Best Goal Ever

(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

I really did think the Pens were gonna take this to seven games and then win. I really did.



It's great to be wrong!

The Blame Game

While others are writing glowing reviews about the Flyers and their deep playoff run, I'd like to take a few minutes to point some fingers.

Who is to blame for the crap series against the Pens?

1. The Flyers marketing staff. People, "Vengeance Now" was a great playoff slogan. Other fans hated it, and hated us for it. Changing your slogan to "Why Not Us?" in the middle of a playoff run is just asking for trouble. The hockey gods couldn't resist. Who can forget the irony of the white trash looking Flyers fan and her young son standing around stunned after Game 3? Sheesh!

2. Me. Yeah I know, pretty egotistical, but I have the photographic evidence to prove it. Remember that road trip I took to the burgh back in early April? Well, I was muy impressed by the Pens store. Seriously! They had so much stuff! Every player you could imagine! And cute little stuffed animals that I could kick around. So yeah, I may have purchased some Pens stuff.


I know you won't believe me, but I've been thinking for some time that the Pens were going to win the Cup this year. And I really never thought the Flyers were gonna make the playoffs, let alone have to face the Pens in the Eastern Conference Finals. So, at the time, there seemed to be little harm in buying a few harmless souvenirs.

However, after we lost that game on April 2nd to the Pens, and struggled mightily in the last 2 games of the season, this Pens stuff got shoved away in a place and sort of forgotten. Not really though, I've always known it was there, waiting for me and taunting me.

Sorry, it's all my fault. But the marketing department really effed it up too!

Flyers Lose...I can finally wash my lucky underwear!

Marty doing his Robert Esche impression(Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

My coworkers will be happy about the Flyers loss, since I've been wearing underwear that hasn't been washed since Friday April 4th!

(um, I'm kidding. Really, I am!)

Good luck Pens! Heh.

At least we played a better game...

Wait. What? They won? Oh sorry, I passed out after that 2nd Pens goal and just regained consciousness.

Seriously, I'm just not made for playoff hockey. Too stressful!

A few things:

1. Settle down, it's just one game.

2. It's hilarious to see Pens fans in a bit of a tizzy. See what happens when you bring out the brooms and EC champion hats? Having been raised as a Red Sox fan, I know never to bring out the champagne til it's over. Otherwise Bill Buckner will fuck you up good.

3. Timonen and Coburn possible for Sunday?

4. Two days off certainly doesn't work in our favor (except if it enables Kimmo and Coby to come back)

5. I learned a new penalty last night....clipping!

6. I don't understand why a Pen was able to rough Upshall and not get a penalty. I'm gonna have to watch the replay and see if there was something I missed.

7. They gave out the best T-shirts yet tonight: "Megadeth Security" on the back. Nice!

8. Enjoy this picture of Mar-ty...Mar-ty...Mar-ty...Mar-ty

(Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Crybaby Crosby

Yep, he's in the oven.

I don't really have anything to say about Crosby. It's just that when you google crybaby crosby, I was the second link instead of the first, so I'm just trying to get back into first place. I might throw in a "Crosby Sucks" here just to see if I can get higher on that google results page too.

I had to work during Sunday's game, so I don't have much to say that hasn't already been said: tough to lose Coburn, 50 stitches, goal/no goal, blahblahblah. We all know what needs to happen tonight.

See ya there!

Stranger in a Strange Land. Flyers Lose.

(paying homage to my favorite blog with the post title..)

First of all, let me just say that everyone should see a game in enemy territory at least once. One tip though: don't choose their last regular home season game on the night they clinch the division. The word uncomfortable doesn't even begin to describe the experience.

Secondly, I want to say that Pens fans were a classy group, and only engaged in good natured ribbing with me. The fact that I have an unknown player on my jersey and I am a non-threatening girl probably helped a little, but still, they were pretty much nice. If I was a drunken asshole walking around with a Hartnell jersey, I may have gotten my throat cut, but since I wasn't it was all good...

I won't say much about the game here (I usually don't say much about the games in my posts anyhow) except wow, the officiating was, as Nadine would say, creative. It's funny to see the opposing fans act indignant when the refs finally call something questionable on their guys. I think there was a hooking call on the Pens in the 2nd or 3rd, and the folks around me were astonished! One guy behind me who had been ribbing me earlier said to me "even you're laughing at that one." I said, "that's what you call a makeup call, guy!"

It was, in Pens/Flyers game tradition, a physical battle. There was blood everywhere! Hartnell's nose looked like it was falling off, and Umberger had blood all over his jersey and chin and I have no idea why! I still haven't watched the game on Tivo. Pens fans say the Flyers were going after Crosby, but from where I sat, I didn't really get that. I would imagine though that in general, opposing teams "go after" Crosby when he has the puck. It's my understanding that that is the nature of the game...

A few other notes:

*I didn't win the Gary Roberts jersey!

*I only saw about 4 other Flyers fans in the entire place. WTF people?

*Therrien better sit Crosby on Sunday or I'll take him out myself!

*Iceburgh is the cutest mascot ever. The little stuffed one I bought won't stop smiling no matter how many times I drop kick it!

*The Pens store is waaaaaaaaaaaay better than the Flyers store. They have every single player tshirt! They even had Gill and Dupuis! It's a good thing I am not a Pens fan, or I would have spent about 300 dollars in there!

*Pittsburgh is slightly dumpier than it was when I was there 10 years ago. Especially downtown. I guess I have been in the suburbs too long!

Big game tonight. Let's go Flyers!