Wherein IPB Is Relieved To Discover It Can Retain Its US Citizenship

We had grand plans for an hilarious post tonight in which we would take a practice citizenship test in honor of Marty becoming a US citizen today. Pookie helps a lot of patrons at the library with their practice materials for the test, and she reported that she would never pass it if she [...]

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How We Spent Our Vacation: Day 2 — Hanging Out With The Devils

Boxworthy hanging out with Bernice the pigeon (or, as I just typed it, “Bernice the penguin”, which would have been pretty awesome) at Rockefeller Center. –Schn.

David Clarkson, spotted near Park Avenue. –Schn.

White, Greene, Martin, Zubrus, Parise, Egg, Maddog, and Rolston hang out in NYC. –Pk.

Sheldon Brookbank, Ken Daneyko, Scott Stevens, [...]

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Devils @ Senators, 4/9/09: Wherein We’re Watching Something Else

The biggest news here at stately IPB Manor is that the lovely and talented and intelligent Tim sent us one of the commemorative posters from Marty Night. It’s been the only Devils-related bright spot in our lives the last few days, so we figured we would commemorate the commemoration with a little photo shoot.

We [...]

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Reflections On A Goalie God (Now With Poetry)

Despite the Devils success so far, this has been a hard season for us to write about. We felt they were some kind of parallel-universe Devils for four months. We were upset about the Pando situation. We were upset about Holik situation. We couldn’t connect with the team. And more [...]

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Devils vs. Blackhawks, 3/17/09

There is nothing we hate more in hockey than relentless media hype. There are lots of things that drive us batty in this great game, but nothing makes us fly off the handle with more vehemence and bile than having to hear repeatedly about a story we don’t think deserves the coverage. Which [...]

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Wherein Pookie Tries To Lead A Revolution

We have recently been calming down in our neverending vigil of completely losing our minds whenever we hear people ranking on Marty Brodeur. His comeback from his injury this season has been enough of an apotheosis that it’s seemed enough people were backing off the “he’s an overrated product of the system” line to [...]

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The Power Of The Marty

These are the things Martin Brodeur is capable of, the things that made the suggestion that he wouldn’t get the starting job back after his return preposterous:
– Notching a shutout in his first game back after missing more than 100 days, a feat that has been matched by… well… no one else in the history [...]

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