I Really Think I Hate This Team

A few things since I'm already pissed off:

- I woke up this morning to a text from Shelby saying there is ' speculation' the Sabres are going to ' upgrade' whoever backs up Ryan. First off, I think our starter needs an upgrade, but lets not go there now.

Fine, trade Patty. I honestly cannot give two shits about this team right now. Get Marty back, get a more ' stable' back up, and then watch when the team still blows it in front of him. Ignore that Lindy said it wasn't Patty's fault, ignore that Hank said they let him down. What do they know, right? Egotistical fans are the ones to trust. 

Though I must say Kevin and his blog shed some light on an already crappy day. I can always count on him: 

I hope the fans that have criticized Patrick Lalime paid close attention to his performance in Ottawa because he was excellent. The only shot that he saw that went in was the second Daniel Alfredsson goal. He made some downright great saves to keep his team in the game and others to keep it close late.  Any player on the team would second my assessment and hopefully you saw Henrik Tallinder’s post-game comments on how they let Lalime down.  

- When I got home on Sunday night, a friend who lives near me told me that someone (I'm sure I'd know details if I wasn't asleep leaning against my apartment door when he told me this) said fans would not be happy until Roberto was backing up Ryan. 

Yeah, and I won't be happy until Heatley is on our top line. Let the dreams go, people. 

- I love how Patty, who- along with Drew and Patches- were the only decent players on Saturday night is suddenly the one in trouble because of that game (it being his second start of the year, afterall). Not Roy for missing the net 754 times, not Pominville for the 37 giveaways (I don't care if he scored, Patrick Kaleta scored and he's not suppose to do that) but PATTY, for seeing one of the 5 goals that went by him. 

-  Toni Lydman in the background of Pominville's interview from yesterday is rather amusing. After just sitting there laughing, he takes off his skate and slowly runs his fingers on the blade, as though to say ' lets see Hamilton open his mouth again.'

- Leave Thomas Vanek alone. Seriously, his seven goals are not satisfying enough by Ryans save percentage that's higher than my GPA and Derek and Jason picking their asses every shift is just fine? Ugh. 

And now, I waited for the ' OMGZ NOOO I LOVES RYANS!' comments...

- sits back- 

Why am I only happy after a loss?

The Sabres won last night. Blah blah blah shootout blah blah blah fights blah blah blah.

I was more than excited that Patty returned to...the bench. And you would THINK that making his return AND there are back to back games, that he would play tonight against Philly. 

Well, if you were thinking that, you must have forgotten that this is the Buffalo Sabres. We don't use our back ups until someone gets hurt, and THEN you play them and THEN you yell at them for being rusty. 

Why, it's perfect!

There was an article online that it may be too soon for Patty to take on a starting game. So, when would it be a prime time? 

The day before the Olympics?

The day after?

When we play a team whose first two lines are in a coma? 

When a blogger finally snaps, breaks both Ryan Millers legs, and leaves him for dead on a city back street? 

We lost against Philly once already. Not loss, were destroyed and believe it or not you giddy ass kissers, HE DID HAVE AN EXTREME PART IN THAT LOSS! Not to mention how late last night went and they didn't get to Philly until about 2 am. 

But that's cool, I'm sure Patty is fine with his skull caps and fold out chair. 

Just wait until a tired goalie can't drag his ass through the playoffs. 

On a happier note, after gaining four points last night, Maxy is now ahead of Derek in points, goals, assists, and +/-. I guess making good decisions is just not this teams things. 

Marty Biron, ILY.

Hugs!


And I thought the Flyers made him nasty!

When this happened last night, I was in complete shock...I think I still am. I heard Patty was in the crease being a pest (I seem to text a lot more at Sabres games when someone is NOT there) then didn't look up until Marty was going after him.

Good for him, I think. He kind of made a jump going after one of our enforcers when someone like ohh, say Derek Roy was nearby.

I was worried that it would turn in to a nasty pile up, or that Patty would go after him when he got in the box. Or that Drews head would have exploded because he would have no idea what to do when he finally got down there.

I think the Sabres are disappointed in Patty. How dare he bug Marty like that!

There was a pair of really drunk guys in the section next to us and behind us (it was really empty where we were sitting, bummer). Everytime Ryan so much as took a drink from his water bottle, they would chant ' USA! USA!' so Shelby and I were discussing random countries I could have stood up and cheered for...like Micronesia, and Tawian.

Despite a shut out, an ironic one at that, I still think Marty played better last night. Sure, Ryan didn't let anything in, but 24 vs. 39 shots isn't a fair match up. The goals Marty did let in were either horribly screened or a power play. The third one was just crazy, he totally knew what he was doing there.

Just like how it wasn't Pattys fault that we lost in New York, it wasn't Martys here.

Also, not too stoked that Roy scored his first goal on Marty...and I'm just not too stoked that he scored period. He did his stupid little celebration like he's suppose to be something great, and we have defensemen with more goals than him! It took you 12 games, wtf Derek, wtf!

Thomas also scored on Marty, and I know he doesn't like that. When he's ready to admit it, I will be ready to listen.

I'll actually be interested to see how the last game against the Islanders go, and surprisngly it's not like...tomorrow, or something.

Actually, tomorrow is the Flyers game. But, apparently Shelby does not want to watch it with me. I kind of hope Patty is better by then, because he shouldn't be too far away from the ice when Emery is around. Maybe we can install a zipline from the press box to the crease, I dunno.


p.s- him carpooling with Toni was quite possibly the most adorable thing ever.

Pookey No Likey Roster Cuts

For the record, I'm getting to the pictures. It's like the day before opening night (yeah, or not), scary stuff is going on here, folks! I also know that the Air Canada Centre is the ACC not the AAC as I've been calling it. I've been calling it that forever, even when my dad worked for Air Canada. 

Before I get to the Sabres...

I love, love LOVE that Maxy Poo has signed with the Thrashers. I don't like the Thrashers (yet) but I'm glad he was able to stay in the league and go to a team that appreciates him for who he is and the talent he has. I hope he does a phenomenal job there.

I'm sure that Rhett is proud as well, Max. 

Seriously, I want this guy to score a hat trick or something against the Sabres so the Max haters can suck it (sorry). I always get fired up about him, I don't think he was treated fairly by this team or the fans at all. 

No worries, he looks damn spiffy in the Thrashers jersey. 

Hawt. 

I'm so excited. Shelby and I were planning to go to the New Years Day game, and it'll be more exciting with Mr. Max there. Also, Petey signed a 2 year deal with the Devils. I'm also excited for him, he found a new home. It's probably a huge culture shock because it's not Buffalo, but a multi-year deal is something he should be proud of. 

In Sabre news, for those who are still Sabres, Gerbe and Weber are not for the time being. The final roster cuts were made, and the only new guys on the team (from the AHL, we already know about the other new guys) are TK and Tyler. I'm kind of disappointed, I think. This makes me mad for reasons I don't understand, haha. 

I realllllly thought Gerbe was going to stay with us. Not that his pre-season performance was anything stellar (then again, neither was TK, in my opinion), but I thought with such determination that it was just going to happen for him.. And I'm sure Weber is kicking door frames left and right. That has got to be a tense plane ride back to Portland for those two...

As for Tyler, I was pretty sure he was going to stay. Even had Toni not been hurt, I was assuming he'd be with us. However, the first nine games are gonna be nail biters for him/me, regardless of Toni's health...since he will come back eventually. We shall see...

Stupid Toni and Drew, getting hurt the week before. WTF guys, you just like to ruin everything!

Despite those two party poopers, opening night is the day...after the day...after tomorrow. Right? I think so, something like that. Shelby and I have two fun filled days planned out to make sure this season starts off right/without any arrests.

 And tomorrow we are seeing DAVID FREAKING SEDARIS! Oh my goddddd I love that gay.  man. Shelby is probably scared to be going with me, but I have been waiting awhile to see this guy in person (and for free! not an important detail, but a fun one). It makes me almost feel bad that I'm ditching my co-host for an event we were suppose to be working at tomorrow. But she understands...even if she doesn't, who cares! I may also go on a sweat pant shopping spree tomorrow. I hate jeans and this weather is making me want to be ultra snuggy.

I shall end this post with  little preview of the last thing Craig Rivet will ever remember from the upcoming Catwalk for Charity. 

As Shelby said...one of these things is not like the other...

 

Bad photoshopping apparently includes out dated flipflops and Derek Roy having a lolli.

We Pre-Game Harder Than You Party

Tomorrow is the day HSBC, Buffalo PD, and Paul Gaustad have been fearing for ages. 

It's Shelby and Tamara attending their first Sabres game together. And sadly, it's just a warm up before the home opener a week from Saturday...when we actually decorate my car. Tomorrow we just might do the flag, but it's all in preparation, folks. 

We should be there in time for the Red Carpet, so if anyone is out and about looking to meet some new people, look for the home made Craig Rivet shirts and a Finnish flag. 

Tomorrow should be good stuff game wise though...Toronto is always a fun game to watch. And our boys have been doing really well, so lets hope that keeps up tomorrow. 

Speaking of talent, Kevin Sylvester posted a blog today in which he praises Patty. 

Without being bias, he has a very good point. Given the right amount of time and preparation, Patty will be just fine when Ryans all rawr Team USA. And it's not just the preseason for the goalies. Hopefully Patty Cake will keep up his good work...he should be playing in Montreal if this rotation keeps up.

Not tomorrow, but I'll live. I'm sure come Olympic time, I'll be dragging Shelby to a game just because Patty is playing. Afterall, I drove through the bad part of Buffalo at midnight to get tickets to the Anaheim game from some guy off Craigs List (edited for the parental story). 

Tomorrow will be interesting. Hopefully the boys show up with their A-game and stylin suites...classy stylin, not Derek Roy stylin. 

However, I would LOVE a repeat of this:

-dreamy sigh-

Goosey, Goosey, Goosey!

I didn't watch this preseason game as much as the first one...obviously, I don't live in Detroit. Shelby had the feed on her computer in my living room while we were watching Dirty Dancing. I have never seen the movie all the way through, sadly. 

But that is not why we're here!

Craigory was the captain tonight, which makes sense because when isn't he the captain? Other than games he doesn't play in. POMINVILLE, not Roy, had the A, which I don't like, but it's a nice step down from what could have been captain.

And who had the other A?

This fine boy...

( missing from picture: letter A)

Fine work done there. And what else, he scored an empty netter! The title of this blog actually comes from Shelby and I chanting that as we bounced around my living room after his goal (trying oh so hard to avoid the wet paint of our shirts).  See our encore this coming Wednesday.

Did Derek also score? Yes. Did he score a goal that was actually necessary rather than an empty-netter? Probably. But that doesn't matter! Goose plants trees, Goose plays with sick children, Goose plays with YOUR children, Goose delivers babies (not yet, but we have a theory...)

Special shout-out to Tommy boy. I will never get tired of your butt screening goalies and scoring goals. 

I leave you with our work in progress:

We're going to start copyrighting them....if that's even legal. 

Until Monday...or tomorrow with some babbling nonsense. 

Pregame! Woo!

Alright, folks. Preseason continues tonight!

Our boys are in Detroit, hopefully ready to bounce back against the Red Wings. 

Maybe we should all take a moment to remember what happened last time we played them...

Luckily, Drewseph is not playing tonight. Craigory, however, is. So, in case someone feels like getting out of hand, he shall be there.

Also playing from Thursday night are Vanek, Roy (gah!), Butler, Gerbe, Myers, Pominville (gah!), Weber, Mac, and Kennedy...probably because of his Michigan relations.

SPEAKING OF MICHIGAN! Ryan is playing tonight, the WHOLE game with Jhonas backing him up. Patty didn't get to play the whole game...

...anywho, other new guys in the mix are Goose, TC, Matty Ellis, Patty K, Mike Grier, Peaches, and Toni Bear. I'm excited some ' seasoned' defensemen are going in tonight. They can help out the little ones, even if it's only to kiss the boo boos better.

Shelby and I will be listening to the game at the same time of watching Dirty Dancing...not even kidding.

After tonight, the boys head to Washington to hopefully not re-create Thursday night. Then, they are back here for the second (and final) home preseason game against the Leafs.

It's also going to be Shelby and I's first game together...

...I wonder if they let you blog from a holding cell.

Re-Cap...Get it? Cap? Anyone?

I'm so excited, this is my first post game blog! I've been blogging for months, but started in June so it makes sense. 

Anyways, hockey is back! It almost felt like it never left. Unfortunately, I have to open with a losing game, but they didn't go down without a fight...literally Mike Weber almost killing a guy. 

A few of my observations: 

- The girls behind me were so close to being a scene in a bad horror movie. I saw them at training camp all week, and of course they end up behind me. They screamed at EVERYTHING (including calling Ennis Tennis?) and it really took away from the game. Ugh.

- A few Caps ganged up on Nate. How do you get them off? Why, you put Tyler Myers out there.

- Patty was sans banana hat. Hopefully he's just keeping it fresh until the home opener, but he can't just not do it anymore.

- Shelby, who did not actually view the game, had to tell me what that was on the top of Patty's mask. Apparently, it was a camera. For what? We don't yet know. The refs had one, too, but Jhonas didn't? This could be the beginning of something awesome...or weird. 

-  Derek Roy bugged me. I mean, when doesn't he? But here we are, a fresh new start in the PRE SEASON, and what's he doing? Diving. Not to mention, diving to the point where he almost took out Drew. There are a huge amount of rookies willing to kill the other to make this team, and this jerk, who is having his spot handed to him on a silver platter is still jerking around. As Shelby put it, this was so four years ago!

- He was also captain, I didn't like that. I bet Craigory was in the press box banging his head on the wall/table/Hanks arm. But, TV had one of the A's and that was great. I think he would be good in that role, as long as it doesn't stress him out more. Also, I didn't notice until the second period or so, and proceeded to text STOP THE PRESSES! to Shelby. 

- Jhonas and Patty both did excellent, excellent jobs and are the reasons that game wasn't burying us alive. I don't care that Jhonas got a penalty, it was an innocent one. Both were on their game, and should be proud of themselves. Also, I will take out a bitch who knocked that poor boy down. Even if he did get in the way by standing on the bench.

- At one point towards the end of the game, Tyler Myers dove in front of the net. I think Jhonas is still trying to figure that one out. 

- Two rookies collided when one was leaving the bench and the other was going back. It was kind of cute, but very silly to think they were so into it they didn't see it coming. I hope Lindy doesn't take off points for that.

- I totally forgot Mike Knuble plays for the Caps now. I kind of like him, but not tonight.

- Why does Drew always look so scared during a shift? Is it Thomas? Is it Derek? Does Lindy have a battery secretly hooked up to his nipples. Sorry about the imagery. 

- I should be able to pay more attention at Wednesdays game, because I won't be texting Shelby...because she'll be sitting next to me.

That's QUEEN to You

So, I just read that Spencer Pratt legally changed his first name to ' King.' Just when you think you can't hate someone more. Honestly, he ranks below Derek Roy in my books as far as public behavior, and that's hard to do. I fear that Spencer ever comes to Buffalo and the two meet and...bond. I shiver at the very thought. But, he could always get Derek to go on next seasons ' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'...and then we have freed cap space. 

...just saying. 

Anywho. 

Yesterday morning, Shelby and I were spending one of our last early mornings at the Pepsi Center, very happy to see the extreme change in number of Sabres from when we started going weeks ago. Then, there was one guy who was standing at the door to the rink talking to someone, and we could not pinpoint who he was...we couldn't see the front of his jersey, or his face, and there was no number on the back of his helmet. Mind you, there's a number of guys who we still have no idea who they are. 

As soon as he was on the ice, Shelby and I grabbed on to each other and yelled ' IT'S THE SWEDE!'

And it was!

For some reason, the Sabres always seem so much peppier with him there...well, not just ' some' reason, I think we know what it is. He kept chit chatting with Craig, and I'm sure he was excited because there was finally another defenseman there (a real one, Butler counts in his own way). Now if he could just get his Finnish bud involved before training camp...

Our friend asked him for an autograph when he got off the rink, in front of the locker room. I took at as the perfect opportunity to ask him if he had hair, because we all had to look at that bald(ish) yearbook picture for a whole year! I wanted his hair! I wanted his mohawks! After asking three times (and me gesturing my own hair) he said he did. He was then asked to remove his helmet to prove it. 

He could do better (in all fairness, he's all sweaty there). But we are on the right track! And for the record, that's the picture he got with my friend (you can see a bit of her hair, I just doubt she wanted to end up on this thing)...I didn't just get one to prove he had hair. I even emailed Heather about all this.

Good job, Hank!

In other news,

Patty the Bobblehead met Patty the Goaltender today. After weeks (or so it felt) of plotting, planning, deciding, changing our minds whenever we could, it finally happened. We were worried about catching him, because he carpools with J-Pom and spent a lot of time after practicing helping Marty carry stuff to his car (because I think he's finally going to New York. Not that I didn't like him being here, I loved it, but I was worried we would see him at the Puck Drop).

Shelby, like with Ryan, got his attention, and I think even added in ' we have a favor to ask you.' I gave him the same mumbo jumbo we gave Ryan, and then handed the little dude over. 

Look at those matching smiles!

According to Shelby, he said ' he's cute.' I'm honestly a horrible person to recall events when he's around, but I did hear him say ' I haven't seen him in awhile.' But he had fun with it, we think, and even signed him afterwards.

Shelby and I had a great discussion about which goalie did it better, after I put the two pictures next to each other. 

And now, we want others to decide! Do not hold the weird angel against them, that was my fault. When I took the one of Ryan, I was standing on a bench across from him, and with Patty I was on the ground in front of him (and he's, what, 6'6'' in skates?)

But it's great that the drunken bobblehead is making the rounds. 

On an endnote, Marty had his Islanders helmet yesterday...after weeks of using the Flyers one that he never actually wore in Philly. 

Here's what it looks like...

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Oh, and props to Mike Weber for almost killing us with the puck that missed us by the length of Derek Roys...nevermind...