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by IwoCPO on 05/29/09 at 05:13 PM ET
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Pissy mood. Pouting around the house. Starting arguments. It’s the 24 hours until the Finals start mood swing. I recognize the signs. I’m sure you do too. Heck, even a Blues fan knows the symptoms of the day-before-the-Finals-start bitch fest.
Oh. Woops. Sorry.
You know what irritates me? It pisses me off that Pens fans actually think they’re going to win this series. Here’s what I expect out of fans of a team playing the Red Wings for the Stanley Cup: humility, reasonable public expectations, admission and submission.
I expect Pens fans to be saying things like, “Crosby and Malkin have been brilliant for us and we love them for that. But this is the Red Wings we’re talking about. I’d just like them to compete and play well. The Wings are too good. I’d love to hate them but I respect their skill and their mental toughness. My god, that’s a good team. We’ll get there, but really…c’mon. Not this year.”
How tough is that? Fu**. I mean, come on.
So….which is it? Is Ericsson gonna play tomorrow, or what? Uncle Mike says there’s no doubt about it. None.
Saler’s got the transcript of Babcock’s presser at On The Wings
Ericsson’s playing for sure. He just didn’t want to with the surgery he had, they didn’t want to put him on the ice today. But he’ll be ready to go tomorrow.
Whew. Good news. Good frigging news indeed bitches.
Oh. But wait.
Ericsson said he’s not sure if he’ll play. He’ll skate tomorrow morning and see how he feels before a decision is made. He said he felt real sick Thursday, a day after having an appendectomy, and didn’t feel well enough to skate Friday.
“Yesterday I didn’t feel good at all, very, very sore,’’ Ericsson said. “I felt sick, too, as soon as I started walking around, really sick to my stomach, wanted to kind of puke. Didn’t really eat anything the first 24 hours. Now it feels a lot better than yesterday.
“I’m going to try to skate in the morning, see how it feel,’’ Ericsson said. “I don’t think anything is 100 percent yet (as far as whether he can play).’‘
Well? Do we have to launch an investigation? Huh? Is it that difficult. Whatever. We’ll find out tomorrow. Screw us. We don’t need to know. Lie to us.
Listened to Wyshynski on HNIC radio on Sirius on the way home. He talked about his list of the 20 most intriguing storylines for this year’s Stanley Cup Final. Seen it yet? You probably didn’t make it past the Wing blogger roundtable. I blew chunks in that. Didn’t represent you well at all. Anyway, in his top 20 stories of the Finals? Here’s his number 1.
1. Sidney Crosby’s Name on the Stanley Cup: Alexander Ovechkin(notes) may still be the bigger star, crossing over to mainstream sports fans in a way Crosby doesn’t. But within the NHL, there’s no player with greater renown right now than the Penguins’ captain, thanks to his remarkable postseason run and unparalleled leadership in bringing his mates back to the finals. To end that run with his first Stanley Cup would be a defining moment. And to have a star of his magnitude lifting the Cup over his head is an image the NHL is ready to plaster across the globe.
I like Greg. What many of you don’t know is that (have I told this story before?) on the day we converged on the Irish place in DC for the Wing/Cap game? Wyshynski was there. He didn’t want to interrupt us. He just wanted to be there and take it all in. Pretty cool.
But he’s wrong, or he’s a lying liar. Easy tiger. That’s a compliment around here. You just relax. In true A2Y form, just shut your whore mouth a minute. On the radio he said the Crosby suck-fest wasn’t his number one story because Thid’s the annointed one, the “face of the NHL.” He said, on the radio, that it was because he’s played so remarkably well these playoffs (which he has) that it would be a great story to see that performance rewarded with a Cup. Not anything close to, “And to have a star of his magnitude lifting the Cup over his head is an image the NHL is ready to plaster across the globe.”
Which is it Greg?
Here’s what I think about tomorrow: the Wings are going to be pissed off. And that’s what should be frightening all the 4-year Pen fans. Detroit’s going to be pissed because the Wings are hearing the rumblings and reading the stories. They know the Pens are being favored in a lot of circles, by a lot of “experts.” The Wings know they’re being discounted and that doesn’t sit well. They couldn’t care less about being “disrespected”, a “verb” invented by the NBA. But it irritates them and I dig that.
And guess what else bitches? The Wings, to a man, know what’s going on with Gary and the league. They’re talking about it and asking this question: Would Gary Bettman have started the Finals on Saturday if his Baby Boy was nursing a sore foot?
Fu** no he wouldn’t have. Not when he could have delayed it two or three days.
Paranoid? Conspiracy theory driven? Nope. Realistic.
Elitist and arrogant? You’re damn right I am. I’m a Wing fan motherfu**ers. My team has granted me the right to be arrogant.
What has your team granted you Pens fans? Pride in two straight Eastern Conference titles. And that’s nice.
Be happy with it. Revel in it. Suck on it. Because that’s all you’re getting.
This ain’t the Flyers. Osgood’s not a rookie goaltender who freezes as the series goes on. Detroit’s not an anemic Canes team and Mike Babcock’s no Paul Maurice.
Keep using this too…“we won’t have stage fright like we did last year in Detroit the first two.” Oh, STFU. Hockey players, if they have stage fright at all, lose it after the first five or ten minutes. You played us even after that? Umm. No you didn’t.
Watch your beta tapes bitches. The Wings owned games 5 and 6. Owned them. Watch the third period of Game 5 and, if you’re capable, recognize the difference in skill and poise between those two teams. 34.7 or not. Detroit owned that game.
So type all you want with your internet bravado and your anonymous confidence. Because soon enough? You’re going to remember why the Cup resides in Hockeytown, and why it’s going to stay.
4 to 3? Umm. No.
4 games to 12. That’s Cups. 4 more games until a Dynasty is secured. You think the Wings don’t realize that?
Sleep well.
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“... might be this time next week….Penguins in 6”
Uh, wouldn’t that be Pens in 4, then? Either way, no.
This time tomorrow I’ll be able to say, “this time next week, Pens fans can start wondering if the window for success is closing.” Wings in 5. “Mark it.”
Posted by Matt Saler from Grand Rapids, MI on 05/29/09 at 10:49 PM ET
A Canticle for Leibowitz is indeed a great book. I’m not really sure if your analogy fits though…
Posted by Squiboda from Port Huron, MI on 05/29/09 at 11:44 PM ET
Read it again. I make an effort to read it annually. The anger, the frustration, the humour he feels in doing what is intellectually prosperous and being damned by the simpletons is completely accurate. Besides, it’s all I can come up with, grant me this, I can’t make the LB.
Posted by Sullyosis from A hateful lair in Post Apocalyptic US (or Arizona) on 05/29/09 at 10:53 PM ET
“Don’t doubt me, because that’s when I get stronger.”
-Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Applicable inspiration from my favorite fighter of all time.
Posted by thethirdcoast from Rottenchester on 05/29/09 at 10:55 PM ET
The Pittsburgh fans who boo Hossa are the same stupid ones who boo Jagr.
Jagr meant so much to the Penguins. He was one of the best Penguin players of all time and left. I still love Jagr. Hossa? He was with the Pens for a couple months. He was a hired gun, I knew that the minute he was traded here.
There were some dismal years being a Penguin fan. At one point it even felt like being a Pirate fan. But like the Pirates, I endured. Unlike the Pirates, the Penguins had a prayer of turning things around. As Red Wing fans, all you people have known is winning teams. I’ve known plenty of losing Penguin teams. How thrilling it is to be able to watch this team. My gut tells me the Pens are going to pull it off, but if not, I applaud the Red Wings for taking care of business. I’ll also applaud the Penguins for having a tremendous season and root for them to make it back again next year.
Still, if any of you Red Wing fans think this is going to be the same Pittsburgh team you faced last year, you are mistaken. It’s going to be a lot more competitive than last years finals. Good luck Wings fans! Try to keep your whining to a minimum, win or lose. Nobody likes or a sore loser (or winner).
Posted by TheTaxidermist on 05/29/09 at 11:00 PM ET
Still, if any of you Red Wing fans think this is going to be the same Pittsburgh team you faced last year, you are mistaken. It’s going to be a lot more competitive than last years finals. Good luck Wings fans! Try to keep your whining to a minimum, win or lose. Nobody likes or a sore loser (or winner).
Posted by TheTaxidermist on 05/30/09 at 12:00 AM ET
I respect you more than I respect Geno Malkin, saying that this is the Same Red Wings team he faced last year. We know damned well this isn’t the same team we faced last year, exemplified by Datsyuk’s comment. Things change, we realise that. Babs isn’t going to pop in a tape of the games from last years SCF series and say “Ok, so this our opponent.” I think the redundancy of the whole “different team this year” is a bit redundant at this point, dotcha think that it’s redundant? K, that’s what I’m saying, that it’s redundant to say that this year’s Pens are a different team. I mean, that’s just plain redundant. See how annoying that is?
Anyway, yes, a due congratulations to both teams is in order before we begin the determining series.
Posted by Sullyosis from A hateful lair in Post Apocalyptic US (or Arizona) on 05/29/09 at 11:10 PM ET
As Red Wing fans, all you people have known is winning teams. I’ve known plenty of losing Penguin teams.
Umm…personally, that’s true. But I know there are a lot of fans out there that remember a time before 1983. That’s why 1997 was such a huge win for the fans. Now our management is smart enough to keep a competitive team on the ice while always planning for the future.
Still, if any of you Red Wing fans think this is going to be the same Pittsburgh team you faced last year, you are mistaken.
Of course we don’t think it’s the same team. Now we have Marian Hossa. And I’m sick of hearing how much better the Penguins have gotten. The Wings have gotten better as well. The Penguins are older and wiser now, true. But as my best friend put it so eloquently, “take a bunch of five year olds and give them a year, all you have is a bunch of six year olds.”
Posted by MrsOtW from Wyoming, Mi on 05/29/09 at 11:16 PM ET
Taxidermist. Many of the 19 have memories of the “dead wings”. That is what makes this unbeliveible run of the past 15 years so special to us and we want to just keep ‘er goin because we know it won’t last forever. You have your pirates and we have our lions. P.S. when you lose, we will understand when you don’t wan’t to post here.
Posted by cigar_nurse from Greenville South Cakalakee on 05/29/09 at 11:23 PM ET
As Red Wing fans, all you people have known is winning teams.
I became a fan at age 3. 1983. I knew losing teams before I knew winning teams.
You really shouldn’t paint an entire fanbase based on ill-conceived notions floated by bitter fans of the opposition.
Posted by Alan from Atlanta on 05/29/09 at 11:36 PM ET
There were some dismal years being a Penguin fan. At one point it even felt like being a Pirate fan. But like the Pirates, I endured. Unlike the Pirates, the Penguins had a prayer of turning things around. As Red Wing fans, all you people have known is winning teams. I’ve known plenty of losing Penguin teams. How thrilling it is to be able to watch this team.
Yep, when the Pens were winning Cups in 1991 and 1992, there was a lot of heartbreak for Wings fans. Those playoff runs in the late 80s were exciting… I vaguely remember them (also being born in 1980). But from the late 80s through 1996, a lot of us wondered if Stevie was ever going to take us to the promised land. It was hard to be a Wings fan those years. That was a miserable, hopeless time to be a Wings fan and it lasted for decades.
And seriously, you want to hold up the Pittsburgh Pirates as the pinnacle of ineptitude? Lots of us here (including myself) are Lions fans as well… they’re my 2nd love behind the Red Wings. So please don’t talk to us about “only knowing winning teams” and “sticking it out.” One of the reasons we are so neurotic and panic-stricken when it’s playoff time is because we know disappointment and failure, and we know it well. We don’t want this era of Wings dominance to ever end, but we’re scared sh*tless that it could end at any moment.
Posted by Incognetis from Delaware... Hi... I'm in... Delaware on 05/29/09 at 11:54 PM ET
As Red Wing fans, all you people have known is winning teams.
really? thats interesting. what was that nickname people had for our team for a little while? oh thats right, the DEAD wings. interesting. 42 years between cups? interesting. i guess they must have been winning during that time unbeknownst to the rest of the world.
Posted by stayouttamalibu from Temporarily in Tempe, AZ on 05/29/09 at 11:57 PM ET
It was not just Hossa, Pittsburgh caused a mass exodus of veterans sticking with Therrien.
Hossa, for the first time had a choice about where he would play next. He earned that choice, by giving his best while fulfilling his contracts.
Detroit is a lot different than Pittsburgh.
In Detroit, the veterans teach, lead, and guide professional conduct.
In Pittsburgh, the veterans are babysitters.
Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 05/30/09 at 12:01 AM ET
In Pittsburgh, the veterans are babysitters.
Oops….
That should have been….
In Pittsburgh the veterans were babysitters with Therrien behind the bench.
Since Bylsma took over they have become a damn fine team and have a good chance of losing in the finals again next year (3 in a row).
Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 05/30/09 at 12:18 AM ET
I became a fan at age 3. 1983. I knew losing teams before I knew winning teams.
You really shouldn’t paint an entire fanbase based on ill-conceived notions floated by bitter fans of the opposition.
then you shouldn’t paint the entire penguins fanbase as being bandwagoning fatsos
just sayin’
oh wait now I’m painting your entire fanbase as believing that because i saw it in a comment.
The point here is hypocrisy among comments I’ve seen here. I’ve lurked here for a while because the writing is usually decent, and I’m a hockey fan first and a penguins fan second. I like to see what other teams fanbases are doing and such. I read Acid Queen a bunch too, never comment there either.
Both this year and last year there has been nothing but arrogance, hypocrisy, and hatred for the NHL during the SCF. I understand it feels good to be on top, I mean I’m a Steelers fan too, so the arrogance comes easy, but why be hypocrites about what you say? Is it because you are so awesome for being wings fans that you can be hypocritical without being at fault? The only thing in the NHL anyone here enjoys at all is the Red Wings doing good. If any other team were in the finals and it turned out to be an awesome 7 game stress fest with tons of aggressive well-played hockey, all anyone here would do is bitch about how the refs took the cup away from the Wings. You people are disgusting.
Posted by thehobo94 from State College, PA on 05/30/09 at 12:20 AM ET
then you shouldn’t words words words words
tl;dr. Did your have a point?
Posted by Alan from Atlanta on 05/30/09 at 12:29 AM ET
Pens fan here…
I am a realist…unless Fleury stands on his head and both Malkin and Crosby continue to play like they have then our chances are slim…Detroit is too deep…
Detroit is the best team in the league…but Miracles happen.
Pens in 7
Posted by Derek from Woodbridge, VA on 05/30/09 at 12:32 AM ET
Both this year and last year there has been nothing but arrogance, hypocrisy, and hatred for the NHL during the SCF. I understand it feels good to be on top, I mean I’m a Steelers fan too, so the arrogance comes easy, but why be hypocrites about what you say? Is it because you are so awesome for being wings fans that you can be hypocritical without being at fault? The only thing in the NHL anyone here enjoys at all is the Red Wings doing good. If any other team were in the finals and it turned out to be an awesome 7 game stress fest with tons of aggressive well-played hockey, all anyone here would do is bitch about how the refs took the cup away from the Wings. You people are disgusting.
Are you aware of the phrase “tongue in cheek”?
Posted by Incognetis from Delaware... Hi... I'm in... Delaware on 05/30/09 at 12:34 AM ET
oh thats right, the DEAD wings. interesting. 42 years between cups? interesting. i guess they must have been winning during that time unbeknownst to the rest of the world.
yeah, dammit I had written something about the Dead Wings era and the Darkness of Harkness that so many people remember (but would rather forget) before my “decades and decades” sentence. But of course I deleted it on accident and posted anyway. Because I’m brilliant. I suppose that would have made my previous comment make more sense.
Posted by Incognetis from Delaware... Hi... I'm in... Delaware on 05/30/09 at 12:36 AM ET
I’m sick of these whiny pen(i)s fans. Just STFU and go back to the pens blog. I guarantee if any of us posted pro Wings messages there we’d be IP banned. It’s time to take out the trash
Posted by grishj on 05/30/09 at 12:37 AM ET
Are you aware of the phrase “tongue in cheek”?
Tongue in cheek is supposed to be subtle humor right?
Writing diatribes about how much the NHL sucks and the Red Wings are gods is “subtle” and “funny”
it might be funny at first but I honestly don’t see the humor in it anymore.
Also tPB won’t ban you for posting pro-wings messages. you’ll get the same treatment there that I get here.
Posted by Thehobo94 from State College, PA on 05/30/09 at 12:48 AM ET
I assumed most of you were younger fans, A.K.A. Not old enough to remember watching the “Dead Wings era” of Detroit hockey. I’m only 20 so the earliest season I remember is the 94/95 season where the Pens lost to the freakin Devils (pretty badly i might add). I remember very clearly losing to the Panthers in the conference finals. I remember Super Mario’s first retirement and I remember the comeback. Also, I remember (as much as I try not to), the awful seasons in between the 00/01 season and the season after the lockout. I do not remember the Penguins two Stanley Cups. You’ve all experienced the joy of the Wings winning a Stanley Cup. Granted, I’ve experienced the joy of the Steelers winning it all twice, but when it comes to the Pirates, it’s hard to compare the awfulness of them.
I have NEVER experienced a winning season by the Pirates. NEVER. However, I have experienced the Pirates losing 100 games and responding by raising ticket prices. Despite this I still watch every game I can, and go to at least 5 games a year. At least you fellows have experienced a playoff appearance by the Lions as well as my second favorite NFL player of all time, Barry Sanders. I’m not going to lie and say the Lions aren’t a terrible organization. After all, they are the reason Sanders called it quits before he was finished torching defenses.
This is the life of a sports fan. You’ve got your ups, your downs. You people know that as well as anybody. So sue me if I would rather get a turn cheering my team as they raise the cup. LETS GO PENS!
Posted by TheTaxidermist on 05/30/09 at 12:49 AM ET
This is the life of a sports fan. You’ve got your ups, your downs. You people know that as well as anybody. So sue me if I would rather get a turn cheering my team as they raise the cup. LETS GO PENS!
nobody said it was absurd to want your team to raise the cup. the absurd thing is when fans of other teams come on here and make claims like “youve only known winning teams” etc. which is just straight up untrue.
Posted by stayouttamalibu from Temporarily in Tempe, AZ on 05/30/09 at 01:34 AM ET
God bless you Chief. This is exactly what I needed. I am so wound up and ready to watch the Wings lay waste tomorrow (tonite) that I can’t sleep. Nice post.
By the way, *#$%@& am I tired of the Hossa shit. He was obviously correct in his assumption. The team, as it stood, would not have made it back. I think it was more a vote of no confidence in Michelle (where is he now again?) rather than his team mates. Obviously Shero agreed with him.
Posted by SharkBaiter from at play in the Labs of our Lord on 05/30/09 at 02:26 AM ET
I quit reading halfway through cuz this is a joke. You make fun of thepensblog because they’re pens fans. Seriously? I respect that you like the Red Wings who wouldn’t, but to say that they will for sure win this series is like saying that Oprah will definitely not be fat next year…..your f-ing crazy!
Die-Hard fans are serious, but they also realize when they might not win, or be the better team, for you to lead off this the way you did was an absolute joke, c’mon.
You guys have a great team, but it’s basically ( i know it’s not exactly the same, but know MAJOR changes) the same as last year. Plus you guys are beat up, unlike the pens.
There are obviously band wagon pens fans, but I wonder how many fans Detroit had in the 4 decades when they didn’t make the Stanley Cup????
Fu** YOU
Pens in 5…..I ‘guerin-tee’ it….........bitches
Pens in 5
Posted by yzerman was worse than lemieux from not de-worse fucking place ever- troit on 05/30/09 at 03:08 AM ET
Both this year and last year there has been nothing but arrogance, hypocrisy, and hatred for the NHL during the SCF.
Just a heads up for ya, from a non-Wing fan here… Did you expect anything different? Walking into A2Y is like walking directly into the Joe. You can’t walk into the opposing side’s turf and expect them to treat your team fairly. That’s the way sports fans work. Granted Wings fans tend to be stronger at that than other fans, but I somehow doubt that if I posted likewise comments on Pensblog there’d be THAT much different of a reaction.
Can someone pass me a gun or crash a plane into the arena? Two teams I could do without. Detroit’s going to win this series. But I have to begrudgingly root for the Pens… Kunitz is making me. If it weren’t for that, good lord, I might’ve been a fowl fan rooting for the Wings. That thought sickens me.
Posted by Bleys from Irvine, CA on 05/30/09 at 03:10 AM ET
You damned Pen(i)s clowns just won’t give up will you. I will enjoy watching Crosby cry some more when he looks on the Wings players hoisting the cup.
Wings in 4.
Posted by grishj on 05/30/09 at 03:39 AM ET
Small flightless birds with no external genitalia.
I just have to giggle that an absolutely correct biological fact is becoming such a wide-ranging meme. 
And of course it will be more competitive than last year - Last year should have been a five-game series win for Detroit, this year will likely be six or seven (whoever wins). The younger players without previous Cup finals experience on Detroit now have that experience, as do the younger players on Pittsburgh without previous experience. It should be close, and hopefully good hockey.
And I think Hossa might have considered signing long-term with Pittsburgh if he thought he had a good chance of outlasting Therrien. Clearly he didn’t and he didn’t want to be stuck in that working environment. I’ve been in the same position - I think almost everyone has at one time or another - where even though a job is decent and pays alright, the coworkers are a flock of idiots and the boss is a tool and pretty much force a person to leave.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/30/09 at 03:55 AM ET
Incognetis, I think I might know you. Have you ever been thrown into a lake during a Beerfest in Madison WI? If not, sorry for asking.
Wings fan here, what follows is my testimonial. Don’t know when my first game was, but my first memory was watching Ron Duguay skate around and me asking my dad if the Red Wings had a girl. I also remember a Blues player (can’t remember who, I was still in the single digits) kicking the puck because he lost his stick. I explained how awesome that was to my 2nd(3rd?) grade classmates, and that made me cool. Until lunch.
Mom worked at the First Federal of Michigan Bank at Orchard Lake and Maple, which is where a young Steve Yzerman would go to cash his paychecks (no direct deposit in those days kids). Mom was enamored with the kid. Dad let it slide.
Playoff losses to Edmonton (didn’t know about Goose Loonies until much later), epic serieses vs Toronto(according to me anyway)...The brutal loss to the fookn expansion Sharks, the more brutaler sweep by the Devils…and then the worst. Paul Coffey’s skate, Patty Roy…the most undeserving team in NHL history had the audacity to win the Stanley Cup.
Then 97…my friends laughed at me for actually crying when Steve hoisted the Cup. Hell, I’m crying now. Then 98 with Vladdy…(sniff). I was at Game 7 in 2002, probably the most cathartic moment of my life.
I live and die with this team. I need to go to bed.
Wings in 5
Posted by cephalopod from Chicago...nope, still not over it. on 05/30/09 at 04:52 AM ET
Just a heads up for ya, from a non-Wing fan here… Did you expect anything different? Walking into A2Y is like walking directly into the Joe. You can’t walk into the opposing side’s turf and expect them to treat your team fairly.
Dammit Bleys. You’re growing on me.
Cephalopod….Awesome.
Taxidermist…good stuff and we understand. Your boys are still going to lose, of course, but we get where you’re coming from.
All others…there are indeed a few “tongue in cheek” portions of that post. If you get them, you’ve been around here for a while and appreciate where and what they are. If you don’t get them, if you don’t see the humor in them, if you’re offended? Good.
Posted by IwoCPO from Sunny San Diego, bitches on 05/30/09 at 05:01 AM ET
I was posting on the wrong thread. Man do I gotta peee.
RWBill, you crack me up man.
“....from watching the commercials you would have thought that They had Won last year…..I have to go back and check every so often to make sure we actually won…”
Nice pull, coop… truth is we have the coolest (active) coach in the league.
HI! Welcome to A2Y
Way to roll out the welcome Wagon, EF…
Truth be told, it’s 6:06am eastern and that last bloody mary tasted pretty good. Might have another. Sleep? Nah, there’s time for that when I’m dead. Am I worried? Yep. Every blog I’ve read so far on even non-partisan sites has the Wings winning the series. That makes me nervous. They might as well proclaim the Wings will have a shut out every game. That every goal of ours will be shorthanded. I don’t like the bent here. It has me edgy.
I will refrain from talking smack until I see us win game one.
Yet…
Pittsburgh fans will begin to annoy me when they can describe what an icing is.
Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 05/30/09 at 05:08 AM ET
Anyway, yes, a due congratulations to both teams is in order before we begin the determining series.
Well spoken. Congratulations all around and good luck to all.
Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 05/30/09 at 05:10 AM ET
I’m only 20 so the earliest season I remember is the 94/95 season where the Pens lost to the freakin Devils (pretty badly i might add).
Good to see some young folks enjoying hockey out there. I remember being glad we picked up Yzerman. I remember cheering when a guy named Probert started fighting for us. I remember HATING Cheli; it took me 3 years to accept the fact he had joined our ranks. And I remember the losing, over and over.
Hang in there Pens fans, you’ll get your day.
Just not in the next two weeks…
Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 05/30/09 at 05:14 AM ET
Mom worked at the First Federal of Michigan Bank at Orchard Lake and Maple, which is where a young Steve Yzerman would go to cash his paychecks (no direct deposit in those days kids).
Hah! That’s awesome ceph. My brother, up until the fairly recent Free Press layoffs, was Stevie’s paper-boy (if a 50 year old man can be that…); come Christmas a couple years back he asked Steve in a note with his paper if in lieu of a holiday tip he would call my niece and wish her a merry Christmas. Come Christmas day she got the biggest surprise of her life. What a classy guy.
Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 05/30/09 at 05:22 AM ET
all the 4-year Pen fans.
Beauty!
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 05/30/09 at 07:08 AM ET
Tongue in cheek is supposed to be subtle humor right?
It’s humor to us. We get it. We find amusement to no end in it. It’s a beautiful thing for us 19.
Posted by Alan from Atlanta on 05/30/09 at 07:34 AM ET
Juvenilia and a Canticle for Lebowitz analogy? That’s why I love this blog.
[I still !@#$ing hate the word ‘blog’ though.]
Tough decision to make tonight: watch game 1, or die in a fiery crash during the drive back from Detroit after game 2?
Go Red Wings!
Posted by Modnar on 05/30/09 at 09:01 AM ET
You can be a 4 year Pens fan and not be obnoxious…its just that most of them are…haha…I happen to have started following hockey when I moved to Va from Pa…All I could remember about hockey was Lemieux and Jagr and I started following the Pens again…I was on board right after they drafted Crosby but I am not obnoxious…
Obnoxious are the Caps fans…they dont know the rules and they think Ovie backchecks..plays Def…when he clearly doesnt…
Posted by derek from woodbridge, va on 05/30/09 at 09:47 AM ET
Since Bylsma took over they have become a damn fine team and have a good chance of losing in the finals again next year (3 in a row).
What a great line!
Posted by Rumbear from Top O da Hasek, when in doubt, pinky out on 05/30/09 at 09:52 AM ET
HOW BOUT THEM PENGUINS WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Posted by 8771 from THE CITY OF CHAMPIONS on 06/17/09 at 10:43 AM ET
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I guarantee you that every Red Wing, since that incident, looks back on the Stanley Cup Finals saying “He has no regrets of the effort he put forth in his series. Do I?” And the answer, as our collection of Stanley Cups reflects, invariably, is no.
Posted by Sullyosis from A hateful lair in Post Apocalyptic US (or Arizona) on 05/29/09 at 11:26 PM ET
Brilliant post. The next round is on me.
Posted by cigar_nurse from Greenville South Cakalakee on 05/29/09 at 10:48 PM ET