Eff you too, Modano

Dear Wild,
I'm writing to you because I'm cranky. Losing to the by far best team in hockey after winning for most of the game sucked, but whatever, I shook that one off. Having Mike Modano night irritated me due to intense dislike of Mr. Modano, but I can see where you guys are coming from on that one. The final straw is following this up with a 1-0 loss to the Stars without their #1 goalie. Unacceptable. Losing to the Islanders would cause me to have a very bad week in hockey, and you don't want that to happen. I will make my wrath felt even from all the way out here. Capice? Do the words "tight division race and playoff hunt" mean anything to you? Well they should. Everyone is making the playoffs these days, even Phoenix.

Irritatedly yours,
Kirsten

PS, Bomber, you have clearly scored the perfect job for yourself. Keep up the good work, buddy!

Stupid Lebda

Brett Lebda fails at life. The game was going so well up until about a minute left in the game when the effing Wings tied it up. Then OT came around, and I found out that Center Ice Online has not fixed their 15 second delay problem. The only good thing I have to say about Detroit is that their announcers are better than ours on FSN. Final score: 3-2 Wings. Goals by Rolston and Demitra for the Wild, and then for the Wings the Albino German (Franzen), Dude we really would like for our team (Cleary), and the big, fat jerk all had goals.

Game Notes:

• There was a scrum around the net, and Datsyuk and Koivu went to the box. How random to see THOSE two get match penalties. I think Zetterdouche deserved one too.


• Babcock looks like a jerk. End of story.


• "Hasek stoned Gaborik several times without trying to kill him" -Steph


• Backstrom was looking pretty sharp, though a bit too busy for my taste.


• Datsyuk's head is really, really funny shaped
• Mikko Koivu continued his Personal Streak of Awesomeness with the aforementioned scrum.
  

Around the league:

• Leafs got embarassed 8-0 by the Panthers. Yeah that's right. The Panthers.


• Montreal beat the Sens, though it was getting a little iffy at the end. The Sens scored a couple late to make it 4-3.


• Kings doubled up on the Rangers 4-2.


• Anaheim won. Boo.

Up next: the Stars (double boo) at the X. Should be a good game, but hopefully it will be like the game I saw, not the one I forced myself to watch most of on TV. Time to make Turco back into an angry starfish. I'll allow Niskanen to have a goal as long as the Wild win.

**EDIT*** Go and check out No Pun Intended. Steph has expressed the game with YouTube.