A Royal Playoff Berth

by Anne

Last night with a shootout win over the Coyotes, the Los Angeles Kings clinched a playoff berth.

Woooo! Let's do a little dance:

 Playoffs, baby.

 This is not unlike my own sick victory dance moves.

With Kopitar and Williams out, the youngin's, specifically Kyle Clifford had to step up, and they did. Clifford scored a HUGE second period game-tying goal that ultimately led to the game-winning shootout. I wouldn't call behbeh Kyle a suitable replacement for Kopi or Willy, but he'll do in a pinch.

There's no way this team goes all the way without Kopi. I adore the Kings fans I follow on Twitter. I love reading their blogs and I love their passion for the game. However, some of them need to see the light and realize that while Kopi isn't the ENTIRE team, the team will never, ever be as good without him as they are with him. Most of them have, but some still cling to 2011 Cup dreams.

I see this playoff berth as an opportunity for the Kings to see players like Clifford in big-game situations. Otherwise, I'm not holding my breath for huge things for the Kings. :(

Because I've been lax, I'm sure you've all missed your daily (ok, weekly...or bi-monthly) love for Matt Greene. Please enjoy that he has been named by his teammates as having the worst car and being the worst dressed. The truth is, he dresses that way and drives that car to make his teammates feel better about themselves when they're around him. He's got to do SOMETHING to ease their stress that he's so much more bad-ass than they are.

Let's Go Kings!

Letters

by Anne

Dear Kings,

Thank you for winning last night. I know it was in the shootout, which isn't my favorite, but at least you won. I appreciate updating the "W" column in your record. It is very enjoyable. Keep up the good work.

Love, Anne

 Wooo! Kings win!

 Dear Joe Beninati,

Thanks for developing an awkward man crush on Matt Greene. He is a "big burly beast," I'm sure he'll be glad to know you think so too. I am thrilled he has returned the Kings' line-up as well.

Love, Anne

What he didn't tell us is that this moose is named Matt Greene as well.

Dear Dustin Brown,

I'm sorry you were ejected from the game unnecessarily. Mostly I'm sorry you were ejected because you didn't do anything wrong. Also I'm sorry because you're on one of my fantasy teams and you killed my average time on ice last night. Please keep this in mind as you move forward in the season.

Love, Anne

I think this picture is from last season

HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE?

Looks like I found the front of this year's Christmas card.

Dear Drew Doughty,

Please wrap your head in bubble wrap and don't sit in any spinny chairs for the next few days. We'd like your coconut to be fully functional and ready to return to the lineup posthaste. I'm sure Simmer doesn't appreciate all the requests for chicken soup and foot massages. Oh yeah, and the Kings miss you. They're doing fine without you so far but they'll be even better WITH you. I'm sure Greener is trying not to take it personally that the first game you missed was his first game back. Bitterness between former housemates? Is there tension? Greener did saw Simmer's shoe in half once.... it's all coming together now.

Love, Anne

TIMMAH was kind enough to let you borrow it

Dear Sabres,

I have been having a bad few days, last night the Kings did their part by beating the Wild. However, I have no strong feelings about the Wild so that victory wasn't nearly as satisfying as, say, you beating the Philadelphia Flyers, my 2nd least favorite team in the NHL. PLEEEEEEEASE beat the Flyers?! PRETTY Please?!

Love, Anne

Does this come in women's cuts too?

Dear Tyler Myers,

You're  -8 these days. Please improve that stat and fast. My fantasy team would appreciate it.

Love, Anne

I see you are composing your thoughtful response.

Many thanks, young JBG

Dear Jason Pominville,

Please come back soon. We might not need you that much, but it's been weird watching games without you playing in them.

Love, Anne

I know what you're thinking, and you're right:

This picture will never be old.

Dear Squeaky desk somewhere in my office,

OMFG, STOP SQUEAKING, IT'S DRIVING ME SLOWLY INSANE. I SWEAR I WILL GO ALL HULK SMASH ON YOU SOON IF A SOLUTION TO YOUR INCESSANT SQUEAKING IS NOT QUICKLY REACHED.

Love, Anne

GO ABOUT WITH CONFIDENCE, CITIZENS

by Anne

I have no computer to use other than my parents so I was UNAWARE of this development until almost 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time:

After three months of rehabilitation and countless hours of skating and practicing, Matt Greene will be back in the Kings’ lineup tonight.

WHAT'S THAT YOU HEAR? A CHOIR OF ANGELS SHOUTING OUT WITH JOY? 

YES, PEOPLE OF EARTH. IT IS. YOUR EARS DO NOT DECEIVE YOU.

You can now conduct your lives with confidence because this man is BACK IN THE LINEUP:

GROSS.

BUT ALSO AWESOME

Stop being hurt.

by Anne

The LA Kings announced today that my future babydaddy defenseman Matt Greene recently had shoulder surgery and the recovery time is about three months.

They didn't say exactly when he had the surgery but I imagine it was within the past week. That puts the end of those three months at around Halloween.

The Kings play in Buffalo on November 19 which means unless he does something dumb like getting hit by a car (again), he should be good to make me swoon play on the 19th. He only missed time twice last season, both times before games I had a lot of emotion invested in (the Sabres/Kings game in January and the game I attended in Nashville on March 30).

Feel better! Take it easy! Lay on the beach! Have sex with a silicone-based California chick (carefully)! I can totally quit the job I just started to come help you pick up things that require two hands. Whatever it takes for you to get better.

Happy Birthday, Matt Greene

by Anne

I'm in no mood to be funny or celebratory, especially considering not that many people read this blog and it's rather preposterous to send birthday messages to anyone other than the people I converse with in person or on Twitter. My own personal grumbles aside.

He's my favorite so:

Happy Birthday, Greener!!

Please make Team USA stop sucking

Hey look! Other hockey!

by Anne

I don't like whining, I don't like bitching. Therefore, when the Sabres lost and that's all I could think to write, I opted to not write at all.

I won't pretend to have any solutions or suggestions for the Sabres moving forward but I'm just sick of nothing. ever. changing. We've been following the same system(barf) in management and on the ice for several years and the product isn't working.

I think Lindy Ruff is a nice guy but I question his effectiveness in this post-lockout, post-Chris Drury era.  Change for the sake of change isn't always grand but at least it will be something different. I'm fairly confident I've written something like this before, but doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the very definition of insanity.

***************

Moving on. Now that the first round is over, the Team USA roster for the World Championships will be expanded upon today. There was no one worth mentioning on the first list and I had sincerely hoped to be busy watching the Sabres or Kings in the 2nd round instead of the Worlds. Alas.

To my joy and delight, both Jack Johnson and Matt Greene will be playing for Team USA in Germany. Andy Greene will also be playing for Team USA. I'm not sure, but considering the creativity of most hockey players, I'm guessing they both go by "Greener." Hilarity will undoubtedly ensue, as they are also both defensemen. Perchance they will even be paired together. I also enjoy that Kevin Allen referred to them as "The Greenes" in his blog post. How presh.

Tim Kennedy will play as well, yay! Nick Foligno will allow me a brief respite to like him once again. I am utterly terrified by our goaltending situation. Right now it stands as Scott Clemmensen and Ben Bishop. Good ol' Bish. He'll definitely make things happen... right? Really? Was Robert Esche not available? Conkblock? Fine. World Championship teams in Olympic years are wicked lame.

Round 2 of the playoffs start today and the Worlds start in a week. 

Sigh. I think I'm going to check out of the second round and wait until the Conference finals to give a crap about the NHL this season. 

It's so much easier to like the playoffs without your team if your team was never in the playoffs to begin with.

Oh hey

by Anne

I had every intention of blogging all this week. Unfortunately a bout of tonsillitis has left me bed-ridden and tired until today.

All I have to say is:

Sabres,

Please beat Ottawa tonight. If you win tonight you clinch something that rhymes with "mlayoff shmerth."

Just do it.

Love,
Anne

Kings,

More specifically Greener.

Get better and pleeeeeease play on Tuesday!!!

The rest of you: SHAPE UP.

Love,
Anne

Tucker Suspended for hit on Greene

by Anne

Last night, long after I had drifted off into Dreamland, Darcy Tucker pulled a classic Tucker douchemove^TM.

Matt Greene was skating down the ice for an icing when he was hit from behind with unnecessary force by Tucker. Granted, while watching the video, you can see Greener's feet start to slide as he and Tucker meet up for the icing. However, Tucker is leaning into Greener, causing him to be unable to regain his balance and Tucker's body weight leaning on Greener pushes him into the boards hard enough to knock his helmet off. A tricky call, but Tucker was paying more attention to the puck than his or the other player's safety that close to the boards and at that speed, which is (typical Tucker) dangerous. Basically, there was no way Tucker was going to be able to make it to the puck before Greener and he should've slowed down. Tucker seemed awfully cavalier about slamming into the boards that hard unless he had planned to use Greene to soften the blow; the slipping just makes it look worse.

In retrospect, I'm somewhat glad I didn't see the hit in person because I probably would've freaked. Also, he barely seemed phased by what happened and immediately turns to Tucker like "WTF is your problem? Why'd you do that?"

Tucker will not be there tomorrow night when the Kings head to Denver to take on the Avs in an immediate re-match.

300!

by Anne

The post I was working on last night when I fell asleep (literally while I was working on it) was about last night's King's game.

They won 4-3 in OT (thanks to a goal by Drew Doughty) over the Colorado Avalanche to keep some space between them and the bottom of the playoff picture. Woo!

I fell asleep during the first intermission but not before hearing Bob Miller and/or Jim Fox announce that last night's game was Matt Greene's 300th NHL game!

Yay Greener!

Yay!

300 games

35 points (5+30)

That's slightly better than a point per 10 games player

Wooo!

Blogging Everyday

by Anne

Starting today, Tuesday, March 16, 2010 I resolve to blog everyday until the Stanley Cup is handed out.

Do any of you care? No probably not. However, I miss this little guy and I always enjoy reading blogs and writing my own so I'm going to vow to post SOMETHING everyday until I put a new magnet in the "Stanley Cup Champions" circle on my standings tracker. They only way this could go wrong is if by some miracle the Flyers win because I lost my Flyers magnet somewhere in my bedroom. 

GUESS WHAT?! I can't watch tonight's game. I know everyone must be stunned and flabber-ma-gasted. The Sabres for real need to stop playing on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, aka the nights I have class. Jerkfaces.  Kings, same goes for you.

SPEAKING OF THE KINGS. 

Two weeks from today I will be in Nashville, TN preparing to watch my beloved Kings lose to the Nashville Predators!! Woo!

So there were some good suggestions for signs. "Going Greene"suggested by my sister of all people. Someone tweeted something about Drew Doughty which I can't remember. Suggestions still being taken. I plan to make the sign the weekend before we leave (the 27th and 28th) if I make one, so keep the ideas coming.

Tonight the Sabres play the Thrashers. Last season the Thrashers had the Sabres number but this year we've won two of the three previous games so here's hoping to end the season series above .500? :)

This coming Thursday I have NO OBLIGATIONS. No classes, no meetings, no forums no war tribunals, NADA. I will have the entire evening free to enjoy the Sabres and Kings and beat myself up over how badly the lesson I taught at the middle school where I'm observing went. Should be GRAND.

See you all tomorrow!

In and Out

by Anne

The Sabres shipped Paetsch to Columbus for Torres and Grizz to Atlanta. There are picks involved but who the eff cares about picks unless it's the Toronto/ Boston Kessel trade. I'm not losing sleep over a 2nd round pick, no one should. We don't know who those picks will turn into or if we will even keep those picks.

The Kings shipped out Teddy Purcell (WOO!) and brought in Jeff Halpern and Fredrik Modin(errr...) well, regardless, Halpern will definitely improve the bottom six for the Kings and Modin can sit in the press box chair Teddy had previously been keeping warm.

For Sabres fans, here's everything you will need to know about Raffi Torres:

I figured out why embedding won't work and fixed it. Sweet.

For the record, this was the first video I watched featuring Greener and it cracked me up, thus leading to my deep running love for that maniac.

I didn't watch the subsequent Washington game because I was in class but I can see I missed out on quite a defensive outpouring being outshot almost 2-1.

In other news, Torres skated today with Pommer and Royzie and will wear #17. The "Should" line skated together today as well. If Torres wants to win over Buffalonians (which we might not, who cares really, he's likely a rental) he will do well to score tomorrow night against the Flyers.

USA v Canada

by Anne

Living up yonder in the Northern United States, we are in extremely close proximity to Canadia and Canadian people. If I were to leave my house right now, barring any back-ups on the bridge, I could be in Canada in about 15 minutes. 

The "Canada sucks! America sucks!" battle is a daily occurrence for me and the other residents of WNY and I'm sure any of the cities that dot the world's largest non-hostile border. It's funny to see friends in other parts of the country get all riled up about tonight's game. The hockey world likes to push Russia-Canada as a huge rivalry and it is, but I don't think anyone gets as worked up about it as Canada - USA. There aren't a whole lot of events in which the United States is near but not at the top. There are clearly several events that are dominated by other countries but usually the USA lags far back in those. There aren't many Olympic events in which the Americans sit in the middle of the pack. The USA has long been considered the 4th place lock behind (in varying order) Canada, Russia and Sweden.

I don't have a whole lot of thoughts on tonight's game other than I'm ridiculously pumped and I want to crush Canada. However, I feel as though there is no chance this will happen. 

Everyone has been all "Oh noes! Lindy Ruff! He's going to tell them where to shoot on Miller!" Yes, this is true, however, Zach Parise and Brian Rafalski are/were Marty Brodeur's teammates and Ryan Kesler is Roberto Luongo's teammate, I'd call the playing field fairly even in the "What about the GOALIE?!" argument.

I really really hope Drew Doughty and Dustin Brown end up out there on the ice against each other. Brownie hits like a freight train and Dewey has nearly mastered the art of the clean hipcheck, so it'll be interesting to see who'd get the upper hand in one of those one-on-one battles.

Also, my favorite American defenseman NOT on Team USA has been featured in an exciting video this break. Enjoy. I've missed him so. I wanted to embed the video but it wouldn't work. CURSES.

U-S-A! U-S-A!

TGIF? No, I have class at 8am tomorrow.

by Anne

Wooooooo!!

This whole having to be somewhere by 8:00 a.m. business is just not working out for me. It is true that one day 8:00am will be the norm or maybe even late for me as a teacher, but coming off of a six week winter break where I stayed up until 2:30 - 3:00 on average and slept until 11:00, being out of the house by 7:30 is no joke.

I've started rehearsing a show this week so while I was able to attend the game on Wednesday. (WOOOO!!! YOYOOOO!) but I was unable to watch the Kings game on Thursday.

The game on Wednesday was equal parts moderately fun and godawful mindnumbingly boring. The most exciting part of regulation was when Jamie Langenbrunner threw a hissy fit over his penalty for running over Miller in the crease. Overtime was exciting as was the mercifully short shootout. We so rarely win shootouts that this one was nothing short of a miracle.

It was close and low scoring as was to be expected when Miller and Brodeur duke it out. 

THEN on Thursday, the Kings rolled into Columbus. I wasn't able to watch any of the game but I gathered that the beginning of the game was not going well. Fortunately, the Kings were able to score first and didn't look back.

Oh who scored that goal?

Who?

Me?! 

Yay!

I'm trying not to take it personally that he's scored both his goals this season while I was not watching.

Let's be honest, the only reason he scored that goal was Frolov's fantastic pass to him aaaaaaaaall alone on the point and when he shot the puck he had a preeeeetty much totally clear shot at the net.

Dare we hope for a third goal this season? He has TWO multigoal season IN A ROW. Rarely accomplished. Also, he has a TWO GAME point streak going. Don't call it a comeback.

No, really, don't call it a comeback, it's not a comeback at all. Not even close.

Tonight the Sabres host the Bruins. Pie!!

No Danny, use the STICK

The STICK

7:30 puck drop tonight

UNNECESSARILY EXCITED

by Anne

Matt Greene is playing tomorrow against the Sabres!!!

Wooooooo!!

I realize how lame it is that I'm this excited but my favorite teams only play each other once a year I want them all to be there!!

Lame Tuesday

by Anne

Normally to re-cap a game I'll take my thoughts from the game and combine them with some photos  and toss in a chuckle or two for good measure.

I'm bored and tired so I'll just say this.

The Sabres came thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis close to tying the game after trailing 4-0 and then Jason Pominville was a bonehead and sent a pass right in front of Miller and someone I've never heard of scored to give the Ducks a 5-3 lead. Yoyo attempted to continue the comeback but the Sabres efforts were thwarted.

I like to call the window "Patrick Lalime with a hint of Pominville"

Then the Kings lost 5-1 to the Sharks. I didn't really watch but basically what I gathered was their special teams sucked donkey butt. They were 0-5 on the powerplay and 0-3 on the penalty kill. Please come back soon Matt Greene? TOMORROW?!?!

Pleeeeeeeeeez?

Both teams play tomorrow but I'm not sure who they're playing...........

Tragedy strikes Los Angeles

by Anne

Matt Greene was injured in his second of two fights last night, causing him to play only 10:31. Terry Murray claims it's not the same back injury but no one has said anything, per the NHL's usual "What? There's nothing wrong with him he's just, uh, resting and wearing a cast for... six weeks, he's FINE."

I figured he might have aggravated his back and that cut his minutes down. However, now it appears he will miss a few games and some are even saying a few WEEKS!

Heartbreak and sadness.

Feel better soon, Greener!

Delinquency

by Anne

I haven't updated since Thursday cuz I have the sniffles. True story. Also because I been supa dupa busy these last few days.

Let's recap Thursday night through Saturday night, shall we?

Thursday: Kings fired 4298672356 shots on Jimmy Howard but still lost 2-1. Blahhhhh. It was a very unpleasant game. However, Greener bounced back from this sore back and delivered some hits that night. Thank you, Greene Beane.

Friday: The Sabres host the Maple Leafs and, big shockeroo, beat them 3-2. Ryan Miller got all feisty and punched Matt Stajan in the face with his blocker and it was hilarious and awesome except he got a penalty but we killed that penalty off.

He went down like a ton of bricks

Tyler Myers is real tall. He also scored some sweet goals that were of the "Sooooo I'm right here... no one's gonna stop me ok- goal."

In the net.

Three powerplays. Three shots. Three goals. Good night for the PP.... to play against the Maple Leafs abyssmal penalty kill.

Saturday: The Sabres snapped their six-game winning streak but still mustered a point after an unending shootout v. the Colorado Avalanche.

Lalime started sloppy but had some huge saves to keep the Sabres in it until the end.

I called Vanek using his around the world move in the shootout and it totally worked. Hopefully he's turning a corner? Maybe? Pleeeease? :)

He did his best.

Then the Kings lost 4-3 after the Blues scored a goal 14 seconds into the game. Oy. It was not one of Jonathan Quick's best nights as he was pulled after allowing four goals on 23 shots. The last goal he let in was the definition of a softie.

Ok, well that Lydman goal on Ves-HA! Toskalol was the definition of a softie but this one wasn't much better.

They attempted to make a comeback. Brownie and Kopi scored to make it 4-3 but that's how it ended. Lame.

But, congrats to Brandon Segal who scored his first NHL goal tonight! Good job!

Woo!

The Kings need to get their butts in gear. This chick is none too thrilled with them. >:-[

Also, Greener had two fights tonight.

I haven't watched the replay of this fight. I wasn't home yet when it happened.

Why, Greener, why?

Although scanning his teammates' faces is pretty hilarious.

Zus, shave that goatee, it's like a hedge

I love Smyttie's face.

Oscar is really fascinated down there on the left.

Tonight was my last Sabres game working at HSBC Arena :( I have tickets to go to the next home game as a regular old patron. Wooo!

That is, of course, after the Sabres have their lengthy West Coast roadtrip when they'll play the Kings on the 21st and I'll be totally tormented.

Huzzah!

by Anne

The first 2:11 of last night's game was sa-weeeet. It's like the Sabres were apologizing for all their slow starts lately. However in those four slow starts we were 4-0-0 so as one of the writers on Puck Daddy wrote, I don't really know what we were complaining about.

The rest of that game was a tad sloppy but at least 2/3 of our top six scored! Thomas Vanek and Derek Roy will be shoveling more driveways, it seems...

Myers got his fourth on a nifty shot after a very clean offensive zone faceoff win, then MacArthur, Stafford, Hecht, and Pominville scored the other four. It was an exciting game, however there were many downsides and extremely little hitting.

Speaking of hitting, I got my answer as to why Matt Greene didn't register any hits the other night against San Jose. It appears Greener has been nursing a sore back for the last few days that pulled him out at the beginning of practice on Wednesday :( No word on whether or not he'll play against Detroit tonight. My fantasy team needs hits. That is not a category I'm accustomed to trailing in.

I didn't get to watch the gold medal game the other night as it happened but I watched it today and WOOOOOOO!!!! That was such an exciting game. SO excited for next year. Defending on home soil! It made me sad to see so many of Team USA's top prospects belonged to such yucky teams as Toronto (D'Amigo) and the Rangers (Stepan). Hey, Jack Campbell's still draftable! Eh?! Eh?! Ok FINE we don't really need another behbeh goalie, but it can't hurt to stockpile, right? RIGHT?!

Nathan Paetsch cleared waivers. Whoopdedoo.

I tweeted this last night, but after Kevin Bieksa went down with a nasty leg laceration and will miss up to three months, I picked up Steve Downie on my fantasy team because Bieksa's biggest contribution to my team was PIM. However, Steve has not been delivering. He has three points since I picked him up but zero PIM. So: STEVE! Make with the puchy-punchy. We all know you like it. Thanks, Anne.

No time for a pity party

by Anne

Sigh. Of course they lost to the Senators. It's their way. It's what. they. do.

How can you expect to win when you have ONE shot on goal in the ENTIRE first period. The cheer that went up from the crowd at HSBC Arena when the Full Monty got that shot on goal was hilarious. Good lord, that was bad.

Based on this team's record, I should probably love them, but I just hate them more and more every game.

If we didn't have Ryan Miller, we'd be the Maple Leafs. Disgusting.

The Kings lost in regulation to the Coyotes last night. Meh, they played ok. The worst part was Justin Williams breaking his leg early in the game. Wooo! We had our top line back for a whole shift! Ugh. Get better soon, Willy.

Then Greener had a "fight."

Dear Matt Greene,

Please don't fight. I understand that you'll be labeled poorly if you back down from a fight, but for the sake of your team, let Simmer and Crazy Face Ivananas do the fighting. OR maybe get tips from them? I love you and I don't like seeing you embarrassed like that. Please cease and desist.

Love,

All your fans

There's no time to feel bad about that disgusting display of a Sabres game last night because tonight they're in St. Louis. Please win? Royzie is hurt :/ I hate him but he occasionally makes good plays. Maybe Timmy will have to move back to center now and talk to Goose about how to win faceoffs?

I dyed my hair really dark brown the other day and then I noticed that my hair is the exact same color as Oscar's fur. Almost black, but actually just really dark brown. Whoops.

Don't forget to vote in the poll in the left sidebar, and here's the roster for reference!

Open letters continued

by Anne

Dear David Backes,

Hey Buddy!

I see you got my previous letter.

Just wanted to drop you a note and say thanks for picking up the pace. You have thirteen points in 30 games this season which is vastly improved over your three in 16 you had before. You now have more points that Matt Greene, truly an accomplishment. You're still not up to the pace I'd like you to be, but I will take this improvement as a victory.

I must give credit where credit is due. Even when you weren't scoring you were still hitting everything in sight and winning  a lot of faceoffs. My fantasy league counts those things too so, thanks for that. I'm glad I didn't drop you from my team. Nine points in your last nine games makes me a happy Fantasy team owner.

Keep on keepin' on.

Love,

Anne

Look how foxy.

Well done.

Also, love the embelleshed hair accessory, earrings and no necklace

Tres chic, Mrs. B

I have a few additional letters to send out.

Dear Los Angeles Kings,

Yesterday I purchased my very first Los Angeles Kings jersey. Yes it's an old CCM jersey and it was on sale at a discount store but it was still a Kings jersey available for sale in BUFFALO (technically Niagara Falls) and I thought that might mean something to you.

Instead you went and lost to the Canucks who used to be my favorite Western Conference team. However, I don't see any CANUCKS logos in this blog's banner, do YOU? (Stop looking so hard, Brad Richardfail, there aren't any there).

Granted, for my fantasy team's sake, I appreciate that Kesler and Raymond scored, HOWEVER, Quickie monster is also one of my fantasy goalies. Granted, I lead our league in wins thanks to Quickie and Bryz but STILL.

Tonight against the Oilers you will be without Stoll, Smyth, Simmonds and Segal. Oh dear. But Corey Elkins is playing tonight? Oh brother.

Just try to hold it together.

Love,

Anne

Dear Terry Murray:

Don't play Quickie tooooo much. Why is he playing against Edmonton tonight in back to backs? Sense this does not make.

Ersberg may not be great but he's won two of the three games he's started. Let Quicker rest.

Love,

Anne

  Can't you see he's tired?

Dear Matt Greene,

Remember that time you scored the game winning goal the night before (American) Thanksgiving and you were in Edmonton and I wasn't watching?

I'll totally be watching tonight if you'd like to score again. I know that's asking a lot but I believe you can do it.

Love,

Anne

Make Papa Greene proud, Matthew

Dear bobby pin I found on my dresser,

Thanks for letting me use you to fix my headphone jack on my Macbook. Without you, I'd be like my sister who didn't have working speakers for two years or something like that because she clearly never googled "Red light, headphone jack, Macbook" which helps you figure out how to fix the problem.

Thanks for holding my hair in place and sacrificing yourself in this endeavor.

Love,

Anne

Today's first star