This was supposed to be a Hammies vs Marlies post!

My Hammies/Marlies post turned into a total cluster..........uh..... something.......... yeah..... uh it just turned into a real mess. "Enjoy" trying to read it.

Pre-game stuffs for the Hammies

• Don't know how long I'll be able to focus on this game what with that other annoying game going on TV (someone insisted on putting it on so yeah....)
• Is this going to be the last game on this Oldies station? Because the music on this station really, really, really stinks. And it's not old. I listen to OLD music. Like 16th century music. That's old. This stuff on this station? It's just yucky. 
• Replays of Hammies goals from Sunday for the win! Wow. We were pretty loud on Sunday after all.
• Butbutbutbutbut Teddy you can't break Jaro's shutout record with the Hammies...... I mean you can, and you probably will (and you should!) butbutbutbut it's JARO's record =( 
• Awwww Guy, you're so mean. You wouldn't let the Hammies go shopping when they arrived in Montreal? Actually, I found that whole phrase hilarious because now I have a mental image of Hammies walking around with fifty huge shopping bags each (while trying not to get run over by cars). Hehe. Oh for crying out loud, he didn't even go see his family before the game? Sheeesh..... o_O 
• hey... are we missing Al here?

Okay.... First period aka when it all goes down hill.....

• GO CANADA GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OVIE CAN WIN THE STUPID STANLEY CUP INSTEAD. 
• Wait... Hammies. Yes. Hammies. GO SQUASH THOSE MARLIES. 
• I"m sorry..I can't focus on this game. I want to. But stupid Getzlaf just scored on Nabby. The DUCKS OWN YOUR SOUL NABBY. 
• FOCUS HAMMIES. FOCUS. FOCUS. DON'T GO OFF TALKING TO YOUR RELATIVES AND SHOPPING AND SCREAMING AT STUPID NABBY. Oh wait. I'm the one yelling at Nabby. 
• Poop, Reimer can start being awful any time soon.... FAIL REIMER FAIL.  
• I can't focus on anything. I don't know what's going on in any game right now....
• COME ON HAMMEIS. 
• OMG BOYLE. You won't be talking to Nabby when you get back to San Jose!!!! 
• OMG NASH YOU OWE CAPTAIN PEACHY FOR THAT NICE PASS. 3-0 CANADA. 
• AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhdkjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjahdakjdh random Russian guy scores. 3-1. 
• WAKE UP CANADA. WAKE UP HAMMIES. AND WAKE UP VOLTIGEURS BECAUSE YOU ARE TIED WITH THE ROCKET?!!!!!!! 
• I can't handle this. Too. Much. Excitement. WAY. TOO. MUCH. 
• Morrow! I didn't even know you existed! 4-1!

Can. Not. Handle. All. This. Hockey. RAAAAAAAAAAAAR. Let's please all settle down for the second period, okay?! And watch out for OVIE. 

SECOND PERIOD

• WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Patches scoooooooooooooooores! 1-0!
• TWERPY PERRY. THE DUCKS OWN YOUR SOUL NABBY. And Markov.. you messed up on that. Boo. 
• Hammies are on the PP now. I said. Hammies are on the PP now. 
• OKAY. This Canada/Russia game is a freaking All Star Game. There is zero defense and a thousand goals. And Puffy and Ovie have been useless. This is boring. 
• Boooo! Marlies tie it up. Hammies need to have Twerpy on their team. He just scored again. It;s like... 7-2 for Canada right now. 
• Sanford is NOT behaving like Nabby tonight. YAY! 
• RRRRRRRRRRRRYAN WHITE! Or someone! 2-1!!! YEAH. GO HAMMIES GO!
• Nooo White is going to the box. Poop. 
• Quote of the night from Twitter:  If you had heard a Sharks player would absolutely choke tonight, who would have guessed it'd be Nabokov? 

Second period intermission thing

• and breath out.... 
• Oh hi Dany Masse! 
• I think Dany is getting used to talking to Flandersdude instead of playing. I like him though. He's turning into the new Steve Gainey! 
• Oh yeah, he was a Voltigeur last year (another one who got injured in that final against Shawinigan. Sheesh, did Shawinigan try to literally kill the Voltigeurs to beat them?). Hey, feel like yelling at your ex-team to get them to beat the Rocket already?

Third period... 

• oh yeah.. stuff has been happening.... um Hammies going to the PP as are Canada because Russia can't count. 
• Hey, David... that should have been a goal, yes? Poop on you Reimer! 
• Haaaammmmiiiiiiiies! Come on! We need another goal! 
• WHAH. WHAH. Benoit just bailed out Sanford BIG TIME. 
• WHAAAAAHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...................... Hamilton - the player - gets a penalty shot?!! SANFORD YOU BETTER STOP THIS. 
• Whooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! He stops Hamilton!!!! 
• Canada wins! And I hate Boyle and Pronger (you jerk, back off Markov!). I want my world to go back to normal so I can cheer on Ovie and the Caps! Ovie and the Caps will win a Stanley Cup sooner rather than later. 
• MAXWEL SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES! 3-1!!!!!!!!!!! YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. GAME OVER. 
• And nobody needs to get mad! Not that anybody was going to get mad. It's not Saturday. Guy only gets super mad on Saturdays. 
• Voltigeurs WIN too! 3-1!!!

Final notes:

• Russia stunk. That's a fact. I was hoping for a lot more from Russia. Ovie needs to be super mad and come back to the NHL and beat everyone. 
• Hammies beating the Marlies is always lovely. Marlies not playing all truculent is great too. I like that. 
• Voltigeurs are on an 8 game winning streak. 
• I survived tonight!

Attempted Hockey Week in EPland Part 4: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay so maybe all that excitement I was feeling after my Voltigeurs downed the Tigres was really because I knew that today was HAMMIES DAY!! HAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEES! EEEEEEEEEEEE!

Okay.... Um yeah.... Hammies got to play the Yucky Phantoms. I actually passed through Glenn Falls when I went to DC. Forgot to waive to the Phantoms at the time because I didn't even know that they played in Glenn Falls. Anyway....

HAMMIES. I went totally squealy. I admit it. I think I love my Hammies more than I did back in November even. THEY WERE RIGHT THERE. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

*calms down*

Okay. The game. It got off to a tentative start. The poor Hammies seem to get spoked when they have more than 2,000 people cheering for them. Poor things. The poor Hammies weren't shooting the puck and they just seemed to get stuck in their own zone throughout most of the first period (St. Denis tried to hide out in the penalty box early on in the first period). The SOG seemed to be perpetually stuck at 2 for the poor Hammies. I tried to see if I could hear Guy yelling at them but it was too noisy to hear. He was pretty animated though ;D If we were fearing a repeat of November's game against the Bingy Sens, we really feared for not. PYATT scored with a couple of mins left in the period. WHOOOO! (Pyatt doesn't want to get yelled at during the first break).

Second period was a kinda ugly. Trotter did score within seconds of the second period opening up which was SUPER great. But then it was a party to the penalty box. Maxwell, PK and Stewie all headed off to the box within a four minute span. It was very frustrating after seeing my Voltigeurs spend a lot of the night in the penalty box last night to see the Hammies hiding away in the penalty box too. Poop. Thankfully Teddy was super focused and the PK (THE PK not PK) was either on fire or the Phantoms' PP stunk big time because there were no goals from the Baby Yucky Flyers. The Phantoms made it nice though at the end of the second period though when they coughed up the puck to Trotter who really had no choice but to score (well, okay, so really, Mr. Flyer Goalie Guy should probably have stopped that one, but whatever. We take all the goals that we can get). There were a few posts in there. Really, the Bell Centre posts are fat. We like fat posts when it's the opposing team hitting them, but not so much when it's the Hammies ringing them off the iron.

Moving right along.... Apparently Gluuu went to the penalty box so Pyatt and Stevenson could look SUPER awesome on a short handed breakaway. Yup. Yup. Yup. I like short handed goals. well, when MY teams are scoring them. Not when the stupid Tigres are scoring them (AHEM). But yeah. It was a very pretty goal. Bwahaha... And really... when was the last time Stevenson scored? Oh... in their last game? Okay, but before that? And with five mins left, the Hammies got a PP and..... THEY SCOOOOOOOOOORE! Pyatt again! WHOOHOOOO! That's 5-0 in case you're wondering.

Ole ole ole! Ole! Ole! Hammies say "suck it losing streak at the Bell Centre!!! We win!!!!!"

Hugpile of EPIC win!

EP is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy that her Hockey Week got to end in total WIN. Actually, it was all WIN (except for the stupid 67s but meh on them). Picspam of epic win coming up soon!

RANDOM NOTES BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU LOVE THEM:

• Okay so I actually had to walk around the stupid huge scoreboard thingy to see where the media guys were sitting and after squinting a whole lot, I did see where Flandersdude was :D 
• I never realized how funny it was to watch the opposing team's coaches walking across the ice trying not to slip and die. Don't worry... nobody died.... 
• I could watch Guy yell at the Hammies all day :D He's almost as entertaining to watch as the Hammies.
• Pics are here.  

Hammies vs Griffins: A win! A win! YAY!

Pre-game stuffs

• To sum it up:  1) That game on Tuesday stunk. Let's forget about it and move on. 2) PK probably hasn't been too corrupted by Martin's "System" 3) we're not going to underestimate the Griffins and we're hoping we've recovered from being ZombieHammies. 4) we're not thinking about the game in Habsland on Sunday (well, I am thinking about that game!). 

Period Numero Uno 

• ..... hello why isn't this game starting? Is it starting? I hear Flandersdude talking, but I'm eating dinner and the computer is on the other side of the room and I can't hear.... Hello? Anyone? What's going on here? Anybody home? Oh, I hear national anthems! Okay. Game on! I still can't hear what's going -
• WHOOOOOO I HEARD THAT! David!!! 1-0!! Okay, so maybe - just maybe - David is not a ZombieHammie anymore!
• Okay guys... it's too early for Sanford to have to imitate Hiller in the Canada/Switzerland game...
• Lesson of the night: headphones are necessary to listen to a Hammies game if you're sitting in the living room with your entire family babbling on about other random stuff (for example we are now having a heated discussion on whether these things are called headphones or earphones). 
• DAVID IS DEFINITELY NOT A ZOMBIEHAMMIE ANYMORE. WHOOOHOOO! 2-0! Yay David!
• Nooooo stupid Griffins are playing one of my favorite songs (The Pretender by the Foo Fighters). Boohoo.. Now they're following it up by some crap version of "Ole"..... Ick. 
• Yay! Hammies now have as many SOG in this period as they did  in That Fail Game. 
• Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 2-1. Why do we have some random guy yelling "Whoo! Whoo!"? And why is this PA guy in Grand Rapids so annoying? =/
• Um no, you can't score if you shoot the puck off of Trotter's head.......I mean, you could in theory, I guess... but not in this case :D 

Second period 

• EEEEEEEEEEEEE! DAAAAAAAAAAAAVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID! HAT TRICK! 3-1!!! Whoohooo!!!! 
• Is it just me or is Flandersdude losing his voice a bit here.....? 
• Um yeah, you can't just whack Gluuu like that.... Off to the box with you, Mr. Random Grand Rapids Guy. PP time. Let's see if this one is any more successful than the last one (apparently they're 0 for their last 9 PPs).
• Flandersdude just said he's kinda sick - hence the lack of a voice.... Told you it wasn't just my imagination here. 
• Yeah.... that was a futile PP..... and now it's off to the PK...... 
• Futile PP for the Griffs too. Yay! 
• ...........hey, what is this "too many Hammies on the ice" penalty? Don't tell me the ZombieHammies are coming back.....
• more futile Griffs PPs. I accept this. 
• I wonder if those Ricola throat lozenge things would help Flandersdude? Quick. Someone go get him some. He's going to die before the end of the third period D:

Third period

• YAAAAAAAY! STEVENSON!!!!!!!! 4-1! And Flandersdude's voice is completely gone now....
• Umm............ Hammies? What the hell was that? They just totally scored on themselves there. Specifically: Henry just scored on Sanford. Ick. 4-2
• ............4-3. Do not tell me that we're not about see a come back from the Griffins...........do not.......
• Can we either 1) score another goal or 2) score another goal? Because I don't trust you guys to hang on for 6 more mins. 
• What is this? "Let's see how many times we can hit PK from behind" night? Jeez....
• Empty net now. COME ON HAMMIES. 
• Phhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww......... Hammies WIN 4-3!!!! *falls over*
• Flandersdude needs to not talk for the next day so he can have a voice for Sunday (not that I'll hear him, but yeah.... someone will hear him!). 
• See ya'll at the Bell Centre!!!! Eeeeee!!!! (really, really excited to see my Hammies again. Like, I just realized that Sunday is the day after tomorrow. HAMMIES. HAMMIES. HAMMIES.). 

Waiting on the scores from my other games but so far it's....

• Dumont has a hat trick and the Voltigeurs are up 5-1 over Roy's Icky Remparts. Mwahahahahahaha!
• Tigres are predictably beating up the Juniors.. it's 3-0. Oh no, wait... Asselin scored. It's 3-1. Yay! 
• And Sudbury is up 2-0 over the IceDogs with 20 mins left... Poop. 
• And Turtle-Pleky and Co are beating up Latvia 4-2. 

Hammies vs Stars: My Hammies have turned into ZombieHabs

Okay so I missed most of it because I was on my way back from Kingston... but yeah.... I just walked in and checked the score and.......

WOW. Hammies got blown out 5-0. I don't really know what to say here other than.... that's awful.

The explanation is simple though.

The Hammies turned into zombies.

No really.

Look, Jacques Martin is secretly a zombie come to turn all of Habsland into ZombieHabsLand. Seriously. It's a plot by the Sens to destroy Habsland because they're just jealous that nobody wants to sing a "stupid soccer song" when their team wins (the Sens tested their zombie on the Panthers first before getting the Habs to hire Martin).  Seriously. The Cave is actually a secrete lab in which the Sens create Super Zombies. They put their arena in the middle of nowhere so people wouldn't  go wandering by it randomly and notice all kinds of weird smoke spewing out of it.

ANYWAY.

As we've seen all year, Martin has slowly turned out Habs team into ZombieHabs. The Hammies have been safe in Hammietown but the Sens needed to find a way to infiltrate Hammietown too. So they knocked out a pile of ZombieHabs (and you thought I was wrong to hate Volchenkov!) so the Hammies would be forced to send their poor brave men off to fill the depleted ranks of the Habs.

When PK, David and Pyatt went up they got turned into ZombieHabs too. And now since they came back... Sundayish, they've had several days to spread their ZombieHabs Germs around. Now everyone has come down with it!!!!

Fear not though! The Hammietown is well equipped to deal with such zombies. That's why Guy was really hired. He's here to combat the ZombieHabs! Apparently that's what people learn at McGill... they learn how to combat Zombies! Or something. I've heard a good smack upside the head can help reverse the effects and restore the zombies back to their original state (provided they're not too far along in the whole turn-into-a-zombie-process).

Oh and apparently there's a strain of Toskala-itis in there too which Teddy and Sanford have come down with. It's a terribly contagious decease which affects only goalies. It is treatable though and goalies have been known to recover from it. Some can recover quite quickly.

......................

If you really want to know the semi-good news in all of this.....

Let's flashback to the Voltigeurs season last year because I feel like it, plus one can still equate them with Guy. You know the season.... Voltigeurs pounded the crap out of everyone in the regular season and then proceeded to pound them some more in the playoffs. Blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, etc. ANYWAY. The team did have a (small) stretch of crap games. After squeaking by Montreal 5-4, they then lost to them 4-0 a few days later (oh yes, the one and only time I can remember my Juniors beating the Voltigeurs. I think it was a fluke to be honest), they followed that loss up with a horrendous 10-2 loss to Gatineau (yes, 10-2) which then was followed by a 5-4 shootout loss to Shawinigan. Finally Mooski came around and stunk and the Voltigeurs sorta kinda got back to winning again.

The point is?

5-0 is a horrendous score to lose by. I don't approve of it at all and I hope the Hammies get their act together before their next game. BUT it's one game in the grand scheme of a whole season. So we'll let this one slide (providing of course the Hammies get back to winning immediately or at least stop the spread of the ZombieHabs). WAKE UP HAMMIES! *SMACKS*

Hammies vs Heat: we need video replay in the AHL already

Hammies pre-game stuffs because you know I'm going to listen to it:

• Um Hammies? Where are you? Why am I stuck listening to this singing? Oh... you directed me to the wrong radio station.... =/ 
• AHAH. There's Flandersdude! 
• Guy doesn't like missing defensemen.... (Re: you better be having the best time of your life, Weber and PK because the Hammies are suffering without you right now). 
• Ummm the Hammies bus broke yesterday? See what I miss when I'm out drinking awesome cider instead of listening to my Hammies? My poor Hammies D: 
• You can see that I'm missing my Hammies by the fact that I'm saying the word "Hammies" over and over and over again. HAMMIES. 
• So how many Hammies do we have left? Stevenson is sick and Patches is injured now..... 
• Yes, we're all pleased that PK did well.... now please, Habs, send him back tomorrow. We need him =(

First period 

• HI AL! *waves* 
• Hi Gui's brother....! Where have you been all this time? You used to be a Hammie. A perpetually injured Hammie that is..... 
• SHAWN BELLE. 1-0!!!!!!!!
• While explaining why Ryan O'Byrne is fighting Ian Laperriere, the Hammies get a delay of game penalty and the Heat score. I thought the Hammies were supposed to take advantage of the Heat being undisciplined? 1-1
• Ah, there we go. Hammies getting a PP. 
• ....are we still on the PP? Oh 8 seconds left.... 
• Hmm that was uneventful save for a couple of attempted shots.... 
• N'awww, I see PK's parents at the BC on the Habs TV. We wuvs PK!
• There's a Sutter on the Heat? Is he related to the pack of Sutters?!

Second period

• I really do not like the Heat. GET LOST. 
• Apparently the Heat think it's okay to send Trotter into the bench. 
• Of course the Hammies get the first penalty of the period when the Heat should have been called on two or three penalties already.... 
• Oh, Hammies on the PP now. Thank you, Heat. Now score Hammies!
• or not.... 
• more penalties.... and no goals... 
• Trotter tries to score. No goal though. Sounded like a pretty attempt. 
• I'm getting seriously distracted by the two other games on TV.... 

Second period intermission aka break to figure out the scores for all the other teams

• Habs getting beaten up by Flyers 4-1 now............... 
• Voltigeurs are tied 1-1 with the Huskies
• Petes are losing to the Erie Whatsits 4-1
• Niagara is up 4-2 over Belleville
• and Slovakia's women's team is getting demolished by Canada. Oof. Jaro should offer chocolate milk to the Slovak goalies.... 

Third period 

• "It seemed like forever since Shawn Bell scored". Flandersdude speaks the truth. 
• agsjkssdhkasjdhkasdhkasdhaksdhakshd DAMN YOU HEAT. Soft goal... soft goal.... soft goal.......2-1.
• Al is saying something about the icing rules... I admit to not getting a word of what he said.... 
• C'mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaammies...........!
• Not dont' go to the penalty box, you twerps!
• Al: "There's one of those Sutters...." So he IS related to that pack of Sutters..... Sigh........ 
• Bad Trotter... you missed the net! Oh, you got tripped so we're getting a PP. Okay. 
• .... this PP misses PK. And David. 
• ...................
• HEY. You don't run my Hammies like that. 
• HEY HAMMIES PLEASE SCORE. 
• The Heat just gave you a gift of a PP. PLEASE. PLEASE. Do something. 
• HOW DO YOU HIT THE POST?! TWICE?!
• Hammies are arguing that they didn't hit the post. Of course there's no video replay in this damn league so we dont' know if it was a goal. 
• Hammies still arguing. 
• I think Saturday is "Guy Boucher gets super angry" night. Second week in a row he's gotten super upset about something..... He's angry that the ref wouldn't go over to the goal judge to check to see if it was a goal. Why can't we have video replay in the AHL? =/ 

In other news: 

• Habs lose by some yucky score to the Flyers.............................................................. send my Hammies back now, please?
• Petes lose 7-1 to the Erie Whatsits. 
• Niagara WINS. Yes, Niagara WINS. 4-3 over PK's old team. 
• And the Voltigeurs needed 5 rounds of shootouts to beat the Huskies. Thanks Brunelle. 

Hammies vs WBS Penguins err I mean Hammies vs Marlies

Hey, you know I was thinking the other day what a pity it was that we weren't going to be able to play the Hershey Bears. Unlike in the NHL, the AHL doesn't seem concerned about teams having to play all the other teams at least once a year. Too bad, because I think it'd be a huge measuring stick for the Hammies to play the top team in the league. Anyway, upon checking the schedule it turned out that the Hammies aren't going to play the Baby Pens either... or were they?

Today's Habs/Pens matchup was really a Hammies/WBS Penguins matchup. Yup. The Pens had a pile of call ups too so it was really a battle of AHL call ups.

And guess what? My AHL team is better than the Pens' AHL team. NYAH. My Hammies kicked some serious tail feathers today. I'm so proud of my Hammies (even if I still wished that they could come back to Hammie-town). After a not great game when he was here the last time (coincidentally also against the Pens), it was super great to see David do well today in particular. I'm not necessarily sure that he can maintain a full position in the NHL, but he made me a very happy Hammies/Habs fan today.

Great job Hammies!

Now, I just hope that the Pens and Bruins exhaust themselves trying to get to DC and Montreal respectively. They're having a "snowmaggedon" down in the eastern coast apparently.

ON TO THE (REAL) HAMMIES GAME (it's also Juniors/Voltigeurs, Spits/IceDogs and Petes/Generals tonight as well). 


Pre-game stuffs 

• Heeheee... Flandersdude: "whatever the H-E-double hockey sticks you want to call it (Toronto)". I should remember that one next time I attempt to do a podcast with All Habs...I think I actually said "hell" in our first recording.... 
• Hammies may have lost a pile of guys to call ups but the Marlies are definitely worse off tonight. This is good news. It's not like the Marlies are getting their guys back either. The Habs are just injured. The Leafs are all in Calgary/Anaheim. 
• Weber is back! He'll be playing tonight too. Hope he's not too tired D: 
• Hark! What's this? Guy is HAPPY that the Hammies won a game? Is the end of the world coming? :D

First period

• Um......... what is with these bad starts against the Marlies? 1-0 Marlies on a crappy PP... 
• Well, at least the Hammies are getting chances now.... although, I'd appreciate it if Wyman didn't miss the net like that D: 
• Hehehehe more subtle Marlies bashing. Flandersdude: Those aren't Joey MacDonald-like numbers are they? Al: he's not playing for a very good team. 

Brief QMJHL break for a second

• These Juniors guys are ticked off that the Voltigeurs are keeping the puck in the Juniors end for a long time. Uh guys... it's the VOLTIGEURS. They're going to destroy you.... D: Knowing our luck, it'll be a Baby Hab who does the destroying.... 
• See? Dumont scores. 1-0. I told you so. Thanks for nothing, Dumont. Also, this is too confusing with Jake playing for the Voltigeurs now. 

Back to the Hammies

• the glass is broken. Fix it already so we can whack the Marlies.....
• ...... is this glass fixed yet? 
• *taps watch* 
• Okay, we're back. 
• Hammies getting a PP.  We need a goal now. 
• I like that Pyatt is stepping it up today (and yesterday). We still don't have a goal. 
• WAIT. Hammies are outshooting the Marlies 11-1 and the score is 1-0 for the MARLIES? What the H-E-double hockey sticks?????
• Patches is off to the box. I can picture Guy getting upset now. 
• Okay. No Marlies goal. Time for a PP for the Hammies now (see a theme happening here?)
• and no goal............ 
• Al and I agree that the periods in Toronto last forever..... hurry this game up already... 
• No... not another penalty.........Hammies going to the PP again. 
• and no goal. Someone's going to get lectured.
• Let's hope for a second period  
• Flandersdude's optimistic thought of the moment (paraphrased by me): Guy was talking about the process being important and not the result. So at least the process is more or less going right so far (me: but he's still going to bagskate them for that goal against). 

Second period 

• Second period is underway. Guess what this teams? More penalties!!!! Hammies getting a PP. 
• We're not capitalizing on the... 
• AND THEY SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE! GLUUUUUUUU! 1-1. Blocked Patches shot is regained by Patches which then goes to Russel and then to PK and then to Gluu. Or something like that. Glu gets the goal and we're tied. Guy can like the whole progress of that whole thing and I can like the end result =) 
• Never mind what I was going to say. Great work on that goal. 
• EEEEEEEEEEEEE! GLUUUUUUUUUU AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2-1!!!!!!!!!!! PK with the assist!

Quick Juniors/Voltigeurs break 

• And Brunelle scores. 2-0. So torn over this game..... I like Brunelle but I don't like that the Juniors aren't scoring. 
• Berube and Jake are playing well.  Especially Berube. He's been robbing all kinds of goals from the Voltigeurs. And Jake just robbed Aubry.... Okay, Jake, do us a favor and let the Juniors score one. Just one. 

Back to the Hammies

• That was Gluu's third breakaway. He's 1 for 3 on the breakaways today. Haha. 
• Erm, Weber, I think the refs notice when you deck someone like that..... 
• Erm, every time Flandersdude wonders if the opposition is going to get a penalty, they never get one... 
• Boo.... you can't give Weber a 4 minute penalty. Pfft. 
• And the puck disappeared. 
• Congrats. 12 mins into the second period, Deveaux registers the Marlies first shot on goal (in the period). Now go away. 
• And the puck gets stuck in someone else's equipment. Can the puck stay on the ice? 
• 4 minute penalty is over. Phewwww....
• If I actually wrote out every time the ref missed a call, this post would be twice as long. Not even kidding. 
• Flandersdude: the Marlies usually have a lot of fight in them. Tonight they had it for five minutes and since then they've been kinda dead.
  Me: that sounds awfully like a complaint or worse, sympathy. Shhhhh.... it's only 2-1. 

THIRD PERIOD 

• Hahaha... Flandersdude and Al discussing what the Marlies coach could have said/done to get the Marlies to going. Flandersdude thinks that a cattle prod would be a good idea :D 
• This game has no flooooooooooooow............... *sobs* 

Juniors/Voltigeurs break

• Oops. So it's 4-0 Voltigeurs now. Palat and Levesque - who I guess didn't die when his own teammate hit him. Also... Philippe helped out on the Levesque's goal. Baby Habs have now ruined the Juniors night again. 
• Poor Juniors though... just can't can't score at all..... we should have traded Jake for a forward...... 

Back to the Hammies 

• Flandersdude: I feel bad for the Marlies play by play guy. How do you accurately call this game without getting fired? 
• Can you tell that this game is not exciting in this least right now?
• Sanford's save percentage is .833 tonight and he's only allowed one goal. Ouch. 
• In more exciting news: Parkes scores. Juniors aren't going to get blanked. 
• WAKE UP HAMMIES. The Marlies are waking up due to those squeaky little kids squeaking "let's go Marlies". WAKE UP. WAKE UP. WAKE UP. 
• WAKE UP HAMMIES WAKE UP. WAKE UP. WAKE UP. 
• Bwahahahaha Al just completely butchered Guy's name. It was funny. 
• Thank you St. Denis for breaking up that 2 on 1 rush for the MARLIES. WAKE UP HAMMIES WAKE UP. 
• There's still 6 mins left? But it felt like 10 mins ago when  you said there was only 8 mins left........ 
• Gah.... Marlies getting a PP now.... jdkadhakjhdkjashdkjdshkhf............. we're asking for trouble here...... 
• Longest. Penalty. Kill. Ever. 
• Gluu is 1 for 4 on breakaways now.
• Marlies and Hammies are taking turns yelling at the ref for missed calls. 
• Hammies getting a PP. 
• Can we score? PWEASE? 
• Apparently not. 
• Oh looky, another Marlie to the box. 
• Okay this ugly game over. 
• Right? RIGHT? Conboy is yelling at either the Marlies or the refs now. UMMM HELLO?! Why are my Hammies' coaches yelling at the Marlies and the refs now? HELLO? This isn't pretty.....Seriously, you know it's ugly when Guy is yelling a lot too now..... Okay, now would be a great time for everyone to just leave the rink.......... EDIT: apparently JoeyMac of all people slashed Conboy after the play... Seriously? JoeyMac should go slash his own players........

Okay, I'll just leave Flandersdude and Al to give the refs hell.... I'm going to check on the final scores of my other teams.......................................... 

Voltigeurs ran over the Juniors 4-1. I'm not in a great mood today and listening to cranky play by play guys didn't help in the least. I should have switched the radio feed of this game to the Voltigeurs feed because this was annoying. 

Petes rolled over the Generals 6-3. That sounded like an ugly game too. I mean... 56 minutes worth of penalties were given out? Ugly. Mishy gets the win though. 

IceDogs only lose 5-2 to the Spits. This is good. Well, relatively speaking.... 

Hammies vs Amerks: Shhh don't wake the sleeping Amerks

19 wonderfully awesome Hammies - 3 awesome Hammies + 1 Cyc and 1 Hammie enforcer =  someone better spike the Amerk's water bottles or else we could be in trouble.

Pre-game stuffs 

• ummm I missed it all actually..... I KNOW. I KNOW. I forgot which time the game was on.....I know, I know................
• I did hear Guy saying that they were a little off in their 4-0 win over the Rampage..... can't we please just enjoy the win? Even if the Rampage sounded like they were dead as a doornail? PWEASE....?

First Period. Let's not get demolished, okay?

• We missed the national anthems! YES! YES! YES!
• Okay, let's not die against the Amerks, okay? At least we can be happy with the fact that Salak isn't in nets..... right? RIGHT? RIGHT?
• Hey, we're not dying yet! 
• Hey... no Al? Is he still sick? D: Wasn't he supposed to be here?
• I see that attempt at a goal, Lacroix. It's nice to see you back here actually. 
• Patches down! He's apparently bleeding too..... Lengthy 5 on 3 PP coming up. Make it count! 
• WHOOOOHOOOOO! PYATT SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES. 1-0. 
• Yikes..... Amerks with a short handed attempt. Note the word "attempt". No goal. 
• I don't like Jeff Taffe. Just saying. 
• I'm trying to find a stupid excuse not to like Benoit Groulx too.... hmmm.... let's see... he used to coach the Gatineau Olympiques. I'm sure the Olympiques have beat my Juniors and/or my Voltigeurs. Do the Voltigeurs count though? 'cause technically I hated them last year.... Anyway, I'm sure my Juniors at least have lost to the Olympiques so I'm going to use this as a bad excuse to not like him. Bwahahaha...
• Eeeeeeeeeeee! WYMAN! 2-0!!!!! That's two PPG tonight. 
• Booohooo... Stevenson off to the box now..
• Okay, Teddy says "no" and the clock says "this period is over". 

Period Numero Dos: Let's not give up the lead, okay?

• Aside from one Hammies chance at a goal, all I've been hearing is "(insert Amerk's name here) gets a shot away on Teddy". Can we remedy this please, Hammies?
• No, Benoit, going to the box isn't what I meant..... 
• Another Hammie to the box? Why am I picturing Guy getting mad right now? Why? Maybe because he is getting mad? Don't tell me he's happy with this.............
• Yes, I know Taffe is a Hammie killer. Somehow the Hammies don't notice him standing in front of their goalies. 
• WHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO! Pyatt again!!!!!! 3-0!!!!!!!!!!
• WOW. 4-0!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO IS THIS TEAM?!!!!! Oh right. It's Guy "I'll bagskate you guys for not playing  amazingly awesomely in your 4-0 win over the Rampage" Boucher's team. Hehehe. 
• Flandersdude said it was Gluu's goal (if so, Gluu is further proving that he's not BFFs with David anymore) and annoying PA guy in Rochester says it's Henry's goal. We accept either scoring. 
• Booo! Bagskate those horrid slackers for not scoring on a 3 on 1 rush! BAGSKATE. I mean... nice chance there, Patches. We still love you. 
• Shhhhhhhhh Flandersdude, we didn't want Salak in nets tonight. We're pleased that it's the backup dude in nets. We're happy that Salak is warming the bench right now. Also, shhhh don't say that the Amerks are sleeping. That is a sure fire way to wake them up. SHHHHHH.... don't wake them up. 

In-between period random bit which was supposed to feature an interview with David or Trots

• HEY. Flandersude... you can't just say "I have a great stat for you but just to be dramatic, I'm going to make you wait." That's not fair. 
• ..........waiting............
• ....................waiting......................
• ...............................waiting.......................
• Oh snap. I completely missed what Flandersdude was saying. Hahaha... something about five games in a row.... Also....... Hammies are trying to win more than 5 games in a row for the first time since that season in which they went to Calder Cup finals against the Aeros. Forgot what year that was and I'm not in the mood to go look it up. I think it was 03?

THIRD PERIOD. Let's go for the wiiiiiiiiiiin pwease

• ................ dhakjhdskjayrioqahfskjsncakjls................ Why were the Hammies in the penalty box and why did the Amerks score?! BAGSKATE. 4-1. 
• Guhhhhhhhhhhh...... I'd like the Hammies to spend less time in their own zone, please!
• Numbers I like: 21 point turnaround from the Hammies who were 10 points behind the Amerks back in December. They're now 11 points ahead of them. Bwahahahahahaha. Hope this doesn't mean that the Amerks are due to win some games soon though..... =/ 
• Why is there a kid screaming very close to the mic? Ick. 
• GUHHHHHHH............... 4-2.  WE ARE NOT AMUSED. NOT AMUSED. You have 5 mins to not get scored on again. 5 mins. 
• 2:09 left. Amerks get called offside. Why am I so relieved by this? Why am I afraid that the Hammies will pull a Leafs and allow three goals in the final three mins? (yes, the Leafs just did that and they lost in regulation time to the Devils). 
• Plante off to the bench. Empty netter, pwease?
• No. You have to put it IN the net. Now it's icing........ 
• WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! PYATT WITH THE HAT TRICK! 5-2. 
• Longest winning streak for the Hammies since 02-03 when they won 9 in a row (this is what Flandersdude was trying to say before!!! Got it!). 

Hammies vs Baby Yotes: Ho hum... another shutout.....

Pre-game stuffs 

• Flandersdude says on paper the Baby Yotes shouldn't be able to compete with the Hammies, but apparently games are played on ice and not on paper. Why can't games be played on paper? At least the games in which my Hammies are supposed to be better than the opposition....... 
• Sheeesh.......the Rampage are on a 14 game road trip. The Habs have to leave in March because Disney on Ice comes to down (damn you Disney on Ice!!!) and the Baby Yotes have to leave because of some rodeo thing (damn you rodeo stuffs!). 
• Okay, why are we still talking about the Baby Yotes.....? Can we please talk about something else -
• ....WAIT POGGE IS WITH THE RAMPAGE RIGHT NOW?! (damn you, suspended Iowa Chops which have led to Ducks prospects being strewn across the continent!!). EDIT: OKAY NEVER MIND. HE WAS RE-CALLED WHEN VESA WENT TO THE DUCKS. YOU CAN ALL RELAX NOW. 
• Awww no Al tonight... He's sick D: (damn you crappy whether that makes people sick).
• So if you have two goalies who play well in Hamilton, it's not a goalie controversy, but if you have two goalies who play well in Montreal, it's a flipping controversy. Gotcha................. (damn you Montreal media). 

FIRST PERIOD 

• Oh squeaky kids in Hammie-town, you are so delightfully out of tune and adorably squeaky. I wuvs you. 
• Wait... did Flandersdude say "Hollweg". UGH. Go away Earwig..... Yes, it's been a while since the Hammies played the baby Yotes so I'm forgetting everything I didn't really know about them.... 
• Hammies are trading PP chances with the Baby Yotes...... =/ 
• Apparently this period is brought to me by some vacuum place......? My brain feels like it's being vacuumed out of my head.... I'm so tired...........
• eh..... they're giving away chocolate at this Pink in the Rink thing? Did I hear that right? Man, if I ate chocolate, I'd be on the next buss to Hammie-town.  While we're talking about pink......When you go to the Hammies site and this page thingy comes up and advertises for this Pink in the Rink thing, the page isn't pink. It's purple. EDIT: now the page is gone. Oh well.....
• Why is David on a 11 game point streak? And why is Flandersdude making me wait until after this annoying commercial break to tell me......? What the heck was that commercial about anyway? All I heard was "blah blah blah David... blah blah blah gladiators... blah blah blah Upper James Street"... Makes me sense to me either....
• Okay, Benoit didn't get an assist on PK's goal when he scored against the Admirals in their first game.... they gave it to David. Whoopy!
• Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrock Trrrrrrrrrrotttttteeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr! 1-0!!!!!!! 
• Gluu is off to the box.....I thought Guy said he wanted the Hammies to stay out of the box? Speaking of Gluu... Gluu Junior isn't named David..... I find this sad..... mind you, Gluu Junior still has a nice name but it's not David........... 

SECOND PERIOD (WHY AM I TYPING THIS IN CAPS?!).

• What did I miss? What did I miss? What did I miss? I was trying to put anti-flea stuff on one of my animals (one of those preventative things.... no, I don't have fleas in my house). Apparently I didn't miss anything. 
• EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! GLUUUUUUU! 2-0!
• Oops.. the ice is all dead again in Hammie-town..... Cue a break which will contain commercials that I have no idea what they're advertising for!
• So here's  how this game is working tonight: Rampage take a penalty, Hammies take a penalty, Rampage take a penalty, Rampage take another penalty, Hammies take a penalty, Rampage take a penalty.... 
• HEY. What is with that shorty attempt by the Rampage? =/
• WHOOOHOOO! Someone scores somehow! 3-0!!! Apparently it bounced off the crossbar, didn't go in despite the goal light going off, "bounced around like an Indian rubber ball" and THEN it went it... which apparently makes it Pyatt's or PK's goal and not David's (who hit the goal post)...... EDIT: it's PK's goal. 
• SMACK EARWIG. SMACK HIM LIKE A BUG. Seriously........ you don't whack a Hammie like that.... SMACK HIM. 
• Did you notice that I've had a recent love-affair with typing in caps (haha wrote "Caps" there) lately???

THIRD PERIOD (More caps!!!!) 

• Earwig is in the box for five mins. White is also in there for something for some amount of time I've forgotten....
• Man...... I'm falling asleep here.......... you know what I'd like right about now? A nice goalie fight in the Sens/Slugs game I've got on the TV...
• EEEEEEEEEEE! DAVID! 4-0!!! Never mind. This is a lot better!!! YAY! And Trotter now has four points on the night. "Another so-so night for Brock Trotter". 
• Okay, this game can end any time now! I'm pleased with this score right now. I mean, the Hammies can always score more goals, but I don't need the Baby Yotes scoring. 
• Hmm is that "Put Your Hands Up In the Air" I hear playing in Hammie-town?
• hdkjahdkjhdkshjas stupid Earwig......... 
• Scrum! Scrum! Scrum! Scrum! Twerpy ex-Amerks guy is all ticked off because St. Denis hit him. 
• WHEEEEEEE! Hammies wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!

Brock Trotter is on a real hot streak right now. Actually, apparently he is "as hot as a firecracker. Maybe hotter depending on the type of firecracker." 

........

Seriously. My Hammies are awesome. Unless you're a Bears fan, you can't say your team is as awesome as mine.

Speaking of the Bears... I really wish I could be a Bears fan but somehow I'm feeling some animosity towards them. Totally bizarre considering my Caps-love, I know, but it's the truth. Still, it's probably a good sign that I don't like them right now because I've disliked just about every team that I'm currently following :D

Hammies vs Admirals: Puffy Blue jersey smackdown!

But first....

How can a team who has a cool logo like this:

Put said logo on a jersey like this:

SERIOUSLY MILWAUKEE? What is with PUFFY BLUE colour? So ugly..... I mean, yeah, I'm biased against Puffy Blue jerseys... but ewwwwies.... So ugly...... You ruined a great logo by putting it on super ugly colour like this... We're not friends anymore, Milwaukee. Not that we were ever friends (even if the Hammies share an ECHL team with you) but seriously....


Pre-games stuffs 

• Andy Murray should be listening to Guy's little bit about the mental aspect of playing. It was SO applicable to his "plight".  
• Heehee... they had to persuade Guy to use PK and Belle in a shootout. 

First period

• Fight! Already??? o.O 
• PATCHES! 1-0!
• Lucky Ads goalie... that was nearly another goal!
• Ooo Ben Guite off to the box.... Hmmmmmm!
• Yikes.. someone tries to kill Patches. 5 on 3 now. 
• Ping!
• Hmmmph. Some nice shots, but no goal. 
• PK now...........
• Another PK (not a bad idea to trip a guy in front of the net when he's about  to score).
• .......or not..... Ads in the box.....
• "Rabbit gets a shot away" just sounds weird.... Rabbits shouldn't be shooting anything. 

PK Interview!

• LOL. Apparently PK's shootout goal thingy at the ASG had to be done twice. The first time he did it they were still on a commercial break, so they told him that he had to do it again. Hahaha.. 

Second period

• more penalties.....? Is it just me or are there a  lot of penalties being dolled out these days???
• and they skate up the ice... and down the ice... and up the ice... and down the ice... and now the Hammies outshooot the Ads.... and.......... 
• BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROCK TRRRRRRRRRRRRRROTTTTTTTER! 2-0! WHOO!
• I love how the audio on this video feed keep screwing up....Everything randomly goes wonky and sounds weird.... hard to explain but yeah....

Third period 

• Boohooo..... David gets robbed of a goal *kicks the goalie*
• Erm........................ so..................... it's 2-1 now..................... DO NOT GO TO EXTRA TIME PLEASE. 
• Is where we wish that the Hammeis had scored on one of their PPs before........????
• Why are the Ads sounding like they're shooting a pile of pucks into the Hamnmies end of the rink? Do. Not. Like. 
• That sounded awfully like Flandersdude was about to say "Hammies".........Do. Like.
• PP! Can we make a good effort to put this game away now? Pwease?!
• YAAAAAAAAAAAY! Brrrrrrrrrock Trrrrrrrotter again! 3-1!!!!!!!!!!
• Aggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh TWO MINUTES WAS ALL YOU NEEDED. 3-2. As a spectator, I can complain about such things. hdakjdhakjsdhakjsdhaskjdh...................... 
• AIE AIE AIE
• AIE AIE AIE AIE AIE AIE 
• AIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
• It's like dodging bullets... Kinda like in the Matrix :D  
• HAMMIES WIN. THANK YOU. *collapses* 

And I think this deserves a crappy limmerick! 

There once was a team called the Hammies

Who played team wearing their jammies 

They walked into the rink 

And won with a wink 

Oh how we love that team called the Hammies 

Hammies vs Admirals: Whooohoooo!

pre-game stuffs aka EP runs around checking the scores of her other teams

• Voltigeurs score two early goals, including a nice shorty from Levesque (ooooo and Philippe just scored!!!)
• Poop...Juniors are down 1-0 to the Huskies. BOO HUSKIES. 
• Bah. Petes and IceDogs are down 1-0  and 2-1 to Belleville and Erie as well. Meh. 
• Um no, Guy didn't say anything interesting tonight. What is he going to say after last night's game anyway? "Oh yeah, we totally just bagskated the team for those awful two on nothings"?  Bagskate! 

Hammies tiiiiiiime! 

First period:

• Ouch... I think that woman in Rochester just got outdid in "how badly can we sing the national anthems?" category by this woman in Milwaukee. Yes, I feel the need to chronicle these awful singing jobs in the AHL. 
• Sanford just bailed himself out after he misplayed the puck behind his net. Oh boy.... 
• It's "blow the whistle for no reason" night, apparently. 
• Hey, how come Sanford is doing all the work tonight?! This ain't a Habs game, guys.... 
• Dagger wants a goal (that will count). Hammies are forechecking everywhere. No goal though. 
• Flandersdude keeps trying to say something but the Hammies and Admirals keep trying to score while he's talking. Hehe. 
• Boohooo Conboy hits the goal post... D: 
• Dagger bear hugs Guite after the latter decks Trotter. Yay for Dagger standing up for his teammates! No yay for Trotter though........
• And Guite gets 5 mins and a 10 min misconduct for decking Trotter (they're calling it a headshot). PP time!
• WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO! PK SUBBAN! 1-0! 
• Hammies still on the PP. 
• WHOOOOHOOOO! Benoit! 2-0!
• Poooo.... Dagger misses the half empty net (well, it went off someone's stick). 
• That was a good PP. Thanks for sacrificing your head, Trots! ;D 

1st period intermission aka EP goes back to running around like an idiot!

• Voltigeurs still up 3-1 but Piche's shutout just got ruined. Oh I'm sorry. It's 4-1. Sean just scored (everyone's favorite shit disturber in the Q got one of the assists, yes). 
• Parkes ties it up for the Juniors on the PP against the Huskies! 1-1! 
• .... Belleville is now up 2-1 on the Petes. Petes, seriously... I want a win after that crapfest in London! D: 
• And the IceDogs are tied 3-3! one of the Hamiltons scored. I think it was Freddie, but it could have been Dougie... (sorry, I really have a lot of fun saying their names for some reason). 

Oh Flandersdude interviewed Patches earlier today: 

• Ooo Patches just totally said "it's nice to be down here with a team that's winning".  
• He doesn't seem to be too cut up about being sent down..... I think he realizes that it's the best thing for him right now. 
• Hahaha... Flandersdude did his interview with Patches while the other guys were playing soccer behind them and Patches got decked at the end of the interview. 

Second period 

• Oh c'mon... Flandersdude is actually trying to look at that penalty objectively?! If it was a hit to the head, then they should have dumped Guite from the game (which is what they did). 
• dhakdhakjdhkasdh it's very windy outside my window. This matters because it's distracting me from listening to the Hammies game. Go away wind D: 
• GUHHH 2-1 now........ 
• Yikes! Now the Ads just rang it off the post! Ayeyeye....
• This game has gone back to being a fast paced one... sloooooooooooow doooooooooooown. 
• Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! St. Denis!!!!!!! 3-1!!!!!!!!!!!! 
• "D'Agostini took a high stick from Rabbit, who will be hopping into the penalty box". Sorry but... HAHAHAHA. 
• WHOOOOOO ST. DENIS AGAIN! 4-1!!!!
• Wait.. I only realized now that there's two Santorellis in this game.. what's with all the brothers tonight?!
• Oh Flandersdude, don't say that the Hammies have lost their last 5 games here in Milwaukee. That is just asking to tempt fate. 
• Pffffffft Hammies get a penalty for... playing hockey. Think of it as a gift, Ads. 

Second period intermission aka... yeah, you guessed it! EP runs around checking the scores of her teams. 

• Poop. Petes lose 3-1 to the Bulls. Boohoo. 
• Philippe has remembered how to score again! Voltigeurs are up 5-2 now over the Cucumbers. 
• Did I mention how much it saddens me that Levasseur plays for Chicoutimi? 
• IceHogs are actually AHEAD 5-3. Freddie Hamilton has a hat trick!!! EDIT: erm that would be the IceDOGS....

annnnnd we get a Dagger interview too!

• Dagger doesn't sound depressed either. 
• Dagger also likes the guys on this team. He really seemed to be hinting that it's a lot more fun in Hammie-town. 
• Apparently the Hammies can't afford to give their guys a knife and fork and instead give them two forks with their meal. At least that's what happened last night. Hahaha... 

Third period 

• Oops... we're 8 mins in and I haven't had to say anything so far......
• Here's something: All of the Hammies goals have been scored by defensemen. Also, Trots and David don't have any points yet. David needs a point because he's got an 8 game point streak going on right now. Or something. 
• Sanford's been really solid tonight. I like this version of Sanford. As opposed to the injured and faily version. 
• Flandersdude just insulted the Ad's mascot. He says it looks like a cross between Clifford, Youppi and an aardvark. Apparently it's super ugly. EDIT: okay, I found a pic of it. It is ugly. 
• Hahaha.... there's still a over a minute left in the game, but the guys in Milwaukee have already given Flandersdude the 3 star for the game.
• WHOOOOHOOO HAMMIES WIN. First win in Milwaukee in 5 years!

Post-game stuffs aka.... you know what........

• PHILIPPE GOT A HAT TRICK. Voltigeurs win 7-2!!! EDIT: apparently this is his first hat trick?! WUT? Well, congrats, dude!
• Juniors lost in OT =( Berube stopped 40 of 42 shots... 
• IceDogs wiiiiiiiiiiiin 5-3!

Hammies vs IceHogs (what's an IceHog anyway?): Flandersdude is back!

Hammies first!

Pre-game stuffs

• FLANDERSDUDE IS BACK. Not that he was really gone, but yeah... You can't have him you horrible Sabres!!!!! 
• Guy says the Hammies have never been blown out this year. I think he forgot that 5-1 loss to the Amerks earlier this year........ I mean, it's not a 7-1 blowout like the Habs experienced, but still.... 
• Dagger and Patches are back tonight. Hope it goes well!!!
• They call the arena where the IceHogs play "the pigpen"? Okay then...... 

Period Numero Uno 

• Flandersdude is talking on and on in what I assume is a bid to stall for time while we wait on and on and on for the puck to drop. 
• Why do they insist on having squeaky kids who can't sing sing the national anthems? Brutal. Next time I want the band with the over zealous cymbals player doing my national anthem instead of the squeaky kids. 
• THEY HAVE COWBELLS IN ROCKFORD. COWBELLS. BOOOOOOO!
• Awww, I forgot that Gluu's a daddy! Congrats to Gluuu and his wife.. I think her name is Melissa! (I'm going to know the names of everyone's wife's if they keep having kids). 
• Hammies sound like they're awake tonight. More than I can say for the Habs right now (more on them later). 
• DAGGER SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES! Welcome back! 1-0
• Erm.... Rockford guys gave the goal to Stewie......? Flandersdude before the commercial: "Despite what they announced, the Bulldogs are up 1-0 by a goal from Matt D'Agostini, unless I've completely lost it". Heehee... 
• What is a Klinkhammer......? And a Bickell....? 
• Dagger sounds like he's having a good night. At the very least, he's shooting the damn puck!
• Flandersdude is insisting that Dagger had the goal. 
• Is it possible that the Hammies are actually catching a break on penalties that should be called against them but aren't, tonight?
• I have a super craving for this super awesome Indian food wrap thingy I had in DC in DECEMBER. OMG it was so bloody awesome.......... D: 

Second period intermission:

• Flandersdude is STILL insisting that Dagger scored. Apparently everyone agrees that it was Dagger. Everyone but the ref. Poop. 
• Heeehee there was something super funny about the way that Flandersdude just said "Acadie" (he's talking to Danny Masse about the teams he played for in the Q). 
• Masse grew up a Habs fan. Whoohoo! That's what you get for moving from some place near QC to some place near Montreal. HAHAH. 

Second period

• Hey, Hammies, please don't go to sleep. 
• HOLY CRAP. Rockford on a 2 on 0 (YES ZERO) and they miss the net........... WAKE UP HAMMIES!!!!!!!!!!!! 
• There's a rugby match going on behind the Hammies net apparently. 
• Boo.. penalty coming up. 
• We're lucky that the IceHogs keep missing the net. 
• And the IceHogs miss the net again. 
• ...........And again.........
• ........and again.......
• Weber's turn to miss the net now. 
• Boy oh boy, a goal by the Hammies would be nice right about now....
• STEVENSON SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES! 2-0!  WHOOHOO! That would be a month long scoring drought he just snapped. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
• Wow, Subban just got mauled and yet he still kept hold of the puck.
• Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrock Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrotter 3-0!!!!!!!!!! (Flandersdude says the goal was godawful for Crawford, but we'll take it anyway). 
• Flandersdude is recounting the three gazillion time zones he had to cross through to get from Hammie-town to Vancouver and then from Vancouver to Rockford. Sounds confusing!
• And he still thinks that Dagger should have had that goal. 
• Ayeyeye! That sounded like waaaaaaaaaaay too many IceHogs getting shots away on Sanford.... 
• Nice to know that Sanford is on top of his game so far! Sheeshhhh!

Intermission number 2

• I do believe Flandersdude is talking to Ryan Flinn right now. Hi Ryan!
• I'd like to know how many teeth he's missing because he sounds like he's missing a few of them (that or he's been punched in the face). 
• Flandersdude: You should go into broadcasting when you're done playing hockey.
  Flinn: there's not too many opportunities for that in Phoenix (I guess he moved to Phoenix?).
  Flandersdude: Do they still have a team there? I know they're not in Hamilton!
  Flinn: *mentions something about the current guys in Phoneix doing the broadcasting*
  Flandersdude: maybe you should be like Tanya Harding while the other guy can be Nancy Kerrigan? (nice....)

Third period 

• Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrock Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrotttttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 4-0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Missed a few things whilst discussing Serena Williams and how I think that while she's an amazing athlete, I can't stand her personality. 
• IceHogs have missed the net once and rang the puck off the goal post in this PP. 
• Flandersdude is still dwelling on Dagger's goal which turned into Stewie's goal.  HAHAHAHA. I find this funny... for no reason.
• Skille got SUBBANed. SMOOSH. 
• CONBOY SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5-0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  Didn't I say that the Hammies would score 5 goals for Flandersdude when he came back from Vancouver? DIDN'T I?!!!!!!!!!!!! Flashback to Monday night during the Sabres/Canucks game: "...........hmmm maybe the Sabres can have one more goal? Just one more? For Flandersdude? *smacks self* nononono Hammies will show their appreciation for Flandersdude by scoring at least five goals in Rockford on Wednesday and he can yell "and they scoooooooooooore" all night. Yes. Yes. Yes." SEEEEE?!!!!!!!!!!!
  
• AYEYEYE. Rockford with their second two on ZERO rush............... Sanford stops them. BAD defensive lapses, Hammies. BAD. BAD. BAD. 
• GAME OVER. Shutout!!!!! WHOOHOOO! Sanford's first shutout since....... October? His second shutout over the Rockford IceHogs!

Post game stuffs

• I bet you can guess what Flandersdude is saying regarding that first goal. Yup. Still insisting that Dagger got it. Really, I want to see the replay of this now. 
• Righto, so the Hammies had no PPs but Flandersdude still has to do his whole sponsorship add thingy. Hahahahaha. 
• Whooo! Hammies just set a franchise record for most shutout wins away! 

Righto.. do I have to talk about the other shutout tonight? Like the one in which the Habs got SHUTOUT by the BOLTS......? Yeah, I don't like that shutout. I like the Hammies one better. GO HAMMIES GO!

OMG JUNIORS! OMG HABS!!!! (and omg Hammies... but for a different reason)

My Baby Juniors: 6
Number One Team in CANADA: 4.

YES. My Juniors beat the Sea Dogs today! YES! YES! YES! I love being wrong in this case. When I was debating which game to go to (last night's match or today's) I said that I'd prefer to watch the Foreurs because the Juniors were going to get demolished by the Sea Dogs.

I would do a whole write up but 1) I missed most of it because I was following the faily Voltigeurs play (and looooose) and 2) Flandersdude is talking now :D so here's the scoring summary of the third period which is the part I followed:

HOLY COW. What an end!  Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...............!

ANYWAY.... HAMMIES TIME.

Pre-game thoughts:

• Flandersdude wonders why people would come out to see the Marlies when the Leafs are on TV as well tonight. My guess would it be because the Marlies will be slightly more interesting to watch lose than the Leafs. 
• Guy said a pile of stuff that I missed because I'm STILL squeaking about the Juniors winning. 
• Dany Masse played his first game last night!! Good because we lost Jojo. He's been reassigned to a team in Sweden who's name escapes me. Farjestad? 
• Gluu's wife is going to have a baby so Gluu isn't here. Apparently Gluu's baby is taking its sweet time to be born too D: 

First period 

• Flandersdude says we're probably going to be in for a war tonight. Because it's ALWAYS war between the Hammeis and Marlies. 
• oh DAMN Marlies score. 1-0. Here we go again with the Marlies making my life hell. Bloody Marlies. 
• David might be injured now. Damn you, Andre Deveaux. White and Subban are trying to beat him up now. Guy is apparently going insane. 
• Deveaux just got kicked out for a while. 
• David isn't leaving so he should be okay for now. 
• hdakjhsakjdhakdhakjs Hammie going to the box. this is a freaking mess and it's only 5 mins into the game!!!!!! 
• dhakdshkdhkahdeiuqjdrfklqhfkjshfkahsdfkjahfskjashkashdl DAMN YOU MARLIES. 2-0. 
• Flandersdude: if I was Guy Boucher I might consider calling a time out.
  Me: If I was Guy Boucher I would start whacking my players upside the head. .....................................or I could pull the goalie. Teddy is getting pulled for Sanford.
  
• Flandersdude and Al are discussing why Guy would pull Teddy now. I still think Guy should start whacking his players to get their brains to work again. 
• Stewart is going to get into big trouble if he doesn't stop playing like an idiot. 
• Weber down and Henry and Simon go at it. I'm getting very sick of these truculent Marlies. And note that truculent means playing like bunch of $%^&ing morons. 
• Marlies PP. PK gets angry and sounds like Guy is ready to strangle his team right now. 
• What a freaking ugly period. 

Second period 

• The Hammies respond to a shitty first period by........ taking a penalty. 
• 3-0. 
• Can we just quit this game?
• Stewie would prefer to get beat up by Stokes instead.I'm sure Guy will prefer that Stewie sits in the box for a while anyway. 
• BEN MAXWELL scores. 3-1
• PK gets decked and there's no call? WTF?
• Stevenson gets decked and no call? 
• 4-1. 
• And PK gets decked again. No call. 
• I know I'm alone in this, but I'd prefer to swap scores with the Habs right now. Habs are up 4-0 and Hank is smashing stuff as he gets pulled for some guy called Zaba. 
• I want to enjoy this Habs 5-0 smackdown of the Rags but I'm still mad at the Hammies right now. hkajshdakjhdkajshdkjasdsjdhkj.................... 
• Hammies... you suck tonight. I'm sorry. But you do and you're not helping yourselves at all. 
• blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
• blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
• DAVID! Hammies are only losing 4-2 now. 
• 5 on 3 PP for the Hammies for once. 
• Ooooo another Marlie going to the box. Can we score? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE?????
• Damn, second period over. 

Third period 

• SOMEONE SCOOOOOOOOOORED! I don't know who! 4-3!
• Hammies are alive again! 
• Go Hammies! GO HAMMIES!
  
• Okay... Hammies are dead.... Benoit off to the box....
• C'mooooooooooooon HAMMIES! 
• haksjdhakjdhakjsdh Trotter... that was a super stupid penalty.........
• WHAT? Trotter got a DOUBLE minor? shakjdshaskjdhkajsdhkdquiruqwifhyfakjfsAHKauwioqwued!!!! 
• dhakjdhqiorydqiwuyfiwshfsfhiewufhiquewfry Marlies win 4-3. BAAAAAH. 
• Not a smart game for the Hammies. Bad Hammies. Fix your brains before you get back on the ice. 

Instead of collapsing in a heap of sobs and whatnot.. let's just move on to the Habs.... 

HABS WIN 6-0. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! It was great. Habs demolished the Rags, Jaro got a shutout, Torts went Torts. WHOOHOOO! I think I might have to start liking BennyPoo soon. He's a RFA too at the end of the year, eh? =(  but anyway, WOW HABS. Nice win! 

Hammies vs Monsters - We're sick and tired of this team already

Pre-game stuffs

• Guy sounds like he's been shouting a lot. Oh wait. He has. 
• I think I could've written this up before listening to this... Guy wasn't happy at all with the team, etc, etc, etc, etc.... 
• Sad to say, but the Habs could use more of Guy's thinking that Martin's "oh yeah, everything is fine and dandy and if it isn't then I'm going to bagskate them all...." mentality. 
• Flandersdude speaks for all when he says he's sick and tired of the Monsters. 

First period

• Oh nooooooooo it's KOHARSKI reffing. We're already screwed. 
• Sanford and Carle are back tonight. 
• White already hits the post. This better not be the night of hitting the posts. On the bright side, at least they tried to score. 
• Observation of the night: If you add a "t" at the end of Stoa's name you get Stoat. You know... stoats are related to weasels...or ferrets... I always thought ferrets were kinda cute. Unlike Stoa. 
• Michael Busto was sent to the Elmira Jackals? Not the Cycs....? Oh and this is the first time I've heard anyone mention Busto's name all season....... 
•  Uhoh... Guy is going to kill them...... Hammies standing around while some Monsters thingy rips it past Sanford.....*hides* 0-1... 
• YAY! Maxwell doesn't want to die tonight. He scores on the PP! (Flandersdude was too busy talking about something else to yell..... )  1-1

Second period

• Stupid observation of the night: Koharski sucks 
• hdjkhasdjkashjkashjkdashdkjh 2-1
• Guy is going to kill the Hammies...
• Weber is trying to die. He takes a ridiculously stupid penalty. 
• Hammies nearly score short handed. One of them gets clobbered. Koharski looks to call a penalty and then doesn't. 
• Maybe Guy will kill Koharski with his death glare?
• Guy is going to kill the Hammies. 3-1 MONSTERS.
• I know the Hammies are stinking it up right now, but damnit, all these no-calls by Koharski are killing the game for the Hammies. 
• Sad to say too... the Hammies have outshot the twerps too...
• Ref you suck! Ref you suck! 
• Guy is still going to kill the Hammies... 
• Ref you suck! Ref you suck! Ref you suck!  
• This period sucked. Guy is going to kill them. If I don't kill them first. These sucky second periods are very annoying. 

Third period

• Apparently Koharski can count. Monsters get a penalty for too many men on the ice. 
• Hoping the Hammies score so the parents can hear Flandersdude go crazy. 
• (Bleeping) Weiman robs Darche... 
• Ref you suck! 
• Every time Flandersdude says Stoa's name say "FIE ON STOA". 
• Some wallpaper thing is sponsoring the third periods? That could explain a lot........... 
• Flandersdudeism of the night: Darche skates past that bouncing biscuit (really, "bouncing biscuit"?) 
• Carle injured???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Okay. PP. Make it count, Hammies. 
• ... okay don't. 
• Damn, you know, this team needs Jordan Eberle if they have a hope in hell of tying this game up. WE NEED EBERLE. 
• Hammies are outshooting the Monsters 40-19. Yup. Guy is going to kill them. 
• Sure, give Trotter the penalty when you've missed like half a dozen infractions against the Hammies. Ref you suck. 
• OH BENOIT SCOOOOOOOOORES! 3-2!
• guh............ Look, I know Sanford needed to play a game sooner or later... but he's let in two bad goals tonight..... 4-2 Monsters. 
• HOLY CRAP WHITE! 4-3! 
• Sanford is out of the net. 
• Guh. Empty netter. 5-3 Hammies say the Monsters were offside. They're giving the ref shit now. 
• Guy is going to kill them. At least the Bears lost too. 
• Oh and I hate the damn Monsters. 
• Final thought of the net: Hey, look Flandersdude does swear. At least in his mind anyway: "We'll play the highlights of the end of the game. It was kind of a cluster......um......something." Riiiiighto. Clustersomething. Uhuh. Al says it was a cluster of peanuts (some peanut thing apparently "sponsors" the plays of the game). Now I want to know what he's saying right now. Bet some of it isn't family friendly :D

5 things

1. Well, it wasn't quite a bagskate... actually, it was probably a lot more productive than those stupid bagskates. Anyway, Guy gave the Hammies hell for being crappy the other night. He even kicked PK out of the practice at one point (lesson learned: never a break a stick and then to proceed to accidently almost hit your coach with the broken pieces of said stick. Particularly when your coach is in a very bad mood to begin with). For their sake, they better win tonight.............
   
   
2. Speaking of the Hammies... they're working on a new lease with Copps Coliseum. Boo. I actually think Copps Coliseum is probably waaaaay too big for them. I mean really, it seats 17,000 people or something and they only get 2 or 3 thousand people on  most nights? If Copps Coliseum is anything like The Cave, then the atmosphere is probably deader than the Whalercanes playoff chances. Also, I don't like the NHL clause in the lease. The last lease said that if Hamilton was to get an NHL team, they could kick the Hammies out without any real notice. I really don't like that.....obviously.
   
   
3. I'm already getting tired of hearing about Taylor Hall and the Draft.....if my team doesn't have a chance of drafting him then forget it. I don't want to know.
   
   
4. You know that CHL top prospects thing that nobody is going to watch (including sadly, me because I will be watching the Habs lose in person)? Well, two of my guys will be there. IceDogs goalie Mark Visentin will be there as will Aubry! No idea why Aubry will be there, but he will be there so nyah!
   
   
5. Potatoes are the most awesome food in the world, okay? 

Oh and... what the hell Bradley?!



Jeez..... I don't understand why Ovie can't fight (and the general thoughts from both the Caps and the Caps fan is that Ovie shouldn't be fighting). Hey, if The Crysob can "fight" then Ovie can too. Okay that was a bad example... hang on... okay, if Ilya can fight so can Ovie! Hey, I just noticed that in both examples it's a Panther getting beat up. 

Hammies vs Monsters - are we done playing this team yet?

Gawd, it feels like the Hammies have only been playing the Monsters and the Griffins lately. Oh wait.. four of the last six games have been against the Monsters or Griffins. And the Hammies are playing the Monsters again on Wednesday and the Griffins on Saturday (and those Amerks on Friday). Who did this stupid schedule?!!!! Guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......... D:

First period

• Hi Sanford warming the bench! Mayer was getting bored of sitting on the bench, I guess. 
• Someone scooooooores on the PP! Flanderdude says it's Darche. PA guy says it's Jojo. Darche appears to say it's Jojo. Al says it's Darche. Doesn't matter! Hammies up 1-0!
• Oohhhh Monster down........ this could take a while to clean up..... 
• Stewie just steamrollered over a Monster. HAHAH. Don't worry, this one lived. 
• Oh looky. Another PP!
• Brrrrrrrrrock Trotter!!!!!!!!! 2-0. Everyone agrees that it's Trotter :D 
• So.... Darche gets hit in the face and David goes to the box? Uhuh.... that's some flawed logic, yo... 
• "Lake Erie are shooting themselves in the foot again and again and again" - Flandersdude as the Monsters keep coughing up the puck to the Hammies in their own zone. 
• It's smash a Hammie in the face night, apparently. Monsters going to the box for whacking Trotter in the face now. 
• Stupid Weiman is keeping the Monsters in this game. GUH. 
• Wes O'Neill needs to be punched. It's only fair after he keeps trying to decapitate my Hammies. 
• Aie aie aie.... Teddy stops a breakaway. 
• Monsters should thank their goalie it's not 6-0. 

Second period

• oh wait... we're on the PK? How'd I miss that? 
• and now Henry is going off............. HEY WAKE UP HAMMIES. 
• hdakjsdhakjsdhaksjdhaksdh 2-1........
• Hark! A penalty for the Monsters. 
• This is not a pretty period
• Random thought of the hour: I have a new appreciation for food photography. 
• Flandersdude and Al would like to remind us how awful the jerseys are of the Monsters are. Apparently the numbers are screwey to the point where a 2 can look like an 8. 
• Most exciting thing thus far: Monsters almost score on themselves. 
• Posts have saved the Hammies TWICE now. 
• Is this period over yet? Guy wants to glare at the team now. 
• Teddy is giving the refs crap for not calling a goalie interference penalty. You tell them!
• Darche with the Hammies first real attempt at a goal. Basically did all the work to almost get a goal and then got robbed. Boo. 

Intermission doodad thingy

• Neilson is a chatter box :D 
• I think he should totally get himself a career as a play by play guy when he retires. 
• Oh, Neilson played in Mooski with the Crysob? 
• ...and he's STILL talking.... I'm not used to hockey players talking 1) without saying "uh" every two seconds and 2) talking this much. 

Third period

• guh... wrists are sore... making typing every amusing thing Flandersdude says very difficult D: 
• wake up Hammies... wake up!!!!!!!!! 
• no... not Monsters beat up Russel.... at least Benoit is standing up for Russel. 
• Al says Hammies aren't getting to enough lose pucks. Al is right. 
• I hate Stoa. 2-2. 
• apparently they don't cut to commercials on an icing call. 
• ummmm apparently this is going to OT.........

OT...

• missed it because I was out walking the dogs............Monsters scored while on the PP. ICK. The Hammies probably deserve to lose it for falling asleep in the third period though. 
• Revenge time on Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!!

Post-game thought

• So apparently Abbotsford had their play by play booth thingy in the middle of nowhere. Then they moved it to a better location. Although apparently now Flandersdude will have to sit with a pile of other people. How'd you like to be the guy sitting beside Flandersdude when he yells "and they scoooooooooooore"? Hehehe. 
• Hark! Flandersdude isn't being pessimistic tonight. Must be because Al feels like being optimistic and it's rubbing off on everyone. 

Hammies drop Griffins

There is nothing nicer than beating the team that beat you in the playoffs. After that 7-3 pasting of the Griffins, the Hammies came back and pasted them 5-2. It was nice.

Gluuu FINALLY snapped his second? third? fourth? Fifth? goaless streak and scored two goals and ended the two with four points! And no, David didn't get one assist on Gluu's goals. I'm both shocked and totally happy for Gluu. Yay! Here's hoping his BFF isn't too upset about it.

Gluu came THIS close to getting a hat trick but he couldn't put it into the empty net so... Brrrrock Trotter who already had two goals put it in the empty net instead. Hat trick for Trotter! YAY!

Actually, the only ugly thing was Teddy coughing up the puck when he showed everyone that he can't really stick handle the puck. The gaffe resulted in the Griffins second goal... Someone please teach the goalies in the system how to stick handle the puck. PLEASE. Everyone in the system needs to have lessons. Except for Price.

On a whole it was nice. I just need the Hershey Bears to lose in regulation time so the Hammies can have a chance at catching up to them. Flandersdude and I agree that it would be nice if the Hammies finished the year on top of the league.

A few other things....

• Juniors lose 4-2 to the Sea Dogs. We should be thankful that the score was this close. Thank you Berube. No thanks to the Sea Dogs play by play guys who annoyed the crap out of me. 
• Lake Erie totally own the Amerks right now. 

What the dog err tired EP hears

People like to joke around by saying if their dogs here when they talk is "blah blah blah food blah blah blah walk blah blah blah cookie blah blah blah walk blah blah blah..." Well, I promise you my dogs know more than that but getting to the point, this is how an exhausted EP heard tonight's Hammies game:

Blah blah blah Desjardins makes a save.. blah blah blah Desjardins makes another save... blah blah blah Hammies with a shot on goal... blah blah blah powerplay for the Monsters... blah blah blah Stoa to the box (sleepy EP note: what the heck is a Stoa? Sounds like a Moa.Only less scary).... blah blah blah first period over.... blah blah blah AND THEY SCOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!! (not-so-sleepy-EP note: Dude, I should totally record Flandersdude yelling after the Hammies score and use it for an alarm. WOW). blah blah blah.... ZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZz...... blah blah blah penalty for the Monsters... Hammies hang on for about a minute to the puck without anyone blowing the whistle... blah blah blah... AND THEY SCOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (not-so-sleepy EP note: whaaaaa? YAY!!!!!!! *goes back to sleep*). blah blah blah EP note: did you know that Chad Anderson's nickname is Andy? Isn't that super creative? About as creative as Frederic St. Denis' being "Freddy". I like Anderson though. blah blah blah and they score...... (EP note: ooof..... you suck Monsters.... ).  blah blah blah Desjardins is down (EP note: Who ran into my goalie?! WHO?! And who is the ref in charge of this game who sent the HAMMIES off for a penalty? Idiot).  blah blah blah Flandersude: the end of this game is going to be great! Al: *yawns* (EP note: erm.... yeah... you and me both, Al.... *yawns*)  blah blah blah  Weiman gets pulled.... blah blah blah AND THEY SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!!! (EP note: yay Darche! I think it was you Darche. I don't know. I just heard "and they scooooooooooore"). blah blah blah Game over! (EP note: YAY! *falls asleep*)


Oh and....

• the Colts want everyone to know that they lost 5-1 to Kingston tonight.
•  Niagara had a third period implosion and lost to the Knights 6-3
• Petes lost 4-3 to the Generals in OT. 
• Juniors demolished the Mooseheads 4-1. Yay! 
• Dumont had his requisite goal and a penalty and actually had another goal afterwards. Randazzo scored the OT winner. Voltigeurs win 3-2 over Scandella's team (and no, Scandella wasn't there). 

Hammies: they understand the term "puck possession"

......Which is more than I can say for Martin. Once again, he says it's "pretty obvious that we're trying to play a puck possession game". Obviously his idea of puck possession means the opposing team controls the puck in the Habs zone and get half a gazillion shots off.

The Hammies on the other hand, understand that "puck possession" means THEY have to control the puck. We have such a smart bunch of Hammies, I tell you. The completely dominated the first period - and had nothing to show for it on the scoreboard. They then looked like crap in the second period (which means yes, they gave up a goal. Oh the shame and horror!) before PK tied it up. I was almost sleep when Flandersdude started yelling. White or David scored a super ugly goal after that and then White put one into the empty net.

YAY! As nice as I'm sure it sort of was to see Don and Ron back, it's nicer to have the Hammies win! =)

And.... Flandersdude is getting grumpy. He managed to dis two teams while also taking a(nother) swipe at the lack of people at the game. And I accused the Screaming Eagles guys of being grouchy. Boo. Stop crabbing about the attendance. I know it sucks but stop crabbing about it.

.....

Hello Juniors! I've missed you D: Finally got to catch a bit of their game tonight. First time in a long time I've actually been able to catch one of their games.

By the time I remembered that they were playing, they were midway through the second period. Surprisingly enough, they were up 3-1 and GOOOcheeeee added another one. I was stuck with the Screaming Eagles guys. They're very negative and very grumpy. They also amused me by asking if Eli was one of the import players. They wondered if he was Russian. Having been there and done that, I can laugh at them. Dear people, Eli's name may sound Russian, but he's very muchly Israeli/Canadian. Thanks for thinking he's one of those awesome Russians though.

Oh and Xavi's back. Yay!

*yawns*

It would seem that everyone - including myself - left their brains somewhere else yesterday.

I nearly forgot the Hammies were playing at 4 and I completely forgot until two minutes ago that the Juniors and Voltigeurs were also losing playing today too.

I think I can be forgiven for not paying any attention to the Habs. I was busy trying to make arrangements for Anze the stray cat who's been living at my house for the past week. Doesn't really look like I missed a whole lot. Another snooze-fest in Habsland. I guess everyone exerted all their energy shoveling the snow out of their way just to get to the arena. In their defense, there was a lot of snow out there.

The Hammies seemed destined to blow this game. They trailed the Admirals four times throughout the game before the fear of the imaginary bagskate took over and they finally won. Stewie had two goals (thought he might have had a hat trick but they later credited his third goal to White), White had two goals and Maxwell had two goals. Pricey's backup in Tri-City didn't sound like his normal self. Last game he totally robbed the Hammies of a win. Not tonight. At the other end of the ice, Teddy was shakey too, which has me super worried because now we're stuck with a no longer hot Teddy and Mayer for at least two weeks while Sanford is rehabbing an injured shoulder (grrrrrrr Sanford! How can we stop you from being injured so much?!). hakjhadskjdh. Very pleased the Hammies didn't blow this one. A two game losing streak would not have been very pretty. Especially not when you keep giving up soft goals!

In other news

• Canada downed the Swiss and blew them out in the last ten minutes of the game and won 6-1. Very anti-climatic. I was hoping the Swiss would make it a little harder. I'm not sure I have a lot of confidence in Team Canada and how they've been playing in the last two games. Oh well. Waiting to see who they'll play in the finals. Hoping it's Sweden and not the USA. 
• I know why Tardif wasn't sitting on the Voltigeurs bench the other night. It's cause he was sitting on a bus bound for Quebec City. He was traded for a fourth round pick. Oh well. Bybye Tardif! Voltigeurs must have been missing him or something 'cause their lost to Baie-Comeau 3-2. Poop. 
• Juniors lose to Rouyn-Noranda. Meh. 

Sometimes I love CBC: Enter "Goose the Puppy"

No really.

They're a fantastic inspiration for new nicknames for players. They brought you Ketchup as a nickname for Sergei Shirokov. Tonight, they bring you "Goose the Puppy". I know it makes no sense, but if you recall, I've been calling GusGus "The Puppy" because this whole "The Monster" thing is stupid. ANYWAY,  I was catching some of the Leafs/Flames game and I promise you the CBC guys were calling GusGus "Goose-stuff-son". So now, I will have to call GusGus "Goose". Obviously I'm still going to call him "The Puppy" so officially he's "Goose the Puppy". I know that Gaustad of the Sabres is already called "Goose" but I didn't name him that so it doesn't count. 


No, I'm not drunk. I named the chocolate éclair that my sister demolished on her plate "Komisarek after Looch has squashed him into the boards"! Really!

Anyway....

Hammies lost a snoozer to the Monsters. BAGSKATE. Even if you have to play tomorrow. BAGSKATE. BAGSKATE. GUH.

Flandersdude was calling out all the people who think that Hamilton should have an NHL team when they don't even show up to the Hammies games. Those poor Hammies. I feel so bad for them. They're one of the best teams in the AHL right now and they routinely only have about 2000 people in the building. Brutal. GO SEE THEIR GAMES, HAMILTON PEOPLE! GO! GO! GO! I would, but I live in the heart of Habsland and Hammie-town is too far away D:

Speaking of Hammies and nicknames.... I had no idea that Johansson's nickname was Jojo (pronounced: yoyo). Now I know!!! Jojo isn't terrible at interviews either! Whoo! I'm surprised that he said that he's never had major injury issues in Sweden. He's been routinely injured here. Poor guy.

Speaking of injuries... Sanford's gone for at least two weeks. Mayer better turn into the best goalie ever when he gets to play!

In CHL news:

• Some Junior who I never knew existed before scored the shootout winner as they beat Scandella's team. NYAH. 
• Voltigeurs had some guy I've never heard of as backup goalie to Piche. I don't like Toni Ritter as much as a Voltigeurs but there we have it. He is one and he had a goal. Dumont had a goal (again) but no penalty. Weird. Oh well. Someone give Philippe some decent line mates please.... D: 
• Niagara wiiiiiiins! Poor Simila though. His country loooooooost to the Americans. He was wearing a cool toque with a huge fluffy pompom on it :D 
• The Petes blew a two goal lead and imploded in the third period. Boohoo.... Bad Mishy!