Somebody's having a birthday! She's one of three stooges. She's in love with Cal Clutterbuck. Ladies and gentlemen please give a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY greeting to the one and only breech-born girlfriend I know...
ROBYN!
We'll celebrate in just few days when I'm back for a visit. Champps fries and chocolate cake, baby! I know it's not Cal Clutterbuck with a strategically placed bow, but it's the best I can do. Love You :)
AND NOW FOR SOME HOCKEY
Capitals VS Rangers: (Deluxe Extended Play series) Rangers 2-1 series lead
The Rangers are leading the series 2-1 but certainly not for a lack of trying on the Capitals part. In the triple overtime marathon that was game 3, the two teams battled - leaving everything on the ice. Pucks rang off of posts, both goalies make insanely magical saves, players laid down in front of howitzer shots and got back up to skate the puck out of the zone. There were HUGE hits and inadvertant flying sticks which left blood on jersies and sutures on faces. The crowd cheered, booed, oohed and ahhhed, screamed and stood - but never left the building. The Rangers finally got one past Holtby and you would think the one player who would be the most ecstatic would be the Rangers goalie Lundqvist. Instead of jumping for joy he could barely drag himself across the ice and into the locker room. From his postgame presser: "It's a feeling where usually I scream because I'm so excited," Lundqvist said. "I was just too tired. I kept saying, 'Oh my God, it's over.' I mean, oh my God. It felt like it was never going to end."
This video of Holtby's parents reactions to their son's saves and eventual goal against during the game is the purest expression of a mom and dad supporting their child throughout the good and the bad.
HOCKEY PARENTS RULE!
Flyers VS Devils: Devils 2-1 series lead
The Devils got Ilya Kovalchuk back for game three. Either the doctors and trainers on staff are miracle workers or Kovalchuk got a message from a divine entity. No matter what conspiracy theory you subscribe to Ilya's back issue was nowhere in sight for game three. He played 22:09 minutes, 31 shifts and had a plus-2 rating. He was a game changer all night but his set-up of Alexei Ponikarovsky (say that 3 times fast, dare ya) during a Flyers line change in OVERTIME was a thing of hockey beauty. The Devils are now back on top of the series and hopefully with Parise, Zajac and Kovalchuk clicking the Flyers will soon be playing golf.
Kings VS Blues Kings 3-0 series lead
This is the only series of the second round to have one team looking for the potential sweep. There, I said it. Out Loud. SWEEP. JINX! I can't afford to have the Kings messing up my Preds For The Cup quest. The Kings are back to looking like a legit cup contender these days after I had written them off as first round fodder. And what the hell, Blues?? Could you be any more off your game? Hitch didn't come in and unite you guys during the regular season to get to this point and then just roll over. Not that this series has been dull, far from it. Game three alone is chock full of highlight reel memorabilia: The Kings got a Gordie Howe hat trick from Mike Richards, first playoff goal by Dwight King and a goal by roolkie Drew Doughty.
*For those of you rookie fans a Gordie Howe hat trick is defined as one player getting in a fight, scoring a goal and getting an assist on a goal.
Coyotes VS Preds Yotes 2-1 series lead
Pekka Rinne, who's name reminds me of a fancy brick of cheese, was a brick wall through the regular season and for the first round of the playoffs. He's the main reason I picked the Preds to be the Cup Final. Unfortunately Rinne melted like cheeze whiz in the microwave for games 1 and 2. The team playing in front of him didn't do much better, leaving him dangling more often than not. Plenty of blame to go around with those nine goals given up in the first 2 games. Game 3 was on their home ice and they seemed to have found their mojo. It must have been hard to do with all of the hoopla surrounding the suspension of Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn for game 3. These two morons partied like there was no game 2. They didn't get back to the hotel until after 4:00 a.m. Well, now we know why Keith Jones ripped on Radulov's total lack of play during an intermission. Upon returning to Nashville the media folks who happened to have witnessed the party boys in action advised the Pred's head coach Trotz of the apparent cause of Radulov's and Kostitsyn's poor play. Hence the suspension for game 3.
All's well that ends well, since the Preds won game 3, right? Not so much. The coach is riding the same players from game 3 into game 4 since you don't mess with what's broken. I love Trotz and the Nashville management. Go Preds!!
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