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Because I’m sure the Sabres could use a few hundred easy buttons right now, and I’d be willing to spend every last penny that I have to my name on them.
I really need the Sabres to make the playoffs.
Last night during the game I was at work. Now I’ve promised M.J. that I would keep her updated on the games, so I was fulfilling my duty. I told her, when we were down three goals, that I felt like crying.
I’ve only cried over the Sabres twice. Once when Brian Holzinger was traded (I was 7), and again when Brian Campbell was traded (DON’T JUDGE ME).
I really didn’t want last night to be the third time. And it would have been, had it not been one of my coworker’s birthdays, and there was leftover cake. Derek Roy would be so proud of my emotional eating last night.
So what’s left? Toronto? Okay; doable. Carolina? Eek. I’m worried because of the tear they’ve been on lately. And it seems Mike Ryan has a way of making me hate him when teams I like play against him (see, February 10th’s Portland Pirates game against the Albany River Rats). Boston? As I said yesterday, alright.
Really, I have faith that the Sabres can pull off their end of the bargain. Hell, the score might not show it, but they didn’t play all that badly last night in my opinion.
I just could have used a bottle of wine after the game, is all.
The tough part will be to bank on Florida and the Rangers losing both of their games.
New York is up against Montreal and Philly (two games), and Florida versus Philly, Atlanta, and Washington.
I think it can happen.
But… Just in case…
So I had to giggle a little, okay a lot, when I saw that Avery had been suspended because let’s face it, he had it coming. After the crap he pulled against Brodeur last year and all the underhanded, nasty things he’s done to various players I’d say he deserved it. Maybe now he’ll get a full time job at Vogue and leave the hockey world in peace, we’d all be better off without him I’m sure.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the douchebag of the day.
Oh the inhumanity, what is with those glasses and that haircut this why they created shows like What Not To Wear. Somebody call the fashion police because obviously his time at Vogue taught him nothing.
In other news Carolina has relieved Peter Laviolette of his duties as head coach of the Hurricanes, which is just the polite way to say that they fired his ass. I was surprised as hell considering, as all of us here in Buffalo know, the Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup in 2006 with Laviolette as head coach. Management was disappointed that the Hurricanes had started the season 12-11-2 so they decided it was time for something new, or old. Paul Maurice the new head coach is actually an old head coach having been behind the bench as head coach in Carolina from 1995 to 2003. I guess what’s old is new again.
There’s only so many times that my theories can be right… I mean, it’s just not a good sign for the world when I have these crazy ideas, and they actually hold true. IT’S DOWNRIGHT SCARY.
Did I not, yesterday, say that Derek probably pulled his groin while falling on the ground?
Well, my friends, I wasn’t far off. Because, after conferring with dear MJ, we’ve come to the conclusion that D’s latest ailment–BACK SPASMS–were suffered when he allowed his male counterparts (but not teammates) to carry him down Chippewa.
Geez, D, do you get any more predictable? Or outrageous?
Don’t worry, though. I still love you.
And I’m even offering to be your beard. I’ll aide you in your struggle to rebuild your reputation in the Buffalo Sabres Blogosphere, as well as mend your dignity and self-respect. And while I’m at it, I’ll work to remove all threatening pictures of you from the internet, but then proceed to share them with the Blogosphere, because I could never keep something like what we’ve shared the past couple days from them. That’d just be cruel.
You know what else is cruel? The fact that my mother said this: “Cari, we’ll know for sure that Derek’s gay when he starts dating Sean Avery.”
That’s just cruel and unusual…
But, then, would that make D some of my least-favorite fashionista’s “sloppy seconds?”
Avery, by the way, is probably the biggest tool ever known to grace the face of the Earth. That was completely uncalled for.
Oh, and has anyone heard anything about our favorite womanizer/man-whore?

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.
When I opened my mailbox Tuesday evening, I was excited to find my new issue of The Hockey News, for some unknown reason… Oh, wait, TRAINING CAMP STARTS FRIDAAAAYYYY!! Anyways, the individual team reports were focused on the summer vacations of players, coaches, whomever. Let us read: