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It’s Christmas…and It’s Ok To Hate

by IwoCPO on 12/20/07 at 05:05 PM ET
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Updated 2024:  Ted Kulfan, former Deep Digging Captain, reports that Chris Chelios did not take the news he’d be staying home tonite well.

“What do you want me to say? I’m happy about it?” said Chelios, who definitely was not happy with the news.

Derek Meech will take Chelios’ spot in the lineup. This is the third time this season that coach Mike Babcock has sat Chelios, 45, for the second of back-to-back games.

“I could play him, but I’ve said from day one, and we’ve had this same conversation all the time, I told him the first half of the year this is going to happen,” Babcock said. “We’re going to need him at the end of the year. He doesn’t like it, but that’s life.”

Sometimes, when I’m kicking the bejesus out of Dive fans, just drilling them day after day because it makes me smile?  Well, sometimes, I get sad because Bitter Blues fans think I’ve forgotten them.

That’s not true.  It’s not true at all.  It’s just that, well, the little Blues have never defeated the Wings in a playoff series so it’s kind of a debate ender, you know?

But there’s an ingredient there that can’t be overlooked.  Oh, the Blues fans, they hate them some Wings.

And you know what? I’m not real fond of Blues fans either.  That’s the cool thing about me.  I make no claims to be mature.  In fact, yesterday at my youngest daughter’s school Christmas holiday party? Some (army) idiot was wearing a Blues jersey.  Here’s what happened.

Iwo:  Blues fan, eh?
Dumbass:  Yep
Iwo: We’re kicking your ass tomorrow night. 
Dumbass: Oh. Detroit fan.
Iwo: That’s right.  Feeling inferior right now aren’t you?
Dumbass: Not really. The Blues are much improved. Love the McDonald trade, Kariya…
Iwo: Yzerman. ‘96.
Dumbass:  Oh. That. 

There was more, but it’s not as funny as I remembered it to be.

Here’s a nifty little post over at a blog named St. Louis Game Time.  You’ll have to click from here because it’s not in my blog roll to the left.  It’s in the supersecretbookmarkedblogrollfeaturingbloggerswhohatetheWings.  Their Hockeytown hatred would only be rivaled by the Hockey Dumb in Denver if only Denver had more than 13 fans left.

I’m not going to get into the whole “take the Central more seriously” thing.  There is zero chance the Wings fall into that trap again. Does that mean they win tonite? Am I predicting that? No. I’m out of the prediction business.  But it does mean it’s time for another Sack o’ Mail.  That’s right Skippy.  Gather the family ‘round because it’s time for some wholesome fun courtesy of the faithful A2Y readers.

The Honorable Denny Wisniewski, Saginaw—Were you one of the bastards who passed out in my tool shed on several occasions in 1986 and 1987?  Should we be concerned with the Poultry now that Scott Niedermayer decided to return?

Iwo:  No, sir.  That wasn’t me.  I rarely drank in high school and Saginaw was in a dry county when I lived there. Still is as far as I know.  Scott Niedermayer doesn’t necessarily make me any more wary of the Poultry than I was before.  Re-phrase:  they were very good, despite their early season malaise, before he came back. Now they’re better.  I see them as a 2 or 3 seed and our opponent in the WCF. 

We’re going to let this serve as the starting point for tonite’s live blog and I’ll update the Sack during the game.  It’s a 2030 start so “the letters” I pick may be a little less formal than Denny’s.  Stand by.

Updated: 1940 EST.  See what happens when games start one hour later than usual?  I take ZERO responsibility. 

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