This week has been and will be a bit spotty (rest assured that there will be an NPF, though) for a number of reasons. The academic year ends today, so there have been mountains of grading. And Monday I woke up feeling like lukewarm death. The baseball I apparently swallowed late Sunday evening is still lodged firmly in my throat. On Wednesday evening I devoted my energy to The Jimmy Howard Show Western Conf. Semi-finals Game 1. It involves some yelling at the TV – not attempting to reason with it, just the ordinary "YES!" and "FUCK!" variety – and in my febrile state it turned out to be a rather draining experience. Fortunately it had a happy ending thanks to, hands down, the best Kenyan-Swedish defenseman in hockey today.
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Ten Bears says:
Since the strike the increase of fights has me wondering if hockey is going to way of wrestling
Will says:
That kind of large lump-in-the-throat/trouble-swallowing is a pretty classic presentation of strep. Might want to head to a doctor if you haven't already.
Erin says:
The 1992 strike? There have been three owner lockouts since then (1994-1995, 2004-2005 and the last one). Fighting has also been in decline for several years in the NHL. I can only imagine the slight uptick in fights this year is due to the increased workload a 48-game season in 100 days.
I'm not sure what's meant by going [the?] way of wrestling. Wrestling in the Olympics? Entertainment wrestling?
c u n d gulag says:
Feel better, Ed.
My Rangers take on the Bruins tonight.
Sally's Dad says:
2nd c u n d & will
As for the NHL, I'm still mourning over the Ducks loss… I suppose I shouldn't be surprised since they ran hot n cold all season.
sluggo says:
I am starting my annual Blackhawks bandwagon jump.
StoneFoxx says:
That would be a happy ending, he's pretty hot.
proverbialleadballoon says:
Despite the Hawks carrying play the last two periods, Howard kept the Wings in it until the end. And it took a money play from Seabrook to keep it from a one-goal game with less than three minutes left. So yeah, tight game, tense game, and the Oduya goal seemed to loosen everybody up a bit, the Hawks, the United Center crowd, those of us watching at home. The Hawks' play the last 40 minutes is promising, but you never count the Wings out.
JazzBumpa says:
Here's my Wings fan perspective, though I only saw part of period 3.
It was late period 2 as I was driving home listening on the radio, and the Detroit announcers were more or less in shock at the Hawks dominance in period 2, when they outshot the Wings 17-5. Final tally was something like 43-21. [more or less] The Wings NEVER get outshot like that. Except they did.
I watched period 3 until it was 3-1, then turned it off to spare myself the agony. It was men against boys. I've seldom seen any sporting event in which a team was so badly outclassed.
Going in, I thought there was a remote possibility the Wings might somehow finagle their way through this series, mostly 'cuz Howard is playing awesome. [How often is the best player on the ice the goalie in a 4-1 loss?] Now it looks like a sweep.
Sadly,
JzB
Jane says:
and what about last night's match between Canada and Sweden?! GOOOOO SWEDEN :)
Elusis says:
I keep vainly hoping to see you turn in a rant on how it's definitely unfair for the IRS to try to make sure that political lobbying groups aren't trying to clothe themselves as not-for-profits by giving extra scrutiny to not-for-profit applications that name themselves after political lobbying groups.
Bitter Scribe says:
I will be dipped in shit. I have loved the Blackhawks all my life, but I had no idea Oduya's dad was from Kenya until I read this post. Yet another reason to love G&T.