GOAL BY LUCIC!

In a beautiful win by the Bruins over the (division) 1st place Sabres, Milan Lucic [ME-lahn LOO-cheech. Idiots. I'm going to make a bingo card out of all the ways people say his last name wrong. All time favourite is still "Luke-itch."] scored such a pretty, pretty goal. Might be my favourite play of the season. Some Sabre shot the puck, Rask made a pad save, it made its way through a few Sabres, then Byron Bitz poke-checked it, used his loooong stride and quickly skated into the offencive zone with it, sending a sillllly pass beneath some other Sabre's stick to Looch, who just tapped it in.

LOL: Bitzy's face, and the 2 Sabres fans w/the crossed arms.

Tuukka Rask got his first assist in the NHL (his comment on that: "... I did? Really? Huh, I had no idea. I guess I made a save or something."), and Milan Lucic got his first goal of the season. As well as some AWESOME hits on various Sabres - the hurt he put on Tallinder in in the first comes to mind.

I have to collect my thoughts on this game, but bullet points. Some for laaaaater:

• Pominville taking Z's slapshot in the shin from 15'
• Blake Wheeler hunting a goal like his life is on the line
• Tuukka Rask's catch-and-hold
• Marc Savard's press-box attire
• "When Marc Recchi entered the NHL, Tyler Myers was... not even a fetus!"
• The B's jump in the 2nd
• Rask commenting that it was "kind of slow" for him in the 3rd. Dude, what? The 2nd wasn't?
  
• Milan Lucic and Byron Bitz - switch out Begin for Savard? 
• Jack Edwards' lessons in physics
• Jack Edwards getting nailed in the balls by a water balloon. Thrown by Mike Milbury. I KNOW!
  

Oh, yeah. If you're playing a "4 point game" and the game goes to OT? YOU CAN NOT CONTINUE REFERRING TO IT AS A FOUR POINT GAME BECAUSE THE OTHER TEAM GOT A POINT. RETARDS.

Photo courtesy Getty. You can click it. It gets bigger. (That's what she said.)

ATL v BUF and CAR in photos

All photos from ModSquad, Getty, or DayLife. Most all size up to 1024.

4-5
(OT) 

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2-5

 

Buffaloes are undefeated no more - Thrash win!

 3 - 2
(S/O)

I just want to say, this was a win/win game for me. You might have noticed the glut of Sabres links on the right there. And the myriad Sabres posts I tend to make. But I'm pretty fucking psyched the Thrashers beat the undefeated team! Were they the last undefeated team? I think they are, but idfk. It doesn't matter!

Anyway, here's some photos. Kari was superbly awesome as usual, and earned 1st star. That's about all I can really bring myself to write about the game, mostly because it's only when I liveblog that I can actually remember the witticisms I come up with, but also because what the shit can I possibly say that's new and different? Nothing. And yah yah, it's with my perspicacity, but nonetheless, I'm not feeling all that funny or entertaining. Perhaps next game?

Look soon for video highlights and things. I think in lieu of my rapier wit, I'll just put up videos. Gotta have some kind of draw right?

ETA:Look! See? Videos!

Onto the photos!