EEEEEEEEEEEE /fan girl squeal

TWO SHUTOUTS IN A ROW!

RYAN MILLER NOW LEADS THE LEAGUE IN SHUTOUTS, SAVE PERCENTAGE, AND GAA! (OK, apparently he is only second in GAA, to freakin' TIM THOMAS... except I got .947 as his save percentage, and NHL.com says it is .942. I think it's because I'm averaging all his save percentages together, and not dividing saves by SA... because that gives me .942... OH WHO CARES. HE IS STILL AWESOME.)

I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHERE ALL THE HATERS ARE NOW!

(Also, Lalime's little dance was freakin' adorable.)

Excellent game from everyone (on the Sabres) involved.

I cannot say enough about the PK units tonight.

We need three pigeons. One for Ryan Miller, one for Patrick Kaleta, and one for the PK units to share.

Just as I could not give an objective (read: calm) review after the Lightning game, so I cannot give one now.

I'm not even going to try.

They played hockey tonight. They fought through all the BS calls designed purely to even up the total on the box score at the end of the game, they did not give up halfway through the first when they had not yet scored (last year's team would have), they blocked shots all over the place... The defense was excellent... The offense was beautiful when it was allowed to function/when the Sabres were not busy killing off penalties...

AND MY BOY PATRICK KALETA SCORED A GOAL! And he got the puck out on the PK at least once every time! And he laid down on the ice to block shots at least twice! And... He is my favorite player, so I must stop gushing at some point, but man, if only there could be two pigeons! He also drew a penalty tonight, as always. We didn't score off it like we usually do, but complaining about that is just being nitpicky, after that game.

The Rivet-led boys are back. They were halfway there last game; now, they have arrived. Show me a weakness from this game, and I'll show you my loser look.

I love this. (Yeah, I may or may not have watched the game online, and not on GameCenter. Oops.)

I think not!

Craig Rivet comes back, and the Sabres outshoot the Devils 20-3 in the first period.

COINCIDENCE?

AAAAHHHHHH

Craig Rivet is back!

I know that picture sucks, but I'm too lazy to do anything other than a Google image search at the moment, and that's all they've got of him in a Sabres jersey! Also, I prefer in-game pictures to roster photos!

And that's all anyone needs to know about the game (that is starting in fourteen minutes!

YAYAYAYAYAY!

Loser Mode

The Bills have lost three of their last four games.

It was fun while it lasted.

Part of me wants the Sabres to be the better team, because I love hockey much more than I do football, but the rest of me recognizes that the Bills will not be playing in Buffalo anymore five years from now, and I would love for them to win the Super Bowl before they leave, go out with a bang. I could not stomach having them slowly become contenders only to win the year after they move. That would be more devastating than the day they finally do leave... Unfortunately it seems to happen that way almost every time a team is moved.

If you could not tell, I am already trying to prepare myself psychologically for the inevitable. We can talk all we want about how Jim Kelly is getting his group of investors together to buy the team and hope for the best, but at the end of the day, even if they got Golisano involved there would still not be enough money to get the job done. It is being said that the Bills will cost more to buy than any other sports team ever has. Perhaps Jacobs would be willing to sell the Bruins and pool his money with TG and Kelly and his group?

Keep dreaming.

I hate this. I am going to cry buckets the day they are sold, and I never cry.

Now, excuse me while I continue to bask in the glory of that oh-so-sweet victory last night and pout because I won't be able to watch the game against the Devils in which we will score eight goals on Weekes due to the fact that it is on Versus, so it will be blacked out on the NHL GameCast.

Also I hope that tonight is as awesome as last night. I spent a good half hour rapping "Lose Yourself" over and over again, much to the chagrin of my friend in whose room I was hanging out. Yes, it really was a good way to waste time waiting for the clocks to change. But, seriously? That song is so much fun to rap/sing, especially the part in the third verse about the teeter-totter caught up between being a father and a prima donna baby mama drama's screaming on and too much for me to wanna stay in one spot. Between the game and rapping that song, last night was win.

When are Roberto Luongo, Vesa Toskala, Evgeni Nabokov, Marty Biron, Chris Osgood, and Marty Turco going to stop stinking up the joint? And when are Biron and Turco and Brodeur going to have their first names listed as "Marty"? I mean, Daniel Briere is now Danny Briere.

I wish the Sabres played every night. If fatigue did not exist, that would be love. I would have something to look forward to every single day! Wouldn't that be special?

PARTTTTYYYYY

Third period:

-I have been screaming for a Vanek-Roy-Pominville line FOREVER. Thank you, Lindy Ruff!

-I kinda like penalties to the other team. You know.

-Derek Roy is an idiot

-Miller, Miller, Miller. SHUTOUT. YES I SAID IT. AND THERE ARE SIXTEEN MINUTES LEFT. I’M NOT CRAZY, I PROMISE. WHEN I CALL SHUTOUTS, HE FREAKIN GETS THEM. I’ve been wrong once in the past two seasons… but that’s it. You can just tell when he is in the zone…

-Goal posts are Ryan Miller’s best friend twice tonight

-lulz Paille blocked MacArthur’s shot

-Still doing VERY well at breaking up plays in front of the net

-BEAUTIFUL play on that Paille goal. Any breakaway in which Paille is involved turns into magical goodness.

-That hooking call on Roy was ridiculously obvious. I basically hate Roy this season.

-EEE I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE SHUTOUT. I TOOOOOOLD YOU!

I would like to take full credit for this game and its awesomeness. Oh, and Tim Connolly... wasn't all that bad, either.

Now, who gets the pigeon?! Vanek? Miller? Paille? Kaleta? NOT Roy.

This game was... interesting. I predicted them to win 5-0 (not here, but a message board), and I called Miller's shutout only a few minutes in the third... And Vanek scored two. Not three. No hatty. Just two.

I saw great effort from the team defensively. They were not as good as they were the first few games of the season, but baby steps, right? They were blocking shots all over the place and getting in the face of guys who dared stand in the crease and breaking up plays in front of the net all night long. I adored it. That is how you play hockey!

I am not even going to speculate on anything tonight, or write a novel on how much Derek Roy sucked. I am simply going to gloat because I called this game from the get-go and bask in the glory of winning with a Ryan Miller shutout. With Enroth's shutout the other night, I cannot wait until Lalime's contract is up and we have ourselves a beautiful 1A 1B goaltending situation.

I so desperately want to expound on how terrible Derek Roy was tonight. The idea is incredibly tempting. But, I won't. No bad thoughts tonight! No!

Tim Connolly even made it through the game without dying. Cheers to Timmah!

Oh, and as for all the blogs on wordpress.... Yeah, I'm having a problem with being able to look at them on my laptop. I have to go to the Google cache of them in order to read, and I can't comment... So, any of you people reading this right now, I DO read all your entries! I am just unable to comment on them. =(

Second Intarmission

These are the notes I have typed on Word while watching the game. There are basically none for the first period because I was playing euchre with some friends at the time and was only paying attention about 30% of the time, so take that comment about the defense with a shaker of salt.

Also, this font is screwy because this thing won't let me make it be the way I want. =( So it is huge.

First period:

-Vanek, Roy, Pominville AWESOME

-I called Pominville’s goal

-Much better team defense; still weak in the neutral zone because they’re not trapping, but very solid at breaking up plays in front of the net

Second period:

-LOVING the Theodore chant that ONE GUY is yelling

-Spacek with a lot of giveaways this season, but pretty good defensively

-Pominville laying down to block a shot on the PK = AWESOME

-I love Gaustad sticking up for his teammate even if it does lead to a 5-on-3 for Washington =(

-What in the WORLD is with that non-call on the Washington player for tripping Roy on that 5-on-3?!

-Andrej Sekera is my hero for getting the puck out on the 5-on-3

-MILLLLLLLEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR

-So, our PP sucks dee ballz

-Lot of shot blocking tonight. I LIKE.

-Miller is brilliant

-If the puck had hit the net on that Gaustad backhand, he gets a goal. UGH.

-Sabres outshot like woah this period, but I don’t think it was due to their bad play; they played all right, but Washington just had a lot PPs + threw EVERYTHING at the net

-VANEK FOR PIGEON!!!!

-I switched to the intermission report of the Thrashers-Devils game at the end of the second, and in the middle of interviewing Parise they randomly mentioned that Vanek scored twice tonight. VANEK = CROSBY

More intelligent review to come after the game.

Baby Face

I did not realize that Alexander Semin could look so... not like this: