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!). 

Halak it!

I don't care if that's been over-used to death. I don't care if you think I'm biased towards Halak (I'm not for the records). But Jaro just beat the Booins. JARO DID IT. And Gio helped with his shootout winner.

And the best part of this win?

Booins lose.

Again.

Hah.

Now someone make those stupid Sens lose. PLEASE.

no writeup because I'm tired and my Petes got a third of my attention tonight as well (Caps got the other third. Hey, they won 6-5 over the Rags. Bwahahahahaha). My poor Petes lost 5-4 after being down 4-0 after the first period. Just couldn't get the equalizer. 

Hockey in Afghanistan!

I was going to rant about Scandella and how he and Cormier are seriously wrecking up the Q's reputation with their ridiculously stupid headshots, but then I saw this article about hockey in Afghanistan. Seriously. It seems it's popular among the soldiers over there (mostly the Canadian ones, yes).

Article is from here.

Continue reading.......!!

Thoughts going out to O'Byrne and his family

I unfortunately missed this yesterday while I was gone for the majority of the day, but this morning I learned that O'Byrne's mom, Lorelei, passed away last week. We knew he had gone back home with be with an ill parent, but I didn't know that his mom was that ill...  My thoughts and condolences go out to Ryan and his family in this difficult time.

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

I am LOST

I've come to the conclusion that watching the Habs is the same thing as watching Lost. Just when you think you've figured out what's going on, they go ahead and change it all up on you.

Seriously.

Last week, it was like the plane crashed (I mean that in the figurative sense with regards to the Habs) and this week it's all like "well, maybe we just messed around with reality so maybe the plane crash never happened" (I mean that figuratively in a "that down and out Habs team you saw last week? They never existed).

I'm losing it completely right now... I'm sooooo tired.......

Also... Whoooooooo! Caps just set a franchise record for most consecutive wins (and they beat the Booins to do it too!).

Big revelation of the day

Did you know that there are two teams called the Admirals in the AHL?? Norfolk Admirals and Milwaukee Admirals? YOU DID KNOW THIS? Well, aren't you smart..............

I really had no idea until I saw something at InGoal Mag about Jaroslav Janus (who I somehow didn't realize was also playing in the AHL this year?). I mean.. somehow I knew there was a Norfolk Admirals and a Milwaukee Admirals but somehow it's this super big revelation that there are TWO teams in the SAME LEAGUE with the SAME NAME.

Go figure.

IN OTHER NEWS. Have you seen Jake's (and a little while ago) Berube's new masks?

Jake's is here and Berube's is here.

I really like both of them (especially Jake's but it's nice that Berube finally got a painted one too. There seems to be something with the poor backups being stuck with blank masks).

Oh. Em. Gee. The Leafs did WHAT?

Forget Phaneuf. Forget the fact that they got Giggy.

THE LEAFS GOT RID OF VESA. Our Vesa. Our favorite failtender in conference (aside from Biron). DAMN YOU LEAFS. How could you?! HOW COULD YOU?

I'm actually going to miss Vesa. I won't miss that man purse though. That was creepy. But I'm going to miss Vesa and his faily-ness. I'm going to miss The Society of Habs Fans Who Feel Bad For Vesa. I'm going to miss watching him and simultaneously laughing at him and feeling bad for him when he flubs a perfectly stoppable shot. I'm going to miss my team facing Vesa and knowing that we instantly had the advantage over the Leafs (although, wasn't Vesa in nets for that 3-0 loss to the Leafs? Okay, scratch that last sentence).

Have fun back in California, Vesa. It was great to have you here in all your faily glory. You're still my favorite failtender. Even if you're off failing on the other side of the continent. Sorry Anaheim  Koivu and Chipper, but your team just got a lot failier by default.

Byebye Vesa!!