This Won't Be As Fun

by Anne

Last year after the All-Star break, the Sabres kicked things off with a nine game streak in which they went 7-0-2. That's sweet. Maybe they can do that again.

I don't want to watch tonight's game. There is no way that tonight's game could be half as amazing as last night's, so there's basically a guarantee that unless AT LEAST 10 goals are scored, I won't be as happy as I was after last night's game. Will I still watch? Of course. There's always the possibility that someone else could shine tonight.

That being said, I will take any kind of win. Preferably in regulation because it will help the Canucks. Although, for my prediction to hold true the Sabres would go 0-2-1 in their next three games. Let's scrap that prediction just because its not optimistic. I mean, they can't have a huge EPIC FAIL game tonight... can they? Of course they can. Its the way of the Sabres. Last year after we trounced Atlanta 10-1 on January 18 we followed up with two losses, one to Toronto and one to the team we play on Saturday... Phoenix.

I'm sorry to be a Negative Nancy. I'm hopeful they won't be too swaggery and irresponsible and try to get all showy only to discover that the puck is no longer on their stick and Mike Cammalleri and Iggy have just set up a 2 on 1 with Marc-Andre Gragnani the only defenseman back. What a horrifying thought. Then again, why would M-A G be out against this guy:

Don't let the skirt fool you, M-A G

Sabres in the Saddledome tonight at 8:00!

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Private to Danny Paille:

Um, hey Pie! How did you manage to be a -1 last night? Please turn things around, Pie. Please?! For me?!

Thanks!

Love,
Oscar

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Oh yeah and

Dear Detroit,

I'm adding you to this letter to the following.

Dear Tampa, Washington and now also Detroit,

I have three words and a number about your 11, 13, and 12 year contracts respectively:

Rick. DiPietro. 15. Years.

Love,
Anne

In Retrospect, His Hand Wasn't Bandaged.

by Anne

See?:

It looks like its actually just padding to protect the back of his hand and not some crazy bandage. I feel less like someone should be smacking him upside the head now. And, yes I fixed the date so its no longer 2082 on my camera.

Yes I did take a picture of the newspaper because I couldn't find the images online and I don't feel like writing a 4 page paper about how Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard to be a comedy but Stanislavsky felt otherwise. Seriously, I have a Bachelor's degree in theatre with a concentration in dramatic lit and I took 3x the required number of dramatic literature credits. I can't believe I don't already have a paper somewhere already written about this topic.

I'm so freakin' tired. My dog is kind of sick so I was up late being all paranoid about him. He was at the groomer's yesterday and I think it really stresses him out because he's blind and he gets all disoriented. We'll probably have to start grooming him ourselves if that's what caused him to be all sickly last night. One dog is deaf and one is blind. My cat appears to still have all 5 sense firing on all cylinders so 1 out of 3 fully functioning pets ain't bad.

I keep forgetting to link to this story. Read the article and experience a taste of why Jarome Iginla is my favorite hockey player. There's a nice inset story about Mike Cammalleri and Iggy clicking together. Anyone who makes Iggy look better is A-OK in my book, Michael.

Woooo!
If anyone wants to buy me an Iginla jersey I'll definitely wear it
haha

Even though I have 2 assignments (1 came up unexpectedly) to do tonight, I'll probably still watch a game. Too bad the best one looks like it'll be Anaheim at San Jose... but that doesn't start until 10:30. It must be kind of sweet to be a hockey fan on the West coast, the "late games" are at, like 7:30. Although if your team plays in the East, the game starts while most people are still at work. Eh, ya win some ya lose some. I'll probably watch at least the first period of that one.

WCB Weekend Update

by Anne


*sniff sniff* It's really brought a tear to my eyes all of my WCBs who took up the cause to give me happy things to talk about on Saturday night. Here they are in no particular order:

Chicago: Patrick Sharp (12+8)

Sharpie scored 2 goals Saturday night! One a nice tip-in of a rebound and the other a straight skate in and shoot. He gave the Blackhawks their first two goals in an attempt to climb back from a 3-0 deficit. They went on to beat the Leafs 5-4 in OT. Yay!!!

Columbus: Rick Nash (10+9)

Nasher got his 10th of the season in a 2-0 victory over the Atlanta Thrashers, giving Steve Mason his first NHL shut out. The Thrashers didn't make him work very hard, they only offered him 15 shots to stop. Yay! This extends Nasher's 5 game goal streak. Yayyy!!!

rawr

Minnesota: Owen Nolan (1+5)

Nothing in the write up or box score indicates why, but ONo was named 3rd star of the night in the Wild's 2-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues. But, who cares! Yay!!! ONo!!!

Anaheim: Ryan Getzlaf (8+18)

Saturday night Getzy scored in the shoot out and talked himself all smart and the like when he talked about how well he can read Marty Turco. Muahahaha. On the other side of that game, Brendan Morrow's season is over :( His necessary surgery will require several months of recovery time. :( HOWEVER! Marty Turco got an assist and I friggin' love when goalies get points, hahahaha.

Detroit: Nick Lidstrom

Ok, so this isn't exactly about Nick Lidstrom. Its about my former Red Wings WCB, Brett Leda.
Brett heard all the mean things I said about him being terrible so he scored a goal and was named first star of the night! Wooo! Toooo bad he's not my WCB anymore. Look, one goal does not reclaim my love so easily.

LA Kings: Matt Greene (0+2)

Greener was a +2 as the Kings fell to the Avs 4-3 in OT. Once again, Greener failed to put one home. I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP HOPE, MATTHEW! THERE'S STILL LIKE 63 GAMES LEFT! YOU CAN DO IT!

San Jose: Marc-Edouard Vlasic

PICKLES SCORED A GOAL!!!!! Yay!!! And he had an assist!! Hooray! I hope he had all those adorable rosy cheeks I've heard so much about!! Weeeee! I love when defensemen score!

Moving on:

Vancouver and Chicago had better watch their backs in this "Favorite Western team 08-09 race" I just discovered this on the Calgary Flames website and things are looking up for my 07-08 team to really get back in the mix here.

The Flames participated in a charity wheelchair hockey event and got their butts kicked 11-6. Hahaha.

I bet Iggy wishes he could use that purple stick ALL the time.


I might be in love with Mike Cammalleri