I am predicting nothing for Saturday night. Nothing at all. Except one thing.
I don’t know what to expect anymore, so I’m not going to pretend I have any read whatsoever on the mental state of this Red Wings team.
When I think they’re tired, worn out, beaten down and ready to call it a season, they [...]
It’s tough not to smile this morning, what with the Washington Capitals so powerfully demonstrating the immense chasm between Contenders and Pretenders when it comes to handling Game 7 pressure.
So … to review. Things you don’t want to do in a Game 7: Don’t rely on your superior skill level to assure you of victory; [...]
I guess — much like me and blogging, he said humbly, the great ones can only goof off for so long.
Considering hockey is supposedly a winter sport, the idea of a team hibernating like fucking bears for four months, only to emerge when the snow begins to melt, seems pretty antithetical. It is, however, exactly [...]
Are you watching? Good. Because this is me, not panicking six games into the 2009/10 hockey season.
See? I’m breathing deeply, sleeping well and eating full, balanced meals. I’m drinking delicious Canadian beer in reasonable quantities and am not under any circumstances swigging straight from the bottle of American whiskey and cursing at my television set [...]
How fervently do I wish they started these games at noon?
And imagine, should the unthinkable happen in Pittsburgh tonight (*knocks on wood*) we’ll all be waiting until Friday for another game. So we can play Games 1 & 2 on back-to-back nights three days after the end of the previous series … but we have [...]
I know what you may be thinking but — despite the title in the header of this blog — this is not a website dedicated to the Chicago Blackhawks Game 4 performance.
In fact, one of the reasons we named the blog ‘Dirty Games’ is so that we could call that sort of cheap, thuggish and [...]