Farewell...

My dear hamster, Pleky, died quietly in my hands of two fairly quick strokes at 2:30 am.

He was old but he lived a good life. I was lucky to have had a very healthy and kind hamster. The ever-pensive looking hamster chilling in the corners of his cage, nibbling broccoli or a piece of cheese. He used to come to the door when I'd call his name. Of course looking for yogurt drops. I'll miss him running around my apartment in his running ball, following me around. I'll miss how he'd nap on my stomach as I'd pet him gently behind the ears. I'll miss how we played tug of war with his chew sticks or how he'd clown around and climb on the ceiling of his cage upside down. His cage is now empty, and it's pretty depressing. I'm all alone now.

It would have been his 3rd birthday around now. I buried him in the yard on the side of my parents house (where Ziggy "Digger Dog" doesn't go). My dad even said some of the kaddish for him.

Habs just lost their smallest fan.

Habs 1, Lames 4 - Usual stinky home opener

This could be our Habs right now.

The Intro
- Fairly standard. Players come out to their names, everyone cheers. What were people expecting? Players propelling down from the rafters?

The First Period
- The Good: AK46 scores off a Patches "I TOTALLY MEANT TO MISS FOR THE REBOUND OFF THE BACKBOARDS" shot barely 2 minutes in the game. Patches also adds Kostopoulos to his "I hit ex-Habs real hard" list.
- The Bad: A bullshit penalty on Darche screws everything up. Then the Captain takes 2 in a row and it's all downhill from there.
- The Ugly: Wow guys, stand around stationary some more. I don't think you could help any less. Also see turnovers, you're causing them, and they're scoring uncontested from them.

The Second Period
- The Good: Lars Eller's first game back from shoulder surgery and he's the only one with a hint of care that played last year. Also the shoulder is good according to some hits.
- The Bad: While Calgary finally gets called for penalties, Habs give up 2 shorthanded chances.
- The Ugly: Price makes a save off the collarbone that stings him, he has to scramble to take care of 2 more saves, a third goes in and...his teammates didn't move a muscle to help.

The Third Period
- The Good: That 2nd wave powerplay unit with the Swiss Misters on the blueline, DD, AK46 and I don't remember who else was the better unit.
- The Bad: Almost scoring isn't scoring.
- The Ugly: Team just wanted out of this game. Price was just hoping they would leave him the fuck alone. Way to rally and help him get that 100th win boys!

Conclusion: Blarg.
Brownie Points: Eller!
Sad Panda: Game lacked some serious Cammy, who looked so sad. And no that tie didn't hide your sadness enough.
New Goal Song? WHAT IS IT?!
Babies? Hal Gill's wife had a boy last night so give the man a break. Also congrats!
Ouch: Ryan White had successful sport hernia surgery (tabernacle). Markov was in Florida seeing Doctor McKnee.
WTF of the Night: RDS seems ready to trade Cole back to Carolina. After 3 games.
Panic at HI/O: The usual angry troll stuff.
Silver Lining: No one got hurt, unless you count their pride.

Total: Stinkiest of their usual stinky-since-lockout home openers. Probably because it was against the Calgary Lames, of whom they're always stinky against. Also their GM threatened their jobs. After two games. Probably to cover his ass when he should have bit the bullet and tanked that fucker to various high draft picks last season when he had the chance instead of laughing at Edmonton. Also fuck you Tanguay. You never played like that when you were here, backchecking and stuff, and I'm talking before Artyukhin used you for a dishrag. Fuck off back to your stupid team.