The Flames Were In Town Tonight.

November 13, 2009 at 10:25 pm | In Atlanta Thrashers, Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, Chris Butler, Frostee Loves Way Too Many Guys, Ilya Kovalchuk, Mike Knuble, Paul Gaustad, Ryan Miller, Semyon Varlamov, Washington Capitals, What Is Up With All These Injuries?, Winning Is Totally Awesome, Zach Bogosian | Leave a Comment

I was out to dinner and consequently missed the first period.  I hear it was wonderful.  It certainly sounds as though it was.  They finally scored on the power play?  Wooooo!!  The second period was fast, but I was not at all pleased with the lack of shots and the plethora of penalties taken by the Sabres.  Then Sir Christopher had to stand up for Ryan, as he’s a chivalrous soul and protecting his goaltender is one of his money duties.  Then the Flames tried to beat up Clarkey, then Goosie beat up Phaneuf.  I liked the last one a lot.  I don’t like Phaneuf, and I do like Goose, so I enjoy seeing the latter punch the first.  Serves you right, Dion.

It was really great getting to see Jarome Iginla.  He’s an incredibly talented player and we don’t ever get to see him because he’s aaaaallll the way on the west coast.

The Sabres took sixteen too many penalties tonight.  Good heavens, they looked like last year’s box-loving Caps.

I thought RJ was going to stroke out in the last thirty second of overtime.  Rick, you are not as young as you used to be.  Don’t overexert yourself.

The game ended up in the shootout, and, miracle of miracles, the Sabres pulled out the win.  Oooh!! Aaah!!  Weee!!  Good job, Sabres.  You ended up with a grand total of six shots on goal (going from the two periods I saw), but you managed the win.  Excellent, excellent.  I know this is asking far too much of you, but a win tomorrow night would be superb.  Philly is a scary, intimidating team, but I have complete faith in you.  Put your mind to it, boys, and you can do it.  All in all, though, tonight you played a highly entertaining game.  Much better than Wednesday night.  Thank you.

There’s no way Lala starts tomorrow night.

The Caps played the Wild.  Perrault continued to be badass.  Mike Knuble broke his finger and is out 3-4 weeks and I am very sad.  I love Mike Knuble.  Mike Knuble is a good leader and he’s good at killing penalties and he liked my sign.  Poor Mike Knuble.  Varly is slowly working his way back into my good graces.  The Caps have issues to work out, but they’ve looked pretty darn good over the past few games (aside from giving up 3 quick ones to the Islanders and then borderline choking in the final minute against them and taking eleven rounds of the shootout to beat them).  I like it.

The Hurricanes lost their 14th straight game.  It used to be really funny when everyone was wondering if they’d make it to ten.  Now it’s just sad.  Should we send in aid?  Is there something we can do to put them out of their misery?

The Thrashers beat the Kings 7-0.  This is totes awesome.  Thrashers, you rock.  I love you.  Ilya, Evander, AND Zachity Zach all scored.  That’s what we call an awesome game.  I should have watched it.  I’ve never tried watching three games at once before.  I mis try this some time.  Atlanta is certainly worthy.

I got tapped last minute for  babysitting gig tomorrow night.  I’ll be able to watch the Sabres after the kiddies go to bed and they get CBC, but I will be unable to see the Capitals.  This pretty much guarantees that Alex will come back and score a hat trick.  Awesome.

I Was Right!!

May 27, 2009 at 5:56 pm | In Carolina Hurricanes, Huh?, Pittsburgh Penguins, Sergei Fedorov, Washington Capitals | Leave a Comment

Remember when I said yesterday that I kept having these random visions of the Caps descending into chaos if Feds bolted for Russia?

Well, cue chaos.  This is totally crazy.  Now steroids?  Yeesh.

Oh, and Pittsburgh swept Carolina in the Eastern Conference Finals and are now waiting for a rematch of last year waiting to see who wins the West.  But you already knew that.

Monday Ramblings

May 18, 2009 at 3:52 pm | In Carolina Hurricanes, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Pavel Datsyuk, Pittsburgh Penguins, Randomness, Sidney Crosby | Leave a Comment
  • Yesterday’s game was pretty enjoyable.  As much as I love Chicago, though, I really don’t think they’ll make it past Detroit.  The Red Wings just have too much experience.
  • Every time someone on Detroit scores, I get insanely angry that it wasn’t Pavel Datsyuk.  His lack of scoring really angers me.  Every time the Wings score, I scream something along the lines of, “CANDY CORN HEAD.  YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SCORE.  WHERE HAVE THE GOALS GONE?”  Maybe it’s the shape of his head, maybe it’s his poor knowledge of English, maybe it’s his Russian background, maybe it’s his all-around badassedness.  I have a total soft spot for Pavel.
  • My aunt tried to make me promise to root for Carolina in the east, and even though I told her I did I was lying.  Shh!!  I’m so apathetic about this series.  I could not care less about either team even if I tried.  It wold be so much nicer if we could just declare both of those teams losers and move on and give the Cup to Detroit.
  • My phone has been dying a slow, painful death, and today it got even worse.  I feel like the poor little thing has cancer and progresses to more severe stages.  Now the screen keeps disappearing and text messages come through in weird characters, which is even worse than when it just wouldn’t make calls.  It’s so sad.
  • Mike Milbury was trying to get Sid to admit to misbehaving in school.  Mike, I don’t think you’re going to get anywhere with that.
  • I had my speaking test today in French with hilarious results.  One of my teacher’s questions kind of threw me and I just started randomly spitting French words out.  It was pretty great.
  • I’m not sure how much attention I’ll pay to the series tonight because 1) as I mentioned before, this series annoys me and 2) “Gossip Girl” and “One Tree Hill” season finales.  It’s almost summer!!
  • Also, as it’s a school night, I can’t really play the Staal Brothers Drinking Game.

On To The Conference Finals!

May 15, 2009 at 4:35 pm | In Alex Ovechkin, Carolina Hurricanes, Detroit Red Wings, Frostee Does Predictions!, Hockey Gods, Jose Theodore, Pittsburgh Penguins, Randomness, Semyon Varlamov, Sergei Fedorov, Washington Capitals | Leave a Comment

But first, a few things from the Caps’ locker clean out.

When they were interviewing Jose Theodore the goaltending position came up.  Jose was pretty much, “I may have been benched from the second game of the playoffs on, but that #1 job is mine, bitch.”  What he actually said when asked about Simeon is “Well, he’s the goalie of the future.”  

Dear Hockey Gods,

If you provide us with a major bitch fight between Simeon Varlamov and Jose Theodore during training camp next year, I will never say anything against you ever again.

With Love,

Frostee

Alex was wearing the same shirt he wore in Beijing last summer.  It says Sochi 2014.  I stared at it or a good five minutes before I realized where I had seen it before, and then I hurried to check my archives.  Don’t judge me.  I have a freaky memory when it comes to clothes.  I could probably tell you what you were wearing last time I saw you (if I’ve ever hung out with you before).  It’s weird.

And he’s leaving for Moscow tonight?!?  SOB!  I’m so sad that he’s not going to be on this continent.  Can they make him come back and do another intermission report during the Stanley Cup Finals?  That was horrific awesome.  Why do I love European players so much?  They only leave me for Europe in the summer, and I am left alone in this country.  What does Russia have that we don’t?  

Dear Alex,

I appreciate your decision to not go to Turkey since it’s “bad for you.”  Heh.  We wouldn’t want you getting into any trouble.

With Love,

Frostee

Dear Sergei Fedorov,

As you’ve stated your desire to play next yera, and the entire Washington Capitals organization seems to have a massive man crush on you, you’ll totally come back next year, right??

With Love,

Frostee

Okay, on to the Game Sevens last night.

Detroit won – big surprise – and so did Carolina.  Wow.  I was definitely rooting for the Hurricanes, but I didn’t think they’d actually come out alive.  Cam Ward is now undefeated in Game Sevens in his career.  Nice stat, Mr. Ward.

As much as I’d like to think Carolina could beat Pittsburgh, I just don’t know.  They’re going to have to be fantastic to beat the Pens.

I really want the Detroit/Chicago series to be like one long string of Winter Classics.  That game was highly enjoyable, and I’m hoping for an exciting series.

My picks for the Stanley Cup Finals are….drum roll…Detroit and Pittsburgh.  Rematch of last year.  I just don’t see anyone beating Detroit, and I think Pittsburgh will come out alive in their series, unless Eric Staal manages to score in four straight games.

Dear Detroit Red Wings,

If you beat Pittsburgh for the second year in a row to win the Stanley Cup, I will love you forever.  This is not an exaggeration.  

With Love,

Frostee

Laying Down The Law

May 9, 2009 at 12:01 pm | In Boston Bruins, Carolina Hurricanes, Losing Sucks, Pittsburgh Penguins, That was absolutely terrible., Washington Capitals | 1 Comment

Okay, Caps.  Last night, for the second game in a row, you lost.  It was bad.  It was ugly.  I spent most of the game peeking out from between my fingers.  My shirt is apparently unlucky, so I won’t wear it again during the game tonight.  Although, I am wearing it now.  It’s very comfortable.

While Christopher’s goal filled me with joy (Christopher!  Look at you, scoring in the playoffs!), and seeing Lars score for the second game in a row made me quite proud, Alex’s lack of shots and Simeon’s lack of saves was not good.  Caps, you know who you looked like last night, continually pulling within one only to give up a terrible goal and lose momentum?  The Sabres.  You looked like the Buffalo Sabres.  It made me want to jump off a tall building.

There are big reasons why you can’t lose this series:

1.  Giving up a 2-0 series lead and then losing the series is bad.  Really, really bad.  If the Rangers do it, it’s okay.  They are, after all, the Rangers.  When you do it, it’s really bad.

2.  Bragging rights, and the fact that if you lose this series all the Pittsburgh/Crosby & Malkin fans will say that they won because let’s face it, Sid and Geno are better than Alex.  This can not happen.  I couldn’t handle it.

I never like seeing players get hurt, but if Sergei Gonchar’s out the Caps at least have a chance.  May I remind you how bad Pittsburgh was when Gonchar was out this season.  They weren’t even in the playoffs.  

Washington, even if you can only win on home ice in this series, you stand a chance.  You have home ice advantage, which means Game 7 will be played in your arena, in front of your fans.  

It’s going to be hard, and there are a lot of things that need to be changed.  Right now.  But you know what, Capitals?  Stupid fan that I am, I still believe.  You’re still in this series, and if you fight hard, you can still prevail.  Don’t let me down.

Also, WHAT has happened to the Bruins and TimTom?  They looked awful last night.  How awesome would it be if the Hurricanes knocked them out in five games?  It would be quite awesome, if you ask me.

A Recap Of Last Night’s Game, In Case You Missed It

May 7, 2009 at 3:44 pm | In Alex Ovechkin, Carolina Hurricanes, David Steckel, Evgeni Malkin, Lars Nicklas Backstrom, Losing Sucks, Pittsburgh Penguins, Semyon Varlamov, This Irks Me, Washington Capitals | Leave a Comment

The puck dropped last night, and the Capitals were on fire.  They looked fantastic, and thanks to a terrible play by Fleury (I could practically see the *facepalm*) Alex got the first goal.  Then, at the ten minute mark, the Caps all decided to go to a bar in Pittsburgh to watch the Boston/Carolina game.  Simeon doesn’t speak English, however, so he didn’t know they were leaving.  He continued to play his life out for the rest of the game while the few remaining Caps took penalties and just generally looked like a mess.

(Yes, I realize that the Caps looked like complete crap last night, but there were still several non-calls.  There were definitely a few times Pittsburgh should have been penalized.  I’m just pointing that out.)

Then, with only a few minutes left in the third, after I had spent the whole night swearing and screaming at the TV, they showed a couple sitting at the game.  They were noticeable for several reasons:

1.  They weren’t participating in the white-out.

2.  The woman’s hair was a crazy maroonish afro, and clashed with her berry-colored jacket.

3.  The guy was wearing a jacket that may or may not have been made of pleather.  Trust me, I know what pleather looks like.  My friend wore ill-fitting pleather pants for Halloween a few years ago, and I’ve never forgotten the stuff.

Being the catty, judgmental, overly-critical person I am, I proceeded to point all of these out to my dog.  I know that I wasn’t being nice, but the chances of them ever finding out are slim to none.

Then Doc informed me that I was being a tad bit mean to Mr. and Mrs. Malkin.  And then Geno scored.

And at that point I was feeling pretty miserable, but then a penalty was FINALLY called on the Penguins and Lars had just finished watching “Mamma Mia!” for the sixty-eighth time (what can I say?  he loves the ABBA tunes) so he decided to come out and score a goal.  And at that point I figured the Caps would win the game in overtime because a) they could ride their momentum from the comeback and b) they sort of reminded me of the Sabres last night, and the Sabres would win the game just to piss me off.

The Capitals did not, however, win the game.  They certainly looked awful, but as David was kin enough to remind us of after Game 2, you’re supposed to win at home and split on the road.  Hear that, Caps?  Win at home, SPLIT on the road.

Carolina also scored in overtime.  Congrats, ‘Canes.

This Game Is Kind Of Huge

May 4, 2009 at 2:50 pm | In Anaheim Ducks, Boston Bruins, Carolina Hurricanes, Derek Roy, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals | Leave a Comment

I realize it’s only Game 2, but still, consider this: the Pens win and they even up the series before heading back to Pittsburgh.  Washington wins, and they capitalize on home ice and take a 2-0 advantage in the series going into the Igloo.  As we learned against the Rangers, 2-0 leads in series aren’t safe, but these Capitals are a bit different than the Rangers.

A lot of people have been praising David Steckel’s line, and, um, I am too.  They.  Were.  Awesome.  They dominated on Saturday, and if the Caps keep getting support from players like that in this series, they’ll have a serious advantage.  Coming in at a close second for Awesomest Stuff The Caps Did During Game 1 is the penalty killing.  I’ve always worried about their penalty killing, but they were perfect on Saturday.  Against Pittsburgh.  That’s huge.  If they can keep that up, it’ll be another huge advantage.

Also, happy birthday to Derek Roy!  He and my mom are birthday buddies (just as Varly and my dad are birthday buddies), and every year she tells me to write him a letter and ask him to have a joint party with her.  Mom, not the best idea.  I doubt Derek Parties are the kind of parties you’re thinking of.

So, Caps, this is usually the game where I ask the Sabres to win for my mother (remember Drury’s goal with 7 seconds left, and then Max’s OT goal?  Yeah.  These are the kinds of things I used to be able to rely on the Sabres for on my mother’s birthday), but since that obviously won’t happen, could you do me a huge favor and get the W for her on her special day?  I’d appreciate that.

P.S.  Carolina shut out Boston last night, and Anaheim beat Detroit in the third overtime.  I was thrilled Marchant got the winner, but I was crushed that it didn’t go to six extra sessions like I had hoped.  And, Drew Miller, did you have money on the Wings, or something?  Those are a lot of breakaways you missed on.

Admitting Something Sad

April 30, 2009 at 4:52 pm | In Alex Ovechkin, Anaheim Ducks, Boston Bruins, Carolina Hurricanes, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Evgeni Malkin, Frostee Does Predictions!, Pittsburgh Penguins, Sidney Crosby, This Irks Me, Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals | 2 Comments

I know people are saying that since the Caps managed to win a 2-1 game when it mattered the most, they’ll be able to play with Pittsburgh, but honestly, I’m not so sure.  I don’t think Washington will win this series, which means that all of those crazy Crosby fans will make it seem like the ONLY REASON Pittsburgh managed to win is because CROSBY IS THE BEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD AND NO ONE COMPARES.  Forget that the Pens have a great goalie and Evgeni Malkin, the player who I actually think is better than Crosby.  Merely because the Penguins have Sidney, they’ll win.  Trust me.  I know these things.  My grandfather is one of those Crosby fan boys.  A Don Cherry type, if you will.  All he does is get on my case and tell me that if I think Alex is better than Crosby, I clearly don’t know hockey as well as he thought I did.  And then when I go and tell him that Malkin and Alex are the two greatest players in the league – I’ll relent that Crosby is third – and so Crosby isn’t even the best player on his own team, he leaves the room.  Yo, Grandpa, just because Alex and Geno are Russian doesn’t mean they’re automatically below Sidney on the list.  Being Canadian does not equal being the best.  Last time I checked, Sidney wasn’t even one of the three finalists for the Hart.  They’re all Russians.  Um, so, yeah.

But I digress.  I have faith in Washington’s goaltending, which is an odd feeling to have, but they don’t have as much experience as Pittsburgh and they need to get their defensive game down perfectly.  The Penguins have a tad bit more offense than the Rangers did.  Washington needs keep their power play clicking and make sure their penalty kill is solid.  Alex needs to try doing a little less, Nicklas needs to keep up his fabulousness, Michael needs to start playing like Michael, etc.  I just…don’t like this match-up.  I don’t like it one bit.

That being said, I think this series could be highly entertaining.  The regular season games between these two always were, and I can’t wait to see Alex lay somebody out.  I also can’t wait to see if Michael really has returned for good.  I have a theory that he had some sort of cold.  He sounded really congested when they interviewed him before Game 2, and sounded less stuffy before Game 6.

Carolina vs. Boston will be almost as good as the Pittsburgh vs. Boston series I had been hoping for.  It’ll be interesting to see if Carolina’s momentum can carry over.

My apologies to the Hawks fans reading this, but I think Vancouver’s going to come out on top for this one.

Finally, Detroit over Anaheim.  I love the Ducks, but come on.  It’s Detroit.

I <3 San Jose

April 24, 2009 at 4:19 pm | In Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Detroit Red Wings, San Jose Sharks | Leave a Comment

Tonight may be the last game for the Caps in the 2009 playoffs (*sob*), but at least they didn’t win the Presidents Trophy only to be completely dominated by the eighth seed that barely even made it in the first round.  I knew I’d like seeing San Jose choke yet again, but I didn’t realize I’d like it this much.  Thanks, Sharks.  I owe ya one.

  • Detroit completed the sweep on Columbus last night.  Poor Blue Jackets.  At least they got the experience, right?
  • I honestly thought Carolina would tie it with .2 seconds last night.  I really did.

Wednesday Ramblings (#63)

April 22, 2009 at 4:21 pm | In 65 Reasons I Love A.M.O., Alex Ovechkin, Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Detroit Red Wings, Happy!!, Lars Nicklas Backstrom, Pittsburgh Penguins, Randomness, San Jose Sharks, St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals | Leave a Comment
  • Vancouver completed the sweep last night.  So long, St. Louis.  Screws one of my predictions.
  • Pittsburgh won.  Ew.  There were WAY too many people wearing Crosby jerseys at school today.
  • Detroit also won, so they’ll most likely sweep in the next game.  At least it was a good experience for Columbus, right?  They looked so overwhelmed for the few minutes I watched.
  • San Jose won as well.  I was shocked.
  • Carolina scored the game-winner with .2 seconds left in regulation.  I was watching.  The ‘Canes had been putting the pressure on and for no apparent reason, even with four seconds left I still thought they might pull it off.  They did.  This series is so going seven games.
  • Last night there was a segment on E:60 about one Mr. Alexander Ovechkin.  It was an epic twelve minutes, to say the least.  I’m going to try and summarize it for you here:  baby pictures, robot impressions, concern over lost licenses, Daddy Ovechkin in the Streetwear hat I want (seriously, Alex?  You’ve got your father in one of those?), a personal shoutout to me (because that’s what it was when they mentioned the “fanatic following” he has, right?) and the quote of the night when he was asked what he does when he goes out.  Apparently it’s not appropriate for television.  I have only one thing to say about that.  If those boys are going out and doing bad things, they BETTER NOT be bringing Nicklas with them.  I don’t really care what shenanigans they get in to, but Nicklas has a bedtime.  And he’s still innocent.  If they’re scarring him, there’s going to be serious trouble.
  • Speaking of Nicklas, while I was eating breakfast my dad told me that Nick Backstrom was having hip surgery and would be out six months.  I choked on my banana bread, thinking he meant my Nick.  Apologies to the Minnesota fans, that does kind of suck.
  • I’m very conflicted about the Caps game tonight.  On the one hand, when they went down 0-2 I knew they were done.  Then Simeon came in, and after seeing the game Monday night, I feel hope.  If being a Sabres fan has given me one thing, it’s the ability to hope against all hope, and hope even when only 12.7% of the teams that went down 2-1 came back to win it.  These Capitals are a plucky little bunch.  If there’s any team that could come back, now that they have a solid young goaltender, it’s them.  But I don’t want to get too excited.  
  • P.S. to the Capitals: If you could keep this to a six-game series, I’d really appreciate it.  It’s just that I have a huge test the morning after what would be game seven, and I need to study and don’t need the stress, and knowing my luck it would be one of those marathon overtime sessions.  ’Kaythxbye.
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