Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Look Ma, No Suspensions! Not-the-Flyers 4, Sens 0


Plan the parade: Hey, remember when we all thought Higgins was gonna be a 40 goal, 40 assist, Cup-hoisting Captain for life? Oh, it's back on, baby! Hey, remember when TFS was TFS, and shutouts, Vezinas and Cups were going to rain like ... um, rain? Plan the parade! Remember when we feared the Sens juggernaut and the inevitable SLC smackdown? Nah, me neither. Remember when Gui! was the next John Leclair - except we weren't going to trade him just before he exploded as a first-line force of nature? Well, he snapped home a nice goal last night, so that's something. Remember when the Habs were a clean, hardworking skill team, not the bunch of cheap-shotting quitters who showed up in Toronto on Saturday? Let's hope Carbo made a tape of that speech.

The Sky is Falling: Forget Marian Gaborik or Ilya Kovalchuk or Mats Sundin and get a large, angry, top-four defenceman who will punch someone in the fucking mouth if they get to close to TFS, please. Saturday was an abomination, with Leafs running rampant through the crease and dressing room poison Grabs throwing a butt-end with no consequences. Last night wasn't as pitiful, but the Sens sure had a lot of time to shove their way into the blue paint. It's got to stop.

Know what else needs to stop? Big Tit's penchant for tripping/slewfooting guys on races for the puck. The one on Saturday against Leafs saviour Luke Schenn was bad enough, and he pulled the same thing last night. He's gonna kill someone. It's a dirty play and someone needs to tell him to knock it the fuck off and start scoring goals.

Somewhere, Jacques Parizeau weeps: The Flying Frenchmen sent out this power play unit: Two Belarussians, a Russian, and two Czechs. Later, on a four on three, it was a Finn, a Russian, a Czech and a Belarussian. Damn moneyed ethnics are ruining everything!

Chez Paree bound
: Post a shutout? Get right in. Throw up a "who needs Gaborik?" first career hat-trick? Get right in. Put all the power of your 5 foot 2, 93 pound body into your fists to avenge a head shot on your teammate? Get right in. Spend an entire penalty kill buzzing the opposing net? Get right in. Play a full sixty minutes like you mean business? Get right in.

You know, I hate to say this sort of thing, but: Alex Auld played fantastic and deserved a better fate.

Of course, saying things like this might explain why he didn't have a better night: I heard the names Spezza, Heatley, Alfie, Fisher, and Neil last night. I may have heard "Winchester" once, and Foligno was mentioned when he fell down on the third goal. That's seven forwards. Most teams dress 12. It's not a good sign when almost half of your attackers are invisible. I think Spezza and Fisher each played 45 minutes last night.

Meanwhile, on the Ocho (er, TSN2): The Pens and Wings took Rememberance Day to a whole new level by remembering what the NHL was like in 1988-89. 7-6 in overtime after the Wings blew a 5-2 lead in the third. Yzerman to Gallant looked like the winner until Lemieux set up Robbie Brown for the tying goal, then won it in overtime himself. Yowza.

Next Evil, Evil, Blackhearted,(did I mention Evil?) we-need-to-crush-them foe?
Bruins. Thursday. Urge to kill ... rising! Milan Lucic is ON MY LIST.

11 comments:

Young HF29 said...

5 foot 2, 93 pound body

i think you may be overestimating. damn, i do love him though

Damn moneyed ethnics are ruining everything!

hehehehehe

Meanwhile, on the Ocho (er, TSN2)

heh, but some of us ARE STILL FUCKING WAITING FOR THEIR CABLE COMPANIES TO GET OFF THEIR ASS

Anonymous said...

So what's the deal? Is Ruutu getting games for that sickening display?

Good call on Tanguay.

Finally, I saw the butt-end by Grabovski that I missed because I got into the cups and meth Saturday night. Not cool. Hopefully the talking to reminds him that he's a big boy and big boys don't do shit like that to anyone let alone goalies.

Anonymous said...

I don't think I'd piss in Pierre McGuire's mouth if his teeth were on fire.

Aside from that, it was a great solid game from our boys. Bring on the Broons. It's time to work up that winning streak again.

Anonymous said...

I'm so disappointed Ruuttu went away from his strengths and used his elbow instead of his stick.

Fuck Parizeau.

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous Jorge played a solid game. His hard work led to two of Higgins goals.

Are you saying that Alex Auld will soon replace Peter Sydorkowicz as the Sens best franchise goalie.

It's only a matter of time before we have voodoo dolls of Lucic available on line.

Anonymous said...

Had a look at the all star game ballot. http://fanballoting.nhl.com/

Looks like someone is trying to get a full Habs Eastern Conference starting line up.

Oh and guess what, who is the Western conference leading forward?
The little fuckity fuck himself.

Anonymous said...

Koivu has double the all-star votes any non-habs forward has. Followed by Tangs and Kovy.. then Savard

3 of the top 4 D's are Habs, with Markov/Doom at 1/2. Chara at 3 and Hamr at thr 4 spot.

Price has 9000 votes on the 2nd leading vote getter. Thomas.

Rutuu gets 2 games. Lapierre rejoices.

mr. gillis said...

i said this last night but i'll say it again: ruutu's a dick

Anonymous said...

Soooooo, they base suspension length on the whether the player is injured or not? That's a little bit o' bullshit.

Beta169 said...

When it comes to the all-star ballot, let's all make like democrats and their chums in ACORN - vote early and vote often!

Beta169 said...

My thoughts on the ballot:

Komisarik - per my wife, a little foundation (make-up) works great to cover up forehead blemishes.

TFS - We get it, you're young and like comic books. That is, however, no excuse to sport a Wolverine-esque hairdo in your team headshot.