Hard! Hard! Hard!

Around 11:20 or so on Wednesday morning, we had the following exchange via IM:
Pookie: Hey, according to TG, the Devils have the whole day off in Vancouver today! I wonder what they’re up to.
Schnookie: Drinking and whoring!
Well, guess what, Gentle Reader? We have photographic proof that at 11:40, at least, they [...]

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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, [...]

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Devils vs. Leafs, 10/29/08 — Postgame Reaction

Some thoughts about tonight’s game, which we watched on TiVo delay and weren’t finishing up until it was going on 1 a.m. (that should give you an idea, Gentle Reader, of how much we enjoyed it):
1. Let us never speak of this again.
2. If he’s going to keep taking stupid-assed penalties, we’re going [...]

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Project Training Camp, Or: The Greatest Imaginary Blog Post Ever Written

Remember how yesterday we waxed poetic about those days when a blog post idea just finds us, instead of us having to labor excessively to produce something half-assed? Well guess what, Gentle Reader! It happened again today! We were finishing up dinner and something marvelous happened: we either stumbled across some old [...]

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Burning A Hole In Their Pockets: The True Per Diem Story Of The New Jersey Devils

We were driven today to the outer edges of sheer boredom, and did something that only the most desperate of hockey fans should ever do — we read the CBA. Some people read the CBA and come out of it with a clearer understanding of the financial picture of the NHL. Others walk [...]

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New Jersey’s Next Top Devil

Tonight marks one of the most anticipated events of the hockey season here at stately IPB Manor. Gentle Reader, you’re probably scratching your head and thinking, “Whatever is it that could be a significant event in the NHL at this time of year? Surely the -ookies wouldn’t get excited for Forsberg’s triumphant [...]

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Devils vs. Bruins, 12/05/07

Tonight Jamie Langenbrunner’s reign of terror as Captain Fuck This Shit begins, and stately IPB Manor is all aquiver with delight. Not that we thought Patty Elias’ reign of, um, something as Captain Hugs was all that awful, but since Sutter slapped the “C” onto Langer’s chest while Pando isn’t in the lineup, this [...]

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