Tonight was our work dinner, celebrating the final checkmark on our latest Tetris game. Went went to Troika! Delicious Russian restaurant. Unfortunately we missed happy hour, so no vodka. And no, Markov wasn't there. I had the wild boar cooked "Russian style". Oh. my. god. My stomach... Good thing I took the longish way back to the metro 'cause wow I was full.
I got home when the first period was ending. My hamster, Pleky, gave me a scare because he was fast asleep in a ball under his fluffy igloo. He's usually up in the wheel or gnawing on the cage around that time. He was kind of worrying me so I lulled him awake and then the horror! One eye was all crusted close. I freaked and took him out to clean it, and when he went back in the cage he was still all lethargic. He couldn't be sick! And he went back into his hole while I gave him some celery to nibble.
False alarm though. He probably just tired himself out while I was gone.
Which was more than what I could say for this game. Boring!
I don't think I've ever seen a game where it's 10-11 shots by the END of the 2nd period. Is this why the Coyotes can't attract spectators? The place was so quiet the ref didn't even need to use his mic to call penalties.
Quietest most nerve-wracking night of Price's life
- And by quiet, I meant crowd wise... Mustering 3 shots in the first with 7 against is not going to cut it boys.
- Price is the king of bad luck weird goals. First he gets skewered in the neck by Mara (right between the chin guard and his neck protector) leaving the net wide open for good ol' Robert Lang. Then Biznasty kicks in a shot that was going wide. YES, HE KICKED IT. GOAL REVIEW IS TEH SUCK!
- Congratulations on Biznasty: your first NHL goal shouldn't have been allowed but whatever. And for that he got the first star? Bunch of homers...
- How frightening is our defence? Well, I'm terrified whenever another team is in our zone and Price is flipping pucks back and forth between that team and himself for a good minute or two.
- Only Yotes fans at this game were the refs.
- Hey look, we has a powerplay! And Cammy scores on the road!
- I picked a good name for my hamster. Plekanec was everywhere.
- Not only does Gorges keep running Price over, but someone punch fucking Upshall already?
- I love Glen Metropolit.
- Mara should do us all a favour and slash Benoit Brunet in the neck. What a douche.
- Family night! Price and his cousin, the Pyatt brothers.
- Leach has been a very good pickup. Chipchura, this might be your future, unfortunately...
- But Leach vs Biznasty? Not exactly what I was hoping to see...
- Spacek now fully injured. Shoot me now.
- MAB should really be a forward. Maybe Carbo was on to something?
- What the fuck is wrong with Lapierre?!
- Before Cammy set up Gio for the empty netter, I was so terrified with 6 Coyotes on the ice.
- First time Price (3-0) leaves Phoenix without Doan scoring on him. Meanwhile, Mueller is still trying... (See: shootout vs Team USA)
- Holy regulation win #2 on the year! First win vs the West!
- Price and Cammy at the end was the cutest thing I've seen all year. Minus my hamster.
Dear Team990,
if you insist on just looking at numbers without actually looking at their play, please stop thinking about Curtis Sanford. Good lord is he really not very good. And he keeps putting his defencemen in bad positions. I can say Marc Denis had amazing AHL netminding numbers but there was no way in hell he was going to play in the NHL (and when he did for 1 period, PING went the first shot). Also I believe that Hamilton newspaperman's "scouting report" on Sergei was absolute biased bollocks. Floater? If you consider reading the play and computing a plan "floating" then maybe. He scores timely goals or sets them up, he backchecks better than his brother, and with Guy Boucher encouraging him he's doing fine thank you very much.