Chief,

I think I am going to need help with hockey withdrawal.
I am feeling the loss already.
What do we have in the Hasek car cabinet?

Posted by w2j2 on 06/06/08 at 08:49 PM ET

W2, we’ve got the old standbys: cheap, warm beer. Cheddar.  Courageous pets.  That’s all I can offer right now.  I’ve got something funny for you guys coming up later tonite, though.  Reaction from enemy bloggers.  Pure gold.  I may fall asleep (pass out), so if not tonite. Look for it in the AM.

Posted by IwoCPO from Sunny San Diego, bitches on 06/06/08 at 08:53 PM ET

mmmm….cheap beer…warm.  soft, warm cheddar.

That should do me until I get worked up about enemy bloggers.

Posted by w2j2 on 06/06/08 at 09:00 PM ET

I think I am going to need help with hockey withdrawal.

Oh geez me too. Tomorrow morning I’m going over to Cincinnati to see the Cyclones Cup celebration downtown. Not that it even comes close the Stanley Cup parade in Detroit, but it will have to do as a stand in celebration. I’m going to need some kind of hockey patch to ween myself off.

Here’s a link to my Cyclones pic from the clinching game last night if anyone is interested: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25158361@N05/

Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 06/06/08 at 09:28 PM ET

Where can I get the hat Babs and Oompa Loompa were wearing? It’s MUCH nicer than the official hats.

Posted by jman077 from North Detrooooit on 06/06/08 at 09:43 PM ET

Where can I get the hat Babs and Oompa Loompa were wearing?

I noticed those too. Something for the team only?

What I really want is the Bruise Brothers shirt Downey was wearing.

Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 06/06/08 at 09:50 PM ET

That hat was available at the Joe today, probably elsewhere as well.

McCarty was wearing the Bruise Brothers shirt, too.

Posted by Clark on 06/06/08 at 10:14 PM ET

McCarty was wearing the Bruise Brothers shirt, too.

warms the heart

Posted by Osrt on 06/06/08 at 10:33 PM ET

I wish I could have made it up to Detroit for the parade (or a finals game), but alas I had to work. I’ll have to settle for the Cyclones rally in downtown Cincinnati (who I got to see win the ECHL Kelly Cup last night in person (For $10. There’s something to be said for minor league hockey.))

I love Homer’s statement about the guys who this is their first time ‘need to suck it all up’, but for some guys it happens four times. He looked like a big giddy Swedish chipmunk of joy.

I’ve got the team picture with the Cup as my main desktop background (and the aforementioned Cyclones team picture with their Cup on the secondary monitor), and every time I look at it I realize that I just can’t stop grinning.

Posted by Modnar from Cincinnati, OH on 06/06/08 at 11:04 PM ET

For who?  You, that’s who.  Because Al Gore wanted it that way.

I thought Kwame wanted it that way.

How do you like it, baby?

On ice.

It burnses!  For four freakin’ hours.  Nurse!

This stuff.  It makes me stupid.  I had to watch the parade and the gathering on TV.  Drool got everywhere.  And yeah, this is only the beginning of the withdrawals.  I can’t wait for the next season - to see those banners raised, to really make it official, part of the record, up there with the rest, waiving in the collective joyous howls of 20,000 (or just, perhaps, The 19) rabid fans eager to put this train back on the track and let it ride.

I wanna go again, daddy.  I wanna go again!  Mommy!  Say I can go again!  NOW!

Crackheads don’t know crazy.  Know what I mean.

Posted by jrl123 on 06/07/08 at 03:18 AM ET

Hey Jenn congrats, the Richmond Renegades won the ECHL Cup in 95 and it was a pretty big deal, over 10,000 on a weeknight in attendance.  Too bad the ECHL franchise closed up in the early 2000s, since then we had a team in the UHL and now the SPHL.  It is nowhere near the level of the ECHL which actually has a lot of guys on NHL club contracts.  The East Coast has done really well, expanding all the way to Anchorage (East Coast?).  I’d love to have the ECHL back in town but it has constraints on the owners that a lot can’t deal with.

Congrats, I used to go to about 20 games a year in Richmond when they were ECHL.

Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 06/07/08 at 01:19 PM ET