Unlucky 13

That's the old saying, and Cindy and friends learned the hard way why it's unlucky as their 12 game winning streak gets ended in style over on Broad Street. The only thing that would have made this night better is if Carcillo had ripped off Crosby's pathetic excuse for a mustache out by the roots and slapped him in the face with it. Everything else was pretty much clutch...including Boosh. Still haven't seen enough for me to jump on the Boosh bandwagon that seems to be sweeping the Phaithful like a disease, I know all too well that the guy gets hot and then he gets refused sex at home or something and he cools off...and quick. I'd love to believe that he's finally turned the proverbial corner but after being in the league for 11 years and still being a backup, I think it's safe to assume the collapse is coming at some point. But for now, he's kicking ass and I'm fucking loving it.

Actually what would have made the game better would have been Noodle and Hartnell not missing the open nets that were smiling at them, but other than that it was a pretty solid game. I had some bullshit finals today but I managed to get home about 5 minutes into the second period so I saw a little over half of the game. From what I saw the Flyers are finally bringing their A game, and they brought it against Shittsburgh which makes the win twice as sweet. Unfortunately they couldn't end that worthless pussy Crosby's point streak but as far as I'm concerned that's collateral damage. And how about my boy Zherdev....again. I swear this dude is gonna score like 30 goals and the last game of the season he's gonna go over to the bench and give Lavy the finger and tell him to go fuck himself. I'm not gonna go on another rant about how stupid it is to scratch a guy with his talent but when he's already put up 10 goals with his ice time, I'm left wondering what he would have to do to stay in the lineup permanently, let alone moving up from the 4th line.


My point to be made, besides the giant LOL at Shittsburgh for blowing a 12 game streak against their cross state rivals, is the difference between the 2 teams. It was a great chance to see how a team with 3 solid scoring lines and an energetic 4th line and a rock hard defense core stacked up against 2 superstars, a solid goaltender and basically nobody else.


I looked at the rosters for both teams, when you look at the Flyers side you see, Richards, Carter, Giroux, Briere, Zherdev, JVR, Pronger, Timonen, O'donnell, Meszaros, and Leino. All or at least most of these names are pretty well known around the league, Richards has been tormenting the other 29 teams with his perfectly executed open ice hits and is currently leading the league in active players with shorties since the lockout. Carter is a bum but he's a high scoring bum, Groo...'nuff said, Briere has been a force ever since entering the league and was the captain in Buffalo so they know him well. Zherdev was always near the top of the charts for Colombus and was the Rags' leading goal scorer before he bolted for Russia. JVR was a 2nd overall pick a couple years ago and is starting to turn into a pretty decent power forward. Pronger...well he's Pronger. Timonen is the best Fin defensemen in like forever, O'donnell is so old and has been in the league so long that everybody that follows hockey is guaranteed to have seen him play at least 50 times. Meszaros was a first rounder for Ottawa and put up pretty good numbers there, and him and O'donnell are near or at the top in +/- this season and Leino is just pure fucking sexyness on skates.


When you look at the roster for the flightless birds it's a little thinner to say the least. You've got the obvious Cindy, Malkin and Fleury but after that...you really have to be a Shittsburgh "fan" to know anything about the rest of the players. Us Philly fans are, of course, familiar with some of the names like Letang, Asham...but then again everyone else in the Atlantic Division is familiar with that pussy, Martin, Orpik and maybe Letestu considering he was born in Philly. But we really don't know too much about these guys, and it's not just because Cindy is on their team either as most people outside Shittsburgh would suggest. We don't know much about them because they're not worth the effort of bothering to learn. I was made familiar with a pretty interesting stat today, not one of the players besides Cindy and Malkin have over 10 goals...not a single one, and the only reason Malkin makes the double digit list is because of the 2 goals he got tonight. Also...Crosby has like 53 points or something this season, which is impressive, as much as it pains me to say and the next closest guy has 27 points. Are we noticing a pattern here?


When you look at the Flyers, they have 5 players that have 20 points or more and 5 players with 10 goals or more. The team is so much more balanced than the other team that dares to reside in Pennsylvania. We have crisp passers and gifted shooters, we also have probably one of the most exciting lines to watch in Briere, Hartnell and Leino. Sure it's interesting to see some of the moves that Crosby can do, and sure he's an elite player....but what happens if he gets hurt? Who will the Penguins turn to then? If he got some kind of injury that kept him out long term (we can only pray), Shittsburgh would be in some real trouble...like possibly missing the playoffs trouble. If Briere or Giroux got hurt...yea it would definitely hurt the team but we'd survive. We certianly wouldn't go into every game praying for a miracle for us to win. Putting so much pressure on one guy to perform is a pretty stupid strategy in my opinion. Eventually he's gonna burn out or he's gonna get hurt and then the team is gonna suffer like no other. But that's their problem and not ours, good solid win for the boys in black tonight. Hopefully they can keep it up against that piece of shit Subban and his butt buddy Price tomorrow night....for now: