Devils vs. Bruins, 12/05/07

Tonight Jamie Langenbrunner’s reign of terror as Captain Fuck This Shit begins, and stately IPB Manor is all aquiver with delight. Not that we thought Patty Elias’ reign of, um, something as Captain Hugs was all that awful, but since Sutter slapped the “C” onto Langer’s chest while Pando isn’t in the lineup, this is easy for us to be happy about.

We are distracted during the pregame because we’re supposed to be able to get this in HD now, but this feed is definitely not HD. We do glance up in time to see the shot of the guys taking the ice, and Patty looks like he’s struggling to keep a stiff upper lip (wait, Patty even has an upper lip?) as he walks through the door in the boards with no letter on his sweater, and Langer swaggers along behind him with a gleaming-white “C”. Poor Erstwhile Captain Hugs.

FIRST PERIOD

18:45 The teams mill about listlessly, and FSN reels the two rosters in a crawl across the bottom of the scoreboard at the top of the screen. Being fans of The Wire, we perk up considerably when we discover there is a guy on the Bruins roster named Sobotka.

17:57 Zach gets smashed into the goalpost when he tries walking to the side of the net to stuff a shot home. Pookie tries to muster fangirl outrage, but sounds pretty weak when she protests, “Hey! Not his pretty neck/shoulder!”

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IPB Questionnaire Answers: Pensblog Edition

The latest response to the IPB Blogging Questionnaire comes to us from one of our favorite hockey blogs in all of the interwebs, Pensblog. Their distinctive snark, irreverence and delightfully crude humor provides a special je ne sais quois the hockey blogosphere is otherwise missing. You can read their answers to the questionnaire here, but please be sure to drop by their blog for the most vibrant, blunt and hilarious Penguins coverage around.

1. What was your motivation for starting blogging? Has that changed at all in the time you’ve been blogging?

For us, it was a combination of free time and wanting to write about something. There were four of us in the beginning, just trying to make each other laugh. During summer 2006, we found ourselves repeatedly going to blogs to be amused by links, pictures, and stories that mainstream media can’t supply us in a newspaper. By early September 2006, we decided to start a Penguins blog. After some research to see what other Penguin blogs were out there, we knew that we could bring something to the table that was entirely different from anything else out there. Now that we have been around for a year, our main goal is still trying to make each other laugh, but we have taken an aim to talk more NHL than we did early on.

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IPB Questionnaire Answers: Hockeygirl Edition

We have another collection of answers to the IPB Blogging Questionnaire. These answers comes from a IPB Hall-of-Fame Gentle Reader Hockeygirl, of double d(ion). Her answers are tinged with a big of sadness, as she might be getting out of the hockey blogging business for a bit; HG, we’ll miss you (if you do, indeed, hang up the skates). You can read her answers here, or at her blog.

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