HAPPY DAY YOU CAME INTO EXISTENCE

SO this is going to be really quick because I'm sitting at Cari's house eating hot pockets and we're going to be picking up our friend Jen and her sister Julie so that we can all go to the game tonight and enjoy some Sabres winning... hopefully. I have prayed to the hockey gods long and hard and if they grant my request Squidney Crotchby will get hurt and will be out the rest of the season and will not be able to break his no goal streak and the Sabres will win by about a bazillion goals so if all goes to plan this should be one hell of a game. Oh yeah and it would be great if Paul played but I know the hope is futile, but hey a girl can dream can't she. 

But ANYWAY, enough of my inane rambling this post is primarily in existence to wish my PIC, or partner in crime a very very happy PAILLE BIRTHDAY. I couldn't embarrass her today like I wanted to because we didn't go to a restaurant where they sing to you obnoxiously about how happy they are that it's your birthday...like they care.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR CARI, may the hockey gods look favorably down upon you and may they grace us with a win tonight in honor of the day you came into existence.

It's nice to know some things never change

So the regular season started today with the Penguins and the Senators playing in Stockholm, by the way Senators lost in overtime 4-3, while we here in Buffalo are forced to endure yet another preseason game, really? can't we just get to real hockey yet, I think we've waited long enough. If we win I say we pull the ol' switcheroo on Detroit and say "just kidding this was for keeps" and if we lose we can still claim that it was a preseason.

Anyways, the news broadcast also said that Tampa Bay and Rangers had finished their game in Prague, Czech Republic with the Rangers winning 2-1. However, the Rangers winning didn't come before one of our former players, and I'm not talking about 'captain clutch', made a mistake that allowed the Lightning to score. Yep that's right Dmitri Kalinin, or as I like to call him THE BUM allowed himself to be faked out by a Lightning player who used the opportunity to score, didn't take Kalinin long to screw his new team over, and as the title of the post claims it's really nice to see things don't change. Because as we all know a player can do really bad here, get traded and on their new team become a world class goal scorer and play maker. It's part of the curse I tell ya, we get screwed over every time, No Goal, Norwide, etc. Although in this case I say good ridance may the door hit you on the way out, ya'll don't come back now ya hear, no seriously, please, never step foot inside our arena again, better yet don't step anywhere in the vicinity of Buffalo. As you can probably tell I don't hold any love for Kalinin because well, how can I put this nicely, he was a waste of air and roster space here in Buffalo and he's obviously going to be the same in New York, but at least now he's their problem let them deal with him.

I was bored and found this and had to share the ridiculousness of it...

So after I was done doing some of my homework I decided to peruse the internet for information about the Sabres, my first stop the Sabres website where I learned that poor Drew has cauliflower ear which is essentially an inflammation of the top part of the ear or the pinna if you want to be technical. If apparently stems from the fight that he was in in last night's game. Cauliflower ear is something that rugby players and boxers get from the headgear that they wear and of course being punched in the head repeatedly.

After the trip to the Sabres website didn't produce any new information other than the cauliflower ear I went to the NHL's website but they apparently didn't have anything new to report either. But I was bound and determined to find something to amuse me so I made my way to Sabres Edge on The Buffalo News' website. There I found information that I had already written on, about how the Sabres sent 8 players to the minors, see last post for info on who. But farther down on the page I encountered this hilarious piece of news, if you want to call it that. Essentially when the Penguins were in Stockholm, Sweden for their game against Ottawa they decided to call off practice and have a scavenger hunt around the city (Because we know it's what all the cool kids are doing these days). Let's just say that I want to see pictures from this scavenger hunt because if the article from the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette is any indication these boys had WAY too much fun with it, engaging in some questionable activities with some poor defenseless moose at the zoo.