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Take a Seat Manny

by IwoCPO on 12/27/07 at 11:05 AM ET
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Big night in Denver.  We’ll get to that this afternoon, give it the attention it deserves.  First, Manny and the bitter Blues…man, do they hate them some Wings.

I’ll never get it back and it haunts me.  I’m talking about the half-hour I spent reading the game day thread from the Let’s Go Blues message board.  It still amazes me how such a large group of people are all joined by a single common characteristic:  bitter, paranoid, absolutely unequivocal hatred for the Detroit Red Wings. 

No. It doesn’t amaze me.  Datsyuk’s stop-on-a-dime pass to the suddenly prolific Valteri Filppula? That amazed me. 

The fact that the Wings had three days off, flew in to St. Louis the day of the game, were absent their two top scorers, started their “backup” goaltender and still laid waste to the Blues?  That amazed me too.

No liveblog last night. House full of people.  Dirty looks.  “Suggestions” that perhaps I give the blog a rest in lieu of playing the interested host.  You know the drill.  But I did have the game on in the background.  Heard a few of these….“Oh…that’s just Bill.  You should see him during the playoffs.” 

Speaking of the playoffs.  Does this sound familiar?
St. Louis Post Dispatch

“I was the worst player on the ice,” Legace said. “I was terrible ... it’s as simple as that. When your goalie is not making stops, it puts the team on the back of their heels…”

Heard it all before Manny. 

Here’s what happens when you watch a hockey game with no sound, casually glancing at the screen every few seconds, trying to be all nonchalant, hoping your wife doesn’t see you because it’s important that you show her that you care as much about being a “good host” as you do about the Detroit Red Wings.  When you watch a game under those conditions, you think Chris Osgood faced fifty shots instead of twenty.  Every time I looked, he was making a huge save. 

Back over to the LGB site, where the Detroit Red Wings are the topic of no fewer than twelve separate discussions, there’s a post elegantly titled “suck it Detroit.”  Contained within that brilliant exchange of views is a significant discussion of Valteri Filppula’s hair.  I didn’t see too many references to the fact that he’s now scored seven times the last nine games.

Khan(!)

“We knew he was good before, he’s just developing now,” Osgood said of Filppula. “He’s still young, he’s coming on. Pav set him up beautifully, twice. He’s getting better and better as we go along here.”

Back over to the Let’s Go Blues board where an internet tough guy is claiming he visited Let’s Go Wings and “beat ass.”  Not real sure how you do that, “beat ass” on a message board.  I’ll research it and let you know.  Must be something Blues fans do in between training for UFC matches.

Just got a “are you ready to wrap that up?”  Back this afternoon. I understand there’s a game tonite.

In Denver. 

Excellent.

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