- Ottawa Senators (2-3-1), tonight
- Montreal Canadiens (5-0-1), tomorrow
- Columbus Blue Jackets (3-3-0), Monday
Anyways, in lieu of anything analytical, here's a nice Friday poem to get you through next Monday. Enjoy!
Ode to the Road TripGo Ducks.
O h for the glory of two playoffs ago,
T aking Lord Stanley away from Big O.
T rue, going in the Sens seemed like a beast,
A lfie, Spezz, Heater – they ripped through the east!
W hile both teams have since seen some talent get scattered,
A t least we can say that we won when it mattered.
M on dieu! Les Canadiens, a hearty “whassup?”
O ne hundred years old? I’d better speak up.
N ow I know that SoCal isn’t Original Six,
T hus you probably can’t stand us insufferable pricks,
R eally what scares me is the Habs’ power play,
E specially if the Ducks think penalties are OK,
A nd while fans will drink at the game and in bars,
L et’s not go crazy and start burning cop cars.
C an I keep up this rhyming for one more damn stanza?
O f course! Time for some Blue Jacket bonanza!
L ast NHL team to feel postseason pride,
U gh! They’re still a thorn in the Ducks’ side.
M aybe it’s travel or maybe it’s fate,
B ut the Jackets have sure been tougher of late.
U sually I end with some nonsense prediction
S o Pahlsson scores ‘em all; 3-0 perfection!
Strong, until you tried to rhyme perfection and prediction.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was definitely tailing off. My first draft has prediction rhyming with Pahlsson, so I at least moved on from that.
ReplyDeleteI was kind of hoping nobody would read it through to the end :)
Hey, I've gotta write a poem for my English 1 class for Tuesday. Any chance I can borrow this one?
ReplyDelete..The word verification for this post for me is "progr". Fuck Pronger!
Feel free to steal away, our copyright rules are nonexistent here at BoC. Although apparently, you may want to re-write the last two lines :)
ReplyDeleteif we lose all three you can do a Ducks version of "The Raven" when you return
ReplyDeleteSweet.
ReplyDeleteif we lose all three you can do a Ducks version of "The Raven" when you return
ReplyDeleteQuoth the Duck: "Positivity!"
Yeah, we'll see what I do upon a return. At best the Ducks will have fought back to .500, and I don't want to think about the worst just yet.
I'm actually not that averse to a 1-2 record over the three games, because with a 3-7 record I'd definitely make a mock-up of this movie poster, with a decimal point conveniently inserted to reflect the team's winning percentage.
Well done! *applauds
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the last two lines of the Montreal poem.
When you think about it, we really shouldn't lose any of these games. The only real threat is Montreal, but we beat San Jose, so teams with great records don't really scare me.
ReplyDeleteThe only real threat is Montreal
ReplyDeleteReally, I'm most scared of Columbus. For some reason, most of the kick-to-the-groin games I can think of in recent years have come from the damn Blue Jackets.
Plus they're hidden on the back of a crazy Canadian trip, where they can be easily overlooked.
How the hell did Marchant score that craziness?
ReplyDeleteHow the hell did Marchant score that craziness?
ReplyDeleteI don't know because NHL GameCenter Live hates me. What happened?
An Ottawa defenseman (Kuba, I think) was catching the puck out of the air by the blue line and on its way down Marchant knocked it back in the air and it sneaked right past Auld. I don't think Marchant was even thinking of it as a shot, and I'm surprised it didn't go out of the rink.
ReplyDeleteAnd now, Pahlsson's scored. Leading scorer Rob Niedermayer! :)
*blink blink*
ReplyDeleteA power play goal? By Getzlaf?
My TV must be broken.
Woohoo! My internet feed is driving me crazy, but the little blips that I'm getting are making me happy! A power play goal! By a top 6 forward! Woohoo!
ReplyDeleteTop of the line sir.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap.
ReplyDeleteThis feels like a Franky Rodriguez save. Nothing like drama!
ReplyDeleteHee. They were playing GOB's magic show music @ Scotiabank.
ReplyDeletePhew, survival.
Positivity!
ReplyDeleteThis game, btw, is why I'm not a believer in the GWG statistic. Getzlaf will get one for scoring the goal that made it 4-0, and it only turned out later that it was important.
I'd rather they just showed tie-breaking goals; goals scored when the score was even.
This game, btw, is why I'm not a believer in the GWG statistic. Getzlaf will get one for scoring the goal that made it 4-0, and it only turned out later that it was important.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather they just showed tie-breaking goals; goals scored when the score was even.
Yeah, the GWG stat doesn't make much sense, esp in situations like this. But since there would be so many tie-breaking goals, scored in so many situations, would that stat tell us very much more than GWG?
Also, I went back and had to replay the Marchant goal 3 times before I understood what happened. In the post-goal celebratory huddle, Beauchemin has the funniest "what the hell just happened?" look on his face. You can read his lips saying, "Wow."
But since there would be so many tie-breaking goals, scored in so many situations, would that stat tell us very much more than GWG?
ReplyDeleteIt would tell us who a coach trusts in a tie game, and with more data points I think it would be a more reliable gimmick towards "clutch". I dunno, it's not something I'm terribly antsy for, but I wouldn't mind it.
The French in the Montreal one is a nice touch.
ReplyDeleteHee. They were playing GOB's magic show music @ Scotiabank.
The Final Countdown. I guess it was appropriate given the timing :P
I'm so glad I decided to self-medicate during the game (read: booze. lots of it).
Yeah, that's about the extent of my French.
ReplyDeleteSorry you had to turn to the bottle, Sherry, but look at the bright side (my specialty lately). The Sens scored one goal better than the last time the Ducks were in Ottawa.
The Final Countdown. I guess it was appropriate given the timing :P
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sherry! Now I see that it was appropriate. That song is such a Pavlovian trigger for me now.
And just a general FYI, in cased anyone missed the point of the poem, it's cleverly got three city names hidden within.
ReplyDeleteI try to make it obvious, but maybe people read too fast.
Earl, you crack me up. Did anything in particular prompt the PSA?
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends tried to razz me for poor poetry form -- not having the same number of lines in each stanza.
ReplyDeleteI had to tell him that it was Ottawa's fault for not having enough letters in their city name.
SENATORS - should have gone with that for Ottawa's poem.
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