The Longest Week -- And It's Not Over!
off the top:
THANK YOU FOR THE COOKIES, STEFAN!
the score:
I only saw the last seven or so minutes of the second, and the entirety of the third. I had class (which I will mention below). A lot of penalties called, which is surprising, as Kevin Pollock was on the ice. But these were good calls tonight, the officials preventing the clutch and grab game that the Pens always play in order to stop the Sens.
And what a game! It was very exciting, because it was close to the end. Now, I know what you're thinking: Ottawa 6, Pittsburg 5? What is this? A dream? No. For some bizarro reason, Ottawa just can't seem to figure out the lowest-ranking, lowest-scoring team in the league. Out of three games this season, the first was an OT loss, the next was a tie, and this is the only time this year that Ottawa has beaten them. It's really weird.
Pulling Marc-Andre Fleury from the net was a good call on the Penguins' side. He just wasn't having a good night. But boy, is he flexible! He did this nifty Roxette-like kick that was quite impressive.
The best play, by far, was in the dying minutes of the second. Hossa had the puck, as he seemed to for a long time that period. He was tripped up, but managed to maintain puck control, even when he was down on his stomach, dekeing it around Penquins and finally passing it along to make a third goal for Langfeld. It was amazing.
off the ice:
I'm rather annoyed that Chara didn't make the All-Star cut, but I suppose I'll have to be satisfied with three of our players (Alfredsson, Hossa, Redden) representing for the team. Haha, the Pens get NO PLAYERS on the All-Star Team.
what to do about
Petr Schastlivy? The man has a shot like a bullet (you can hear the crack), but he can't score. Or do much else, for that matter. It's a pity no one else wants him, because this means that, when Vermette recovers from his shoulder injury, Langfeld will have to go back down to Bingo, and Josh has been having a great week.
in other news:
This week has been positively interminable. I've wanted to shoot almost every person I've come in contact with. I totally blew my chiropractor's appointment on Monday, and had to reschedule for next Monday, which, as it turns out, is kind of a good thing. Yesterday, I was going out to get a pee sample from one of my dogs (she's diabetic), and I managed to fall all the way down the back steps. There's about six of them. So now I have a bump on the back of my head, a sore neck and shoulder, and no skin on my right wrist. I was grumpy.
It seems everyone else had a weird week, too. I went to my Intro to Culture Studies class tonight (I like to call it my Comics and Communism Class), and the content was almost inpenetrable. It's discussion-based, and there's only about fifteen of us, so when you don't contribute, you can tell. So, when about half the class left at the break, my prof got rather irritable. He got the remaining members of the class to organize ourselves in this little circle and tell us exactly what was wrong with how he was teaching. AND THEN HE STARTED TO CRY! It was an awkward night, that's for sure.
But then, it turns out, Stefan baked me cookies, which were much appreciated by my family, BTW. And I got paid today, which is a day early, and I got a raise, which no one told me about. So it's all good -- I think. I don't know what else to say about anything, because my whole day was rather disjointed, and my neck's kind of sore, so I'm going to end this and go to bed. Good night, all.
Posted by Ally at January 22, 2004 12:00 AM