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Anniversary Flashback: 29 Days In Hell
by IwoCPO on 01/07/09 at 02:50 PM ET
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“You’ve, well, pretty much sucked.”
“You’ve cursed our Wings, but you’re almost gone you frigging bastard.”
“Some will say, though, that you’ve had value, that you’ve made this team tougher, more resilient. I happen to disagree.”
What? Two consecutive days of Legace flashbacks?
Nah, Brah. It was an ode to February, 2008. A piss-pot of a month that actually lasted 29 days due to some Leap Year regulation.
See ya in four years, motherf***er.
Exactly. Just when we thought nothing could derail the freight train that was our Wings last year, that little punk-ass Laperierre cheap-shots our captain. Kronwall gets hurt. Osgood goes in the tank. Hasek recovers much too slowly and the Stress Train starts-a-chuggin’.
And next thing you know, conference leads started to dwindle, third-period leads disappeared, secondary scoring became a secondary priority, Osgood gets yanked twice in a row, then benched. And the losses piled up. The bellows began from the restless natives. “The deadline will save us,” they yelled. But the deadline didn’t, nor should it have. Tick Tock got us a top 4 defenseman and nature slowly healed some--not all, but some--wounds.
Read the rest here and start praying now to that sweet, babbling, adorable, itty bitty little baby Jesus that it doesn’t happen again.
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Red Stripe. It’s beer.....HOORAY BEER!!!
Posted by Chris from Hockey Hell (Columbia, TN) on 01/07/09 at 03:16 PM ET
Good News:
Ozzie and a flock of other Wings are NOT going to the All Star Game this year.
Agreed...blessing in disguise. Get some rest boys, and keep drinking that milk, we don’t want that hangover comin’ back...please, not another February like last years. Take it nice and easy, stay away from golf carts, don’t go near snow-blowers, stray from discussing your ex-girlfriends (with the press), just rest...and drink that milk, it will do a body good.
Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 01/07/09 at 03:27 PM ET
Take it nice and easy, stay away from golf carts, don’t go near snow-blowers, stray from discussing your ex-girlfriends
And don’t bite anyone.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 01/07/09 at 05:22 PM ET
Son of a b%$!%@
Mo ya just caused a big gulp of a really nice martini to land on the keyboard....
Good one!
Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 01/08/09 at 01:18 AM ET
I’m already dreading January, Chief, and now February’s coming up.
See y’all in the Hasek. That’s me with the fifths of Glenfiddich and Jameson’s.
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 01/08/09 at 04:55 AM ET
Mo ya just caused a big gulp of a really nice martini to land on the keyboard....
You mean, appletini? Light on the tini?
Posted by Nathan from Jonny Ericsson's ice cream truck on 01/08/09 at 10:16 AM ET
Mo ya just caused a big gulp of a really nice martini to land on the keyboard....
Did ya dump it back in the glass to drink some sloppy seconds?
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 01/08/09 at 12:00 PM ET
You mean, appletini? Light on the tini?
Posted by Nathan on 01/08/09 at 10:16 AM ET
Speaking of Appletinis, welcome back ‘Scrubs’, the inspiration for my daughters getting me a nice gift pack of Stirrings Appletini mix, complete with a nice shaker. Nice except it’s another not so subtle slam from them that I’m not manning up with the babes enough.
It’s not actually too bad, ‘cept my 17 year old couldn’t buy the Vodka to go with it, or at least couldn’t cop to getting Vodka, but I had some on hand.
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 01/08/09 at 01:15 PM ET
New episodes were okay the other night… first one was funny, the second one was a little too crybaby serious for me though.
Posted by Nathan from Jonny Ericsson's ice cream truck on 01/08/09 at 01:48 PM ET
Interesting, an pointless discussion going on in the comments ..
Posted by HockeyTownTodd from upset when blogs don’t live up to my expectations on 01/08/09 at 02:39 PM ET
Candied Bacon Martini.
Bacon, my one weakness.
Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 01/08/09 at 05:12 PM ET
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Good News:
Ozzie and a flock of other Wings are NOT going to the All Star Game this year.
They can fly to the Bahamas and drink a Red Stripe.
Posted by w2j2 on 01/07/09 at 03:11 PM ET