Thank goodness 3or4 came through on the high end.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

“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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Nathan’s right.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It isthe perfect name for a Vagalanche blog, though…

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.

“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.

You’re crazy.

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!

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

/curious

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

“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.

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.

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

Jibblescribbits can nibble me giggly jibblets…

Nuh-ha…

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.

“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

Hey, where’s Thommmy?

http://ridingtheavalanche.blogspot.com/

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

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.

‘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.

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.

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!!!

did I just write “cup”? yikes bad typographical error on my part… i guess i was writing shorthand for “couple”. Yeesh.

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

Lame.

I’ve had my childish fun for now, but I’m sure I’ll swing back by later. Meanwhile, eat me.

‘did I just write “cup”? yikes bad typographical error on my part… i guess i was writing shorthand for “couple”. Yeesh.’

Who’s having trouble with those ‘pesky’ letters? Sorry, couldn’t resist.

All done in respect Andrew...you’re the best thing that state has to offer...except for consistent hockey

/needs napkin for playoff foam dripping from lower lip

“hence using TOO MANY carriage returns”

Separate thoughts, separate paragraphs. A paragraph isn’t defined by its length. Or is that too hard of a concept for you?

“I’ve had my childish fun for now, but I’m sure I’ll swing back by later.”

It isn’t be time for your afternoon nap already, is it? Don’t forget to take your Flinstone vitamins and make sure to tell mommy and daddy when you feel #2 coming so they can wipe your ass when you’re done.

Son of a bitch.  I’ve been spending too much time here.

See, this is the quality I’ve come to expect from the A2Y 19. Fall in line, Avs bloggers.

O-Joe: “Jibblescribbits can nibble me giggly jibblets”

AndrewB: “Poop”

Why is it that on one hand you can criticize us for taking hockey too seriously, but on the other hand you whole-heartedly support my (tongue-in-cheek) assessment that us Wings fans are all immature goofs that like a good poop joke? Does that sound like a fanbase that’s taking it too seriously? The point here is that it lies somewhere in between, so let’s just get over that argument now.

And let’s call a spade a spade, motherf*ckers (because that’s how we roll). You’re absolutely right that the Wings and their fanbase have more riding on this series than the Avs. But please get the delusion out of your head that it has anything to do with a rivalry that died six years ago.

Rather, it has everything to do with the last six years involving a few things:
- Dive fans having expectations reset as a result of a crappy management performing stupid trades, stupid free agent signings, and mediorcre drafting
- Detroit fans having expectations maintained at the highest level possible as a result of the best management in (likely) all of sports performing shrewd trades at the right time, good free agent signings, and stellar drafting, all things considered

So, yes. I won’t argue with your assessment that we, as Wings fans, will be far more dissapointed if the Avs win than you will be if the Wings win. But the reasons you cite are completely incorrect.

Now that the serious talk is done…

Farts. LOL.

‘It isn’t be time for your afternoon nap already, is it? Don’t forget to take your Flinstone vitamins and make sure to tell mommy and daddy when you feel #2 coming so they can wipe your ass when you’re done.’

Wow. It is a fantasy of mine to work a job that lets me take a nap in the afternoon. But your bringing parents and my ass into this? Don’t project your own fantasies onto me, dude.

You’re right, you’ve been spending too much time here. Not many comments at your own site?

See, this is the quality I’ve come to expect from the A2Y 19. Fall in line, Avs bloggers.

O-Joe: “Jibblescribbits can nibble me giggly jibblets”

AndrewB: “Poop”

I’m sorry Red Wangs fans, I’ll be more childish and surely when I come here from now on.

You can take things too seriously but still like a good poop joke.  I take a lot of things too seriously but I still laugh my ass off when a good fart or poop jokes is broken out.

I guess I think - high expectations or not - Wings fans need to handle disappointment better when their team doesn’t win the Cup every year. Or when they lose a game.  Or don’t shutout out the opposing team every game. Or nearly blow a 3 goal lead.

That’s what I consider living in reality.

Although I will regret giving you guys some more fodder to burn on, I know many of you Detroit fans cannot be happy with the way the game played out last night other than the final score.  I know you are scared of us.  We punched, you countered with a flurry, but we didnt get knocked down, we got back up, the game ended with us on the attack.  One freak goal was the difference in the game, bouncing in the air 30 feet, only to drop in the net.  The rest of the goals on both sides were legit, both teams played hard(at times) and this should have gone to OT 3-3.  You are scared of Smyth, and Stastny is just starting to find him playoff game.  And Foppa will be back, he won’t miss the entire series.  We can play with you, we proved it.

Yea, it hurt to lose, but a series is a series, first to 4 wins and its not over until it is over.  You had us on the ropes, but we fought back, we wont quit.  We haven’t all year.  The NHL season is grueling.  “Didnt make the playoffs until game 81.” You try and play without your captain for 1/2 the year, and only to get him rushed back from injury to attempt to make the playoffs.  Yea, Holmstrom missed some time, but not in comparisson to what we’ve missed.  May I also remind everyone the we play in the most competitive division in hockey (I know you love playing Ca.  It must be nice to get the Hawks, Jackets and Blues 8 times a year.  Give me that division and we’ll give you a presidents cup.  You can take that Presidents Cup and parade it all over Hockeytown for all I care.  When the STANLEY CUP is hoisted in COLORADO, where will you be?  You try and play without your captain for 1/2 the year, and only to get him rushed back from injury to attempt to make the playoffs.  Yea, Holmstrom missed some time, but not in comparisson to what we’ve missed.  The make up of our team is so different from what you saw in the regular season.  We are now in our season, playoff time, the one that counts the most. 

I just want game 7.  If you win, maybe you can get a little respect, if we win, come to Colorado and have some granola on me.

“Not many comments at your own site?”

Not a whole lot, no.  But viewership is still up and that’s fine by me. Even if I had only 10 regular readers, I’d continue to write because I love the Avalanche, I love hockey and I love writing.

That’s also why I’m here now.  If I didn’t give a shit, would I still be here commenting and having fun? No.  But I do care and do enjoy the interaction.

Although I’d prefer it at a maturity level higher than a preschooler.

I guess I think - high expectations or not - Wings fans need to handle disappointment better when their team doesn’t win the Cup every year. Or when they lose a game.  Or don’t shutout out the opposing team every game. Or nearly blow a 3 goal lead.

That’s nothing compared to Montreal fans - those people are certifiable!

Good G*d, it’s nice to see Thhhhhommmy is still an unhinged lunatic, completely separated from reality.

Enjoy!

Tonight, I will be rooting for the San Jose Sharks to put Calgary away. There are a couple reasons for this, not the least of which is that the more Canadian franchises that are eliminated, the better. The one exception is the Montreal Canadiens, but that’s because I make money every time they win, and Quebec isn’t really part of Canadia anyway.

We’ve already beaten a one-line team. Quite handily, actually. The Wild are a better team than the Wings are, and they play better team defense (which is really saying something - the Wild are the ONLY team that plays better team defense than the Wings do).

Insanity, thy name is Thhhomass.

‘Although I’d prefer it at a maturity level higher than a preschooler.’

I didn’t make the mommy and daddy comment you did, so that’s rich.  However, we obviously enjoy the interaction as well.  Re-read Nathan’s comment. We’re all just having a good time.  But we’re all serious.  And we’re just joking too, in a serious manner. Oh, screw it, we’re all secretly weeping and shaking inside.

I think you get it, but if you don’t then you aren’t going to like the comments on here should (notice I said should ) we lose a game or two.

What the hell is a jibblescribbit anyways? Are those the little pieces of “matter” that fly of of octopus tentacles?

Maybe that piece of skin between the rectum and the bottom of the scrotum?

I’m completely confused....any help would be wonderful.

“I didn’t make the mommy and daddy comment you did, so that’s rich.”

I couldn’t help but be drawn in by the black hole of suckitude here

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.

it’s funny to me to see Avs fans talking about eras.  as if they have any, or have had any.

We can play with you, we proved it.

actually, if you want to compare “A” games, you proved you can’t.  the Wings had their A game in the first period.  they relaxed, and let the Avs back into the game.  had they run their A game for 60 minutes, the Avs never would have gotten close.

I just had an Ranger fan friend of mine call me to see how I felt about the game last night.  Baroque - speaking of certifiable, he definitely is as a Rangers fan.  I told him I wasn’t happy with the game.  I’m glad the Wings won but it should never have been that close.  If the Wings had won that game, say 6-1 or something that would have been much more of a statement.  Here’s my tired old line, I just wish they would play sixty minutes of consistent hockey for one game.

I don’t get poop jokes but then again, I think that has something to do with gender.

As much as i love our team, they left the ice after the first period thinking it would be a cakewalk, and I think, underestimated the Dive. Instead of going straight for the jugular and running up the score, they tried only to protect a lead.  This is playoff hockey and if it ends in a high scoring game, the Wings need to be the team with the winning goal. Thank heaven for our Silver Lining, Chris Osgood, with 8 seconds left!

Now"BRING IT ON!”
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!

May I also remind everyone the we play in the most competitive division in hockey (I know you love playing Ca.  It must be nice to get the Hawks, Jackets and Blues 8 times a year.  Give me that division and we’ll give you a presidents cup.

*Sigh*

So is it time to post the Wings division records in nice big bold print at the top of the site yet?

Maybe that piece of skin between the rectum and the bottom of the scrotum?

That’s a taint.

When the STANLEY CUP is hoisted in COLORADO, where will you be? 

Weelll....  In all likelyhood I’ll be about 10 - 15 years older than I am now and hopefully have celebrated Detroit’s 11’th, 12th, or possibly even 13th Stanley Cup.

Thanks for asking.

What the hell is a jibblescribbit anyways?

Euphemism for female genitalia, I think.  Sort of like ‘bologna curtains.’

Alright guys, there are ladies in the house. Maybe we can’t let go with all our profanity.

Wow, you guys are dumbasses lol. Are all Wings fans as blind and stupid as you guys? The Avs had a sick Theodore, NO Forsberg, NO Wolski, and they STILL almost won! What about that 1-in-1000 chance 2nd goal that went 30ft. into the air and in. What about Hejduk hitting the post? You guys won purely on luck, and the fact that 3 of our best players were injured. Either all you fans are too dumb to realize that, you are all just overly cocky, or you know that deep down you should have lost this game and are hiding behind your cockiness.

I look forward to the rest of this series (especially if the Avs get at least some of those guys back).

PS: the only thing the Wings proved, is that they are easily beaten with a healthy Avs lineup. I mean, they almost lost with an injured Avs lineup....

‘taint your ass and ‘taint your nuts!

So is it time to post the Wings division records in nice big bold print at the top of the site yet?

I think it’s time. Before too long we are going to hear about how soft the Euros are, Old the Wings are, etc…

The only thing the game last night proved is that he Wings are easily bored when batting around a helpless puppy.

Please, put petey and 3or4 back in for th next manhandling - I’m fairly certain the Wings won’t let off the gas next go.

Retard.

The Avs had a sick Theodore

honestly, who is the dumbass that would believe such drivel?
The Wings lit his ass up! He got pulled and was humiliated.  “I wasn’t feeling good” ... horseshit! Buck up 3/4, the Dominator was pulled one time ago… it happens.  Take the ribbing and move on rather than look like a Versus analyst.

Turd!

Dub,

I’ll glady concede to the Avs fans that the Wings won because of the Avs health issues.

Why, you ask?

Because the win is all that matters. It’s part of the game. Wings lost the conference last year because of injuries. It’s a reason, but the fact remains that they still lost, and the Ducks are still the Cup champions. And I’m fine with that. No revisionist history coming from me.

I think Nate A. is right. The Wings’ division records should be posted somewhere on the page so visiting fans from other teams can get a clue that Detroit sucked against Gary’s Division this year and dominated the others, especially the big, bad Northwest.

And Avsfan, if you want to talk posts, I believe the Wings hit 2 or 3 last night as opposed to the Avs’ 1. So don’t even bring posts into this discussion.

Nathan: Exactly!!!

The Wings barely won last night’s game. I can admit that. But what happens if they barely win the next game? And the one after that? And after that one? A win is a win, just as a garbage goal still counts for the same amount as a Datsyuk breakaway on Vokoun or Turco!

The Avs had a sick Theodore, NO Forsberg, NO Wolski

um, Wolski was playing in the first when the Avs were getting smoked.  so you make zero sense.  as for Theodore, why was he the starter if he was sick?  hint: that he’s sick is bullsh!t.  it’s an excuse.

and they STILL almost won! What about that 1-in-1000 chance 2nd goal that went 30ft. into the air and in.

1-in-1000?  how long have you been watching hockey?  I’ve seen it happen quite a number of times.

What about Hejduk hitting the post?

what about Datsyuk hitting the post?

You guys won purely on luck

LMFAO

and the fact that 3 of our best players were injured. Either all you fans are too dumb to realize that, you are all just overly cocky, or you know that deep down you should have lost this game and are hiding behind your cockiness.

deep down we know one thing.  you’re an ignorant boob.

And Avsfan, if you want to talk posts, I believe the Wings hit 2 or 3 last night as opposed to the Avs’ 1. So don’t even bring posts into this discussion.

The Wings hit two.  Not that it matters.  Miss by an inch, miss by a mile.  Only to an Avstard is something that doesn’t even count as a SOG a talking point when playing the ‘we woulda beat you if...’ game.

deep down we know one thing.  you’re an ignorant boob.

Heh heh.  Boobs.

Heh.

Colorado Avalanche forward Wojtek Wolski will not play in Game 2 against the Detroit Red Wings and likely will miss the rest of the second-round series because of a bologna curtain injury.

Avalanche coach Joel Quenneville expects Jose Theodore to play Saturday after being pulled and sent to the hotel during Game 1 because he was shelled.

Well, most of that is a direct quote.

Man, I know they’re on my side, but Avs fans who start rolling out “if” excuses are pretty lame.  They’re sounding like Hilary Clinton’s advisors now.

The only if that matters is this:

The Avs would have won the game if they had scored more goals than the Red Wings.  Game 2, they’ll get another chance.  There’s not much else to say.

You know, if Mr. and Mrs. Stuart had done a better job of family planning, Lilja would’ve been in the press box last night (where he belongs) and Chelios wouldn’t have played as many minutes, so the Vagalanche wouldn’t have even come close to scoring three.

(Hey, playing this loser’s mentality shoulda/coulda/woulda game is sorta fun).

Somewhere out there, even if he hasn’t read this yet, I just KNOW the Chief is proud of us for this thread. I don’t think we’ve EVER been more juvenile.

And like I said, even if he hasn’t read this yet, I have faith that his sixth sense is tripping like mad, alerting him to the fact that we’ve created a thread of comments that include such gems as:

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“Did the Dive team gynecologist stay home in Denver? That would explain the vagina problems.”

“If the groin was tense, then I’d expect the usual rub-down from the training team would hit the spot...”

“Colorado Vagalanche?”

“Just jumped over to Dribblesquirts blog and he’s talking nonsense.”

“Lastly, did Ricci really become a transvestite?”

“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.”

“Poop!”

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

“Jibblescribbits can nibble me giggly jibblets...”

“Damn hormones ‘n lust ‘n things turning our brains to oatmeal ‘n whatnot”

“I’ve had my childish fun for now, but I’m sure I’ll swing back by later. Meanwhile, eat me.”

“Farts. LOL.”

“Maybe that piece of skin between the rectum and the bottom of the scrotum?”

“...Euphemism for female genitalia, I think. Sort of like ‘bologna curtains.’”

“...’taint your ass and ‘taint your nuts!”

“...you’re an ignorant boob.”

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I like to call it, “Greatest Hits, 1977 - 2008” by Chief and the A2Y 19.

MTVs begging us to do a movie. But we ain’t sellouts. Did I just say “ain’t”? Must be lingering from the Nashville series.

Avalanche coach Joel Quenneville expects Jose Theodore to play Saturday after being pulled and sent to the hotel during Game 1 because he was shelled.

Pretty harsh, Dub.

There’s no doubt in my mind that Three-or-four was sick last night--sick of watching his forwards not back-checking and seeing his defensemen bleeding from their arses.

Some good news, some ominous news from the Anti-Digger:

From Macomb Daily reporter Chuck Pleiness ...
Defenseman Brad Stuart was back to work and will be in the lineup, Saturday, for Game 2. After being home in California for the birth of his second child, Stuart should bump Andreas Lilja out of the Detroit lineup tomorrow.
Today’s practice was optional. Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Holmstrom weren’t on the ice. Datsyuk was reported as being ill.

To me, it’s pretty clear that Datsyuk is banged up. But it hasn’t shown in his performance. Hopefully, off-day rest will keep him at peak performance through the post-season.

I know, O-Joe, I know…

BUT, I also have it on fairly good authority that both the Forsberg and Wolski injuries are the result of a pre-game trib session taken a wee too far.

And just in case anyone was wondering, or certain fans forgot, the Avs went 7-12-1 against the “weaker” central division. Also note how they were 20-10-2 against the “the most competitive division in hockey”.

Good for you, you got the points, but just who’s mopping up on their division?

The Vagina Dialogue.......the saga continues.

To me, it’s pretty clear that Datsyuk is banged up.

Of course he’s banged up.  Both our high-scoring Selke candidates are banged up. 

Other than when he whiffed on a one-timer while on the PP last night, I can’t remember the last time Zetterberg took a shot off his forehand.  The Cortizone hasn’t been helping his bad wrist much, it appears.

The silver lining in all this, of course, is that we Wings fans have an Avstard-like excuse for every game Detroit loses (if any) in this series.

Shane:

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.

…

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.

Wow.  You think you have it all figured out, don’t you?

You’re not a fan.  You’re not even a supporter.  People like you make me sick to my stomach.  You instigate me.  People like you weren’t born into a sport.  Not born into a sports jersey.

You weren’t born into an Avalanche jersey – unless, of course you are fifteen, which does not seem that unlikely when you think about it for a minute.  You have no idea what it means to live and die with the team you were brought up to love.  Yes, I said love.  Something you’re probably more comfortable with using in the company of other fifteen year old neighborhood boys.

What you don’t understand is that a real fan doesn’t just turn off the TV and “swear a bit” then “sulk around the house”.  A real fan doesn’t “wake up, turn on the tube … and get ready for more hockey”.  It’s over right there and then.  When you lose, you stop living for a moment.  Time almost stops and it’s as if you hear your parents, grandparents and ancestors — yes those other people, fans long before we were born — turn over in their graves.  As a Dive, by default these are things you will never understand.

There is no so called fan less deserving of victory than the apologetic group of people around the Vagalanche.  Don’t get up.  Stay there, relaxed in your armchair.  Let than herbal footbath simmer and sink in, tickle in between your toes.  Pick up your latest copy of the Gentleman Quarterly, well broken in already as it almost automatically flicks open to your favorite Hugo Boss model.  Look at his fantastic five day stub (is that the reason why you enjoy the playoffs?) and have a go at it.  You’ll feel better afterwards as you realize that sports and ice hockey in particular, really was never meant for you.

That’s what I consider living in reality.

You know what else is real?  Have a look at this video clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LXWUTo3QwFw

Sometimes it seems the Europeans got it just right.  Sometimes sports is war.  We need to borrow a page from their book and rid the world of people like you.  God Damn I feel alive.

In their reality, “fans” like yourself would be killed and had for dinner by the real fanatics of their own team by you calling yourselves fans.  Luckily for you, by definition there are no real Dive fans, so relax, go back to reading that magazine of yours and leave hockey to us, the sad people who have “that mentality over a sports team.” The people who don’t know what a paragraph is.

As an exclamation point to what lilja4ever said, Avstards, the Chief:

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

‘Nuf said you Vagalanche motherF@#kers, because that’s how WE roll! Cocky? You bet! Deal with it…

O-Joe: Keep in mind that when Mr. and Mrs. Stuart...ahem...decided to have a baby...he was playing for Los Angeles and had no thought of being in the playoffs.

lilja, maybe I didn’t expand enough on exactly what I meant there.  I responded over here:
http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/A2Y/comments/is_your_tummy_ok/

but I’ll repeat it here too just because it’s late and I’m bored.

“A real fan doesn’t “wake up, turn on the tube … and get ready for more hockey””

Just watch me.  You see, I have the balls to be able to stand up after a loss, suck up the pain, take it like a man, and move on.

I guess I didn’t realize Red Wings fans were lacking testicles - proverbial ones so to speak so the ladies don’t feel left out.

And as an addendum, in case your brain couldn’t grasp it, I do care deeply about this team.  Do you think I’d expend the energy I do if I didn’t care about the team?  Are you seriously that dense to think I’d recap every game and provide commentary throughout the season for a team I wasn’t a fan of?

It’s tough for me to grasp that sort of short-sighted stupidity.