Around The Dial: Pens/Sens & Wild/Avs

Tonight is an unusual sort of evening of hockey at stately IPB Manor in that Pookie is at work, but Schnookie and Boomer are powering ahead with the playoffs despite her absence. The siren song of Pens/Sens Game 3 is too strong to ignore, so we’ll be watching from here, while Pookie keeps herself apprised [...]

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IPB Looks At The Standings For The First Time

After last night’s bonanza of crap from the Devils, we’ve realized that we have absolutely nothing constructive to say about our favorite team (and the ostensible subject of this blog). We also have very little to say about them that isn’t constructive. It just… suck. And who even knows what they’ll look like tomorrow. This [...]

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Watching Saturday Night Hockey With IPB

Greetings, Gentle Reader! We regret to inform you there will be no formal diary for any of tonight’s games. After a week of diaries, we’re ready for a night off! However, we’ll be around offering some commentary and thoughts. First on the docket is Sabres-Hurricanes. Secondly, we’ll be cueing up Pens-Leafs on TiVo delay. We’re [...]

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Ducks @ Flames, 11/29/07

We are strangely drawn this week to the Ducks, so here we are again with the team we love to hate (and hate to love), taking on the Flames. Here’s hoping this one is a bit more interesting than the Ducks-Canucks were. It’s no mean feat finding the game, though, because our Center Ice is [...]

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Ducks @ Canucks, 11/27/07

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 [...]

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Kings @ Ducks, 11/13/07 “Rinkside View”

We have the option tonight between the regular FSN Anaheim and the HD, rinkside feeds. We’re looking forward to experiencing the differences between them, since it’s nice to have a plotline to focus on when the teams you’re diarizing about are complete strangers to you. FIRST PERIOD 18:27 We’re really quick on the uptake, and [...]

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Penguins @ Avalanche, 11/1/07

Ahhh… random Penguins/Western Conference games – nothing makes us feel more like relaxing Fall hockey quite like that. Tonight’s opponent: the Avs. Steigy kicks things off by telling us it was an “absolutely beautiful day” in Denver, and Pookie says, “Of course it was – Sid was there!” Intriguing – Sabourin is starting his second [...]

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