Got 26 dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington 125
feelin’ sick and dirty
for a day and a life
FACEOFF: 2pm Central
TV/RADIO: NBC/WIND-560am
THOUGHT THEY WERE JAMES DEAN FOR A DAY: Hockey Wilderness
WHERE WE’LL BE, AND YOU SHOULD BE: Sheffield’s in Lakeview
A lot of people have asked or wondered aloud whether Game 1 was Minnesota’s best punch and if they’re now out of answers. I’ve always thought that we’ll see Minnehaha’s best punch today. This is the first playoff game at Excel Energy Center since well before this blog existed, and you know that crowd is going to baying for blood from the word go (assuming they can get out from the snow).
With that in mind, the more conservative approach we’ve seen from the Wild in this series, at least to start games, is probably not going to be in evidence in the opening frame this time. Expect the Wild to come out flying, getting the puck behind the Hawks defense and then trying to sacrifice those same d-men to Mayan gods against the end boards. It’s almost certainly going to be frantic and pressured. Cal Clutterbuck might spontaneously combust.
I know we only post a video in a wrap for a very certain occasion, but this felt apt. Whereas the Wild caused a few half-heart flutters in Game 1, this one very much felt like a boat race. Once Michael Frolik — and perhaps from here on out he should be referred to by his full name, “Playoff Dynamo Michael Frolik” — put the Hawks ahead in the first, there was never a moment where it felt like the Wild would catch them. And that’s how it played out.
Four games for you to discuss. What have ya got?
Yeah, you might still be nursing a hangover from your Derby party — if people still have those. But a Sunday afternoon calls for beers and BBQ….and playoff hockey of course.
So we’ll be at Sheffield’s Sunday for Game 3 against the Wild. There’s going to be a few specials on Two Brothers and Lagunitas beer ($20 buckets of Outlaw, $4 pints of Lagunitas and Two Brothers.. maybe more), and I don’t see how you can resist that. With the game at 2, you can even time it to miss out on any Cubs pregame crowd, and scare the shit out of them when they return after that game!
Come on out, these have been a blast so far this year.
There’s B’s-Leafs, Isles-Pens, and Nucks-Sha-arks later to discuss. Have at it.
Oh wait, we were only supposed to make Replacements and Husker Du references. Oh well.
Now that we’ve sized up the Wild on every level, it’s time we predict how we think it all plays out. I do this with the caveat that last year, I wrote, “I can’t see how so many people are picking Phoenix. I think the Hawks win, and I don’t think it’ll be that hard.” Whoops.
It’s playoff tradition around these parts. For those who may be new to our little thing here, John Druce was a middling third liner for the Caps in the ’89-’90 season. But then the playoffs hit, and Druce from out of nowhere came up with 14 goals in 15 playoff games after scoring only 8 in 45 regular season games.
So who do you think is going to emerge from the dark and be the talk of the town?
You may have noticed it over the weekend. You may be noticing it now. But look at that menu bar there. The black one. See that tab all the way to the right, next to the search bar? Yep, it’s true, we have an online store!
We’re doing a presale for some basic items now, just in time for the playoffs! We’ll be adding more and more designs as we go along, but get in now and get decked out in our logo. Hey, there’s going to be a lot of bandwagoners over the next couple months (hopefully), so why not stand out from the crowd and show you’re in the know by wearing our shit? Exactly!
We’ll move toward the back for the Wild, and this is where the major cracks for them begin to show. The Wild’s blue line corps is kind of like a muffin. Scrape off the tasty top, and you’re left with a flavorless hunk of not much with the rest that you’d really rather just chuck in the trash. At least that’s what I’m told. I don’t eat muffins.
