The New Jersey Devils will be playing the Carolina Hurricanes in Round 1 of the 2008-2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Yesterday's game against them was good. I like it when we win the last game of the regular season; I actually was at the Rock last season when we beat the Rangers in a shootout for the last game of the season after they had beaten us every single game prior to that (which is kinda like what happened yesterday only we were 0-3 against the 'Canes and 0-9 against the Rangers).
So the 'Canes benched their star goalie Cam Ward yesterday. I, like 95% of all Devils fans, take this is a blatant dis. It was their way of saying 'we-are-not-afraid-to-play-you-and-we-know-we're-going-to-win'. I guess the joke was on them in the end but still, I don't see how that could be taken as a pure coincidence. Cam Ward is their best goalie. He carried the team to the playoffs. They beat us in all three games prior to yesterdays. They sat him. That would be like if we played Kevin Weekes (even though good, 'ol Weeksie played for the 'Canes) after we beat them 3 times. Whatever, it doesn't matter. They're going to play Cam Ward in the next few games anyway (until we destroy them and their pretty boy Eric Staal).
It's playoff time.
Who's pumped?
Rock Your Red 2009.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Devils @ Senators (4/9/09)
7:30 – Is it wrong that I get a warm, fuzzy feeling every time I hear that the Sens are out of the playoffs? Nah, it’s okay. I’m still bitter from May 5th, 2007…
7:31 – Patty Elias is back! Mike Rupp and Bobby Holik are healthy scratches… wait, what?
7:34 – Chico says that Zdeno Chara was ‘raving about how aggressive the Senators are’. Aiight, if 6’9 half-monster, half-man Zdeno Chara says you play aggressively, you must be playing with rocket-powered ice skates and a flamethrower.
7:39 – And the puck drops in Ottawa. Pandolfo, Madden and Shanny are starting us off.
7:41 – Zdeno Chara: ‘Wow they’re aggressive. Every time I looked up, there was no one open.’ …like I said, rocket-powered skates and a flamethrower. No one intimidates King Kong Chara.
7:42 – Oh, what a chance by Jamie Langenbrunner. Not going to get a better chance this early, that’s for sure. We needed Zachy Boy to get the rebound but he wasn’t there. Boo.
7:43 – Doc talks about Daniel Alfredsson’s ping-pong skill. I am not joking.
7:44 – Senators score. That one hurt me in my soul. 1-0. GEE THANKS, JARRKKO RUUTU.
7:49 – Apparently a Senator is dating Carrie Underwood. Gee Chico, how…relevant to the hockey game. Thanks for that.
7:50 – The Devils have two shots on goal. We’re 8 minutes in.
7:51 – Amazing scoring opportunity by Patrik Elias which he misses.
7:53 – Lots of shots and commotion near the Sens net. Auld, the goalie who’s first name I do not know, ends up covering it.
7:56 – Pierre-Luc Leblon gets into a fight. I do not know who he is but he’s from Lowell and he’s a feisty little one.
7:58 – Another scoring chance that ends as it always does; ‘should’ve-could’ve-would’ve-gotten-the-rebound’.
7:59 – Oh, joy. Another scoring chance that Travis Zajac and Jamie Langs do not score on. Then a 4-on-2 goes the other way and MB30 makes like 100 saves.
8:00 – Two Sens go end-to-end and rush Marty but thanks to some Dev-tastic Defense, they couldn’t get the shot off.
8:00 – I really hope Jamie Langs scores tonight. And it’s not just because I totally love him but because if he scores, he has his first 30-goal season. I mean, come on, the kid never even had a hat trick (though he did have that wonderful three-game-two-goals-a-game-thing streak. God, I miss that.)
8:02 – Colin White in the box for tripping. C’mon Whitey, what are you doing to us?
8:02 – God bless goal posts.
8:03 – MB30 is in the zone (despite the whole ‘they-scored-on-us’ thing.)
8:04 – Penalty to Whitey ends. The combination of MB30 and those lovely little goal posts are going to end up helping us.
8:05 – Auld the Goalie makes me angry.
8:08 – Does no one else find it funny when MB30 leaves his net in such a hurry on a delayed-penalty that it looks like his pants are on fire?
8:10 – It makes life easier when the exact time left in the period is the length of the penalty.
8:29 – And we’re back on the ice.
8:30 – Shanny wipes out along the boards but still makes the pass to Whitey who takes a shot but just misses.
8:32 – Lots of shots come from a Sens penalty (too many men) but no one is burying it because Auld the Goalie is being difficult.
8:33 – GOOAAL BRIAN GIONTA. Yeah, shorty, gonna buy you a drank or something! I don’t know, I’m too white to rap but that little man just saved us!!
8:34 – BRIAN ROLSTON! <3<3 I NEVER DOUBTED YOU! I’LL BUY YOU A DRINK TOO IF YOU DO MORE OF THAT! 2-1 Devils! Tactic, yo!
8:38 – Andy Greene gets bumped behind MB30’s net.
8:41 – Upon seeing the goal footage again, I am seriously led to believe that the only thing Clarky knows how to do is the wrap-around!
8:43 – Pierre-Luc-Le-Blah-Blah checks himself.
8:44 – WHITEY!! It was only a little bit of a scrap with glove-punches but I haven’t seen Whitey get into anything in a while and for a big strong badass like him, I find it fun to watch.
8:46 – They both get minors for roughing. 4-on-4 time!
8:47¬ – Paul Martin goes CRUNCH behind MB30, courtesy of a Sen.
8:48 – Zachy Boy Parise ends up landing on his butt in the goal crease when the play stops. It is just me or does that boy fall down a lot?
8:51 – Jamie Langs leading on a 2-on-1, takes a shot that goes wide. Then, the 2-on-1 turns into MB30’s problem but he blanks them.
8:56 – SHOT. SAVE. SHOT. SAVE. SHOT. SAVE.
8:58 – LOL. Whitey cursed. I love him.
9:00 – Epically failing at the whole ‘scoring’ thing but doing good on the whole ‘penalty kill’ thing.
9:02 – Well, the penalty’s over so, yay us.
9:04 – Dainius Zubrus skates by looking just awesome in hockey pants.
9:05 – Aaand period number two is over. Also there’s a penalty on the Sens that we’ll be happily accepting in roughly 17 minutes.
9:07 – Interview with the short and sexy Brian Gionta who is the same height as Steve Cangelosi. Did I mention he’s hot?
9:22 – LOL. Gay little bit with Doc/Chico/Chuck the Duck. It was funny and cute in a totally gay way. Also, we’re back.
9:25 – Based on the ‘BOOOO!!’ coming from the Sens fans, I think we just got away with something.
9:25 – Remember when I said I loved those goal posts? I changed my mind; they suck! Puck goes DING and prevents Zachy boy from getting his 7,000th goal.
9:25 – Break away towards MB30 that a stick-less Paul Martin helps prevent.
9:27 – Shots and shots and more shots that Auld the Goalie stops.
9:28 – MB30 saves our butts.
9:29 – Zachy boy is once again denied a goal.
9:31 – A Sen-Sen lost a glove.
9:32 – Rutuu (Ruutu?) gets a penalty for hooking Patty Elias.
9:34 – Clarky and I are both pissed off at Auld the Goalie right now. STOP BEING A BRICK WALL, ATG (not to be confused with ‘Alexander The Great’).
9:35 – A scary moment where an odd man rush goes to MB30. He tries to cover it, but loses it. So, Clarky and Gio tackle him and some Sens jump on the dog pile.
9:36 – Parise does a little backhand pass move that goes directly to a Sen-Sen. Good to go, Zachy boy.
9:40 – Chico, again, talks of Alfredsson’s ping-pong ability. Also, we have a 4 minute power play. I think it had something to do with the bug-like squashing of MB30.
9:41 – The boards behind Auld the Goalie get painted a new shade of Brian Gionta.
9:43 – 1 minute left on the PP…still waiting.
9:44 – Dainius Zubrus gets called for something that turns out to be Andy Greene’s fault. Now Andy sits alone in the penalty box…silly Greenie. Out of both the men with colors for last names, he’s the less vicious one!
9:48 – Scary opportunity for the Sens to score. Yikes, we can’t let those things happen.
9:49 – Seriously, stop letting the Sen-Sens take shots, Dev-tastic Defense!
9:52 – Dear Devils Defense, AGHHH!! Love, Kristyn.
9:52 – Zachy boy Parise with WHAT COULD’VE BEEN the most beautiful, highlight-reel worthy steal and goal EVER!
9:54 –Alfredsson stops a puck with his face.
9:57 – GOD BLESS GOAL POSTS!!
9:57 – ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Elias and Shanny lay down on the ice, as would I right now. Dany Heatley, you’re a douche. 2-2, with 30 seconds left. Screw my life.
9:59 – Aaaaannnd, we go to overtime. BOO. MB30, brace yourself.
10:00 – Shanny, Madden, Mottau, Whitey. Interesting choice there, Sutter man.
10:01 – Whitey is shaking with fear. Or maybe that’s the camera that’s shaking…
10:03 – Devs, you cannot score if you do not shoot!
10:04 – MB30, I will have your children after that save. I LOVE YOU. EPIC GLOVE SAVE.
10:05 - Auld the Goalie is a prick.
10:06 – AAGGH!! Rebounds are not the Devils friend tonight. We cannot bury it.
10:08 - Shootout. It’s okay. Don’t be alarmed. We are sexy in shootouts. We know this. Zachy boy, Saint Patrik and Jamie Langs. They’re boss at this.
10:09 – The suspense is killing me. Comrie is the only one to score against Brodeur. And Shanny is shooting for us? Can somebody say ‘Armageddon’.
10:11 – Zachy boy, Shanny and Lang-tastic! Yay us! Zachy boy takes his shot and…SCORES!! Zachy hearts <3!
10:11 - Alfredsson shoots and scores. BOO. Fail.
10:12 – Shanny baby! Shoots and scores! Oh, I love this man!
10:12 – Fisher shoots for Ottawa…DENIED!!
10:12 – If Langs scores, we win! Oh, I am dying right now. Come on, Jamie! Shoots…denied. It’s okay, Jamie, I still love you. No matter what. Granted, scoring helps…but still.
10:13 – SPEZZA DENIED! DEVILS WIN! MB30!! 50 wins!
10:14 – Shanny and Zachy boy just straight up saved us and thanks to MB30’s black-magic type save (no, that was not a Kevin Weekes joke), we won our 2nd to last game! Devils hearts! <3 Great game, boys!!
7:31 – Patty Elias is back! Mike Rupp and Bobby Holik are healthy scratches… wait, what?
7:34 – Chico says that Zdeno Chara was ‘raving about how aggressive the Senators are’. Aiight, if 6’9 half-monster, half-man Zdeno Chara says you play aggressively, you must be playing with rocket-powered ice skates and a flamethrower.
7:39 – And the puck drops in Ottawa. Pandolfo, Madden and Shanny are starting us off.
7:41 – Zdeno Chara: ‘Wow they’re aggressive. Every time I looked up, there was no one open.’ …like I said, rocket-powered skates and a flamethrower. No one intimidates King Kong Chara.
7:42 – Oh, what a chance by Jamie Langenbrunner. Not going to get a better chance this early, that’s for sure. We needed Zachy Boy to get the rebound but he wasn’t there. Boo.
7:43 – Doc talks about Daniel Alfredsson’s ping-pong skill. I am not joking.
7:44 – Senators score. That one hurt me in my soul. 1-0. GEE THANKS, JARRKKO RUUTU.
7:49 – Apparently a Senator is dating Carrie Underwood. Gee Chico, how…relevant to the hockey game. Thanks for that.
7:50 – The Devils have two shots on goal. We’re 8 minutes in.
7:51 – Amazing scoring opportunity by Patrik Elias which he misses.
7:53 – Lots of shots and commotion near the Sens net. Auld, the goalie who’s first name I do not know, ends up covering it.
7:56 – Pierre-Luc Leblon gets into a fight. I do not know who he is but he’s from Lowell and he’s a feisty little one.
7:58 – Another scoring chance that ends as it always does; ‘should’ve-could’ve-would’ve-gotten-the-rebound’.
7:59 – Oh, joy. Another scoring chance that Travis Zajac and Jamie Langs do not score on. Then a 4-on-2 goes the other way and MB30 makes like 100 saves.
8:00 – Two Sens go end-to-end and rush Marty but thanks to some Dev-tastic Defense, they couldn’t get the shot off.
8:00 – I really hope Jamie Langs scores tonight. And it’s not just because I totally love him but because if he scores, he has his first 30-goal season. I mean, come on, the kid never even had a hat trick (though he did have that wonderful three-game-two-goals-a-game-thing streak. God, I miss that.)
8:02 – Colin White in the box for tripping. C’mon Whitey, what are you doing to us?
8:02 – God bless goal posts.
8:03 – MB30 is in the zone (despite the whole ‘they-scored-on-us’ thing.)
8:04 – Penalty to Whitey ends. The combination of MB30 and those lovely little goal posts are going to end up helping us.
8:05 – Auld the Goalie makes me angry.
8:08 – Does no one else find it funny when MB30 leaves his net in such a hurry on a delayed-penalty that it looks like his pants are on fire?
8:10 – It makes life easier when the exact time left in the period is the length of the penalty.
8:29 – And we’re back on the ice.
8:30 – Shanny wipes out along the boards but still makes the pass to Whitey who takes a shot but just misses.
8:32 – Lots of shots come from a Sens penalty (too many men) but no one is burying it because Auld the Goalie is being difficult.
8:33 – GOOAAL BRIAN GIONTA. Yeah, shorty, gonna buy you a drank or something! I don’t know, I’m too white to rap but that little man just saved us!!
8:34 – BRIAN ROLSTON! <3<3 I NEVER DOUBTED YOU! I’LL BUY YOU A DRINK TOO IF YOU DO MORE OF THAT! 2-1 Devils! Tactic, yo!
8:38 – Andy Greene gets bumped behind MB30’s net.
8:41 – Upon seeing the goal footage again, I am seriously led to believe that the only thing Clarky knows how to do is the wrap-around!
8:43 – Pierre-Luc-Le-Blah-Blah checks himself.
8:44 – WHITEY!! It was only a little bit of a scrap with glove-punches but I haven’t seen Whitey get into anything in a while and for a big strong badass like him, I find it fun to watch.
8:46 – They both get minors for roughing. 4-on-4 time!
8:47¬ – Paul Martin goes CRUNCH behind MB30, courtesy of a Sen.
8:48 – Zachy Boy Parise ends up landing on his butt in the goal crease when the play stops. It is just me or does that boy fall down a lot?
8:51 – Jamie Langs leading on a 2-on-1, takes a shot that goes wide. Then, the 2-on-1 turns into MB30’s problem but he blanks them.
8:56 – SHOT. SAVE. SHOT. SAVE. SHOT. SAVE.
8:58 – LOL. Whitey cursed. I love him.
9:00 – Epically failing at the whole ‘scoring’ thing but doing good on the whole ‘penalty kill’ thing.
9:02 – Well, the penalty’s over so, yay us.
9:04 – Dainius Zubrus skates by looking just awesome in hockey pants.
9:05 – Aaand period number two is over. Also there’s a penalty on the Sens that we’ll be happily accepting in roughly 17 minutes.
9:07 – Interview with the short and sexy Brian Gionta who is the same height as Steve Cangelosi. Did I mention he’s hot?
9:22 – LOL. Gay little bit with Doc/Chico/Chuck the Duck. It was funny and cute in a totally gay way. Also, we’re back.
9:25 – Based on the ‘BOOOO!!’ coming from the Sens fans, I think we just got away with something.
9:25 – Remember when I said I loved those goal posts? I changed my mind; they suck! Puck goes DING and prevents Zachy boy from getting his 7,000th goal.
9:25 – Break away towards MB30 that a stick-less Paul Martin helps prevent.
9:27 – Shots and shots and more shots that Auld the Goalie stops.
9:28 – MB30 saves our butts.
9:29 – Zachy boy is once again denied a goal.
9:31 – A Sen-Sen lost a glove.
9:32 – Rutuu (Ruutu?) gets a penalty for hooking Patty Elias.
9:34 – Clarky and I are both pissed off at Auld the Goalie right now. STOP BEING A BRICK WALL, ATG (not to be confused with ‘Alexander The Great’).
9:35 – A scary moment where an odd man rush goes to MB30. He tries to cover it, but loses it. So, Clarky and Gio tackle him and some Sens jump on the dog pile.
9:36 – Parise does a little backhand pass move that goes directly to a Sen-Sen. Good to go, Zachy boy.
9:40 – Chico, again, talks of Alfredsson’s ping-pong ability. Also, we have a 4 minute power play. I think it had something to do with the bug-like squashing of MB30.
9:41 – The boards behind Auld the Goalie get painted a new shade of Brian Gionta.
9:43 – 1 minute left on the PP…still waiting.
9:44 – Dainius Zubrus gets called for something that turns out to be Andy Greene’s fault. Now Andy sits alone in the penalty box…silly Greenie. Out of both the men with colors for last names, he’s the less vicious one!
9:48 – Scary opportunity for the Sens to score. Yikes, we can’t let those things happen.
9:49 – Seriously, stop letting the Sen-Sens take shots, Dev-tastic Defense!
9:52 – Dear Devils Defense, AGHHH!! Love, Kristyn.
9:52 – Zachy boy Parise with WHAT COULD’VE BEEN the most beautiful, highlight-reel worthy steal and goal EVER!
9:54 –Alfredsson stops a puck with his face.
9:57 – GOD BLESS GOAL POSTS!!
9:57 – ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Elias and Shanny lay down on the ice, as would I right now. Dany Heatley, you’re a douche. 2-2, with 30 seconds left. Screw my life.
9:59 – Aaaaannnd, we go to overtime. BOO. MB30, brace yourself.
10:00 – Shanny, Madden, Mottau, Whitey. Interesting choice there, Sutter man.
10:01 – Whitey is shaking with fear. Or maybe that’s the camera that’s shaking…
10:03 – Devs, you cannot score if you do not shoot!
10:04 – MB30, I will have your children after that save. I LOVE YOU. EPIC GLOVE SAVE.
10:05 - Auld the Goalie is a prick.
10:06 – AAGGH!! Rebounds are not the Devils friend tonight. We cannot bury it.
10:08 - Shootout. It’s okay. Don’t be alarmed. We are sexy in shootouts. We know this. Zachy boy, Saint Patrik and Jamie Langs. They’re boss at this.
10:09 – The suspense is killing me. Comrie is the only one to score against Brodeur. And Shanny is shooting for us? Can somebody say ‘Armageddon’.
10:11 – Zachy boy, Shanny and Lang-tastic! Yay us! Zachy boy takes his shot and…SCORES!! Zachy hearts <3!
10:11 - Alfredsson shoots and scores. BOO. Fail.
10:12 – Shanny baby! Shoots and scores! Oh, I love this man!
10:12 – Fisher shoots for Ottawa…DENIED!!
10:12 – If Langs scores, we win! Oh, I am dying right now. Come on, Jamie! Shoots…denied. It’s okay, Jamie, I still love you. No matter what. Granted, scoring helps…but still.
10:13 – SPEZZA DENIED! DEVILS WIN! MB30!! 50 wins!
10:14 – Shanny and Zachy boy just straight up saved us and thanks to MB30’s black-magic type save (no, that was not a Kevin Weekes joke), we won our 2nd to last game! Devils hearts! <3 Great game, boys!!
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