I do not think I could have scripted this better had I tried. While driving home, praying my car didn't run out of gas, I was thinking over the aspects of the game, and revised my prediction to Thrash by 3, naming goal scorers as Kovy, Kovy, Kozzie, Perrin and Ex. I missed the first period and half of the second due to today being a deadline day at the ol' magazine, but let's check NHL.com for scores and see how close I came!
Exelby, G. (05:56 in 1st),I was pretty damned close. And! I picked a goal from X. Who doesn't love when X scores? I love watching a defenceman score, especially when he doesn't score often. This is definitely a game to download, should it be available on CIF (link over there on the right). Also, did everyone else watching on TV see Luba Kovalchuk jumping for joy when Kovy scored? Nothing cooler than the hockey moms in the stands, cheering on their boys!
Recchi, M. (15:04 in 1st),
Kozlov, V. (17:27 in 1st),
Thorburn, C. (05:20 in 2nd),
Kovalchuk, I. (09:28 in 3rd),
Dupuis, P. (SHG, 15:20 in 3rd) (Can I point out, yet another amazing pass from Perrin? The boys from Laval are on fiah!)
Kari. Looked. Amazing. Nothing rattled the kid tonight. He was playing like a man on a mission, and let's just say, mission accomplished. I will also bring to your attention Kari's assist on Recchi's goal! Kimmo, you realise this means you can't go home - you have to be in the stands for all of Kari's games now. Goalie superstitions and all! Kari earned a .940 SV% this game, bringing his total for the season up to .890 from .889, and raised his GAA to 3.2, up from 3.81. Sometimes, the game is not always about wins and losses, but also about improvement, and this is solid improvement. Given that he's only played 11 games this season, those are damned good stats. Keep it up, Lehts!
I've been scouring teh intarwebs for photos, and the only ones I've found so far are from Getty, and god love 'em for being so on top of posting photos quickly, but I HATE that damned watermark so bad. Why why why did they have to switch to the NHL Images watermark? Was the general Getty mark not good enough? Rather than post photos with that damned thing across the middle, check back tomorrow for gloriously unmarked photos from tonight.
We're now tied for 3rd in the S/E with the Lightning (4 point game!), putting us tied for 10th in the Eastern Conference, plus we have 1 game in hand over the Bolts, and 2 in hand over the Caps, plus 1 on the Isles, and 1 on the Sabres. Things are looking good as we head towards the Holidays, and into the big playoff push.
Keep it up, boys. Ottawa up next. Let's not have a repeat of Saturday, eh?
2 comments:
'Grats to Kari!
Luongo looks like he'll get a win in his first game back, too. It sucks to lose a starter to injury, but at least right now the couple of losses won't hurt as much as later, and hopefully the starters are in full shape by the time the playoffs roll 'round this way!
Pyzzle excepted the 'Nucks on the whole make me kind of stabby, however, BIG UPS to Luongo and the team for shutting down Brodeur and shutting out the Devs. Amazing. Lou must be on cloud 2948239043 today (it's way high above cloud 9!)!
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