Posted in Field Trips on February 10, 2008 | 382 Comments »
Gentle Reader, you may remember that when the season began and the new, sparkling gem of an arena was all the talk in Devilsdom, our official stance was that Continental Airlines Arena was unfairly maligned and would be terribly missed. CAA was an arena tailor-made for curmudgeons like us who show up for the [...]
Posted in Carolina Hurricanes, Field Trips, New Jersey Devils on February 9, 2008 | 105 Comments »
Gentle Reader, tonight is an exciting night. We’re heading up to the new arena for the first time; we will be bringing with us some fancy new mo-bile IPB Machines (Internet? On a phone? What will they think of next?!) so look for us to attempt to check in occasionally. If [...]
Posted in Field Trips on October 21, 2007 | 163 Comments »
To quote the great American opera Pioneer Songs, “They made it. They all made it.” That’s right, Gentle Reader, we’re ensconced again on the sofa at stately IPB Manor, loads of laundry churning away downstairs, our cats staring at us like we’re strangers, and the joys of the open road fading away in [...]
Posted in Field Trips on October 21, 2007 | 72 Comments »
Today marked the last full day of our epic journey, as we’ll be packing up and returning to real life on Sunday, leaving behind good friends, great hockey and, well, Chef’s. OK, we can’t really get away from Chef’s fast enough now that we think about it. We decided to live it up [...]
Posted in Field Trips on October 20, 2007 | 31 Comments »
Today was all about the last of the three games we’ve been trekking to see, and also about meeting up with Heather (at long last). Considering how much bang for our buck we’ve gotten already from this trip, we had high hopes that the Sabres-Blue Jackets matchup would be seriously kick-ass. And we [...]
Posted in Field Trips on October 19, 2007 | 51 Comments »
The latest leg in our journey through the best the NHL schedule has to offer this week took us back to Buffalo. We got up bright and early (read: noon-ish), and after a bit of a snafu at the front desk with our Roadtrips vouchers, bade a fond adieu to our cozy aerie of [...]
Posted in Field Trips, Pittsburgh Penguins, Pommerdoodling!, Post Game Reaction on October 17, 2007 | 59 Comments »
Madness!
We won’t bore you with the mundane details that filled most of Day Four of IPB’s Great Hockey Road Trip ‘07 — Schnookie beat Pookie in Boggle but Pookie evened the score winning 2 out of 3 hotly contested Chinese Checkers matches — and skip straight to the nutmeats: Devils 5, Penguins 4. We [...]
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