Last Splash

The gene pool could use a little Chlorine.

I've been spending a lot of time at nhl.com lately, checking out stats and standings and numbers, and I was nervously browsing around online last night because I couldn't watch the 3rd period (or overtime, for that matter) for fear of a nicotine panic attack. I'm just not ready to see the season end, and apparently neither is Montreal. Anyway, I was very excited to find that I could listen to the game online as announced by the French Canadian Montreal station carrying the play by play. It was perfect...I could only understand enough bits and pieces to know who had control of the puck, and when we scored. There was a slight delay, however, so I unfortunately knew we had won the game about 15 seconds early when J started cheering in the living room.

In other good news, I congratulated J last night on his pre-season prediction that if he stays with the team, Eric Staal will one day be our captain. I knew this was true last night as I watched his post game interview (which none of you saw because apparently we are the armpit of the NHL and get no OLN love). He was the ONLY one trying to make a real effort to win Monday's home game, and had a ton of great shots in the overtime periods. Last night after scoring the game winner he could have easily pointed out that he really got no help from the rest of the team's offense, but instead blamed himself for the OT loss Mon., saying his shots were too low and he really focused last night on getting them up higher, which is why it worked.

By the way, I really hate the way Canadiens say "O-fence".

posted by: Cannonball14 at 17:47 | link | comments (6) |
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#1  27 April 2006 - 18:00

 

I have been meaning to ask you what happened to the Canes....as for Staal, great player. I saw the Canes play the Caps twice this year (and who in the hell scheduled the Canes and Caps for 4-5 back to back games at the end of the season-dummmb) and was really impressed by him...would love to see him, Ovechkin, and Cheechoo on the same line---wouldnt that be a force to be reckoned with. I would say good luck for the rest of the series, but since my hockey body was once owned by the Canadiens, I dont think I can...

JustMe63

#2  27 April 2006 - 18:02

 

Oh--forgot----don't criticize the CanadiAn accent y'all....and Canucks say prOgress too which is all part of the prOcess :)

JustMe63

#3  28 April 2006 - 16:23

 

Oh-fence.

Like the way some people say:

Deeee-troit.

Yoshick

#4  29 April 2006 - 19:58

 

Apparently, Gerber's bout with the flu and the fact that we forgot how to play De-fence is what HAD happened. But I think we may be back on track now...hopefully. If you could've watched these last 4 games, you would see that Montreal is probably playing "hungrier" hockey than anyone, with maybe the exception of the Avs. And Staal is fantastic...he, Brind'amour (who we all raised eyebrows at when he was announced as captain) and Justin Williams have been fantastic this post. I don't have a bad thing for the Canadiens at all...would probably be rooting for them if we weren't playing them! Sigh...I guess I have to like Canadians now since I love hockey so much. After all, the other choice is to love the Russians...

Cannonball14

#5  29 April 2006 - 19:59

 

Oooh, and I feel so lucky that the infamous Yoshick has visited my blog. It's like a brush with celebrity. (Or at least a brush with brilliance...) ;)

Cannonball14

#6  29 April 2006 - 20:01

 

I'm flooding my blog with comments.

Ahem, I appreciate the spelling correction, but I only spelled it with an 'E' because we're playing French CandiEns.

Cannonball14

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