Jenny

Goalies are quirky. And weird. But mostly quirky. It's a holiday week and many people will be off work! So does this mean: Goof off all week because no one's there to see it, or get a ton of work done because no one's there to interrupt you?

It was Casey's Bertuzzi jersey that got floor funk on it. He stuffed his coat under his seat instead of sitting on it, and of course someone behind us spilled a drink and got the coat funky, and then the jersey came in contact with the coat. I haven't looked closely enough at it to see if it spotted or anything. We may just need to spray it down with Lysol to remove the floor funk aura. *hopefully* Anyway, I do still wear the one signed jersey I have-- I had my Cleary jersey signed by all the players I met at Hockeyfest. But I only wear it for special occasion games and I'm so very careful when I have it on! The person below me feels slightly squicked out at the idea of someone putting ANYTHING on the Joe's floor. Ew, ew, ew.

I had one when I was a kid. The chocolate did not last for the length of Advent. The person below me knows how to wash Joe Louis Arena Floor Funk out of an autographed jersey without messing up the autograph and will tell me how to do this.

Zag. I tend to zig when I should have zagged, and thusly my dekes are not Datsyukian. Attack or defend?

That game was awesome. My hockey needs have been sated. Temporarily.

Okay, boys, you know all that frustration you felt against Nashville in the 3rd period? Go take it out on LA. Go! I'll be there tonight, section 211B. Hooray for last minute deals on StubHub!

Fake one, so I don't wind up stepping on a stealth pine needle some time in, say, March. Godzilla or King Kong?

I try to avoid it, but sometimes the chicken mcnugget craving gets too high. The person below me thinks I should have just slept in instead of coming to work for (optional) overtime today.

Usually do them all at once, but there aren't ever that many. Dirtier-sounding but perfectly legitimate hockey phrase: "covered his five-hole" or "got good wood on it"?

Usually, yes. The person below me has had their picture taken with Santa (as an adult).

How about the moon god Jarilo? He doesn't have Loki's trickster aspects, but he was considered to be ever-changing and mysterious, being linked to the moon. *takes off nerdy folklorist hat* Pavel proves night in and night out that "toughness" has more aspects than you would think of at first.

No kidding. So glad we have Kronwall locked up!

The banged up player may be Hudler. Ansar Khan just tweeted that Hudler has spent extra time stretching while everyone else skated. https://twitter.com/#!/AnsarKhanMLive/status/147368170569728002 Or Jiri just curled up weird while he was sleeping. Make of the info what you will. Khan also reported that Conner was taking the morning skate even though he can't play. Because, you know, he wasn't endearing himself to the fans with his hard work enough already!

It was Helene St. James's @freepwings. Posted about an hour ago:

The Freep's Twitter feed says Ken Holland didn't disclose the injured player but specified that it is not Pavel.

Chex. The Trix Rabbit: dangerous cereal thief or innocent victim of circumstance?

I love eating peanut butter straight out of the jar. I'm such a barbarian. The person below me is feeling a distinct lack of energy and motivation today.

You may have seen this one in the crowd and not gotten a close look at it: Definitely no retro authenticity to this one! But I admit to liking the little sweater hockey player guys. If it were a sweater with just the bottom pattern instead of a weird jersey-sweater hybrid I would probably wear it. Anyway, I think the real retro one is awesome. I've been eyeing one of those since I first saw them for sale.

(Sorry, Slowpoke made me do it. )

Sphinx. Stop, drop, or roll?

It sounds like a nice relaxing idea, but you should probably save the sick day for an actual day that you're sick. Alas. The person below me thinks that certain Red Wings are laying the sarcasm on thick when reporters keep asking them about Crosby and they keep saying how sorry they are he won't be in this game and so on.

I'm not familiar with that particular intersection, but it probably means something like you can turn right on red from 7 pm to 7 am but not between 7 am and 7 pm. I know I've seen signs like that elsewhere in Detroit.

Cheez-its. Eat meals and snacks on a schedule, or just whenever you happen to get hungry?

I'm not sure they're going to get sent out this year, at this point. The person below me has had their wisdom teeth out and will kindly assure me that it probably won't be as bad as I think it will.

I'm pretty meh about it. I'm glad they don't use it to determine home ice in the Finals the way MLB does, at least. Vote Howard into the All-Star game, or vote against him so he can have a weekend off?