Heroes of Hockeytown

You love winning.

Flip = Kozzie?

Pavel, Nick, Flip, Stein = MVPs. Credit the Flames, there was no sore loser hockey today.

Wings ===> Still winning. One goal is all we need... One goal to rule them all, one goal to find them, one goal to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Wings need to find a way to get momentum back. Looking for a big hit. Franzen, Markov??

Legend has it that fire was first bestowed onto humanity, through subterfuge, by Prometheus. For his efforts, he was severely punished by the King of the Gods, sentenced to a fate worse than death. He was chained to a rock and every day at sunrise a great bird would literally eat him alive. He would die, but not for long. Come the next day, he would become whole again, doomed to suffer this gruesome fate for all eternity under the crackling flames he wished to endure. Today we play Zeus. The Flames will be punished for their antics and sideshow mockeries of hockey. They will be chewed up by the Red Wings, but spit out, so they may crawl back to their pitiful hole in the north and be forced to face our wrath again and again. So was it decreed from high Olympus, so shall it be done.

Pens, Rangers win.

OT looms in Atlanta...

Whooooa nelly. That was tic tac toe.

I violated a cardinal rule of playoff hockey... don't leave your seat until a commercial. Missed Staal's goal!

Gary Roberts is a badass.

Not much of a fight between Armstrong and Comrie, but it was cool to see them oblige each other, toss the gloves and helmets like men. Ended up only being a quick takedown, though.

I must've missed Ron mentioning it, but in all likelihood he was talking about Pavel not wanting his balls rocked by Zyuzin's shot.

He said Zyuzin, the defensemen firing the shot in the clip in question...

Think Sens fans will keep bitching about Alfredsson after this one?

God, I can't stand listening to Emrick blow a gasket every time something vaguely resembling hockey happens for another second. Despite the inferior reception... CBC time...

That's OK... Pavel isn't Steve... He'll never be in the running for the Selke, he's not around for his shot-blocking prowess. He'll score, and we'll be satisfied.

Nice move by Alfredsson.

The point is moot now, but I'd like to point out that Lang's line was far and away our worst line yesterday, and it sure wasn't Calder's fault. It doesn't matter if it was Lang's fault, because he's there no matter what. Sammy's expendable. The worst Bert can do is maintain the status quo, except be huge and mean.

They can't find any good reason for the booing.

Sigh... I miss the child-like joy on his face when the opposition picks itself up off the ice, unsure of what just happened or why their everything hurts. Joy for another day... Get well soon, Todd! Not really. Wings have been pretty gung-ho about moving picks in the past. It's the salary cap era and all that, but the Wings are smart enough to know that Game 1 was a cakewalk and if they can get some muscle for Game 2 they should take it. I genuinely believe he's still hurt. Maybe if he had to play he would, but concussions are risky business.

Go Pens go!

Thirded, my main man. Fire alert systems fully armed and operational, extinguisher at the ready. We'll be keeping a weather eye on the horizon for any signs of trouble.

The cross-check happy Flame from this season's drubbing was none other than last night's prime suspect, Brad Stuart, his filthy hands grabbing and groping any piece of cloth in the vicinity in a vain attempt to exact "justice" on Dirty Dan.

This man speaks the Word, which is the Truth.