good god. the buffalo ottawa game tonight was THE best game i have ever been to. dear lord what a ridiculous game. if you don’t know anything about hockey, or don’t care, you can skip this post….
absolutely ridiculous. it was my last regular season game, and i really was expecting the usual boring game vs ottawa. after the 1st period it looked like it. we get into the 2nd, and vanek scores 2 goals. then suddenly, drury is on the ice bleeding, alot. stafford went after neil who apparently had done the damage. and the drury thing was so so scary because he’s on the ice bleeding, tried to get up, and fell over. so scary. he walked off the ice, so, phew. next face off, lindy sent out all the goons, peters, mair and a new guy brought up to fill in for whoever last got hurt. puck drops and peters goes after someone, head locks him to the ice. so everyone’s going nuts and suddenly everyone on the ice is fighting. then we notice biron and emery going toward eachother. goalie fight!! it was absolutely ridiculous. so biron is getting beat, they’re finally separated and peters goes after emery and kicks his ass. dear lord. what seemed like hours later, the officials get everything settled, peters gets ejected, which was expected. then they ejected biron AND emery! LOL when play finally resumed miller and gerber were in the nets, peters and mair had instigating penalties (so a 5 on 3), and buffalo had 8 players on the bench – most of them from rochester! ridiculous is the only word i can use to describe it. the crowd was nuts, everyone was on their feet yelling for a good 10 minutes. my voice is shot, my hands hurt so bad from clapping. just unbelievable. ottawa managed to tie it at 5, we go to overtime, and then to a shootout that went to 4 shooters. this game had everything! finally got to see a shoot out, it was awesome. best. game. ever. so exciting. 110 minutes in penalties.
so after game interviews – biron was hilarious, as always, talking and talking. when asked how he thought he did he said, i held on for dear life, and didn’t get hit in the face. hahahahahahah emery’s interview was pretty good i thought, he didn’t talk trash about the whole thing, like ottawa’s coach did, he was honest. he said it’s a part of hockey, to stick up for your players, and how ottawa’s coach has probably done the same thing as lindy in the past, and how it’s healthy for the game. i thought it was pretty good. ottawa’s coach thinks buffalo deserves suspensions, and lindy said he was proud of his team and how they responded.
the guys who sit next to us called people during the whole thing to find out about drury and the fight. he found out that apparently lindy ruff was yelling to the ottawa bench “if you’re gonna fucking take out my captain i’m going to fucking kill you” LOL
all phill and i could say was, dear lord if this was against toronto half of the audience would have been ejected too. luckily there didn’t seem to be many ottawa fans in the crowd, so we didn’t see any fan fights, but we really weren’t paying attention to the fans hehe
but we have yet another injured player. that brings the total up to 7 injuries in the last 6 games. again, ridiculous.
so anyone looking to see this, it was #1 on sportscenter, and i’ll be searching youtube for it (nothing yet). i want to hear jenneret’s call hahah (it was just on the radio, so fabulous!). oh you can watch highlights on espn.com, emery is smiling and laughing through the whole fight. in his interview he did say he thought it was fun.
and we play ottawa again on saturday…..