Random recap of sorts of the last two games

... because I can. And I feel like being random. Whoo!

Game One

• boring first period for the most part. I thought the crowd at the Joe had died...
  
• Wings score off of Flambe's butt. Hmm... thought he was trying to avoid that?
• Pens reply when Osgood mishandles a rebound
• Wings score off of Flambe's foot. Oh dear...
  
• Ozzy some amazing saves. Is this really Ozzy?
  
• Wings get another goal. No hattrick for Flambe. Abdelkader the Denis Killer scores the goal.
  
• With an empty net, the Wings can't put the puck in for the fourth goal. Apparently they need Flambe's help that badly.
  
• Puffy tries to play physically. Gets called a "headhunter" and whacks some Wings around.
  

Game Two

• boring first period. Pens run around the Wings a bit. Nothing too serious.
  
• Oh! Bingo! the Puffles score first on the... PP! After a mad scramble inside Ozzy's net.
  
• Is this the night karma disses the Wings?
• No. Wings reply in the second with no help from Flambe this time
• Wings get another goal.
  
• And another one. This one courtesy of Flambe not paying attention really.
• Wings still haven't mastered the art of scoring on an empty net.
  
• I nominate Zetterberg for the Vezina trophy. He curled himself into a ball behind Ozzy and stopped Puffy from scoring. Forget Schenn. Zetterberg for the Vezina!
  
• Puffy actually works but nobody else felt like working
• It was "let's see how many players we can fit into the net" night
• Eggplant attempted to fight. Semin is still the master of botched up fights but we'll let Eggplant be number two.
• And I think the NHL forgot what "automatic" means. As in "automatic suspension if you instigate a fight at the end of the game" because Eggplant isn't getting some downtime in the press box.
  

So what do you know... maybe these finals are semi interesting afterall....

Oh. My. God. Nadal. Just. Lost.

Excuse me while I go die of shock.

Okay. Back.

Nadal just lost at the French Open. Nadal has never lost at the French open. Never ever. I'm not lying. He came in this tournament four years ago for the first time ever, won it, and has never looked back.

WHAT HAPPENED RAFA?!

This would be like the Wings losing to the Blue Jackets or something... In five games at that. Imagine that. That's what just happened. And that is bad.

I missed most of the match, but I really think a lot of this was Nadal just playing terribly and then letting the whole thing go to his head and continuing being bad. While I think Soderling did do a good job of punishing Nadal on short returns, I'm not sure sure I'm ready to give the world 29 or whichever number he is ranked, all the credit. Nadal was definitely out of it.

There is really only one potential good thing coming out of this. And that is Federer now has a chance to win this tournament for the first time ever. Without Nadal and without the alledged world number two on clay (Djokovic who went out to another random guy), the Fed now has a real chance to win it. Right Roger? Don't let it go to your head though. You've got a lot of work ahead of you and you've got Murray to possibly contend with in the finals - although I really hope not.

Hmm anyway... Let's hope Flambe and Ozzy can continue more of the same tonight. Sorry Flambe but I wouldn't mind too much if you scored on yourself a couple of times again.....

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!

I can do random too!

(click the lovely picture for full size)

...I mean... even more random..... ANYWAY..... This was done by @hockeyisgood who kindly volunteered to do this after I said I had nothing interesting to write now that the hockey season is pretty much over. You'd probably have to know most of the people on twitter to get this so if you don't really know... you should at least be able to appreciate the accurate depiction of me *g*

Blah, blah, blah Stanley Cup finals...

Myeh, couldn't care less right now. My only interest is to see Crysob lose. Hey, I got to see Ronaldo lose. What, I forgot to mention that Man U lost in the Champions League final? Oops. Well, they did. They lost 2-0 to Barcelona. I think I could very well be persuaded to like Barcelona. Anyway... One whiney crybaby down, one to go!

BUT ANYWAY.

I was just reminded after reading something on puckdaddy that Detroit has beaten the Flyers, the Capitals, the Hurricanes and the Penguins to win their last four Stanley Cups. In that order.

Notice anything?

Why yes, the Penguins have beaten the Flyers, the Capitals and the Hurricanes this season to reach the finals.

I think that's slightly creepy. Not as creepy as those Sedin twins. But still....

And am I the only one who doesn't really care about Hossa and which team he plays for? He was a free agent, he wanted to play with a team that could win, Detroit said "sure we'll take you". What's the deal? Is everyone who leaves the Penguins to go play with a team that beat them going to be labeled as a "jerk" now?

If I learned one thing from the Montreal media.....

With rumor season now in full swing, it's time for everyone to crazy. "Kovalev offered a 6 million dollar contract AND the captaincy?", "Koivu going to Minnesota!","Capitals on steroids", "Komisarek turns down a 6 million dollar contract". It goes on and on and on and on.

The one thing I learned from the media here is that you have to take everything you read about hockey - and in particular, the Habs - with a grain of salt (okay more like a huge tub of salt). When there are no quotes coming specifically from people directly involved, then you have to assume that it's not true until someone comes around an confirms them. A lot of the rumors that we hear are plain false and the ones that do have a grain of truth to them are blown way out of proportion. I'm also particularly wary when the so-called sources are "sources who told the media in another country on the other side of the world". I'm sure things get reported wrong in the Russian media and I'm sure by the time it gets back to us, something is lost in translation. I think someone at one point described it as the game "broken teleophone" and that's a perfect analogy.

Maybe the Canadiens did offer Kovalev a 6 million one year contract. Maybe they don't plan on resigning Koivu. Maybe Komisarek did turn down an offer that seems to change from four million to six million dollars. But until someone from the Canadiens or one of these guy's agents comes around and says "yes, that's true", I'm not going to give them too much serious thought.

It's just too easy to get caught up in the media furor that descends on any and every bit of information and then proceeds to turn it into the major earth shattering news of the day. And there is really no point is getting overly excited about it. Take a deep breath and relax.

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.
  

What do you know... there is a specific scientific name for Crosby

This was brought to my attention by a Caps fan over at A View from the Cheap Seats. Needless to say I had to bring this up here too. Loooook, I found out where Crosby fits in this whole species thing:

From Wikipedia.

The genus Eudyptula ("good little diver") contains two species of penguin. It is found in southern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.

Eudyptula minor is commonly known as the Little Penguin, Little Blue Penguin, or Fairy Penguin. In the language of the Māori people of New Zealand, Little Blue Penguins are known as kororaa [hey, that's almost Crosby!].

It's also the smallest species of penguins. Not that Puffy is overly short or anything...

Yes, if you look at the article that penguin actually exists. I'm probably the only one who finds this beyond funny.....