There are brooms on Broadway tonight and it’s not for a ticker tape parade in honor of the Rangers. The $10 bet I placed for a certain friend (sorry, Big D) was good money after bad hockey. Never been so happy to lose a Hamilton.
Devils 4, Rangers 2. Devils [...]
Archive of entries posted on April 2006
Brooms on Broadway
Flying and Foofing
Phonetic phun with Dion Phaneuf is the latest phad in hockey coverage. The big Calgary rookie has turned heads — both sportswriters and some unprepared opposing wingers who were on the wrong end of a phreakin’ hit. Last night, though, Phaneuf was a playoff rookie, and it showed. Certainly [...]
Another Manic Monday
As has been the case for the past few weeks, I’m on the way to California. Cranking up the Audioslave – Out of Exile on the tune machine, and reading email in the airport lounge, I spot today’s Star Ledger with our dear Patrik on the banner, his second front-page appearance in less than [...]
Pure Six, Elias Nejlepsi
Game one commentary, literally, “Elias is the best”. At least the number 1 star of the game, for being part of every one of the Devils’ six goals today. Six points – two by Mr. Czech Republic (Elias, not Jagr, dear readers), and four assists. The Devils even [...]
Picture Perfect Ending
What an end to the Devils’ regular season. After being 19 points behind the Rangers, they win the Atlantic Division title in the last game of the year, in the 3rd period, coming back from a 3-goal deficit. The Rangers lost, the Flyers didn’t matter, and the Devils are given [...]
Matzah, Mishegas and Meadowlands
It was all there in one big package today: peanut butter and jelly on matzah sandwiches, hand-carried through security at the Meadowlands, to watch the Devils absolutely dismantle the Flyers. We were breaking so many game-going traditions I was a bit worried we might induce the evil eye: I wasn’t wearing my Gomez [...]
A-Rod and 10 Year Olds
Yesterday was one of those very cool days when things just seemed to go right. Unless you were wearing pinstripes in the Metrodome, in which case they went wrong at the wrong times.
We had our first Little League game yesterday, after losing a week to rain and school vacations. After opening up [...]
Happy Birthday Patrik
Happy 30th Birthday, Patrik Elias. Welcome to unrestricted free agency. Under the new collective bargaining agreement, the age for UFA drops to 30 years old as of July 1st, and Patrik glides in like a Little Leaguer who gains an another year of eligibility under the new age rules.
With last week’s [...]
Playoff Dreams
All of the sudden, the Devils are playing like a team possessed by the, uh, Devil. Or at least by Lou Lamoriello. Nice win over Buffalo, big win in Ottawa and today they took care of Philly in the City of Brotherly Battery-Filled Snowballs. First time the Devils have won [...]
