Devils @ Red Wings, 11/8/08 — Open Thread

No game diary tonight, what with it being a Saturday and all. But please enjoy an open thread as we discuss the thrills and chills of Game 2 of the Weekes Era in all its Brookbank/Salmela d-pairing glory. Also, enjoy this long-forgotten gem we pulled out of the IPB Art Gallery yesterday (we thought it [...]

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Stanley Cup Final, Game 5

It could be the last night of the 07-08 NHL season, Gentle Reader. Just as we’re typing that the Cup is in the building, Doc, ever the stickler, points out that the Cup won’t actually be in the building until it looks like the Wings have it in the bag. Wait… Don’t they already? In [...]

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Stanely Cup Final, Game 4

Is it Game 4 already? Guess so! We’ll be here, Gentle Reader, not with a full diary but just a smattering of our thoughts as the game goes along. If we believed in signs, we’d be a little confused today. All day long a day-or-two-old baby deer has been camped out next to our garage, [...]

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Stanley Cup Final, Game 3

So we’ve decided to show up to diarize tonight – does that mean the Pens will show up, too? Whatever happens, we can be pretty much guaranteed the presentation of it will suck, because it’s on NBC. We’d say something like, “Buckle your seatbelt, Gentle Reader,” but with the way NBC presents hockey, we’re afraid [...]

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Western Conference Final Game 1

WOOOO HOOOOO! After three terrible nights, the playoffs are back! We never would have thought we’d be so happy to see the VS studio guys again. Less surprising than that, though, is how happy we are to see Doc again. It looks like hockey… It sounds like hockey… Must be hockey! Edzo really earns his [...]

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Conference Final Predictions: IPB’s Tale of the Tape (Part 1)

It hardly feels like a year since our last Conference Finals Tale of the Tape, but it’s time to break out IPB’s highly scientific approach to determining who should win. Today we’ll address the Western Conference. You know, that conference we know we sooooo much about. Tune in tomorrow for the Eastern Conference. WESTERN CONFERENCE [...]

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Ducks vs. Red Wings – Game 6

There are not sufficient words to describe how happy we are to have hockey to write about tonight — dude, off-nights are so brutal! The NHL needs to look into how to solve this recurring problem of the games going away this time of year. Something else the NHL needs to look into? Chris Simpson’s [...]

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