It would help me greatly

if Jordan Staal committed some douchery at some point. My love for him is approaching unhealthy levels.


He was credited with the OT GWG last night and he did this.

"Staal approached members of the Penguin’ communications staff after the game to say he did not touch the puck and should not have been awarded the goal."

What a man. I can't handle him sometimes.

(obligatory Staal v. Staal photo)

I am anxious to see Alex Ponikarovsky this weekend. I know little about him. I know he's a plus player and that he has 19 goals (so far) this season on a bad team (Leafs). I also know that he is a left-winger from Kiev because that is also what Fedotenko is. I hope one of them can play right because they both should be with Geno. I'm not really torn up over losing Caputi and I certainly don't mind that we gave them Skoula (to turnover to the Devils). I wish them both well but I'm hoping for better from Poni.

I don't know if they were doing it on purpose or not, which knowing them probably, but Steigy and Bob kept making horse-related comments in regards to Malkin. I have a feeling they are going to get a lot of use out of Alex Ponikarovsky's nickname. I'm not talking about the "Ukraine Train" one either.

Leopold is fine. I resent that he has that #4 on his back though so I can't really get into specifics about him right now. At one point last night, he backed right into the camera to rub it in my face. I didn't appreciate that at all. Not at all, Mr. Leopold.

I feel bad for McKee being dropped to the 7th Dman position. I was happy to see him get a little playing time last night (5 minutes 40 seconds, yikes)... but, truth be told, I haven't really missed him all that much. Probably because Kris and Brooks and Sergei and Mark and that new guy have been blocking shots all over the place. Sorry, Jay! *kisses* It was pretty cool to see him flip that guy over his back last night though. (I think it was him anyway, I meant to check but forgot.)

I was glad to see Billy Guerin getting scratched last minute because of "back spasms". I think it was because Jay McKee was sad and Billy G is old.

During a face off in the 1st period, Matt Cooke took a 2-minute unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for... wait for it... GETTING.PUNCHED.IN.THE.FACE. Unreal.

Speaking of Ruslan Fedotenko (you know, from before), he has three points and is a +2 in the two games since Olympic break. Now he is only a -14 which is still really ouch. I stand firm that most of those are not even a little bit his fault. I hate when they do a line switch and the new guys can't get out there fast enough to stop the goaltender's raping. That happens to him a lot. Trust me. I've been paying close attention to that. It feels like is part of my job as a fan. I've done it with Kris since forever and I started doing it with Craig and now with Feds. I have to. It helps my defense when people go all stupid about plus/minus. Craig Adams is and always will be a hero on this team whether he scores or not and no matter what his plus/minus happens to be (-8 in case you are wondering, but you shouldn't be wondering because it matters not in his case because he does soooooo many other things. good things).

One of my favorite parts of watching last night's game was an exchange between Errey and Steigy. Bob goes, "Prospal has quite a tan. I wonder where he was during the Olympic break." And Steigy goes, "he was in Vancouver playing for the Czech Republic." lols

Dubinsky is an awful human.

Avery cracked me up when he mocked Max Talbot. *must look for youtube* He's still an ass, but it was funny. I love that Max laughed about it.

We own the Rangers. If we wouldn't have gotten the two points from that game, it would have been a huge disappointment considering our boys were dominant for about 97 percent of the game.

Fleury let four goals in on like 12 shots. WTF? Johnson let in no goals on like 3. Which, yeah he only faced three shots but if we're going to go all average-y, Fleury would have let one of those 3 in. He threw his stick like a lawn dart while Johnny was all calm and cool skating to the net to stop the madness. There was a scary minute when he didn't have a stick but Leopold (with is body) and Talbot (with his quick stick) helped stop the, what at the time seemed inevitable, molestation of yet another of our goaltenders. MAF was sour looking sitting on the bench because the boys were able to do for Johnny what they seemed unable to do for him. It's hard to place blame because it's a team but 4 goals on 12 shots. Four?

A non-Penguin related hockey news note: I adore Jonas Hiller. He was (mostly) spectacular in the Olympics. I had another dream about him last night. And I didn't even see him or hear mention of him yesterday. Weird. I don't have those kinds of feelings for him. My adoration of him is non-romantic in nature (I think so anyway) but in my dreams, I always have those swoony he's my boyfriend feelings about him (but it's hard to tell sometimes after these OMG! HE IS MY BOYFRIEND kind of dreams). Well, except for that one time when it was about him saying he's a bad singer and then singing and then my husband and I were both like "WHAT?!?! YOU ARE NOT A BAD SINGER! YOU ARE A GREAT SINGER! THAT WAS AMAZING!" See? Weird. Last night's dream was about some minor doesn't even matter play in the basement kind of goalie tournament that he was kicking ass at. Or maybe he was giving lessons I don't remember. It was in some kind of church or school type place in some big cafeteria type room and he kept sending me to his locker and/or his car to get different goalie masks for him. One of them was a plastic frog mask. Like the kind that have the elastic band to hold it on your face. You know like you buy for your kid for Halloween. People were coming at him pretty hard and I was worried that the frog wouldn't protect him but he assured me that he would be fine. Anyway, I felt gooey about him and he had a lot of groupies and I thought they were funny. See again? Weird. I don't know why I sometimes share some of these bizarre things with people.

So anyway. Onto the Stars, boys. Reach for them and bring them down.

And now we're getting ready for the Olympics

I haven't blogged in a while. Heaven knows it's not because I've had nothing to say. I've just been busy. I guess. So our boys lost to the Preds yesterday in a shoot-out. I didn't even think it was possible for us to lose in a SO.

Kris Letang has been a monster. Brooks Orpik has been a... well, he's been not throwing people onto our goalie, so he's been great. And! And! He scored a goal yesterday. The teaming of them together helps to keep my heart beating. Jordan is, as always, a beast. I'm not sure how I feel about Jordan and Geno on the same line. I love Cooke-Staal-Kennedy so it's hard to be unbiased. Feds is a -16 now. How does that happen to him? Everybody likes to talk about how terrible he's been but I don't see it. I think he's pretty great. He wasn't one of my favorites last season but I've been loving him this season. As an aside, he is breathtakingly gorgeous in person. wow. But I bumped into him, or rather he bumped into me, after I was already loving him. Sidney Crosby is a machine, man. MAF has been questionable at times. Billy G is a liability most times. His presence on the PP makes me cry. I'm guessing they feel some sort of obligation to him. That's the only thing that makes sense. And I guess if Sid wants him there... Well, let us hope that this two week break does him good. He should sleep for two weeks and Jay McKee should soak in an ice bath. Speaking of Jay McKee, he went to visit Children's Hospital one day after practice. He's a beautiful man. Hockey players are like no others. *sigh*

We made it through to the trade freeze with only one trade. Nate Guenin for... somebody who is an offensive defenseman. This makes me nervous. I worry about losing any of our offensive d-men but mostly I worry about losing Letang (of course). I have a few other worries but none of those would have as much of a negative impact on my happiness and well-being.

gah. work. More later.

USA! USA! USA!

Okay, it's official

I am in love with Pascal Dupuis.

Dude is on fire.

WTF?

How much padding is he wearing? He looks ridiculous.

Who else looks ridiculous?
Arron Asham. For reals, dude. Maybe you can buy a clue and share it with your fans. You are going to cry to the media about Matt Cooke biting you? Or shall we call it Hartnelling instead of biting? Yes, we shall.

"There was a scrum, I grabbed him. There were two guys on Harts and my glove got tangled in his mouth and he bit me, so I lost it.

It’s not bad, but he’s a gutless guy. I have no respect for him at all. I lined up against him and asked him to fight and he didn’t want to. If you go and bite someone … I just have no use for him.

He does his job well. He’s an agitator. He’s garbage to me and I have no respect for him at all.

You should have a little more honor than that. Usually if you bite somebody you stick up for yourself and you fight the guy. Not this guy, he’s chicken and I have no respect for him. He plays the game hard and I respect him for that, but he yaps, he’s a dirty player. At least a guy like (Sean) Avery fights. This guy is just chicken (bleep) and I hate him.

It would have been better if he dropped the gloves with me, but he’s got no stones."

I practically peed myself. Hilarious. "I have no respect for him at all" x 3. Then, "He plays the game hard and I respect him for that." And, come on, no stones? Get real. I think biting in sports is gross but we ALL know Cookie wouldn't have gone there if Letang wasn't bitten by that gross Hartnell. Not to mention, I am all for our guys sticking up for Lelover whenever possible/necessary.

You know who didn't look ridiculous?
The Penguins.
We'll name a few:
Kris Letang. All fighting and stuff. HOTT. (As an aside, he scored a goal in our loss to the Caps.)
Ruslan Fedotenko. He's been golden lately. (Three assists in the Caps loss and one in Philthy.)
Sergei Gonchar. He won that game.
Matt Cooke. He does his job well. And? He also scores goals. PP goals, even.
Jordan Staal. Because he never does.

I have a confession. And if I can't confess here, where can I? *takes deep breath* There is a possibility that I do not loathe Daniel Carcillo. Yeah, I said it.

Rangers tonight.

Let's go Pens!

Dude. Our 3rd line

is my favorite thing ever.

Jordan Staal is a fucking hero.

3rd Period
03:18 -Tyler Kennedy (9) Wrist Shot - Assists: J. Staal (18)
06:48 - PPG - Matt Cooke (9) Backhand - Assists: J. Staal (19) & K. Letang (13)
10:30 - Pascal Dupuis (11) Tip-In - Assists: J. Staal (20) & M. Cooke (12)

Primary assists on all three goals in the third period. All three goals we scored in the game. Come on. Shut up. Hello? PP Goal? From who? Our first PP line? No sir. Matt Fucking Cooke on the power play from Staal and Letang. TYVM.

Speaking of Matt Cooke.
Is he adorable or what. (I'm using a period there because it doesn't require your response.)

You know how some boys wear jerseys and refuse to wash them for, like, the whole season because their team will lose the minute they do? Well, I have this Matt Cooke jersey T that is quite comfy and worn and soft. It is practically my favorite thing to wear. I was going through my t-shirts, looking for something to throw on with my fleece reindeer pants the other night and thought to myself... we haven't won a game since the last time I had Cookie on me. So I put it on to watch the game on Wednesday. I wore it again last night. Coincidence? Do you think I can wash it before I wear it again (which will, of course, be tomorrow)? I don't know the rules of this superstition. I can also never remember if the salt goes over your right or left shoulder after you have spilled it.

No minuses on our team last night. Staal and Cooke, our top PKers, both a plus two.

Also, we got a win on my birthday.
Which was also Mr. Michael Rupp's birthday. Captain Sidney got his 30th goal to celebrate Rupp's 30th birthday. What a wonderful leader he is.

I feel the need to post this picture of Jay McKee. Just to let him know I didn't forget about him (even though the people who captioned the above net crash photo did).


Also. Does anybody think it's a coincidence that Kristopher Letang is playing like a Champion since his hair started growing back? No. I didn't think so. No coincidences there. I will post this picture because this Oiler's hair looks like a cruel joke sandwiched between two follicly blessed beauties. How embarrassing for him. He will hate this photo for all time.



This picture is amazing. Magical. Great job, Mr. Photographer.

Saturday night in Vancouver. Power to the Penguins.

In case you didn't see this

in my post yesterday...


Dear Penguins,
Please win tonight. Score lots of goals. Play like Champions.

Dear Cameramen,
Lots of close-ups of the truly gorgeous ones. You know who I mean.

Dear Lelover,
When you're on the bench, feel free to let loose the sexhair. {and pay close attention here, Cameramen}

It is my birthday. These things are important to me. If I only get one of these things I ask for, make it be the first one.

Power to the Penguins.

Jonas! Is! Back!

oh how I love him. Jonas was named the NHL's second star for the week ending 1/10/10.

After watching the Penguins lose again, I tuned into Hockey Central to listen to a phone call with Jonas. It was nice to have something to look forward to after the heartbreak of that game. It was like falling off your bike when you were a little girl and getting a cut on your knee but knowing that when you get home your mom will kiss your boo boo. So I sat there crying during the post game stuff. Then Jonas kissed my boo boo. It didn't heal the wound, but it made me feel better.

Dear Penguins,

Wednesday is my birthday. I don't want a whole lot of things. And the one and only thing I ask of you is to please win in Calgary. It doesn't seem like too much to ask for.

Thank you.

Love always,
Glowie

I haven't been posting too much. I don't know why. So let's summarize the past little while.
- Kris Lelover scored a goal.
- Jordan Staal is a +11. Matt Cooke is a +9.
- Geno needs his ice time cut (or a couple games off).
- The PP sucks.
- Sidney Crosby is the best player in the world. Period.
- Bob Errey said "fuck".
- Curry was pulled out of practice yesterday and was flown to St. Paul. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I was hoping that meant Fleury needed a game or two off. But Brent Johnson hurt his groin. Fleury wasn't too terrible last night though... if we're comparing it to the last however many games before.
- Brooksie is "day to day" for something and I do not care because that means he's not on the ice pushing people on top of our goalie and chasing hits instead of playing the puck.
- I still miss Rob Scuderi. So much. He's not playing for the USA in the Olympics. Don't ask me why. Oh, but Orpik is. I know, right. The mind, she is boggled.



This is nice. Third in points and tied for first in goals. I'll screencap it... not because I don't think he'll stay at the top, but because I want to end on a positive.