posted by EP
- All this rain isn’t helping with this whole “it’s hockey season”. I want snow. And I want lots of it.
- Sergei Kostitsyn and Marc-Andrei Bergeron will both apparently be skating for the Hammies (Bulldogs) tonight. I’ll be listening and you can bet your season tickets that I’ll be screaming at Sergei to do something useful tonight.
- Theme song of the day is Chopin’s “Funeral March”. Beautiful stuff and oh so appropriate to the Habs situation after losing to the Canucks.
- Lots of violence going on in the last couple of days: Violence against innocent walls as Price took his frustration out on the visitor’s dressing room in Vancouver and punched a hole in it. I suspect the Habs’ defense might want to fit the bill for that one. You know, as a sort of “we’re sorry we were staring at the walls all night instead of stopping the pucks for you, Carey” type of gesture. Violence against fingers as Scott Hartnell allegedly bit Kris Letang’s finger in last night’s Flyers/Pens matchup. I don’t know how you can bite through a mouth guard and a glove and still make someone bleed profusely. Sharp teeth, I guess? Violence among teammates as Sens’ Chris Neil and Jason Spezza got into a slashing fest. Neil dropped the gloves and Spezza took off. I approve. Of Spezza running off, I mean.
- Did they seriously rename the section of “La Gauchetiere” street in front of the Bell Centre to “avenue des les Canadien-de-Montreal”? On the one hand, I might actually be able to remember the name of the street, but on the other hand, that is a long name, no?
- Do we want to pay attention to the stat that says the Habs are 13-18-2 following a game in which six or more goals have been scored against them? They’re a whopping 2-16 when that’s happened on the road. Or what about the stat that says they haven’t won in Edmonton since November of 2003? My opinion: meh. Stats. They’re okay for some things but not everything. If the Habs are going to lose, it’s not because statistically speaking they’re crap after playing a really crappy game. They’ll lose because they’re thinking about cake and why nobody is allowed to have cake in October. Really.
- There is no number seven. Sorry.
- Is it obvious yet that I’m completely random? Yeah. I’m like… the comic relief. Kinda. Sorta. Maybe. Not really.