Surprise, Surprise

One of the really wonderful things about being a sports fan is that you never know what’s going to happen in any given season. Now that a reasonably substantial chunk of hockey has been played in the ‘09-’10 season, it seems like we can start looking at the bigger picture and thinking about what [...]

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Wherein We Make A Startling Geographic Realization

No matter what conference your favorite team plays in, Gentle Reader, you have surely noticed one of the Laws of the Natural Hockey Universe: announcers are incapable of referring to Corey Perry as anything other than “Corey Perry”. Unrelatedly, we’ve lately taken to watching the Columbus Blue Jackets when the Devils (and the Trannies [...]

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How We Spent Our Vacation: Day 1

The Devils spent their day practing line changes, so we decided to do the same while giving Patty (in Princeton) a tour of the university campus. It was simple to be just the like Devils. All we had to do was face different directions, space out, and cease to pay attention to anything [...]

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IPB’s Official Review of UFA Day

An open letter to all the batshit crazy commenters on Fire & Ice who think Lou should be doing more on UFA Day:
Lou can not and will not ever be able to draft, sign, or trade for a unicorn. So stop demanding he do so.
Sincerely,
The Ookies

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A Tour Of The Palms Hotel And Of The Inner Workings Of Our Shared Brain

Gentle Reader, we have a confession to make. This past season, we felt that we left most of our best material as bloggers off IPB, because most of it wasn’t about the Devils. During the dog days of the March swoon, we wailed to our closest friends that we’d let our blog get [...]

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Open Thread: The End Of An Era

Join us tonight as we toast the greatest news we’ve heard since… Well, we’re not sure we’ve ever heard better news that this: Bobby Holik has retired. The Devils are now 100% Holik-free! Havelid-free, too, since he’s high-tailed it back to Sweden. Now we just need to get rid of the [...]

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RESPIETO

After reading this story about Alex Ovechkin’s latest effort to keep Don Cherry relevant, we have to think this is a new low. Seriously, does it get more pathetic than ripping off Yaya’s “RESPIETO” t-shirt act from ANTM Cycle 3? That’s just weak. Someone please just steal Ovie’s powerbars, lie about him [...]

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