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by IwoCPO on 01/05/09 at 11:59 AM ET
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I don’t ask too much of my readers, and you know who you are. All 19 of you. Your assignments are simple, really. Read the drivel. React to the drivel. Read more. React again. I don’t ask you for money, for recognition, beer or beta copies of made-for-Cinemax movies.
So the least you could have done was remind me of our third anniversary.
December 30th, 2005 marked the day we started this little ditty. And we’re going to do some celebratin’. For the next little while, a few days…weeks…maybe a month, we’ll be doing some flashbacks.
Brief glimpses into the evolution of our little wack job of a home. Now, I’d love to tell you we’ll start with January of ‘06, but I can’t do that because my previous websitemanagementgeeknoreacharoundsoblemieuxlookingasspumpers lost everything as I moved over here to the Empire.
So our first flashback takes us to January 2007. Exactly two years ago today the San Jose Sharks became “the team we don’t speak of.”
“We Don’t Need That Kind of Team In Our Lives”/7 Jan 2007
60 degrees in your nation’s capitol (capital) this morning. All meteorological indications point to a sunny, joy-filled weekend. I’m rested after a long week, energized and all is right with the world.
That is if you can forget giving up a three-goal lead, allowing six power play goals, nine goals overall, leaving your goalie in for eight of them, and sprinting to the penalty box like it was a phone booth with free porn and you were a Pred fan.
The only saving grace many of us can claim is that we didn’t stay up to watch the carnage. Me? I learned of it driving to work. The display on my Sirius radio tuner flashed “Detroit 4, San Jose 9” and I thought it most certainly was a typo. Some drunken shift worker hit the “9” instead of the “0”. Nope. Got to work, opened up the Freep’s flashy new website, hunted and pecked to find the Wing coverage buried two-third of the way down the page (the print equivalent of placement adjacent to the classifieds) and threw up in my mouth a little bit.
And the best of the comments to follow that post? W2J2. I particularly like the final sentence.
IWO, If you think you are nauseated, you should have watched the game. After playing pretty well for 15 minutes, The Wings were totally dominated. It was men against boys. What did Wilson do? He changed goalies. Babcock should have copied Wilson and changed goalies after giving up 3 quick goals. This would have possibly changed the momentum of the game. But noooo…... he hung Hasek out to dry. Babcock does not seem to have a feel for the psychological flow of a game.
Posted by w2j2 from Alpena, Michigan on 01/05/07 at 09:10 AM ET
That one defeat haunted me for five months. I had nightmares about all those frigging power play goals, about the bad men in teal. Horrifying. All I asked for from providence and the sweet, adorable 8-pound, six-ounce baby Jesus was a reprieve in the playoffs. Anyone but San Jose.
My memory is so..foggy. But I do seem to recall that we met the Sharks in May, eh?
We’ll spin this little flashback wheel again tomorrow and see what we come up with.
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Only three years? Young’n. 
Congrats on the milestone, good luck on many more years to come.
Posted by DetroitHockey on 01/05/09 at 12:19 PM ET
i watched that game at a bar here in San Francisco with my bandmate. we were talking about marriage troubles and we’d keep looking up at the screen intermittently. ugly, ugly game. for some reason, i remember that Jason Williams was still on the team then (they traded him that spring to LA for body known as Kyle Calder). i never liked Williams. no defence.
Posted by Alex from San Francisco on 01/05/09 at 12:21 PM ET
Happy (blog) Anniversary, Chief.
I think you only need to look at the impressive list of quotes there on the right to know how far you’ve come.
Congrats!
Posted by BuzzFledderjohn on 01/05/09 at 01:33 PM ET
Happy Blogiversary Chief!
Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 01/05/09 at 01:46 PM ET
Congrats Chief!
But when you say “3 years,” you must surely be speaking in terms of “Wings fan years” (1 normal human year = 10-point-something Wings fan years), right?
About Abel to Yzerman
Welcome to Abel to Yzerman, a Red Wing blog since 1977. No other site on the internet has better-researched, fact-laden and better prepared discussions than A2Y.
All those days and nights in the Hasek sure do take a toll!
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 01/05/09 at 02:28 PM ET
Babcock does not seem to have a feel for the psychological flow of a game.
Don’t beat yourself up, W2J2—we’re all wrong sometimes. You were just really, really, stinkin’ wrong here.
Posted by Nathan on 01/05/09 at 02:29 PM ET
Abel To Yzerman. A nice place where I can act like a juvenile whenever it is indicated.
Keep up the great work Chief!
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from Pa.-made in Detroit on 01/05/09 at 02:37 PM ET
Kudos Chief, way to go.
(I think I was AT that game, but my memory is foggy as I became very, very drunk.)
Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 01/05/09 at 02:38 PM ET
Since we’re reminiscing, Chief, I thought I’d add my own memory…the day I officially joined the 19. Oh, I was a casual observer before November 18, 2006. A2Y was one of a dozen blogs I would check semi-regularly. But that morning I read this:
Sorry. We’re not the league’s hottest team anymore. That November label is staying where we left it last night.
Now? We’re just the team with the power play that looks like five puppies learning to walk, and it finally cost us.
How did it cost us? Because teams know they can take liberties with the Wings and not pay for it on the scoreboard. Oh, none of the penalties last night were of the abusive kind, so you can argue my point if you want. But, just the attitude with which Calgary manhandled the Wings. The lights were out. The cell block was locked down. The skinny guy was trembling and everyone knew he couldn’t stop what was on the way. And he didn’t.
And with that last sentence, A2Y became the top blog on my list of daily “must reads”...and it’s been there ever since. Thanks for the memories, Chief.
Posted by Gabriel from San Diego, CA on 01/05/09 at 02:39 PM ET
Happy blog anniversary. Good date that you started it (my birthday). Ugh, I had almost forgotten about that Sharks game. Shiver.
Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 01/05/09 at 04:13 PM ET
I vote for the entire playoff series against the Sharks to be rerun, complete with the comments sections, including the ones that were deleted.
Heh…
Posted by O-Joe on 01/05/09 at 04:26 PM ET
Start here O-Joe and keep moving toward May.
Posted by IwoCPO from Sunny San Diego, bitches on 01/05/09 at 04:33 PM ET
Funny you mention Williams, Alex. He had one of the goals in that game.
Posted by Tyler from Arizona on 01/05/09 at 04:54 PM ET
i can’t really imagine being a wings fan without A2Y.
Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 01/05/09 at 07:11 PM ET
Nathan,
As a charter member of the A2Y 19, I was entitled to be opinionated…
......and I was entitled to dead wrong!
Posted by w2j2 on 01/05/09 at 07:43 PM ET
I’ve only been here ‘bout ten months and it feels like it’s been here forever.
Gotta lay off the Mexican food in this town but you know, that shit’s irresistible when you’re all drunk and good.
As Jennifer said, “Happy Blogiversary, Chief.”
Get drunk, get happy, get laid.
Posted by SYF from a "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" on 01/05/09 at 08:56 PM ET
Brief glimpses into the evolution of our little wack job of a home. Now, I’d love to tell you we’ll start with January of ‘06, but I can’t do that because my previous websitemanagementgeeknoreacharoundsoblemieuxlookingasspumpers lost everything as I moved over here to the Empire.
Chief, have you tried the Wayback Machine? I found archives of Abel to Yzerman dating back to February of 2006:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Posted by monkey from here to Timbuktu on 01/05/09 at 09:14 PM ET
Hell, I remember when it was abeltoyzerman.blogspot.com—all the way back in the Blogger daze! And the domain name abeltoyzerman.com…and the Great Silence. Finally here to the Empire. Now I may only have started commenting some time in 2007, but hell, from another charter member of the 19, Happy thirty-second anniversary, Chief!
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from a foreign computer on 01/06/09 at 09:05 AM ET
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Don’t worry Chief… the rememberance of anniversaries is highly overrated.
Congrats, by the way. Just don’t get senior-itis in your fourth year, eh?
Posted by HockeyinHD on 01/05/09 at 12:17 PM ET