Thank GOD

by Anne

Phew. What a relief.

I'm tired so I will write a handy dandy bulleted list for the Sabres:

• Gerbe and Staffy each had 4 shots on goal

• Staffy had 3 points(1+2)

• Staffy played by far his best game of the season. The Pittsburgh game was previously his best, but this one has taken its place

• For some reason on the Boxscore, Gerbe is listed first even though its organized by number and he wore 42...?

• Jochen Hecht fought Vinny Lecavalier and kind of won

• If you watch the video, you can see Steve Downie mouth "help me" to a ref when he and Adam Mair were do-si-doing in their fight. In his defense, Mairsy was pummeling him (HA!)

• Andrej Sekera was fired for a few minutes when his stick deflected the puck just enough so Millsy's glove was like 2 inches too low to stop it but would've been fine if his stick weren't there

• Watching Goose, Hank and Staffy smash Gerbe into the glass in celebration was awesome

• Goose also gave Gerbe lots of pats on the head in the post game lovefest

• Miller looked good most of the night

• Our power play didn't muster a single shot on goal for at least the first two power plays, but possibly longer, I basically stopped watching when we had the man advantage

• Gerbe had an awesome no-look backhand shot on net that Mike Smith was not prepared for and almost bounced over his pad and in

• MK and I were bored so we made a Nathan Gerbe Mii on Wii. There's also a Lindy one

• Because MK declared Staffy looks like a brontosaurus, she's decided to take the nickname one step further and call him "Littlefoot" I could not approve of this nick name more

• Vanek and Jeff Carter are still duking it out for the goal scoring lead

• Our penalty kill was perfect again and improves the streak to 24 PKs with no goals allowed

• Danny Paille and Paul Ranger should consider a career in pairs figure skating:

Lovely synchronization, boys
Just work out the stick placement and you'll be pulling down 10s

Around the NHL:

• Sharpie scored his team-leading 15th goal of the season in a 5-4 shootout loss to the Red Wings :/

• J.P. Dumont scored the lone goal in Nashville's 1-0 win over the Wild

• Greener had no points but had over 24 minutes of ice time. It seems to be creeping up as the season goes along. Yay!! The Kings beat the Blue Jackets 3-0

• I love it when two of my WCBs are photographed slamming each other into the boards:

Aw, for me?
You shouldn't have.

• Ethan Moreau is the first hockey player I've ever seen who does not answer "chicken and pasta" or "chicken and rice" or really pasta of any kind as their pre-game meal:

If you can't read it, it syas "Fish and salad. That's about it."

A good win for the Sabres, and the Pirates won as well, 5-2. Colton Fretter had a hat trick?!? Wooo! Funk was hurt after being hit from behind by the Devils' Salmonella Poisoning. Oy, the boy just got over a concussion too. Jhonas Enroth stopped 31 of 33 and improved to 8-2-2.

I really like writing posts when both of our teams win.