Thank goodness 3or4 came through on the high end.

Posted by O-Joe on 04/24/08 at 09:17 PM ET

Poor Diveaholic, he’s addicted to Diveahol!

So Floppa misses the game with groin issues, and Josie the Pussycat gets pulled because of cramps.  Did the Dive team gynecologist stay home in Denver?  That would explain the vagina problems.

Posted by Matt from Chicago on 04/24/08 at 10:20 PM ET

So....Pussycat has ‘the flu?’

Lemme get this straight. You let your starting goal tender NEAR the dressing room for game 1 of the most important round your team will face in the NHL playoffs....WITH THE FLU?

I cry Shenannigans!

He got scared and ran with his tail between his legs.....COWARD. At least grandpa sits on the bench and watches his team crawl back after 2 goals in 9/11/37 seconds.

Grow some tentacles Divas!

Posted by Scott H from Kalamazoo on 04/24/08 at 11:34 PM ET

Self Control:  Stuck at a fundraiser.  Found a TV in the kitchen of the facility.  Wound up watching the last four minutes standing next to a guy in a Avs jersey.  Sandy Frickin Eggo and this guy is in an official Rob Blake Avs jersey...beeejeezus. Wings won.  He gets to live to see game two....but there was a moment there with 8 seconds left where things could have turned ugly. 

Why?

I’m not an NHL fan. I’m not a Central Division or Western Conference fan.  I’m a Red Wing fan. Period.

Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 04/24/08 at 11:53 PM ET

f the dive, what a kind of good game, i wish it was a shut out, but its still a win.  dmac needs more htis, why wasn’t lapeierrie’s face smashed in? that’s my big question.

Posted by squirrely from dirtyjerz on 04/25/08 at 12:21 AM ET

Scott H: 

So....Pussycat has ‘the flu?’

Lemme get this straight. You let your starting goal tender NEAR the dressing room for game 1 of the most important round your team will face in the NHL playoffs....WITH THE FLU?

I cry Shenannigans!

I think Pussycat’s flu is in the same category of ailment as Floppa’s groin.

Nice win.  Wings desparately need to learn some killer instinct—perhaps a visit to see Peabody and Sherman with the wabac machine—oh to say around 451 AD, and witness Atilla the Hun at the battle at Chalons!!!!

Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Hockey Netherworld on 04/25/08 at 07:38 AM ET

Wonder if Floppa’s groin problems are really his foot.

Not happy with the way they let up at times, but glad they got the win. And really happy to see them almost score at will in the first. Best I’ve seen them in a long time.

Anyone else feel like Chelios had a horrible game? He’s usually guilty of scrambling, but tonight was ridiculous.

Posted by AndrewB from TN on 04/25/08 at 07:44 AM ET

BTW,
Love how Adrienne already jumped off the wagon for the Avs this morning. God I love beating this team and their fans. Hopefully they’ll all be crying in their granola by saturday afternoon.

i know it’s cheesy as hell, but the password is:
provided93. yeah, that sounds about right.

Posted by AndrewB from TN on 04/25/08 at 07:50 AM ET

The weird part is that I (and I hate to say it) agreed with Diveaholic. I wouldn’t have expected Ozzie to steal a game, just play solid. And while I think Theodore has been massively over-hyped with his mini-resurgence, I didn’t think he could be that bad.

But, the bottom line of that game was the Wings played 20 minutes of excellent hockey, and made big bad Foote and Salei look like girls the way Zetterberg and Franzen were taking it to the net every chance they had. The Avs played good for 40 minutes, and like Iwo has said, they went into ‘98-shutdown mode. And when they let up a bit, Ozzie made the one crucial save.

Posted by Nathan on 04/25/08 at 07:53 AM ET

AndrewB, good point about Floppa. The Dive papers were reporting that he skated for 15 minutes in the morning skate, which is unusual for him (they said he usually gets a steamy massage, of course, instead).

Can’t help but think that he was out there testing the foot/skate/boot/padding/etc. and that the groin is fine. If the groin was tense, then I’d expect the usual rub-down from the training team would hit the spot for Floppa…

I’m also waiting to see if when Hannan took the skates off last night the foot swelled up from the Sammy shot.

Posted by Nathan on 04/25/08 at 07:57 AM ET

So Floppa misses the game with groin issues, and Josie the Pussycat gets pulled because of cramps.  Did the Dive team gynecologist stay home in Denver?  That would explain the vagina problems.

Colorado Vagalanche?

Posted by O-Joe on 04/25/08 at 08:08 AM ET

Did anyone catch The Delicate Genius’ “There Will Be Blood” comment in his article this morning? He must be a A2Y fan.

Posted by jmara85 on 04/25/08 at 08:15 AM ET

Watch it, boys.  Women have killer instincts, too. (At least some of us.)

Forsberg has been in and out of the lineup since he got back in Denver.  I wonder if the big minutes he played in his first few games have not allowed him to get back into the swing of the games as well as he would have liked.

I don’t know how he looked against Minnesota, since those games either weren’t televised or they were the JIP games, but I wouldn’t be surprised if his groin was strained because he is still compensating for his foot problems.  He’s probably just a collection of aches and strains by now to the point that it’s hard to tell where one pain gives way to another.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 04/25/08 at 08:16 AM ET

OKay, okay. Are Vagalanche bloggers conceding this series already? Even I think the Avs aren’t going to just lay down and continue to, um, take it. Just jumped over to Dribblesquirts blog and he’s talking nonsense.  The rivalry means nothing apparently to Dive fans because, get this, they’ve moved on. Oh no, they don’t feel like the Wings are a big rival and this series means much to them (lose or win). They’ve moved on while apparently it’s the wings who are stuck in the past, bringing in players just for old times sake. So, see, they’re above all the hatred and think there’s not much significance to the rivalry.  They think we need them, but they don’t need us or some such dribble. This feels like the set up to ‘well, of course the wings won because Floppa was out or we’d rather beat another team.’ No, we just hate and enjoy beating the team with fans who come up with bs like that. So we’re bringing back players to relive the glory days? Riiight. If this takes the sting away keep on I guess.

Posted by AndrewB from TN on 04/25/08 at 08:19 AM ET

To anybody who thinks that hte game would have been much differend with Floppa and a healthy Three or Four, they’re right.  The game would have been 3-1 for the Wings.  The Dive’s last two goals were a direct result of the Wings playing like they’d already won the game.  Nobody in the league shuts it down as well as the Wings, I just wish they’d stop getting themselves into situations in which they need to do so.

Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 04/25/08 at 08:49 AM ET

Baroque, yes we do.  I don’t think our body parts make us wimps. 

I was just mad that the Wings did not play a complete 60 minutes of hockey but then this is the same refrain we have been trumpeting all year.  Yes, I think Chelios had a bad game.

I was surprised Forsberg was not in the game since there was no mention of it in the media here until game time.  I figure it must be something pretty major if he couldn’t go in Game 1.  Whatever one thinks about Forsberg, he is a fierce competitor so he must have really been hurting to not play.  Baroque, my friend and I were talking and he mentioned that he could be overcompensating for his foot and that is what is causing the groin problem.  Of course with the NHL and the injuries, he could have broken his arm and they call it a groin.

Here’s hoping for a better Game 2.  Thank goodness for Ozzie making the big save when we really needed it.

Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 04/25/08 at 09:18 AM ET

A win is a win is a win....

BUT, anyone has to be relatively unhappy with about 38 minutes of that game. The avs looked dangerous...hitting pipes, getting good looks at the net...while we looked like we were scrambling (cheli-style) to find men and lock it down.  I really could have gone for one more goal there in the second just to show that we could.  Peter B looked decent in net, but it’s tough to tell because we never tested him. 

I did love the Ozzie! chant though.  Good to see the crowd come to life.  Sounded loud as hell on the tube.

Oh...and god blesss three or four...he’s your First Star of the game

Posted by disch from austin on 04/25/08 at 09:31 AM ET

“Are Vagalanche bloggers conceding this series already?”

No, you should try reading and actually comprehending what Jibble was saying.

And you might want to learn what a paragraph is.

Posted by Shane from Saskatoon on 04/25/08 at 09:42 AM ET

These series are so up and down, I’m nervous about getting too cocky at this point.  I’m very happy with the balance we’re getting from the top three lines.  Throw in Helm’s emergence and the forward corps looks great.  Lilja HAS to be removed.  Man that guy makes mistakes at the wrong time.  We’ll see how well Osgood’s save percentage holds up, but so far, so good.  He’s really matured, and making that last save was a good sign.

Very nervous about the Wings inability to shut Colorado down in the last two periods, though.  As great as they did that in the last two Nashville games, the third period had a wild “oh my God please don’t let them score” feels to it.  It would be nice to see this team put the vice on when in the lead.

Lastly, did Ricci really become a transvestite?

Posted by TDeters on 04/25/08 at 09:50 AM ET

Why are we not playing Downey? I wasn’t able to watch the game, but I am seriously wondering why his grit has yet been utilized.

Posted by Scott H from Kalamazoo on 04/25/08 at 10:10 AM ET

Because Mac is the same exact player except he knows how to shoot the puck.

Shane, really, you’re going to have to come with something better. You keep insulting us for things we’re proud of.

Look, the least you could do is bring something classy. Like you could call Datsyuk “Dat-Puke” or Zetterberg “Zetterturd”. Or how about calling Draper “Gayper”? Even I can admit that’s some funny stuff.

I think that’d be more our speed. I mean, we’ve got a couple smart ones in the A2Y 19, but it’s really not fair of us to ask Baroque to explain all of your thinking-man’s, backhanded compliments to us.

Posted by Nathan on 04/25/08 at 10:20 AM ET

Shane:
I do know what a paragraph is. I got on a rant, though, and never hit the return key. Happens.  I know it’s hard on the eyes so, for that, I apologize.  But I stand by what I was trying to get across.

‘No pressure Wings fans, no pressure,’ says Jibblescribits (I feel idiotic just typing that gobbledegook). I read that last line, and the paragraphs that came before it as saying this: Beating the Avs means much more to the Wings than it does the Avs. And the undertone to me was that any victory over the Avs would be expected.  Maybe that didn’t come across to you as setting up excuses beforehand but it did me.

I’d also just read Dater’s ripping of the team in his column and found similar excuses put forward.  Of course he would never downplay the rivalry thing. He’s got books to sell.  But he all but jumped off the wagon, saying if the Avs lose game two they’re done. And his reasoning for the Avs coming out flat last night: disheartened to learn Forsberg wouldn’t play. Give. Me. A. Break.

Am I still not getting it? Agree to disagree I guess.

Posted by AndrewB from TN on 04/25/08 at 10:22 AM ET

Nathan’s right.

Posted by AndrewB from TN on 04/25/08 at 10:29 AM ET

Nathan, sorry but I can’t bring myself to stoop to the level of a Wings fan.  Bad back and all

I just can’t bring myself to call players childish names.  Except for Phadouche.

Andrew, you aren’t getting it.  The point Jib was making is that Wings fans seem to be clinging so tightly to their hatred of the Avalanche that a loss would devastate them.

Avalanche fans have moved on and prefer to hate on the Flames rather than try to keep puffing air into a dying rivalry.

We don’t expect the Avalanche to lose, but it won’t cause me to go on extended hiatus and stop watching hockey like a little bitch whose vagina was broken.  Whoops, was that more your level?

As for Dater, he’s been calling for a Wings win since Tuesday.

Posted by Shane from Saskatoon on 04/25/08 at 10:44 AM ET

We don’t expect the Avalanche to lose, but it won’t cause me to go on extended hiatus and stop watching hockey like a little bitch whose vagina was broken.

So, what you’re saying is that Dive fans are much better equipped for losing a playoff series?

Good to hear.

Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 04/25/08 at 10:54 AM ET

Shane,
A loss to ANY team in the playoff would devastate us.  We love our Wings, don’t know what else to say. It’s the playoffs I hate any team the Wings are playing.

Would it hurt more if it was the Avs? Probably. We’ve got good and bad memories, and are extremely passionate about the Wings. It’s a lot harder for some of us to just rollover if the team fails miserably.

‘stop watching hockey like a little bitch whose vagina was broken.  Whoops, was that more your level?’

You’re such a clever bastard. I don’t know why the Chief doesn’t have a link to your blog on the left side.

Posted by AndrewB from TN on 04/25/08 at 11:09 AM ET

I’m all for shit-talking and heated rivalries and whatnot, but you guys seem to be gloating a lot for a team that nearly blew a 3-goal lead to an opponent with a lousy coach, a sick starting goalie and missing two of its best offensive contributors.

The Red Wings dominated the regular season and ran away with the President’s Trophy AGAIN.  They’re undoubtedly the most skilled team in the entire NHL (I’m a big admirer of “Dat-Suck” and “Zetterturd"), and for the most part, they’re all healthy.

The Avs had a horrible regular season and didn’t make the playoffs until game 81.  Their offense is based around a guy with paper ankles and a sophomore with a lot of potential but no playoff experience. 

There’s no reason why the score last night didn’t end up 6-1, and there’s no reason why the Red Wings shouldn’t sweep the Avs in this series.

Act like your team has won a playoff game before.  You’re not fans of the Capitals.

Posted by Joe on 04/25/08 at 11:13 AM ET

Don’t know what “Jibble” has to say.  Couldn’t care less what “Jibble” has to say. 

What I do know is that ‘Jibblescribbits’ has to be the gayest damn name for a blog I’ve ever seen. 

Someone please tell me “Jibble” is a chick.  If not, well, then, he should’ve just named it I *Heart* Scrotums and been done with it.

Posted by O-Joe on 04/25/08 at 11:16 AM ET

It isthe perfect name for a Vagalanche blog, though…

Posted by O-Joe on 04/25/08 at 11:22 AM ET

I have to agree with the Dive bloggers here.  These two teams last met in the playoffs six years ago, and the “rivalry” as we all knew it ended with an emphatic 7-0 disembowelment at the Joe (it was three months before Patty Roy could walk again).  If I was a Dive fan, I would want to move on from that as well. 

Wings fans are excited about this series because playing Colorado in the playoffs reminds us of that catharsis, that glorious 7-0 asswhooping.  We came into this series full-throttle, ready to watch some quality playoff hockey.  Dive fans?  They came in with the attitude of “hey, if we lose, it’s not that big a deal because I wasn’t that emotionally invested in this series to begin with.”

Vagalanche indeed.

Posted by Matt from Chicago on 04/25/08 at 11:24 AM ET

“So, what you’re saying is that Dive fans are much better equipped for losing a playoff series? “

By virtue of having a better grip on reality, yes.

If the Avalanche lose this series, sure it will hurt.  Yes, I’ll be upset.  Yes, I’ll swear a bit and sulk around the house the rest of the night.

But the next day I’ll wake up, turn on the tube, watch the highlights and get ready for more hockey because the playoffs will still be going.

I do care deeply about the Avalanche and want nothing but success for them.  I’ve vented in the past at my site about a lack of pride in being a fan of the team at times. 

But I don’t live and die by their successes or failures. And I think it’s kind of sad when any person has that mentality over a sports team.

Call me crazy.

Posted by Shane from Saskatoon on 04/25/08 at 11:30 AM ET

You’re crazy.

Posted by TDeters on 04/25/08 at 11:39 AM ET

Hey Joe,
Where’s the gloat? Even I said I didn’t think the Avs we’re going to just fold. If any of our comments did come across as gloating you’ll have to forgive us somewhat. We are playoff chokers happy to be past the first round for the second year in a row.

All your points were good ones, and I agree with you that blowing a three goal lead doesn’t look good. There were flashes, though, last night that made a lot of us feel all safe and warm. Maybe that’s where the gloating came in.

‘Act like your team has won a playoff game before.  You’re not fans of the Capitals.’

Lol. Glad you came over to talk shit with us, and did enjoy your blog.  Look forward to your well thought out posts as the series goes on. We’ll try to keep the profanity and childishness down a little. But for some of us this is our sole outlet for profanity and childishness.

Poop!

Posted by AndrewB from TN on 04/25/08 at 11:42 AM ET

Shane....is your first name really Pierre? Are you fond of native American transportation? What about vinegar and water?

/curious

Posted by Scott H from Kalamazoo on 04/25/08 at 11:44 AM ET

Well, I think “Jibblescribbits” is an adorable name - for what it’s worth (not much, obviously).

I think a lot more of the hype of the “rivalry renewed” is coming from the media.  This is one matchup where the networks can pull out all the old footage with blood everywhere, set it to some dramatic martial music and try to get viewers fired up about something that, sports-wise, is practically ancient history.  It’s the second round of the playoffs and two of the last eight teams still playing - that should be enough to get people who care about hockey interested - and old footage probably isn’t enough for non-fans, anyway.

(And I’d be far more annoyed to lose to the Ducks or Sharks than the Avalanche, so not everyone is Colorado-centric.)

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 04/25/08 at 11:46 AM ET

Ok Shane, you’re crazy.

What you’re arguing doesn’t have anything to do with your level of grip on reality.  I don’t know how many people on this site I speak for here, but I don’t live and die with the success of the Red Wings; my interest in hockey sure does though.  If that makes me a bad fan, then I guess I’m a bad fan.

Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 04/25/08 at 11:47 AM ET

RE: This whole “blowing hot air into a dying rivalry” comment…

Detroit sports fans, like some of our players (Cheli, Mac) have long memories.  It’s what comes with loving a franchise that was around before the first Bush administration (Washington humor, WOWA!).  The concept of what defines long in Colorado is entirely foreign (softball).  We get that.  But when your team is actually older than the nearest TGI Friday’s, you tend to gather a sense of history. 

Make no mistake, the Avs are not the only hated team in this fanbase.  We still hate the Blues and the Blackhawks, and for me, the Devils.  The problem is that between The Dive, The Notes and The Hawks, our biggest rivals have tended to suck recently and it’s only so much fun to hate on a team so down on their luck.  For some reason, the Denver humps have sucked the least out of that group...though not by much...so you get the most attention. 

Come talk to me in 50 years if your mouth-breathing fanbase still even has a team.  Maybe you’ll understand then.  Bitch.

Posted by disch from austin on 04/25/08 at 11:50 AM ET

Hey, where’s Thommmy?

I’d love to discuss that one-dimensional puke named Datsyuk…

This is Datsyuk’s first Selke nomination, the Russian led all NHL players in plus-minus with a career-best +41 rating, topped all NHL forwards with 144 takeaways, 67% more than his nearest rival (Dallas’ Mike Modano, 86) and ranked first among Red Wings forwards in blocked shots (42). The Red Wings posted the top defensive record in the NHL with 184 goals-against.

Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 04/25/08 at 11:51 AM ET

Please excuse Andrew for apologizing. He is from Tennessee and confuses teams that have NEVER had success in the playoffs with a team that lost a couple times in the first round in the middle of one of the longest playoff streaks in the HISTORY of the NHL....17 years.

ZERO apologies for gloating.

AVS suck.
Preds suckED.

Wings in 4.

GLOATGLOATGLOATGLOATGLOATGLOATGLOATGLOAT....

lol @ “Dat-Suck”....would you care to tell me what part of +41 on the season and the Lady Bing trophy for 3 years in a row (first in NHL history!) not to mention the leage lead in take-aways = suck?

At least he doesn’t have a glass ankle or leave the arena when he gets pwned like a sissy!

Posted by Scott H from Kalamazoo on 04/25/08 at 11:52 AM ET

I hope that this series is nothing like the Preds series. We cant let a team like the divers dominate us at their place. Go Wings!

Posted by Real1 on 04/25/08 at 11:53 AM ET

“I don’t know how many people on this site I speak for here”

Then you haven’t spent enough time here apparently

“my interest in hockey sure does though.  If that makes me a bad fan, then I guess I’m a bad fan. “

Not at all.  I think that makes you among the best fans.

And for the lightning round answers to Mr. Kalamazoo.

No, no, no and yes.  Geez, I hope most people like water.  Or did you mean vinegar and water together?  If so, no.

Posted by Shane from Saskatoon on 04/25/08 at 11:55 AM ET

Matt:
That sounds about right. Damn you for knocking some sense into my thick head. I mean, er, you could be right.

Shane:
A lot of the things we say on here are very tongue in cheek.  A lot of the things we say on here are dead serious.  All of the things we say on here are both tongue in cheek and dead serious. So I guess what I’m saying is, define ‘reality.’

Kidding aside, I would watch other games if the wings lose. Call me crazy, queue TDeters, but my body wouldn’t completely shut down should they lose. Are we all a little more invested than is socially acceptable? Sure. But that’s why we’re part of the 19 here at A2Y.  You got to be a little unhinged about it to post here.

Posted by Shane from TN on 04/25/08 at 11:59 AM ET

But for some of us this is our sole outlet for profanity and childishness.

Jibblescribbits can nibble me giggly jibblets…

Nuh-ha…

Posted by O-Joe on 04/25/08 at 11:59 AM ET

Funny about Datsyuk:

4 years ago I was driving to Detroit and was listening to talk 97.1 and they were talking Detroit
sports and the Ilitch family....a lot were dissing.

I called in and they put me on the air praising them
for bringing Datsyuk on board in place of Kozlov (my favorite sniper) and I informed them that he would soon be the greatest player in the NHL. They laughed and mocked me on air and made me out to be an idiot for 15 minutes......that summer he went into MASSIVE conditioning....

I soooooo would love to hear a replay of that segment. Those jocks eating their words would give me HUGE pleasure.

Posted by Scott H from Kalamazoo on 04/25/08 at 12:01 PM ET

“A lot of the things we say on here are very tongue in cheek.  A lot of the things we say on here are dead serious.”

I must admit I’ve been accused before of not being able to pick up when people are joking and when they’re serious.  The ol’ Internet doesn’t help much in that regard.

But it’s much more entertaining for me to assume everyone here means what they say

Posted by Shane from Saskatoon on 04/25/08 at 12:05 PM ET

Hey, where’s Thommmy?

http://ridingtheavalanche.blogspot.com/

you had to ask...of course the blog may be deleted by now…

Posted by eddie v on 04/25/08 at 12:05 PM ET

By the way.

I hope there is fair coverage on air in Colorado. I am completely convinced that there will be almost as many Wings fans in the crowd as there are AVS watchers (intentionally did not use the term fan!)

No Roy + no LePuke = no true rivalry

Interesting that we have 9 players that played in the 7-0 wipeout. I would pay to have LePuke back in the series.

Posted by Scott H from Kalamazoo on 04/25/08 at 12:09 PM ET

‘Please excuse Andrew for apologizing. He is from Tennessee and confuses teams that have NEVER had success in the playoffs with a team that lost a couple times in the first round in the middle of one of the longest playoff streaks in the HISTORY of the NHL....17 years.’

ZERO apologies for gloating.

Scott, I love your enthusiasm, man. Feel free to reject my apologizing any time. Although ‘playoff chokers’ should have been written in sarcasm red.

Posted by AndrewB from TN on 04/25/08 at 12:10 PM ET

Look, the least you could do is bring something classy. Like you could call Datsyuk “Dat-Puke” or Zetterberg “Zetterturd”. Or how about calling Draper “Gayper”? Even I can admit that’s some funny stuff.

In 3 sentences you summed up Red Wings fans better than I ever could. Well done.

‘No pressure Wings fans, no pressure,’ says Jibblescribits (I feel idiotic just typing that gobbledegook). I read that last line, and the paragraphs that came before it as saying this: Beating the Avs means much more to the Wings than it does the Avs. And the undertone to me was that any victory over the Avs would be expected.  Maybe that didn’t come across to you as setting up excuses beforehand but it did me.

If you can’t handle all those pesky letters and syllables “Jibs” will be fine.

That was part of it, I guess what I was saying is that those cup teams of pre-lockout to Avs fans feel like a different era for us Avs fans. Since we went through a brief rebuilding period we feel we are at the beginning of a new era. Red Wings fans clearly feel like the era is the same. That the Blood Feud is continuing. I’m not saying losing won’t be devastating if we lose, I’m saying it won’t be any more devastating at the hands of th Red Wings than it would be at the hands of the Ducks, Stars or Sharks.

Posted by Jibblescribbits from San Jose, CA on 04/25/08 at 12:18 PM ET

And you might want to learn what a paragraph is.

Once again, Dive fans, irony.  In this case, it is somebody castigating another for NOT using carriage returns, while simultaneously putting in two single-sentence ‘paragraphs,’ hence using TOO MANY carriage returns.  From what I’ve seen so far, the literary skills of Dive bloggers once again make me sad about the democratic nature of the internet enabling any old jackanape with a third-grade command of the English language to attempt to share his or her verbosity with complete strangers.  Complete strangers who generally couldn’t care less because they only found said Dive blogs when they googled Britney Spears lyrics.  Here endeth the lesson.

I don’t think our body parts make us wimps

Erm, Chic, if I may venture upon vulgarity, I’d says that certain body parts that women possess mean that they are the complete opposite of wimps.  Women actually cunningly rule the world by using said parts to subtly keep men doing their bidding.  All the while cleverly making men think they run this big blue marble.  There’s a reason Baroque’s friend advised her to wear a low-cut top and flash her pearly whites in her presentation.  Damn hormones ‘n lust ‘n things turning our brains to oatmeal ‘n whatnot…

Good game at the final score, but dammit, this is the playoffs-- no lead is safe.  There is no sitting back until the final buzzer.  There’s a reason people play through pain and injury at this time of year, and last night showed that reason.  Good to come out with the win-- it’ll be even better if the second period teaches the team a valuable lesson.  Tighten up, play right and play hard and play a whole sixty minutes.  You can sit back and rest after eleven more wins.  We’ve got the best defense corps left in the playoffs, and the best team defense all season.  Let’s start playing like it.

I’m out tomorrow again.  Nuts.  But it looks like NASN is showing the game an hour delayed.  I’ll raise a toast to you all (the Wings fans, that is-- not you Shane) tomorrow evening.

LET’S GO RED WINGS!!!

Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from the floor, tired and sweating but relieved on 04/25/08 at 12:18 PM ET