Now that he’s tasted it, I sure hope he’s lost the jitters and starts netting them in regulation.

Regular season hockey games simply don’t get any better than that.

That was the perfect answer to the years old question “man, how great is it going to be when Oshie and Toews are playing against one another?”

Not to be Debbie Downer, but they sure played like shit for 50 minutes and still managed to pull that one out of their ass.

I totally didn’t get the first PP. It seemed like the whole thing was an exercise in passing to BB. It was a 2-man power play! Go fig, it didn’t result in a goal. It was an up-and-down game, but we came out ahead when it mattered. We shouldn’t get in a habit of spotting the other team a couple of goals, though …

You know, I really don’t like the Blackhawks or their fans, but after checking out their message boards to see what they had to say about tonights game, and coming across this response to one of their more pessimistic minions:

"Why don’t you leave here and start posting on the Detroit boards?

You’d raise the average intelligence level of both sites."

I at least feel as though I may have some common ground with them. Ah, so nice to see that we’re not the only team that hates those douches from Detroit.

Oshie is a bigger, faster, more talented version of Bobby Clarke. He’s ice smart beyond his years, he’s relentless at both ends of the ice, and he makes the players on the ice with him better. Even if he doesn’t score a single “official” goal, he’s going to make a huge impact on this team’s play. As much as Murray didn’t play Perron last year, he sure is playing TJ a lot.

It was great to watch chief “I wear feathers so nobody else can see” and his girlfriend (doing her imitation of Pocohontas, called Pokemehumpers) just deflate over the last ten minutes after waving their little toy tomahawk (just like the one he wears attached to his skin, if her interest in him is any indication).

I’ll be relying on you guys to keep me posted next week. I’m off to Lars Eller’s homeland for the week, gonna miss the Dead Things. They’re cursed y’know. Draper’s kid to a shit in the cup, and the ghost of lord Stanley is gonna get them. If he doesn’t, Chris Osgood will.

Oh man, I’m pretty sore after last night. The Answer Man Crew were throwing chest bumps like it was Wrestlemania. We got so wound up we ended up lifting weights for about two hours after the game. We stopped once our erections went away. Awesome game.

Great game to watch last night. I wish the radio guys did the TV broadcast, though.

Kerber/Chase (Plager,too!) are a lot better to my ears than Kelly/Federko (Maclaughlin, too!)

As the GT Guy Who Sat Next To Gifter The Entire Night, I agree 100% with his assessment of last night’s game.

The Blues looked like they were the team being coached by Joel Quenneville for most of the night last night. I like that they turned it up a notch in the third period to pull it out, but they’re not going to be able to do that against an actual hockey team very often…

Other than that, I, like the AMC, am frequently pitching a tent during and after Blues’ games these days. It’s extremely gratifying, on a personal level, to see these guys that I’ve been writing about for the last three years finally working their way onto the NHL roster, and being successful at this level.

B.

i was hermannhoffed. this game is actually hy i had to do a pickup. so i’ll be negative only getting to read about the game.

a) we gave the enemy a point

ok that is probally all i can say bad.

what was the q reaction by the crowd (and did the hawkies even know who he was?)