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Wow who woke up the big bad Bruins. I was watching Lucic in HD drop the gloves in the first five minutes of the game and had to immediately call Chris and give him the detial (he and HOL were present in the Garden for the tilt), I thought it was a pretty good bout and Lucic came out on top. That was soon followed up by Stewart throwing his weight around and pounding people into the boards.
Chris and I will be attending Thursday nights throwdown in the Garden, any other Goons out there, you can be assured we will be at Sully Tap before the game so please join us for a cold one.

In reply to Chris’ most recent post, I wanted to add my 2 cents:

Wondering Point # 1 – Are the Bruins for real?
No they are not and here is why:
• The new starting goalie is on the shelf and could be for an extended period of time as he may need additional knee surgery
• The backup goalie who has stood on his head All season and was among the leaders in goals against average and save % is on the shelf now
• They have 15 guys in their lineup with less than double digit points on the season
• They rank 19th out of 30 teams for total goals for
• They are in second to last place in penalty kill
• The teams they have beaten have a combined record of 133 wins and 149 losses
• The teams they have lost against have a combined record of 136 wins and 103 losses
• They have lost all 4 games vs. Montreal this year being outscored 19-8
• And yes Chara is the most overrated player in the NHL today

Wondering Point # 2 – Claude Julien for coach of the year?
Claude has significantly improved the Bruins, not hard to do after Dave Lewis was at the helm last year. Think about that for a secondthis time last year Dave Lewis was coaching the Boston Bruins!! He has them playing physical, disciplined and smart hockeyto date. It’s early still and we will see how things progress after the holidays. As I have said numerous times in the past, as long as JJ and his Smarty Pants Lucky Sperm Club son are in charge of this team, mediocrity is the best we will get as fans.

Wondering Point # 3 – Is Chris on drugs
Ah yeah Chriswe all know you are!

Can anyone tell me just what the hell is going on in the NHL these days? Seriously, what is up with some of these players? Have they lost their minds? Do they shut the hamster wheel off when they pull on the sweater?

Anyone catch what Mattias Ohlund from Vancouver did the other night to the Wild’s Mikko Koivu?

Sure Koivu tossed a well placed elbow to the side of Ohlund’s head as he was trying to avoid a hit but to swing the stick like Paul Bunyon and break another man’s leg??? I just don’t get it. Ohlund only got suspended 4 games while Koivu is out for much longer than that. Colin Campbell needs to really come down hard on some of these grotesque infractions. These half shield wearing woosies are getting away with murder on the ice. It’s high time the NHL eliminates the instigator rule and allows these boys to police themselves.

In a follow up to the never ending will he play this year or not saga around Bergie, Cam Neely was on WAAF radio this morning and said that the Bruins are preparing to play the entire season without Patrice Bergeron but are hoping he comes back. With the severity of a level 3 concussion, the recovery period is exclusive to each individual who goes through it. It’s not like knee surgery or a pulled hammy that has similar recovery time for everyone.

I would like to wish all Goon Blog loyalists a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Congratulations go out to Dallas center Mike Modano who broke Phil Housley’s NHL record for career points by an American born player last night with two goals in the opening minutes of the Stars’ 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks. The record breaker came when the Sharks were on the power play and Modano scored a short handed goal. If you watch the replay, it almost looks like he fanned on the shot but it slipped past Evgeni Nabokov.

The top 5 now look like this:
# 1 Mike Modano with 1,233 points
# 2 Phil Housley with 1,232 points
# 3 Jeremy Roenick with 1,178 points
# 4 Joe Mullen with 1,063 points
# 5 Pat LaFontaine with 1,013 points

It took Modano 242 fewer regular season games than Housley. Modano has now moved into 35th place on the NHL’s career scoring list. In March of last year, Modano became the American career goal scoring leader. Sitting on the Sharks bench last night to witness this feat was none other than # 3 on the list above JR who is on his own mission for goal # 500 (he is currently at 499). Good luck to JR and continued success to Mike Modano.

Now that the month of SOXtober has come to a close & the Red Sox are the World Champions, I can dedicate myself more to the Goonary of pucks. I apologize for not contributing much the past few weeks but what can I say, I love the Red Sox and haven’t watched alot of pucks. From the sounds of it, I haven’t missed anything.

I attended two playoff games @ Fenway and had tickets for Games 1 & 2 of the World Series but had to pass them up as business called out of state. The first game I attended was game 2 vs. The Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim (quite possibly the longest name of a team in professional sports) on Friday night October 5th. Game time was 8:00 p.m. with a first pitch scheduled for 8:21 p.m. I headed into town with my buddy Rup a few hours before game time to oil up. We settled into 2 great seats within Boston Billiards and proceeded to throw down 22 bevies, a buffalo chicken sandwich and a burger between the two of us. I think Rup had me 12-10 on beers but neither one of us could figure the count out exactly! Good god we were bombed as we made our way into Fenway and to our seats located in the Bleachers.

Remember last year when I talked about the complimentary food I had thanks to a computer malfunction @ Fenway? Well it happened again kinda. After a handful of additional beers in the park I got hungry around the 5th inning, can’t be sure the exact inning as I was totally throttled at this point, so I made my way to the concession stands. I ordered up a slice of pizza from the ridiculously slow employees of Aramark working the concession stands. These oxygen wasters had about as much competency as my 9 month old. After receiving my slice of pepperoni, I had to wait in line to pay for it that was about 15 people deep (it may have only been 3 people but my vision was impaired). Needless to say, I grabbed my pie and headed to the exit not once looking back. That was the best f-n pizza I have ever had, thanks Aramark! An amazing game was played with Manny sending us into the night ecstatic with a walk off HR to win the game off of K-Rod. I even stayed awake during the ride home much to the surprise of Rup.

The next game was game 2 vs. Cleveland on Saturday night October 13th. I met up with my father in law about 30 minutes before game time so needless to say this game was nothing like the Angels game. A few beers, some peanuts and a Fenway frank were on the menu. No FREE food this trip as our seats were in the State Street Pavilion section so the concession lines were short, plus it was freezing cold that night. Schilling pitched ok but ultimately Francona was out-coached by Wedge and the Sox lost in 11 innings. My father in law blew out of the park by the 6th inning. I stayed in my seat, sober, until the final out made around 1:30 a.m. BTW – I was a groomsman in my buddies wedding a few years back and Wedge was in the groomsman party. He might be one of the nicest guys I have ever met and boy does he like Wild Turkey! He is a terrific coach and the fans of Cleveland should be happy he is steering that ship.

I did catch some of the game Tuesday night between the Wild and the Penguins. Was I disappointed when they announced George Laraque was a scratch for this game. I was hoping for was a great fight or two between George and Derek Boogaard. Maybe the B’s game tonight will produce a few fisticuffs.

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox – World Series Champions!

Ok, so like, this is long overdue eh? To answer your question Red Thunder, I have not repeat, NOT kicked my Goon buddies to the curb. I promised an update on where the hell I’ve been at the end of August, and I have not delivered. For that, I apologize. Here’s a quick recap of why I haven’t.

For starters, my Sony piece of shit notebook decided that the copy of Vista Business that is loaded is not genuine. Well, considering I won it from the PC Reseller I work for, and I won it for selling a lot of Microsoft, from the Microsoft rep, I’m pretty fucking sure the copy of Vista is Genuine. As such the little fucker doesn’t work properly and I have been on the phone with Sony so many times, I know all about my support rep’s life. I finally got it straight, and here I am typing away on my piece of shit Sony Vaio. Quick tip. If you are looking at a notebook, stick with Lenovo. I miss my T60, and I am thinking of a way to get it back from MOL. I’m thinking jewelry and a straight up trade for this POS.

So, that’s the reason for the hold up. For once it’s not me being on a bender. Maybe I’m growing up? I know, I know. I couldn’t even type that with a straight face. Considering my absence hasn’t been entirely non bender, and crappy PC related, it was impossible to type with a straight face.

So, where have I been? Well, I had my bachelor party a couple of weeks ago. I’m told it was a lovely time. We went to the Paw Sox, and a couple of peelers. I remember being at the game, and I remember one of the peelers. The other? Not so much. I have been hearing all the stories about how I could not stand under my own power, and the second anyone took a hand off my shoulder, I started falling forward. I guess the boys made a game of it.as they should have. I do know I woke up in a bed by myself, and was hungover for two days. Great times. I really appreciate all the boys coming, and taking care of me when I was hammered.

MOL and I have been looking for a house too. So, on top of planning a wedding, working, and my general lack of sobriety, we are trying to find a place to live. We had an offer in on a place, but it fell through. We had another offer in on a place, and that fell through as well. For now, we will pull back until October 1 when we get back from the honeymoon.

Speaking of MOL, her bachelorette party was a couple of weeks ago. I dropped her off, and Rich and I went to a bar. We drank several pictures of Miller Lite, and watched a Red Sox no-no. Then we met up with a bunch of drunken girls in the city. He needed to get a lift back with his wife, and I was supposed to get MOL. Trouble is, they weren’t exactly ready to leave, so I ended up in the mix. Luckily one of the girls wasn’t drinking and was able to drive us all home. Good times.

We also managed a weekend up at the lake with Bobby. We went for a couple of boat rides, and drank a bunch of brew. Then we hit the town, and slept in a tent in the back of Bob’s truck. It was a great weekend too. So, that’s where I’ve been. I hope everyone had a great summer. I for one am psyched Camps open this week, because I need some hockey real bad. 13 days until I go pro boys. Wish me luck!

The Sabres got screwed last night in New York. With 17 seconds left in the game and trailing by 1, Briere got a loose puck from behind the net and tried to stuff it in. In real time, it looked like Lundqvist was able to slide his right goal pad across the cage to make the spectacular save. Upon further review in slow motion, it did seem like the puck had slid past the line and into the net for a game tying goal before Lundqvist’s right pad knocked it out. I spoke to Chris about this and he felt that it was not a goal. I reminded him that he was drunk and can’t see the remote 3′ from him let alone a black puck on the Plasma 10′ away.

With the advancement in technology, how can the NHL not have a goal cam in the right location? Today they stick some bulky camera on a swivel right behind the goalies ass in the middle of the net. What type of view does that give us in the crucial situations? The posts that the nets are made out of are hollow. How about installing cameras inside them with a fixed angle on the line? You could install one on each side post and another pointing down form the crossbar. Hey if this scumbag Michael Tarallo can hide a camera in his shoe, why can’t the NHL get some small high quality cameras in the posts?

I think the NHL does a great job with reviewing plays, with not only a local reviewer inside the arena but also they have guys in Toronto reviewing plays. They dropped the ball last night.

As Chris was home staring at his Plasma Sunday night watching hockey, I was fortunate enough to be @ Fenway for the Sox vs. Yankees series sweep game. Chris was in fact the only person east of Pittsburgh who watched the Detroit Calgary game. I think if you took a poll that night, more than ¾ of the earth’s population would not know there was a hockey game. That in itself is troublesome but hey what do you expect with Bettman running things?

The night started out with a few Bud’s in the car ride in followed by a pleathora more @ Copperfields next door to Fenway. You could feel the electricity in the air as both Sox and Yankees fans were all gassed up and ready for a battle. I long for the days of the Garden and Causeway Street having this same energy another time during my life but since the Bruins MGMT. team is completely incompetent, I don’t see this happening. I guess now I know what it’s like to be a Panthers or a Blue Jackets fan. No wonder why they drink so much in those places. What the hell do they have to look forward to anyway?

Me and three of my buddies finally make our way into Fenway after some solid effort put in over at Copperfields. I did run into my buddy J-Bone, who is a stellar goalie in his own right, at Copperfields. He was pretty horrified when I yelled over to him with 3 beers in my hand as he was entertaining clients. Sorry J-Bone my bad! Some of you may know from attending games @ Fenway but let’s just say if you want to purchase any food or beverage, you better have robbed a Brinks truck. Bottled water is $6.25, not that I was drinking any of that but Christ that is a joke. Here is where things get good for Killer. As I made my way through a food line, the nerd behind the counter tells me that the register is broken but that I could grab my food here and I could go about 15′ over to the next register to pay for it. I look around and notice pure chaos as boozed up baseball fans are everywhere. I proceed to grab as much food as my hands could carry and meander out of site, strategically missing that register. Yes I did something wrong and I feel shamed but you know what? That was the best pizza, chicken sandwich, cheeseburger and 2 hot dogs I have ever had!! Now only if that could happen at the beer line.

Before I can even spit out my first peanut shell, Dice-K plunks A-Hole and then follows that one up by plunking Kweeter. I couldn’t be happier or more bombed. I highly recommend attending any Sox vs. Yankees game with as much alcohol in your system as possible. As the middle part of the third inning arrived, I considered taking a piss break but opted to stick around. Thank god I did as history was about to occur.

In an electrifying sequence, the Red Sox briefly turned the game into batting practice, tying a Major League record with four consecutive home runs against Yankees lefty Chase Wright. Manny Ramirez put the dramatic power show in motion, then it was J.D. Drew’s turn followed by Mike Lowell and finally Jason Varitek was the fourth Red Sox hitter in a row bombing one into the Monster Seats to put the Sox in front in the most dramatic fashion imaginable. As Dicky V says so eloquently – That was Awesome Baby! In the end, Papelbon closed out the victory by getting A-Hole to ground to Lowell at third base: 7-6 Sox win and a sweep of the Yankees. Not quite as exciting as the hockey game Chris watched but pretty close.

So far, I would give the Stanley Cup Playoffs a solid B-. The Vancouver / Dallas series was flat out terrific. Not sure how much gas Vancouver has left in the tank but if Luongo keeps making spectacular play after play, they may make a run. Let me re-peat that I still HATE Ottawa and hope they get blown out by New Jersey. The battle of NY between the Sabres and Rangers looks even on paper but I don’t see how the Sabres can survive the physical play. Detroit and San Jose is the heavyweight battle. The Red Wings fell asleep for a few games against Calgary and if they aren’t careful San Jose will send em home early. Who will lift Lord Stanley? Stay tuned.

I am watching today’s Bruins third period collapse a new man. MOL and I have been rivals since Junior. I owe her one, and she owes me a couple. We have gone toe to toe countless times over the years. Win some lose some I guess. With all that history in mind, I have decided to draft her first overall. She’s got wheels, reach, size and strength. It makes sense for the club. So, MOL will soon be known as Mrs. MOL. Do you think a Slap Shot themed wedding would be a little over the top?