Game 1... *yawns*

If you're like me and the prospect of watching this Puffles Wings game puts you to sleep, then you can spend your time watching this Peachawks thing. Very amusing. And Perky is in it because he was a Hawk then.



In important Habs news....: Sergei and Andrei and Hammer have been completely cleared. Yay! So much for the big scandal. Pfft. Still waiting to get my hands on La Presse to see if they actually reported this. Now stop hanging out with people like this!


And because it is tennis season....

First off, a look at the Clay Monster:

(image from Yahoo sports)

Yup. Sorbet coloured Rafa. Just what I always wanted.... NOT! At least Roger doesn't look like ice cream.... No Roger just looks like...

(image from yahoo sports)

.....OH GAWD! Roger looks like a Puffy. DAMN YOU NIKE!

Broken Wings vs "good little divers"

The poor Peachhawks were sent packing tonight in OT. I'm a little crushed but I was fully expecting this so I guess I'm not too cut up about it. Well, okay, it was sad. Really sad. But there is some positives.

The good

• I got my Peach goal. I love Peach Fuzz.
  
• I love the Peachhawks. They're totally my team in the west right now.
  
• Huet... oh my god.... I felt kinda proud of him. Even if I never saw him play here. Felt better about that performance than I did about Theodore's as a Cap anyway... Way to be awesome Huet. And that foot save in the last few seconds of regulation time to keep it tied? Amazing.
  

The bad

• Another flipping Wings/Pens final
• The Wings are broken. The Pens aren't.
  
• I still don't have faith in Ozzy to out-goalie Flambe....
• I'm clearly not a die-hard Peachhawks fan yet. I'm not depressed and I'm now going back to the Wings - not that I had a choice.
  

The ugly

• Puffy. What? You thought I was letting that one pass? Nope.
• I think I just agreed to wear a Looch shirt........ someone please go out and destroy all Looch shirts by the morning. Thanks!
• Hossa vs. the Puffles. Oh the over-dramatic storyline here....
  

The "what the heck TV"

• TV talks about Canada's deficit which suddenly got a lot bigger and for some reason they randomly show footage of an Ovie goal. Not getting the connection there, TV. Oh well. I liked seeing Ovie score. Made me all happy inside.
  

Peachhawks show their age

... or total lack thereof. I refuse to go into gory details but yeah, they brought out their immature side today. The good news is, that this team looks set to be fantastic in the near future - once these guys grow up a bit. That is good news indeed, because I can not really stomach the idea of yet another Penguins/Red Wings final next year.

Please - for the love of hockey - someone please make your team into a serious contender and knock out those Pens and Wings. Hey, I'm still dreaming of that lovely Capitals/Peachhawks finals. That would be so sick. In the good way. Make it happen. Pwease.

Anyway... ten days off from this mess sounds so appealing right now. Imagine. Ten days without seeing Puffy's puffy face on the TV (in theory). Ten days without the Wingsies. I can't wait to pretend the season is over and nobody won the Stanley Cup. The Pens shattered most of what was left of my hockey heart that wasn't already smushed by the Habs and the Wings just killed the little bit that was left. Thanks Wings. Hockey can officialy go off and die until training camp comes around in the fall.

No more hockey, please. I'm going to watch my tennis and I'm going to like it. Maybe. Depends on Roger Federer.... He'll probably crush my tennis heart by losing in spectacular fashion. Great.

EDIT: The stupid NHL is now trying to say it wants to bump up the date of the finals if both series finish up by Wednesday. Pfffft. MAKE UP YOUR MIND, DAMNIT!

Now THIS is a Peachhawk!

Thank you Grrrrreg! *squeals* Yay! They SO need to make this official logo of the Peachhawks *nods*

PEACHHAWKS!

(Dude, you have to let your mouthguard hang out, not your tongue.... *shakes head*)

Wrong Patrick got the game winner in OT, but the Peachhawks win and make me squeal with delight - which is something. I haven't done that since.... game 6 of the Caps/Puffles series. FEEL THE POWER OF THE PEACHINESS!

- blowing a 3-0 lead is BAD. The Peachhawks had 2 goals in the first period and another one early in the second, only to blew it completely. Third saw no more scoring despite the Wings dominating the play.

- Hitting and concussing someone (Havlat) is BAD. I don't care if the hit was "clean". Concussions are no laughing matter and they do not need to be a part of hockey. It makes me sick to my stomach to see someone just lying on the ice with their eyes basically staring blanking at the ceiling.
- Kronwall was finally tossed for an ugly hit.

- Crabby Khabby is not okay. He was pulled for... Huet.... (HUET?!) and wasn't seen after. Not even on the bench. Not good. He was doing really well up until the point where the whole team collapsed.
- I'm not sure I like seeing our ex-goalies.... Jose was horrendous in his first game of this playoffs and Huet scared me to death...

- Peach Fuzz looked better than the last game.

- Peachbrook got a peachgoal for the Peachhawks is a lot of fun to say....

On broken Caps, broken Bruins, Coyotes and Peachiness

The Department for Broken NHL Players just got a lot fuller

Well, not "just"....I'm totally late on the whole injury thing with the Caps, but wow... they were pretty broken by the time they faced the Pens. Not using that as an excuse but more as a bit of an explanation for some of the things that went on. Ovie had groin and wrist injuries apparently, Green had a shoulder thing, Erskine and Poti had broken feet, Morrisonn had some ankle injury, Schultz had a broken rib and didn't even make it to the Pens series. And....Semin had a injured thumb.

Thanks to Itty Bitty, we all know what a groin injury can do to you. Obviously you need feet and ankles to skate. And Green's shoulder could at least explain why he didn't want to check anyone and why a lot of his shots looked about as lethal as a 10 year-olds (don't worry Green, I still love you and your ridiculously weird/semi-cool hair cut). In Semin's case.... I don't know. I mean... I know from watching tennis that fairly minor thumb injury can severely affect the way you play (hello Ana Ivanovic). I mean, maybe this could explain his seemingly inability to pass the puck to his own team? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here.

As for the Bruins... Wows. They were pretty broken up too. Not that I'm totally sympathetic here because they still beat my Habs. But still. Kreiji and Kessel are going to undergo pretty extensive surgery which could keep them out for months (hmm, I wouldn't mind not seeing Kessel again for a little bit). And then other Bs were injured too (forgot who). No, Chara and the Loochness Monster are both very much in one piece *pouts*

Edit: Oh here's some of the actual Bs who were injured (from Hailey at the Puck Stops Here):

Recchi: kidney stones
Ference: hernia/groin
Kobasew: played with some broken ribs
Savard: sprained knee
LOOOCH: bruised toe (is that kinda like Semin's thumb injury though?)
Chara: some groin thing

And uh.... Hunwick... *coughs*

And speaking of broken Itty Bitty... apparently it needs eye surgery now. Oh so THAT is why he couldn't score! He couldn't see the puck.....got it..... please don't point out that Itty Bitty actually did manage to score. We're chalking it up to a flukey accident.

The ruling on who owns the Coyotes is coming sometime today

I'm of the opinion that the judge will discover that I'm actually the real owner of the team. Yup. And then I'll move the team to some undisclosed place and name Dwatson783 the GM and we'll kidnap Looch, Peach Fuzz and Ovie. And then we're going to call the team the "Puffy Killers". Bwahahaha.

In semi-seriousness, I'm actually expecting the ruling to be in the NHL's favor. Which is a pity really....

Feel the Peachiness!

Please tell me I'm not the only one who is having (too) much fun with the Peach Hawks? Peach Fuzz is so much fun to say. Beats Puffy the Penguin any day. And you can Peachify just about anything. Except for Toews.... he seems... unpeachable... I mean.... Captain Peachy? I don't think so.....He'll have to settle with just being Toews. For now, until I can think of something for him. In the mean time....The Peach Hawks are coming to get you, Wingsies!

Hey Peach Fuzz

I dare you to make me go "I guess I'll live without Ovie until October". I bet you can't do it. They may say that you'll "step up your peach-game" tomorrow but I won't believe it until I see it. Prove me wrong, Peach Fuzz. Go on. I dare you.

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and he better "raise his peach-game" tomorrow because this so-called "conference final" tonight was LAME. LAME. No intensity. No crowd noise and no Whalercanes that I could see. Bah. This was SO not a conference final. This was like... I dunno... the Memorial Cup game was better (made all the more nice by the fact that the the Drummondville Whatsits lost. HAHAH). I mean... the Pens corner of the twitterverse was quiet even! I would SO not be yawning if the Bruins and the Capitals were in the finals. Ugh. Hockey hour has never been so boring before. Well, not since the Devils were still in the playoffs anyway.

Argh.

C'mon Peach Fuzz. Bring the the Peachiness tomorrow tonight!