It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, Unless You’ve Been Naughty

Now that it’s after Thanksgiving, that means it’s full-time Christmas Season! WOOOO! It also means the quarter mark of the NHL season has passed, so Santa has a substantial enough body of work to assess when he makes his list of which Devils have been naughty and which have been nice. Sure, he’s still got [...]

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Devils @ Penguins, 11/29/2008: Woolgathering Edition

Tonight we’ll be following the Devils game and woolgathering as we go. In the meantime, enjoy an open thread! FIRST PERIOD 7:29 pm Doc says of the last game, “Overtime was forced.” Schnookie starts to scoff, “I like the way Doc says that as if it was some kind of passive thing on the Devils’ [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving Observed

We’d do a post about things we’re thankful for here on the Friday after Thanksgiving, on which we’re celebrating Thanksgiving Observed, but really, you know us better than that, don’t you Gentle Reader? Instead, we’ll just keep our complaining to a minimum as we try to power through our turkey comas. Right this minute we’re [...]

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Devils @ Panthers, 11/26/08

Happy day before Thanksgiving, Gentle Reader! We hope you’re all settled in wherever your holiday will be, comfy, cozy and ready for some hot Devils/Panthers action. And, if you’re not American, we hope you’re having a really nice Wednesday night. Steve leads us into Doc and Chico’s intro by calling tonight’s game “The Drive For [...]

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The Bond Trajectory

Gentle Reader, if you remember back to the first post-Marty game of this season, you might recall that we compared Kevin Weekes in that godawful Sabres game to George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. We were really just patting ourselves on the back for the obscure cultural reference, because we’re of the generation [...]

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More Hard-Hitting Journalisty Questions IPB Would Ask If We Were Given Press Passes

We have thought of a couple more questions we’d ask professional hockey players if we were given press passes by the Devils. 1. What’s the name of your fantasy football/baseball/hockey team? 2. Do you like your handwriting? Lou, we know you’re reading this, and we know you’re dying to know the Devils’ answers to these [...]

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Devils @ Lightning, 11/23/08 — Game Diary Lite

Okay, Gentle Reader, we are not thrilled with this 5:00 start time. What is uo with that? Why are the Devils and the schedule makers so insistent on making it impossible for us to prepare nice dinners on game nights? Well, in the pregame show they had a feature called “Ask The Announcers” in which [...]

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