Both the Eastern and Western Conference Finals have begun! The Eastern Conference teams, the Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Islanders, have moved three provinces over from the comfort of the Toronto bubble to Edmonton. Each series has one game down, with the Dallas Stars and the Tampa Bay Lightning striking first. The two series after the first game couldn’t be any different.
The Stars (and not the Tsars as I originally typed) scored the game winning goal early in the first, at 2:36 from defenseman John Klingsberg. Anton Khudobin seems to have the hot glove and must be loving this playoff run. His teammates must also love him because not only is he pure joy personified, he also likes to be helpful.
my grown son anton khdobin pic.twitter.com/Qej1LTCgnf
— Dylan Nadwodny (@dnadders) January 16, 2019
And this is why the @DallasStars players love playing hard for Anton Khudobin pic.twitter.com/uQLA59opg8
— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) September 7, 2020
I chalk that helpfulness up to be a Taurean trait as I also like to be helpful; Dobby and I have birthdays a day apart.
Anyway, he stopped all the shots (25) and he’ll likely be in net again tonight.
As for the NYI – TBL series, that first game was a doozy. It started off alright with each team swapping a goal. Then, it got ugly. Any self-respecting hockey fan turned off that game after the first period when the Isles went down 3-1. Thomas Greiss left the game after 10:46, allowing 3 goals on 9 shots. Semyon Varlamov wasn’t much better, allowing the 5 goals on 25 shots. Well, yeah, .800 > .667 but really the Lightning were slaughtering the Isles. Also, producing only 2 goals for (Jordan Eberle, Nick Leddy) doesn’t help your goalie, guys.
While I want the Lightning to fail and return home sad and beaten, I’m not sure that’s in the cards. The Isles need to find their physical game again. The Stars – Golden Knights series may turn out to be the more interesting one to watch even if the score is low. either way, I have only 1 of the 4 teams in my bracket at this point so let chaos reign!
Happy Star Trek Day!
It’s not…. logical
That reminds me, there’s a Spock hoodie I’ve been meaning to order.
So far today I’ve banged my knee on my end table and spilled my cup of tea.
Wow, quit while you’re ahead!
Nugget just looked at me like “can you please get your shit together, I’m trying to nap here.”
Yeah, I get that look, too. Mostly from IW.
So you know what’s really fun? My license has exoired. I tried renewing it months ago but the state was like “Woah, Nellie! You’ve got to slow your roll! We can’t possibly be doing anything like that right now.” Then they sent me a letter which basically said what I already knew and I forgot about it, until today. It’s convenient that I thought about it today since it appranetly expired on Saturday. Oh, and anywhere I can make an appointment for this is booked up until two weeks from now. So, yeah, it’s all great.
The online thing is tough to navigate, but I suck at tech… can you renew online?
Not really. You can generate the paperwork you need for the renewal but the actual renewal has to be in person. They’re setting it up for REAL ID although they aren’t giving that out at this time. In the future, i.e. 2021, I will be able to get the update REAL ID with fees waived.
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Our Pups & Pucks calendar tells me that it is National Hug Your Hound Day.
I can’t help but think it may be biased. Not taking any chances.
I only have a puck..
Morning all. Boo, back to work after a nice two days of doing next to nothing. Dream last night involved parking lots, Formula 1 cars, and baby elephants.
I love Dobby.
I dig his embrace of the nickname:
(LOL at the guy who doesn’t get it)
Hey Pals!
Conference Finals! Allright! We did the self respecting hockey fan thing at 3 – 1. I thought the Flyers would match up with TB better than the Isles….. Barry Trotz may have something to say about that, we’ll have to wait and see.
I love Dobby and am over disliking Seguin, but the Stars have Corey Perry…. very hard to like that guy. Radulov is not on my Christmas card list, either.
Boatercross next Saturday. I did a test run in my secret weapon – a 90’s era boat that is long and fast. Waited until most boaters were well down the river so they didn’t see Big Blue. Looks like as many as 40 boaters participating this year. Also, a separate class for rafts this year…. that should be spectacular!!! Oh the carnage!!!
Can’t wait to see Boatercross footage! Good luck with Big Blue!
Go Big Blue!
I’m rooting for the Stars now. I have a friend who’s endured a lot and he likes the Stars.
Khudobin is the one player I can really root for among those still playing….. so maybe look past Corey Perry?? Grrrr, maybe.
Can’t stand Perry. Hate his game. What he did to Ellis in the early part of the Winter Classic was dirty and he was rightfully ejected from the game. Imagine not being able to clean up your game for a nationally broadcast, “exhibition” game that counted in teh standings. What a dick.
I want to like the Stars – I’m well over the Seguin thing, have been pro-dobby for a while, but then I remember Radulov, and have a seed of discontent and Perry pushes me into “FFS!”
I’m still rooting for them to win it all (cuz screw Tampa)
Yeah, fuck those guys!