know, there’s something about the Ducks that brings that out in me, too. The most surreal playoff game I ever watched was the Ducks-Wings one in 2003 with the OT non-goal. We were driving cross-country at the time, and were crashing at our aunt and uncle’s house in New Orleans while they were out of town. I remember being exhausted from a day in the car and a dinner with our grandmother, and I was stretched out on the couch and kept falling asleep thinking the Wings had it locked up and when I’d wake up the Ducks would be back in it. It was like the whole thing was in a kooky David Lynch dream state.
Patty, we ARE twinkies! (Not the racist kind. The cute kind.) (Pookie’s car is called the Eco-Twinkies after the Sedins, actually.) (I’ve also never used it in the zot way before. zot’s lashing out after this bad game by trying to trick us into thinking we’re using racial slurs!) (Actually, I can totally see how it would be used the bad way.) (Enough parentheticals, Schnookie?)
Oh, and alix, congrats on the fun (for you) win! Games like that are so awesome to be on the winning side for — the kind where you just step back and let the other team self-destruct.
Oh yeah, don’t stop using twinkie Patty. It’s so cute.
Sorry about your game, zot, but also kind of glad they didn’t win. (Division foes, you understand.)
Of course, Patty. I’m usually not rooting for the Stars for the same reason. :)
Thanks, Schnookie. The Ducks actually terrify me, so I’m pretty happy they can actually be beaten.(Sorry Zot)
(Enough parentheticals, Schnookie?)
Heeee. You know what, I’m actually not in that bad a mood. I guess I’m used to my own street hockey team losing all the time that it’s just like water off my back. :)
Ahahaha, I don’t know if anyone’s still up, but this made the news in Pittsburgh today and the first thing I thought of was IPB!
The Ducks actually terrify me, so I’m pretty happy they can actually be beaten.(Sorry Zot)
No worries, alix! Don’t you remember the Ducks of Yore? Except for the last couple of years, we were pretty sucky.
Buy sod!
Nice, DS! Just yesterday, I was explaining the sod thing to my sister.
I have to get rest up for the big Ookies-Patty/Caitlin/Cat Showdown tomorrow!
Ohhhh, it’s not a showdown, it’s a whole mess of fun! I’ll just be eyeballing Parise the whole time, looking for hidden monocles and spats, I tell you. I’m actually excited to see what you guys have to say about the Stars, especially after you watched the slow-moving Stars games.
Hee hee! Sod.
I have to get rest up for the big Ookies-Patty/Caitlin/Cat Showdown tomorrow!
Ohhhh, it’s not a showdown, it’s a whole mess of fun! I’ll just be eyeballing Parise the whole time, looking for hidden monocles and spats, I tell you. I’m actually excited to see what you guys have to say about the Stars, especially after you watched the slow-moving Stars games.
I’m actually excited to see what you guys have to say about the Stars, especially after you watched the slow-moving Stars games.
I hate to have to say this, but I am blind to the opponents when diarizing Devils games. I probably see more when I’m not diarizing, but not much more. I see the Devils, and the Devils only — that’s why I’m so good at game analysis. “Wait, there was another team? Where?” :P
I dunno, in this case they might have been better off not buying the sod, but I think they were kinda screwed either way! I love how they solicited Jordan’s expert opinion. There is just something inherently humorous about the stuff, isn’t there?
Now why do you suppose they didn’t title it “Staal sods off”? ;P
I see the Devils, and the Devils only — that’s why I’m so good at game analysis.
Me too. Only Stars, of course. I never credit the other team for making us suck, or for helping us win.
I probably see more when I’m not diarizing, but not much more. I see the Devils, and the Devils only — that’s why I’m so good at game analysis. “Wait, there was another team? Where?” :P
Well, we do that with the Stars, too. But it’s nice to see it from the opposing side!
It’s gotten to the point where during the Leafs/Stars game, I took a page out of IPB’s book and gave up on identifying Toronto players and just started calling them all Leafy McLeaferson instead. It made it much easier.
I haven’t been able to watch a Devils game this season, either, so two birds with one stone, I suppose!
And it really doesn’t help when the picture is as bad as tonight’s game. Where you can’t even read the numbers.
I never credit the other team for making us suck, or for helping us win.
Same here. It seems like it would be making excuses otherwise.
This is totally off-topic, but I’m listening to Josh Groban’s Christmas cd and I am more than pleasantly surprised by his voice. He looks like such a dork on the cover. :P
And it really doesn’t help when the picture is as bad as tonight’s game. Where you can’t even read the numbers.
Seriously, I almost threw up my hands and quit on this one in the first period, not knowing who any of the participants were anyway. That was rough. (Is it just me, or do none of the Canadian buildings look good on TV?)
I always end up calling the opponents just “a [team name]“, which delights me when we’re playing Tampa and I get to call guys “a Lightning”.
I always end up calling the opponents just “a [team name]”, which delights me when we’re playing Tampa and I get to call guys “a Lightning”.
There are professionals that do less (I’m talking to you, Hayward!).
I find that the Canadian feeds (especially Edmonton games) are the worst. I theorize that they pass through too many relays or something. The Oilers are usually just navy-blue blobs.
Ha! Pronger was just such a snotty little bastard when our radio guys interviewed him. What a douche. Alrighty. Good night!
As long as you don’t call Pinky and the Brain the Sundin twins, I’ll forgive you, Schnookie.
I find that the Canadian feeds (especially Edmonton games) are the worst. I theorize that they pass through too many relays or something. The Oilers are usually just navy-blue blobs.
Katebits was complaining the other day, either here (and if it was here, I apologize for repeating what she said) or in email, that the Oilers building looks like a high school gym on TV. I think it’s the lighting. We went to the A-S game in Vancouver in ’97 and their building was really dark, and I think that makes it seem all murky and dank on TV, too, so I’ll posit Rexall is underlit, too. Like the Caps’ red sweaters, I think this is one more instance of the people in charge not thinking about how these things are going to be seen on television. Lighting, people! More lighting!
‘Night, alix!
Night, alix!
There are professionals that do less (I’m talking to you, Hayward!).
This is why I love our radio guys (and not because I don’t have cable). I forgot to mention this, but they were saying good things about Kesler, and they totally have all these crazy stats on hand and are fairly hilarious to boot.
I’m off to watch tape-delayed House. Night, all!
There are professionals that do less (I’m talking to you, Hayward!).
Someone needs to sit Harry Neale down and explain the differences between Vanek, Pominville, and Gaustad. Their numbers are all together on the roster (26, 29, and 28 respectively) and he’s always getting them mixed up. (The guy voluntarily running Chara? Probably not little Pommerdoodle. The guy making a beautiful move through three defenders? Probably not Goose.)
I think it’s the lighting.
Rexall is definitely poorly lit. Very old-school. Each player has four shadows. And MSG is lit pretty old-school, too. Those are the only ones I notice that are badly lit.
Yikes! When did it get to be 10 to 2? Holy schneikie, do I have to go to bed.
zot, enjoy House! (It’s been a particularly good season, hasn’t it? I’ve very much enjoyed the construct of the hiring competition. Well played, House writers!)
‘Night all! I’m off to bed, too.
Morning everyone!
I find that the Canadian feeds (especially Edmonton games) are the worst.
I agree. CBC’s picture quality is atrocious. Since I have CBC on my cable, there’s sometimes a really jarring disconnect between regular CBC programming and hockey. I can’t understand how that happens.
The guy making a beautiful move through three defenders? Probably not Goose.
Sometimes during a rush, Goose skating up the ice reminds me of a pesky kid brother chasing after his older siblings. Its a “hey, wait for me, I’m coming, wait!” kind of thing, just because Goose isn’t the fleetest of foot on the team (and he knows it too!). Its especially noticeable when he’s on a line with Afinogenov, since there’s a drastic speed difference between the two of them.
Now why do you suppose they didn’t title it “Staal sods off”? ;P
Hee!
You would really think that the people who have run a football team for a bajillionty years would have heard before that you can’t resod the field so close to actually playing a game. I know TRS was turf and not grass, but still.
Sometimes during a rush, Goose skating up the ice reminds me of a pesky kid brother chasing after his older siblings. Its a “hey, wait for me, I’m coming, wait!”
Me too, Amy! His skating style is pretty choppy, and I guess because he’s so tall and leggy he ends up looking like a baby horse or something. Siiigh. I love Goose. (By the way, I’ve watched that video where he says he’s “not the fleetest of foot”, oh, several million times. :D)
Okay, I thought the Staal sod farm was A JOKE! I never know what to believe around here!
Okay, I thought the Staal sod farm was A JOKE! I never know what to believe around here!
Well, you should always believe us when we say “Buy sod”.
Dude, I’ve got a whole closet full of sod! I’ve been buying up sod like you wouldn’t believe! I just didn’t realize I was actually supporting the Staal family in doing so. This is like when I foud out Sid actually lives in Mario’s basement.
This is like when I foud out Sid actually lives in Mario’s basement.
Oh, he actually lives in Mario’s turret, but the concept is the same.
I’m so glad to hear your closet is now bursting with sod! I don’t have room to hide Christmas presents from Pookie and Boomer this year, for all the sod I’ve acquired over the last few seasons.
Pookie: “If we had a player whose name sounded like ‘oooooooo’, I’d totally chant ‘Fonduuuuuuuue with cheddar.’”
Oh man, I might have to start using that! Fongoooooooooose with cheddar! (Sounds yummy!)
I agree. CBC’s picture quality is atrocious. Since I have CBC on my cable, there’s sometimes a really jarring disconnect between regular CBC programming and hockey. I can’t understand how that happens.
Are you telling me that it’s that bad in Canada, too? Like, all the time? Wow.
I think Canadian hockey fans need to be a little more discretionary. If you’re going to watch it no matter what, what’s their incentive to improve? :D
You would really think that the people who have run a football team for a bajillionty years would have heard before that you can’t resod the field so close to actually playing a game.
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Oh, he actually lives in Mario’s turret, but the concept is the same.
The concept that he can never leave the house, let alone Pittsburgh?
Are you telling me that it’s that bad in Canada, too? Like, all the time? Wow.
I don’t know if it’s bad in Canada, but just across the bridge here in Buffalo, its horrible.
I don’t have room to hide Christmas presents from Pookie and Boomer this year, for all the sod I’ve acquired over the last few seasons.
It sounds like you could wall-to-wall sod your entire house.
Oh man, I might have to start using that! Fongoooooooooose with cheddar!
*swoon*
It sounds like you could wall-to-wall sod your entire house.
That’s the goal. I’m very dedicated to the Staals. :P
Oh man, I might have to start using that! Fongoooooooooose with cheddar! (Sounds yummy!)
Or for Staffy, it could be Fondruuuuuuu with cheddar.
Its not as yummy sounding, however.
Or for Staffy, it could be Fondruuuuuuu with cheddar.
Its not as yummy sounding, however.
Yummy is in the eye of the beholder!
Okay, I thought the Staal sod farm was A JOKE! I never know what to believe around here!
Sod farm = too funny for us to come up with. If we’d been making it up they’d live on the only shrimp farm in Ontario. Buy shrimp!
If we’d been making it up they’d live on the only shrimp farm in Ontario. Buy shrimp!
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I don’t know, though, Pookie — it doesn’t sound quite so dopey when you moan, “My shrimp!”
Oh, he actually lives in Mario’s turret, but the concept is the same.
Actually (really), he lives in a wing on the second floor. How sad is it that I know that?
The concept that he can never leave the house, let alone Pittsburgh?
If Mario can’t do it (HAHAHAHA! I slay me.), I will personally prevent him from ever leaving Pittsburgh. He can travel with the team and go back to Nova Scotia (honestly, if I were him I would have lobbied to get a team in Halifax because when I was there I never wanted to leave!), but that’s it. :P
Actually (really), he lives in a wing on the second floor. How sad is it that I know that?
Don’t worry that this is an indicator of any kind of patheticness or anything — I knew it, too, so it can’t be too obscure, right? Right? … Please tell me I’m right. :P
Don’t worry that this is an indicator of any kind of patheticness or anything — I knew it, too, so it can’t be too obscure, right? Right? … Please tell me I’m right. :P
Honestly, it really can’t be. I do read everything I run across about Sid, but I don’t go searching for stuff on him.
I mean, I never saw that horrid Michelle Wright (Jerri) interview until I came here, and I’m an actual Pittsburgher who defaults to that channel’s newscast when I’m home.
But I do have to wonder why my brain will retain that information and not, say, that I need to pay rent this week (I will forget every day until my roomie’s asleep. I know it).
Actually (really), he lives in a wing on the second floor. How sad is it that I know that?
Not sad at all! You just have excellent retention from what you read/see!
Also, I hope Mario Lemieux has an excellent security system in place. If that information has been published, I can just imagine the girls scaling the walls of Chez Lemieux to get at Sidney.
Also, I hope Mario Lemieux has an excellent security system in place. If that information has been published, I can just imagine the girls scaling the walls of Chez Lemieux to get at Sidney.
I think Jay Caulfield is in charge of his security. :P
I mean, I never saw that horrid Michelle Wright (Jerri) interview until I came here
In that case, I’ve never been prouder to be able to present IPB to the world. I mean, a Sid fan can’t go through life without seeing that, can she? And surely a Sid fan shouldn’t see without with knowing that somewhere out there Boomer is trying to come up with stripper names but can only think of Fluffy and Blaze.
I can just imagine the girls scaling the walls of Chez Lemieux to get at Sidney.
I think if Sid can’t get out, girls most definitely can’t get in.
I think if Sid can’t get out, girls most definitely can’t get in.
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Both parties stand on their own sides of the razor wire-topped walls, hiding from the searchlights and the dogs, dreaming of each other. (And by “dreaming of each other” I mean the girls are dreaming of Sid putting it in their five holes, and Sid is dreaming of refrigerators.)
I think if Sid can’t get out, girls most definitely can’t get in.
Sid just hasn’t gotten creative enough! He’s too busy obsessing over hockey to figure out how to pry the bars off his window.
Let’s face it: There’s some creative sixteen year olds out there. And by creative, I mean obsessed and determined, who have access to blowtorches and files.
RE: Canadian hockey broadcasts. I believe I mentioned during our “private discussion” the other day that when Pensfamily was in Toronto for a youth hockey tournament DOPG and I witnessed a truly remarkable event on Canadian TV. It was the Canadian national curling tournament finals and one of the team of announcers ( I think they were the same ones who did curling in the last Olympics too) burped loud and long and continued what he was saying with nary a snicker or gufaw from anyone else in the booth unless they had a major cough button going on. We gasped and began to laugh out loud, whooping and hollering with tears and everything and I fell off the couch. Can you imagine Emerick, Clement or Mike Lange or name somebody …???
In that case, I’ve never been prouder to be able to present IPB to the world. I mean, a Sid fan can’t go through life without seeing that, can she? And surely a Sid fan shouldn’t see without with knowing that somewhere out there Boomer is trying to come up with stripper names but can only think of Fluffy and Blaze.
I don’t know if I’ve said it here yet, but I only recently figured out that Sid’s my favorite Pen. I usually set the superstars aside and pick someone else, so even though I love watching him play I was discounting him as per usual.
One thing that turned it around is that the “someone else” comes along organically, and nobody else has. Max and Eaton were contenders but I just don’t adore them enough.
Short story long, I think seeing that interview made me love Sid even more than I already did, and probably pushed him over the edge for me. So I’m grateful to IPB for yet another thing…how much would it suck to be oblivous to the fact that I did have a favorite?
Sid just hasn’t gotten creative enough! He’s too busy obsessing over hockey to figure out how to pry the bars off his window.
Let’s face it: There’s some creative sixteen year olds out there. And by creative, I mean obsessed and determined, who have access to blowtorches and files.
I wish he really couldn’t get out, for his own sake. On Monday I comment-lectured a blogger – one I normally like – who posted not only that she saw Sid out at a club on Saturday after the game, but the name of the club and the fact that a friend of hers tried (unsuccessfully thanks to a bouncer) to take a cell phone picture of him.
Rant Coming.
1. If he wasn’t doing anything insane that just MUST be shared (see Reed, Jeff), there’s no reason to talk about him being out. Don’t say where he was and then encourage people to go to that place (which she also did). If somebody wants to see Sid that badly, they can go to a public practice or – gasp! – a GAME. If Sid sees you at a club, he is NOT going to go, “Let’s be BFFs!” He already has one.
2. DO NOT TRY TO TAKE CELL PHONE PICTURES TO POST THEM ON YOUR BLOG. Again, he wasn’t doing anything newsworthy that was begging for memorializing, and being posted on blogs is exactly the reason the bouncer got in the way. Just, if you HAPPEN TO catch his eye, wave. And then go back to your business and let him go back to his. Waving shows you’re a fan, and leaving it at that shows you respect his privacy. And, hey, if he waves back, then you can say “Sidney waved at me!” That’s the most you’re gonna get from him at a club. REALLY. Personally, the impression I’d be going for is “loves hockey; not an asshole.”
This blogger fights like the dickens to keep herself anonymous. So we’re real big on our own right to privacy, but not to Sidney’s? And? I’ve never seen a single post from her about HOCKEY. So once again a Steelerfan is breaking the Pensfan Code Of Behavior Towards The Team.
OK. Rant Over.
I wish he really couldn’t get out, for his own sake.
Pensgirl, I want to say I agree with everything you just wrote. I pay to watch the guys play hockey, not to take pictures of them out having fun on their own time! It’s really just a bonus that we get lots of press on Sidney that makes everyone laugh, but the guy should be entitled to have a private personal life, as much as possible.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to have cameras on me all the time.
Pensfan Code Of Behavior Towards The Team
Is this written down somewhere? Because if not, IT SHOULD BE. Hee!
It’s really just a bonus that we get lots of press on Sidney that makes everyone laugh, but the guy should be entitled to have a private personal life, as much as possible.
It’s one thing to talk about the things that he makes public in interviews, or to link to pictures that he posed for. But the way I see it with famous folks is, I draw the line where they do.
I help moderate a major band’s official message board and that’s the line we take there. If a band member mentions his wife in an article, you can link the article, and you can say “aw how cute that he wrote that lyric for his wife,” but that’s it. Sadly, our restrictions stem from a hard lesson learned (before I came aboard) where the lead singer’s then-girlfriend received death threats on the board.
People are so lovely.
Pensfan Code Of Behavior Towards The Team
Is this written down somewhere? Because if not, IT SHOULD BE. Hee!
No, as with The (Players’) Code, it is unwritten and simply permeates the fanbase through osmosis. :D
Lesson to Learn for Stalkers and other celebrity-obsessed types:
When Pensgirl was about 14 we went to the last morning skate before the 1992 players strike. It was a bitter cold Saturday. She and Pensboy waded into the small crowd to get autographs from the Pens. She got Jagr, Kevin Stevens, Larry Murphy and some others. When she was done she went and sat alone on top of a railing along the driveway into the Arena entrance that the hockey players use. I was sitting the car watching all of this. Jagr was trying to pull his black sports car through the crowd and was driving very very slowly and as he drew near to where Pensgirl was sitting by herself he raised his hand off the steering wheel and waved to her- just her and her alone! whoa
Well, some people want a wave from a guy driving by, other people want to get an autograph and talk to the guy. To each his own.
So I’m still working on the bi-decadely cleaning out of my office, and I’m really proud of myself — I just threw out a book called “Medical Terminology for Support Staff – 1997″. It really wasn’t proving to be the world’s most useful resource.
Nice work, Schnookie! Although, I bet there are some starving secretaries in China who could have really use that Medical Terminology for Support Staff, circa 1997. Maybe you should think about them every once in awhile!
Oh my God! I’m so terrible! Those secretaries are stuck not knowing what the word is for [*rifles through book for direct quote*] “digestive system” (answer: “Gastrointestinal”), and I’m just tossing this priceless tome away all willy-nilly. In my selfish quest for more storage space, I neglected to consider the neediest. I’m an awful person.
(This book is the literature from a course my predecessor took, and can I tell you, I am SO glad I wasn’t here when it was required. I have just leaned that “ANXIETY [ang-zi' e-te]” is “A feeling of apprehension, the source of which is unrecognized.” I would have gouged my own eyes out from boredom if I’d had to sit through this. I would have wished I was in a “How the State Budget is Crafted” meeting.)
Oh my God! I just found in my cabinet “A Handbook for the Technical And Scientific Secretary”, published in 1967. Apparently technical and scientific secretaries back when the Leafs were last winning the Cup had to know all the types of electronic transducers. Or something. The best part about this particular book is that it was stolen from the Princeton Public Library. I wonder if they’re still looking for it?
A technical handbook from the 60′s might be a little outdated, even for the starving secretaries of China.
You should just return it to the library!
I’m going to see Jay McKee tonight! (Annnnnd back to work!)
You should just return it to the library!
Well, I know the secrets of the library, thanks to Pookie, which means I know exactly what they’d do to this book. (Not to tear down the fourth wall of the public library system, but I’ll give you a hint: they’ll throw it out.)
(Not to tear down the fourth wall of the public library system, but I’ll give you a hint: they’ll throw it out.)
*covering ears* I’m nooot liiiistening LALALA TRA LAL ALLA
Why must you INSIST on trying to break down the library fourth wall, Schnookie?! THE LIBRARY IS IMAGINARY! Gawd!
Heather, I was hoping you would go to the game tonight! Have fun!
Here’s a quote from Brent Sutter on why Andy Greene and Johnny Oduya are going to be sitting tonight against the Stars (Thanks Fire & Ice Blog!):
“I just don’t want them to come to the game and watch. I want them to pay attention to what’s happening in the game tonight and how certain individuals are playing and what they do to be successful, like the Whites and Martins and on the opposition guys like Zubov.”
Here’s what Johnny Oduya’s inner monologue will be tonight:
“Interesting, all of the good D don’t drop their sticks… Must make a mental note… Don’t drop my stick, don’t drop my stick, don’t drop- Oooooo! Something shiny!”
Why must you INSIST on trying to break down the library fourth wall, Schnookie?! THE LIBRARY IS IMAGINARY! Gawd!
*Fakely innocent* Oh, I’m sorry — did you not want to know that? Something else you should know, then: the library totally has a drinking problem. And cheats on its spouse.
“Interesting, all of the good D don’t drop their sticks… Must make a mental note… Don’t drop my stick, don’t drop my stick, don’t drop- Oooooo! Something shiny!”
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I love that Sutter has to publicly challenge them to pay attention instead of spacing out. Of course, now that he’s said that, Paulie, Whitey and Zubov will all probably have the shittiest games EVER, and Sutter’s going to have to be all, “On second thought, guys, forget everything you saw here tonight.”
Well, some people want a wave from a guy driving by, other people want to get an autograph and talk to the guy. To each his own.
I got both the autograph and the wave! There were way too many people crushing in to talk to him. He couldn’t even reach his arm over to the page of the magazine that had his picture – he had to sign the Metlife ad next to it! So I have a magazine full of Cup-era Pens signatures on their pictures, and Jagr’s on a drawing of Snoopy. Which I actually think is kind of cute.
Obviously, I’m OK with autograph-seeking after a practice, or, say, snapping pictures of Clarkson at a signing. But that’s very different from doing stuff when a guy’s out for ice cream with his family (Mom, remember Drabek?), or buying jeans (hee!), or sitting at a table in a club. It’s totally fine to acknowledge the guy if you happen to catch his eye, but IMO it’s ridiculous to do anything MORE than wave, or nod, or some other equivalent small gesture in such a situation.
*Fakely innocent* Oh, I’m sorry — did you not want to know that? Something else you should know, then: the library totally has a drinking problem. And cheats on its spouse.
WHAT?!
You take that back! You take that back RIGHT NOW! It can’t be true!!!! Why are you making shit up, Schnookie?! WHY?!
You take that back! You take that back RIGHT NOW! It can’t be true!!!! Why are you making shit up, Schnookie?! WHY?!
I swear to god it’s true! I heard it from someone who parties with the library. Or maybe it was someone who read it on a message board, posted by someone who parties with the library. I don’t know. But I didn’t make it up! I have it on very good authority!
I love that Sutter has to publicly challenge them to pay attention instead of spacing out.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a coach say anything quite like that before!
Oh my God! I just found in my cabinet “A Handbook for the Technical And Scientific Secretary”, published in 1967.
Wait! I’ll take that! I love outdated instruction manuals. (I’m so weird. Just typing it out makes me realize how much.)
Seriously. I’m not kidding. I must have that handbook. :D
Okay, kind of kidding, because I wouldn’t make you lug it around for me, but if I came across it myself, I would totally keep it and add it to my own bookshelf at home.
where the lead singer’s then-girlfriend received death threats on the board.
That’s horrible! Serious death threats? Really?! Some people should be licensed to use the internet.
No, as with The (Players’) Code, it is unwritten and simply permeates the fanbase through osmosis. :D
Damn! ;)
“I just don’t want them to come to the game and watch. I want them to pay attention to what’s happening in the game tonight and how certain individuals are playing and what they do to be successful, like the Whites and Martins and on the opposition guys like Zubov.”
Oh, boy. The mental image of Oduya taking notes from the pressbox kind of kills me right now, especially if he’s taking notes on Zubov.
I love outdated instruction manuals.
That’s kinda cool :D
“I would have wished I was in a “How the State Budget is Crafted” meeting.”
Oh no…you wouldn’t have. Never, ever would you have wished that.
The mental image of Oduya taking notes from the pressbox kind of kills me right now, especially if he’s taking notes on Zubov.
Oduya (scribbling on pad): Make passes from own goal line past opposing blue line, hitting streaking forward for breakaway. Got it. Next, master the “Crazy Ivan” move for next game.
…Zubov will all probably have the shittiest games EVER
NOOOOO!!!!
(I’m so weird. Just typing it out makes me realize how much.)
You’re not weird, you’re awesome!
Also, postal workers are really kind of special, so your stuff should be to you on … Friday, I believe! Hopefully!
Not to tear down the fourth wall of the public library system, but I’ll give you a hint: they’ll throw it out
So that’s what happened to the set of 2002 Thomas Register volumes that we gave them. Not that I blame the library.
I love that Sutter has to publicly challenge them to pay attention instead of spacing out.
The Devils are really trying to kill Sutter, aren’t they?
The mental image of Oduya taking notes from the pressbox kind of kills me right now, especially if he’s taking notes on Zubov.
If I was Zubov I would intentionally play the worst game of my life. Just so Oduya wouldn’t get anything out of the experience. But I’m not a good person in that sort of situations.
Heather, I was hoping you would go to the game tonight! Have fun!
I will! Jay McKee – My orignal Sabres Squee AND my original slag-faced whore. Memoorieeeees pressed between the pages of my miiiiiiind.
(The library totally takes off its wedding ring in public – makes it easier to pick-up single post offices.)
Seriously. I’m not kidding. I must have that handbook. :D
Sorry, too late! (It was quite small actually, but is now deep in my dumpster, buried under binders of capital equipment purchase orders from 2000. I’ve decided whatever is in those binders no longer qualifies as “proprietary information” so I don’t have to shred them.)
Oduya (scribbling on pad): Make passes from own goal line past opposing blue line, hitting streaking forward for breakaway. Got it.
Oh, he’s been working on that one a lot in games. Only it generally ends up looking like “Make pass from behind own goal line to — d’oh! That wasn’t supposed to go to the other team’s star forward, I swear it!”
Next, master the “Crazy Ivan” move for next game.
…Patty, I love that reference! And another bullet point gets added to the “Reasons Why Patty Is So Awesome” list.
Also, on Oduya’s pad:
* Work on facial expressions. Face should remain motionless except for eyebrows. Let the eyebrows do the talking.
* Learn how to put someone in a headlock.
* Incessantly poking people can make people turn over the puck!
(The library totally takes off its wedding ring in public – makes it easier to pick-up single post offices.)
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The library has no shame!
I will! Jay McKee – My orignal Sabres Squee AND my original slag-faced whore. Memoorieeeees pressed between the pages of my miiiiiiind.
Aaaand you get to see Staffy’s triumphant return to the lineup. Peters has the flu, so Staffy will play.
If I was Zubov I would intentionally play the worst game of my life.
Oh no, Mags. You don’t understand. This man lives for two things: his hockey team and winning.
…You think I’m kidding, but I’m not.
* Incessantly poking people can make people turn over the puck!
Oh, let’s not encourage him to incessantly poke people. That sounds like a very complicated maneuver to manage while still holding onto your stick. Oduya’s got enough trouble with “standing still while still holding onto your stick”. Kid’s got to learn to walk before he can run.
So that’s what happened to the set of 2002 Thomas Register volumes that we gave them. Not that I blame the library.
Hee hee! The best is when people are shocked and appalled that we don’t want their complete Encyclopedia Britannica from the 60′s. I completely understand why someone would think of giving that to a library, but then once it’s explained that the world has changed a lot in 40 years and having outdated reference material for student research isn’t really the best plan I always expect people to go, “Oh right! Of course!” Instead they always, always, always leave in a huff.
Patty, if I ever find outdated instruction manuals, I’ll send them your way rather than taking them to the dumpster out back. (My dirty librarian secret is that I adore throwing books out. Whenever people here are wishy-washy about keeping or throwing out a volume, they all know to come to me to do the dirty work if they can’t bring themselves to.)
The library totally takes off its wedding ring in public – makes it easier to pick-up single post offices.
OMG! Too much! :^:::::::::::
Aaaand you get to see Staffy’s triumphant return to the lineup. Peters has the flu, so Staffy will play.
Wow, Heather — McKee AND Staffy? How will you manage to survive all that in person?
“standing still while still holding onto your stick”.
Next up, Oduya learns how to be an ‘ambi-turner’.
Good Lord, it’s a slow day at my office…
This man lives for two things: his hockey team and winning.
Admirable sentiment.
(The library totally takes off its wedding ring in public – makes it easier to pick-up single post offices.)
Oh man, that just made my day!
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Of course, the library I work in would probably be more like Wade Redden. People would search all the time for “[Pookie's Library] drug attic”.
Admirable sentiment.
Except that’s all he’s got, I tell you! I worry for Zubie sometimes, because that’s like…his entire life. Period. I don’t know what this man will do when he cannot play anymore.
(The library totally takes off its wedding ring in public – makes it easier to pick-up single post offices.)
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I don’t know what this man will do when he cannot play anymore.
I think about a lot of players that way. Some of them I genuinely worry about, other I’m like “meh, they’ll go turn into tree-hugging environmental activists or something”.
Some of them I genuinely worry about, other I’m like “meh, they’ll go turn into tree-hugging environmental activists or something”.
Hee! True!
Patty, if I ever find outdated instruction manuals, I’ll send them your way rather than taking them to the dumpster out back.
Aww, thanks, Pookie! Don’t go to too much trouble. Of course, they should be WAY outdated. I’m not really interested in the manual for installing a printer from 2002. :D
I’m not really interested in the manual for installing a printer from 2002. :D
*Stops boxing up the PowerPoint 4.0 manual she just found.*
Also, postal workers are really kind of special, so your stuff should be to you on … Friday, I believe! Hopefully!
Woohoo!
*Stops boxing up the PowerPoint 4.0 manual she just found.*
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Yeah, if it’s about computers, it’s not outdated enough. :D
I’m sure y’all are already thinking this, but in your game diary, you should keep an eye out for lessons Oduya might be learning during the game.
If I was Zubov I would intentionally play the worst game of my life. Just so Oduya wouldn’t get anything out of the experience.
Zubov sometimes is up for pranks, but the problem here is that he probably has never heard of Johnny Oduya. :D
you should keep an eye out for lessons Oduya might be learning during the game.
Hee!
Also, Devils fans, I don’t know how y’all feel about this, but it’s Turco in net tonight for Dallas.
he probably has never heard of Johnny Oduya.
Lucky bastard.
it’s Turco in net tonight for Dallas.
Fuck. He’s on my fantasy team. I was hoping he wouldn’t play so I wouldn’t be too torn.
Also, Devils fans, I don’t know how y’all feel about this, but it’s Turco in net tonight for Dallas.
Well, back in the old days (before the stupid rule changes), goalies who have reputations for being good puck handlers always liked to show off extra hard when playing against Marty… Not that the Devils are very good at exploiting the ensuing stupid mistakes.
I think about a lot of players that way. Some of them I genuinely worry about, other I’m like “meh, they’ll go turn into tree-hugging environmental activists or something”.
See, this is the beauty of The Sod Farm. The Staals will all have something else lined up for them!
Well, back in the old days (before the stupid rule changes), goalies who have reputations for being good puck handlers always liked to show off extra hard when playing against Marty…
Rule changes, Schmule changes, he’ll still want to show off. He don’t need no stinkin’ corners!
Yeah, if it’s about computers, it’s not outdated enough. :D
Somewhere, I still have the specs from my first computer. My grandparents bought it for me for college as my hs graduation present. It is freakin’ hilarious.
Smitty practically runs out to the blue line every game, so I’d hate to see what he’d have to do to “show off” to Brodeur.
Maybe just stand next to him and look down at the top of his head.
Pookie, are you sure you’re not feeling a little sick and need to go home early and start the game diary on time?
;P
goalies who have reputations for being good puck handlers always liked to show off extra hard when playing against Marty…
Smitty practically runs out to the blue line every game, so I’d hate to see what he’d have to do to “show off” to Brodeur.
Also, the Devils website? I love it! It’s also nice that tonight is the celebration thing-y for Marty’s 500th.
Also, the Devils website? I love it!
Seriously? Like, the official one? My God! You must be the only one!
Seriously? Like, the official one? My God! You must be the only one!
Okay, well, I don’t like the big picture of the Prudential Center up there, but from a cursory glance it looks like you guys have way more stuff than we do.
I don’t like the big picture of the Prudential Center up there, but from a cursory glance it looks like you guys have way more stuff than we do.
Is your site just a Dallas logo? Because our’s is just a Devils logo and a ton of pictures of the arena being built.
(And one adorable “Ask the Devils” feature which I will be eternally grateful to the Hockey Gods for.)
Pookie, are you sure you’re not feeling a little sick and need to go home early and start the game diary on time?
I wish! If it weren’t such a pain to call out for my late shift, I’d have done it, honest!
Is your site just a Dallas logo?
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No, we’ve got the Dallas logo AND Razor’s blog. Woo, go us.
Maybe I spoke too soon. I’m just looking at the pull-down menus, and it seems like you guys have a lot more stuff in there than we do.
Okay, well, I don’t like the big picture of the Prudential Center up there, but from a cursory glance it looks like you guys have way more stuff than we do.
Ah yes, it was just a “cursory glance”. That explains it. Because once you actually look closely, you’ll realize that not only is there nothing on the site, but there never has been. :D (The forced shift to the new template made it so the Devils had to add content. I think they’re among the VERY few teams who had to beef up their sites instead of scaling back in order to meet the new template’s needs.)
I think the Stars site has a ton more video than they used to, and photogalleries and such. There are still some dark nooks and crannies that they never updated when they went to this format, though. But they weren’t updating them before that, either.
I’m a little disappointed that we’re not seeing more practice interviews like we did at first. Probably just because the schedule is tighter right now and they don’t have many practices.
andrew, did you ever go back and watch Zubov’s little highlight reel?
I think the Stars site has a ton more video than they used to, and photogalleries and such. There are still some dark nooks and crannies that they never updated when they went to this format, though. But they weren’t updating them before that, either.
On the multimedia stuff, I’m totally spoiled by them, I will say that. The Stars do a great job on that.
But I want a new On the Ice so badly! And practice interviews!
But I want a new On the Ice so badly!
They just can’t top Brenden Morrow’s is why. :D
Although Halpern’s was cute. Not as talky, but cutely self-deprecating. He was standing next to a teammate and they were discussing their “A” move. He said “Here’s mine,” then he kind of stood there for a second and then said, “then I chip it into to the corner.”
He was standing next to a teammate and they were discussing their “A” move. He said “Here’s mine,” then he kind of stood there for a second and then said, “then I chip it into to the corner.”
That’s hilarious!
The Devils say, “Mul-ti-me-di-what-now?”
They just can’t top Brenden Morrow’s is why. :D
Two guys, two guys!
Although the best moment of that one wasn’t even from Morrow; it was Fedoruk with “Workin’ today, eh Otter?!”
Peters has the flu, so Staffy will play.
What are the chances this is a season-ending flu bug?
The Devils say, “Mul-ti-me-di-what-now?”
Maybe they should hire Boxworthy to conduct some interviews and then upload them.
Peters has the flu, so Staffy will play.
What are the chances this is a season-ending flu bug?
Maybe he’ll need surgery on his flu.
Maybe they should hire Boxworthy to conduct some interviews and then upload them.
The Devils could totally put a camera on Boxworthy, and send him in undercover into the locker room. It could be a turtle’s eye view of the team.
What are the chances this is a season-ending flu bug?
Slim-to-none, unfortunately.
What are the chances this is a season-ending flu bug?
Not nearly as high as one might hope, I’m sure.
“andrew, did you ever go back and watch Zubov’s little highlight reel?”
Nah, never found it. I figured, since I see him 8 times a freakin’ year anyway, that I could live without it. Do you have a link to it?
Sharks site isn’t too bad, probably on par with the Sabres site….with one notable exception: Marcel Goc’s blog. It is loaded to the gills with unintentional comedy and it’s updated all the time. I love it.
Slim-to-none, unfortunately.
Not nearly as high as one might hope, I’m sure.
Well, atleast I know we’re all on the same page re: Andrew Peters :-)
Oh, andrew. Don’t pretend you don’t love him!
Zubov highlights
Dang it!
Zubov highlights
I wish we had some player blogs. Razor’s is not my favorite.
Well, atleast I know we’re all on the same page re: Andrew Peters :-)
Heh.
I wish we had some player blogs.
Pommerdoodle’s is nothing to write home about, either. Then again, I suppose it’s difficult to type when you have paws. :o)
“Oh, andrew. Don’t pretend you don’t love him!”
I tell ya, I’d love Boucher a hell of a lot more if he would quit doing the asshole shuffle out there and start putting up some points for my fantasy team.
Tra la la la! I love hockey :)
Pommerdoodle’s is nothing to write home about, either. Then again, I suppose it’s difficult to type when you have paws. :o)
Maybe Goose types for him. But yeah, pretty boring, standard stuff. I want to know the insider stuff, Pommers! Who rooms with who, what dreadful movies the team is currently watching over and over, how much more relaxed the dressing room is without Drury, which players are hooking up with scantily clad libraries etc.
We have Ryan Kesler’s blog. It’s quite good because he’s quite the gossip. That’s how I found out that Pie Hat was married.
I’d love Boucher a hell of a lot more if he would quit doing the asshole shuffle out there
Watch it, buster.
Who told you to sign him up?!? Oh, wait. That was me. Sorry!
It’s too bad saves by defensemen don’t count. He had two against the Islanders.
I wish we had some player blogs. Razor’s is not my favorite.
I screw up at grammar sometimes. My posts on IPB show that. (I get all distracted and write a post and do five other things at once and then things get screwy.) Generally I’m understanding of others who have difficulties in these areas. No one’s perfect.
However, Razor’s blog makes me want to print it out, mark corrections up with red pen and mail it to him so he will freakin’ fix his posts.
how much more relaxed the dressing room is without Drury, which players are hooking up with scantily clad libraries etc.
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I’m with you there, Caitlin. The reason is because he is all snooty about his vocabulary and then uses the wrong “big” word half the time.
Patty – Oh, totally. To some extent, I really like Razor because I do find him funny – oddly enough. Plus, Razor’s generally a nice guy.
…But, yeah…he does think a lot of his vocabulary. Also, he pains me with what he calls our players. Like calling Marty Turco “goldentoes”. Stop, Razor. Please.
I don’t know why, and Razor’s not the only one that does it, but when the broadcasters call the goalie’s pads “pillows”, I get all creeped out. Why is that?
“Who told you to sign him up?!? Oh, wait. That was me. Sorry!”
I know! I consulted you and everything! It’s cool, because Shea Weber is off the IR now, so everyone’s been appropriately shuffled.
“However, Razor’s blog makes me want to print it out, mark corrections up with red pen and mail it to him so he will freakin’ fix his posts.”
That’s why Goc’s blog is so great, his grasp of the English language isn’t so good. It reads like he talks. On top of that, he talks about the dumbest stuff…awesome.
Maybe he’ll need surgery on his flu.
Well it is an inner body injury.
Who rooms with who, what dreadful movies the team is currently watching over and over
I suppose we have the entertaining intermission features to tell us this info. Then again, I’m still amused by the Goose and Yo-Yo freakout over Saw III.
I don’t know why, and Razor’s not the only one that does it, but when the broadcasters call the goalie’s pads “pillows”, I get all creeped out. Why is that?
Ewwww! I don’t know, but that’s gross! That’s so weird.
For a long time there, Razor was really working the word “sassy”. Every game on one play, Razor would just randomly burst out with “Sassy!!!”
That’s why Goc’s blog is so great, his grasp of the English language isn’t so good. It reads like he talks. On top of that, he talks about the dumbest stuff…awesome.
Now I have to check out this piece of internet awesomeness….
Well, not to keep boring you all with tales from my office, but I’m proud to report that I’m finally emotionally strong enough to recognize when it’s time to let something go. We had good times together, and it didn’t take up too much space under my desk, but I have finally parted ways with the page-a-day calendar from 2003. I’m going to be having a party at the local watering hole to celebrate my newfound single status, and you’re all invited — you’re welcome to bring any 2008 calendars you might want to set me up with!
I have finally parted ways with the page-a-day calendar from 2003. I’m going to be having a party at the local watering hole to celebrate my newfound single status
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Well, not to keep boring you all with tales from my office, but I’m proud to report that I’m finally emotionally strong enough to recognize when it’s time to let something go. We had good times together, and it didn’t take up too much space under my desk, but I have finally parted ways with the page-a-day calendar from 2003. I’m going to be having a party at the local watering hole to celebrate my newfound single status, and you’re all invited — you’re welcome to bring any 2008 calendars you might want to set me up with!
I’ll bring my extra copy of the Inflatable Chesterfields calendar! I’m so excited – my birthday month features a picture of Giovanni with the band!
Haha! What was the theme of the 2003 calendar? Not that you should dwell…
It was songbirds. So darling.
(It should be noted that I was hired here in April 2004. So that calendar wasn’t even mine. And it’s been under my desk this whole time.)
You’ll think I’m crazy, but that desk cleanout sounds fun. It’s like finding stuff in the attic of an old house. Kind of.
What was the theme of the 2003 calendar?
Hot 2001 Calendars.
What was the theme of the 2003 calendar?
Hot 2001 Calendars.
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What was the theme of the 2003 calendar?
Hot 2001 Calendars.
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It was too racy to be stored anywhere but under by desk!
You’ll think I’m crazy, but that desk cleanout sounds fun. It’s like finding stuff in the attic of an old house. Kind of.
This has been a TON of fun. And I’m super excited because I’ve opened two full drawers of file space (I just inherited three drawers’ worth of files, though…), I’m all organized, and I had a dumpster just to toss everything into that Facilities is now going to carry away. It’s way more fun than cleaning up at home, where I still have to dispose of everything.
Woo hoo! Time to go home! Remember — we’ll be slapping up our TiVo-delayed game diary later tonight, probably starting around 10:45-ish. See you all then!
I’m jealous! I should be leaving in 4 minutes but I think I might end up having to stay ’til 6. Hopefully it won’t be any later.