Posted in Spoked B Airlines April 5th, 2008
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Good morning and welcome to Spoked B Airlines, official home of the Bruins playoffs hopes and…holy crap, folks…for the first time since 2004, we made it!
A hard fought battle in Ottawa cinched it last night and there’s still one more stopover in Buffalo to determine where our next playoff destination is. Your humble pilot is up for any city but, frankly, I’d love to avoid Montreal where, recently, we’ve had power problems with the plane. I mean, honestly, you know how you hear those stories about when a UFO flies over someone’s car and all their power goes out? It’s been like that over Montreal recently. Freaky.
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Posted in Spoked B Airlines April 4th, 2008
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Good evening folks, and welcome again to Spoked B Airlines, your official airline of the Boston Bruins playoff hopes.
Sorry for the turbulence back there. We were able to pick up some speed going through Toronto and Ottawa before bouncing around a bit over Buffalo and Newark, all that despite taking some heavy damage to our right wing which is going to take several weeks to repair. That and, despite losing one of our engines earlier this year due to being unnecessarily slammed around in Philadelphia, our highest performance engine also appears to have also conked out. We hope to have that one up and running pretty soon but in the meantime we’ve been pretty damn impressed with this neat-o Czech “Krejci” model engine that we’ve been using as a fill-in.
Still, while we’re on course, it’s going to take some more muscle to make it to the playoffs. Due up next are stops in Ottawa and Buffalo. Fortunately, it looks like Ottawa has lost some weaponry over in the Alfredsson section of the city so we have a better chance of making it through unscathed.
So hang on tight, we’ve got a damn good chance of making it to the playoffs for the first time since the lockout. Remember, the air bags are directly in front of you. If the choppy ride doesn’t get to you, the painfully contrived metaphors will.
Posted in Spoked B Airlines March 25th, 2008
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Good evening folks, and welcome again to Spoked B Airlines, your official airline of the Boston Bruins playoff hopes.
Boy, it looks like we we’ve been sputtering along in the skies for almost a month now, haven’t we? We were cruising along in February but, once again, the month of March has left this bird in a questionable state. Of course, it didn’t help that the airline owner decided NOT to do anything to improve this plane since last year and the GM who runs this place apparently only checks in on it every couple of weeks (apparently something about family and work and whiiiinnne WHHIINNNNE whhiiiiiinnne).
Those French-speaking bastards from Montreal once again strafed our wings over the weekend but at least we finally hit SOMETHING in our return fire. There’s seven more cities to fly over before we find out our future and two of them involve the surging Leafs in the next week.
Stay tuned and remember, the air sickness bags are located directly in front of you.
Posted in Recaps March 4th, 2008
Ouch.
It figures. Everything’s going well, the Bruins win their last six games, Dennis Wideman’s defensive woes haven’t been as obvious, and then this.
And to make matters worse, when prompted by a Caps blog on Sunday for a quote about tonight’s game, I go mouthing off. So, as it turns out there ARE other people on the Caps roster aside from Ovechkin. Like Nicklas Backstrom and Matt Cooke and Matt Bradley and Brooks Laich and even Donald frigging Brashear. It got so bad that, at the 8:29 mark of the 1st period, I was looking for the “reset” button on my Sega because that was about the last time I saw a Bruins game get so out of control, so fast. Way for me to give the opposing team something to post in their locker room.
If there are any positives to take out of this, one is the time-worn cliche that a 10-2 loss means the same in the standings as a 3-1 loss. And given their recent winning ways, this game can written off as an anomaly. So lets just pretend this never happened, coax Thomas and Auld out of their fetal positions in the corner, and just focus on Tuesday’s game in Florida.
Besides, who do the Panthers have on their roster besides Olli Jokinen?
Personal notes:
- I actually got to watch this game in near-real time! (slightly delayed since it was on my DVR and I got home an hour late). I’ve actually been able to watch the midnight replays on NESN recently since I splurged on DirecTV’s sports package that lets me see non-game NESN programming. Of course, it wasn’t a full blown “Center Ice” package splurge…just a little one…kind of like hopping into the shallow end holding my hose and wearing a ducky inner tube.
- I even drank a beer! I think I only have five Samuel Adams’ Octoberfest beers left from the fall and dammit if I didn’t drink one of them. If I’m lucky, I’ll have the Winter Lagers finished off by July. I never thought I’d say this, but I really need to drink more. And with another Bruins effort like the one last night, I see the pace picking up quickly.
Posted in Transactions February 28th, 2008
In what should come as a surprise to no one, Chiarelli made no movement before the trade deadline, similar to his approach in this past offseason. (with some Manny Fernandez guy being the exception)
Speaking of trade deadlines, it was somewhat amusing to see California Brad Stuart and his sun-loving wife traded from Los Angeles to Detroit. Let us know how the February surf is on Lake Michigan, won’t you Braddy boy?
In other news, John Paddock…former Chiarelli associate in Ottawa and once a consideration as Dave Lewis’ replacement…was fired from the head coaching job of the struggling Senators.
