Devils @ Stars, 12/31/08

Ohmigod! Ohmigod! Ohmigod! Ohmigod! Our pregame has us all kinds of wound up, because it’s MSG’s show about Game 6 of the 2000 SCF. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! It’s been a kind of rough past 24 hours for those of us who are friends with bottoming-out Sabres fans, as we’ve walked down memory lane to times when we’ve [...]

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Devils @ Blues, 12/30/08

Okay, before we start this game diary, we have to respond to something that we saw on Fire & Ice today. Now, we keep hearing stories from more fervid hockey markets in the northern reaches about the stupid, stupid things fans say on message boards and newspaper blogs and whatnot, but we don’t see a [...]

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The Devils Are Making Us Feel Smart, A Year Later

So we were driving around our little hometown this weekend, running some errands and basking in the warm afterglow of the Devils smacking the Rangers around at MSG, when it suddenly dawned on us: the current Devils team is exactly what we thought they would be at the start of last season. Who would have [...]

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Devils @ Rangers, 12/27/08

Once or twice a year we like to prove to our non-hockey-lovin’ friends that we are capable of leaving the house on a night when the Devils are playing. If one or two of those nights just happen to fall on nights when the Devils are playing our most hatred rival, at a time when [...]

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Devils vs. Penguins, 12/26/08

Watch this space for some woolgathering thoughts on tonight’s post-Christmas match-up. In the meantime, please enjoy an open thread! 7:00 PM The game opens with Doc’s voiceover about the previous matchup between the Pens and Devils, and Doc sounds like death warmed over. Poor guy. 7:08 PM The Penguins get a rush going in the [...]

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Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas to everyone from stately IPB Manor! V.E. Mats poses with the kick-ass Christmas card we received from our newest Canucks fan friend, Carol Browne. Victory Euro Mats is spending his holiday hoping Playmobil Santa will be bringing him lots of presents, which we’re sure he will, and we’re spending our holiday greedily eying [...]

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Devils vs. Bruins, 12/23/08

Guess what, kids? We lied. There is no Santa Claus. There is also no diary for tonight’s game. Merry Christmas. Seriously, happy holidays/day off, Gentle Reader! We’ll be taking a two-day hiatus (i.e. we’ll be taking two days to drink just enough mimosas to make us think that whatever garbage is on television is as [...]

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