Errey Blog

Relocating

2011-11-20T11:36:00.001-05:00

The blog is relocating to Twitter, @ErreyBlog. Hopefully that format will be more conducive to my laziness and will actually have updates...

1/5/2011; Pens vs. Lightning

2011-01-05T19:12:00.002-05:00

"He's got a spear. He's not in there fly fishing."

Pens vs. Ky-Oats; 12/20/2010

2010-12-20T19:12:00.003-05:00

"I might have hats raining down on me again...then I can bring home Christmas presents!"

"The Penguins are like a pack of ky-oats right now...feasting on their own."

Pens vs. Leafs; 12/8/2010

2010-12-08T21:34:00.001-05:00

"Muhammad Aulie he is not right there!"

Pens Vs. Rangers; 11/29/2010

2010-11-29T21:12:00.002-05:00

"Michalek sucks in a lot of pucks. He's like a Hoover."

Special note is needed to remember Steiggy singing Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night" in reference to Avery's picture...

Pens vs. Senators; 11/26/2010

2010-11-26T14:18:00.002-05:00

"Sergei Gonchar doesn't have the green jacket yet...minus-12...but he's certainly in the running."

Pens vs. Canucks; 11/17/2010

2010-11-17T22:35:00.001-05:00

"Luongo's like a polar bear in net!"

"You can't take your foot off the snake!"

"The Sedin's have that beat. They lived under the same roof."

Pens vs. Lightning; 11/12/2010

2010-11-13T12:25:00.001-05:00

In lieu of an Errey quote (due to missing part of the game and watching the rest at a bar), I leave you with an overheard quote from some slore walking down Forbes Avenue in Oakland:

"I want you to get some action tonight, but you get action every weekend..."

Pens vs. Bruins; 11/10/2010

2010-11-10T19:02:00.002-05:00

What are the odds on Errey saying of Tim Thomas at some point tonight: "He Tuukka the job back!"?

"Brent Johnson has stoled the show!"

On Malkin: "I thought the circus left town!"

"Tim Thomas looking through the prison bars or something there...it's like he was caught..."

Pens vs. Lightning; 10/27/2010

2010-10-27T19:35:00.003-04:00

"Pascal Dupuis is banging on the [penalty box] door saying 'keep me in! Keep me in!'"

Pens vs. Nashville; 10/21/2010

2010-10-21T21:34:00.002-04:00

How many Tootoo puns were made tonight?

"Well Nashville's got Brooks and Dunn, Pittsburgh's got Crosby and Malkin!"

"Cheater cheater pumpkin eater!"

Pens vs. Ottawa; 10/18/2010

2010-10-18T20:12:00.003-04:00

Updates are back, but will now be less accurate due to the lack of a DVR...which also may hinder my ability to update for every game. Whatever. Enjoy.

"The ice is frozen, but it's almost like it was...a pool...with the way they were swimming around."

"He escaped out of there backwards like a hummingbird! It's like when you try to catch a fly, Steiggy!"

Re: Kunitz

2009-10-29T10:06:00.004-04:00

3 ASS = 1 GOAL

I thought we should all remember and treasure that fact...

2009-2010

2009-10-19T20:51:00.002-04:00

Errey Blog is on an indefinite hiatus due to work/school overload. Might be back for the second half of the season, might not. We'll see. I'll put up anything mind-blowing. Other than that, hiatus.

With that, I leave you my favorite quote of the year to this point:

"I love stuff. Don't you?"

No words...

2009-06-15T19:14:00.001-04:00

Wait...what? Pt. 2

2009-06-06T23:26:00.001-04:00

Anyone else think Datsyuk gave Pierre McGuire a handjob after hearing this quote?

"His hand skills are excessive!"

Wait...what?

2009-05-03T20:28:00.001-04:00

Pierre McGuire: "I think about the thickness of Brian Trottier."

Playoffs

2009-04-23T16:48:00.002-04:00

In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm taking the playoffs off as I'd rather just watch the games and enjoy them without having to worry about writing/typing stuff down. That and I've ended up watching the games in a lot of random places.

Side note:
How did Mike Green get nominated for the Norris Trophy? I thought you had to play defense to be considered the best defenseman...

From his Sportsnet.ca profile:

Scouting Report

Assets

Is a tremendous skater and a natural point producer from the back end. Likes to initiate contact and is cool under heavy fire.

Flaws

Is mistake-prone in the defensive zone, which negates some of his overall effectiveness. Needs to add a little more discipline to his game.

Career potential

Power play quarterback.

Games 81 and 82

2009-04-14T11:55:00.001-04:00

Out of town. Whoops...

Game 79; Pens vs. "Bolts"

2009-04-07T22:02:00.002-04:00

Steiggy: "Eaton got out of the way of a big hit there!"
Errey: "Did he?" (as Eaton lies on the ice after getting slammed into the boards)

"He looked like an antelope there, Staal. And Stamkos was like a deer in the headlights!"*

*As soon as I heard this one, I kept hoping the animal comparisons would continue. In my mind all I could think of was this:
"Zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. I'm sick of playing second fiddle. I'm always third in line for everything. I'm tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over."

Game 77; Pens vs. Devils

2009-04-04T19:35:00.001-04:00

I got nothing...

Game 76; Pens vs. Rangers

2009-03-29T18:14:00.002-04:00

"They want to test those anger management classes he's been going through!"

"Did you say 'Korpikoski' or 'cup of coffee?'"

Side note: does anyone else love Wade Redden (not to mention his contract) being on the Rangers as much as I do?

Game 75; Matt Cooke's mustache vs. Flames

2009-03-25T22:16:00.001-04:00

"Come on...I'm a plumber!"

"You're playing with fire...Flames!"

"Waffles are kinda round now, aren't they?"

Steiggy (on Hal Gill/Snuggies): "I didn't think they made Snuggies that big!"

Game 73-74 - Whoops!

2009-03-25T22:14:00.001-04:00

Busy. Just watch this video as it's guaranteed to be funnier than anything said during the games...

Game 72; Pens vs. Thrashers

2009-03-17T21:25:00.003-04:00

On Sykora: "He kinda looks like a leprechaun, doesn't he?"

"Is that Larry Murphy to Paul Coffey? 55 to 7?"

Games 67-71

2009-03-05T22:10:00.001-05:00

SPRRRRRRRING BREEEEEEEAK!

Game 66; Pens vs. Rat Tricks

2009-03-05T19:49:00.003-05:00

I got nothing...

Game 65; Pens vs. Bolts

2009-03-05T19:49:00.001-05:00

Those were such terrible jerseys...

Game 64; Pens vs. North Stars

2009-03-01T15:08:00.002-05:00

"[Bylsma] knows how the west was won..."

...and now Women's College Basketball is on FSN. Way to go, FSN!

...and we're back!

"Malkin's a bullet out there!" (editor's note: "Shoot me!")

On the camouflage uniforms worn by the Baby Pens: "Steiggy, you'll never get caught for too many men on the ice wearing those!"

"He roped him here in Dallas, didn't he?"

"What was that promo, the Ax Men? That was one of the Ax Men going to the box right there, Jordan Staal."

Game 63; Pens vs. Hawks

2009-02-27T22:28:00.002-05:00

Steiggy: "I haven't seen Jordan Staal make this many plays in five weeks!"
Errey: "Now they're going to have to find someone else to play with Crosby!"

"These guys are finding each other like bread and butter out here!"

"All the fans want their hard hats back!" (Side note: the only thing better than a home hat trick on a hat giveaway night is a hat trick that gets taken away by replay review after half the crowd unleashed their free hats)

Game 62.5; Intermission...

2009-02-27T13:12:00.003-05:00

Three things:

1) Is anyone else being haunted by this commercial that came on about eighty times last game?

2) Several thoughts on the Whitney trade:

a) I like it. We are a better team now than we were before the trade.

b) Kunitz is a decent player. Will he make up for not being able to resign Hossa? No. Is he better than pretty much every winger on the current roster? Yes. Would you rather see him than Dupuis, Talbot, Minard, etc. on the top two lines? Yes.

He's not the dream sniper everyone wants for Crosby, but it's questionable whether we have the assets or cap space to get such a player (any such deal now would involve Crosby, Malkin, or Staal+others).

c) Tangradi has a lot of potential for the future as a top winger. Second in scoring in the OHL behind only Tavares is a good sign. No success is guaranteed, but whatever.

d) Whitney was expendable as we have Gonch, Letang, and Gogo. We did not need four puck moving defensemen who do not play a physical game (well, Letang hits everything he can, but he's not that big).

3) I had this long winded response today to several friends after they directed my attention to today's Bills Simmons article on ESPN.

Here's the key quote that caused me to flip out (he also suggested Pittsburgh was a good city for an NBA team to move to, which I disagree with):

"Looking at the big picture, the league won't struggle even 1/10th as much as the NHL in years to come -- of all the wildest predictions I heard in Phoenix, the craziest came from a connected executive who predicted that fifteen NHL teams would go under within the next two years (and was dead serious)"

My points of rebuttal to this article are as follows:

a) I will never trust unnamed NBA sources who are "connected" and "know something" about the NHL. This is especially true in an article written by an NBA diehard who admits often and frequently he stopped caring about hockey 15 years ago.

b) The NBA will never work in Pittsburgh. Where are all the sponsorships going to come from? Like it or not, we are a small city with only so much money to go around. We already have three professional sports franchises and the Pens have gone bankrupt multiple times.

Sure, a new arena might be attractive, but it's a small city where a team would be fighting for attention with three well-established teams, two of whom have had recent success, a strong fanbase, and promising futures.

c) Correct me if I'm wrong since I'm doing this for memory, but aren't attendance, revenue, and television ratings trending in opposite directions for the past couple of years for the NBA and NHL? Since the lockout, the NHL has raised it's profile every year (despite nearly every non-hockey writer trying to mock it back into obscurity while ignoring actual numbers). The NBA has faced decreased ratings every year for their playoffs. They might still be higher than NHL ratings (and probably are), but they are trending in opposite directions from what I remember. I'd love to see the numbers come out for the NBA Finals this year if it was San Antonio vs. anyone other than Cleveland or Boston. It would be fun watching every NBA supporter writing it off as not meaning anything while turning around and saying the opposite about the NHL.

d) Phoenix is definitely screwed. I concede that point. Nashville cannot be far behind. Perhaps the two Florida teams are in the same boat (though the Panthers are rebuilding their fanbase this season it seems). I'm not sure if I'd be able to get to 15 teams that are potentially "going under" (read: "sold to Balsillie until Bettman prevents it") though, but let's try:

Phoenix
Nashville
Tampa
Florida
Buffalo
Atlanta
Carolina
Islanders (even the Islanders not so much. They seem to be pulling a Lemieux in an attempt to get a new arena.)

After this it gets murky and I start throwing in teams like the Devils, who despite attendance issues, have never seemed to be on unsound financial ground...or Detroit simply because they're located in Detroit.

e) The NHL doesn't have many super ridiculous contracts for washed up players receiving $20+ million per season or role players making $15 million (Starbury, Kidd, and Iverson: $21m, Shaq: $20m, Kirilenko: $15m) . To be sure, there are some terrible contracts that teams would love to get out of (I'm looking in your directions Wade Redden, Chris Drury, Scott Gomez, and Daniel Briere), but due to the hard cap and player maximums, no role players are making $15m per year in the NHL, no matter how much Glen Sather would like to sign Robbie Scuds to that type of contract.

Also, no luxury tax in the NHL due to the hard cap.

Okay...enough of my defensiveness that I dive into every time non-hockey fans write about the game without any basis other than personal feelings or unnamed sources (note: this also occurs every time Mike Milbury talks). I'll save the rest of my defensiveness for the next time the NHL comes up on PTI and I end up throwing a beer bottle at the television...

Game 62; Pens vs. Isles

2009-02-25T19:36:00.004-05:00

"Jon Sim, there's been a lot of roadkill involved with him around recently."

Finally...Letang on the PP with Gonchar. Imagine...you put a right handed defenseman on the left side with Gonchar working the center/right and a left hander working the right side boards (Malkin), then you have a one-timer threat on each side and the PK cannot just concentrate on stopping the shot from one side...

"It's a good thing the ice is not frozen all the way, Steiggy. That was good swimming there by Eaton."

Tom Fitzgerald's mustache has a buyout clause???? Come on! It's almost March Mustache Madness!

Game 61; Pens vs. Caps

2009-02-25T19:36:00.001-05:00

Fuck Mike Milbury...

Game 60; Pens vs. Flyers

2009-02-21T13:00:00.002-05:00

"Nice job, Greg Louganis."

Game 59; Pens vs. Habs

2009-02-19T19:03:00.003-05:00

"Is that glove not working on Carey Price?"

"Sometimes north-south is like a game of Pong when you're playing the Canadiens. They come right back at ya!"

"Unless you're Evgeni Malkin and have three lungs..."

"I can't play chess, but is that what happens in a chess game when you lose a couple of your big guys it just opens right up?"

Errey: "You know, just like a train. You know, it's like...you had the caboose, and you had this. What are all the parts of a train, Steiggy? Help me out!"
Steiggy: "You have the engine, the dining car..."
Errey: "Dining car....hahahahaha. That's where you'd be!"

"This game went from a chess match to 52 card pickup!"

Game 58; Pens vs. Isles, or Smell You Later Therrien

2009-02-16T14:00:00.003-05:00

"You talk about books...Bylsma and books...he read that one like a cheap novel, that pass!"

Potash: "Now I'll let you sing again, Bobby."
Errey: "Peewee, peewee, peewee" (YES! More singing!)

Steiggy: "Billy Guerin had the patience of Job there..."

Game 57; Pens vs. Leafs

2009-02-15T12:57:00.001-05:00

Terrible.

Wasn't able to pay attention to much of this game. I did, however, hear Errey singing the peewee song. It was amazing. However, I did not write it down. Anyone have the video clip?

Game 56: Pens vs. Sharks

2009-02-11T20:15:00.002-05:00

"Paul Coffey. Take a look at his toes now. It's not a pretty sight...sorry Coff..."

Game 55; Pens vs. Wings

2009-02-08T22:17:00.001-05:00

NBC...

Game 54; Pens vs. Columbus

2009-02-06T19:33:00.002-05:00

"That was a pure picklestabber there. [...] and there goes that $300...twig."

Game 53; Pens vs. Lightning

2009-02-04T19:37:00.003-05:00

"It looks like he stuck his finger in a...socket, didn't he...Jeff Reed?"

"How does [Roethlisberger] dance? He's got the quickest feet for a big guy!"

Steiggy: "...and Jeff Reed, who gets his hair done at Consol Energy..."
Errey: "hahaha...ohhhh...I love it..."

"You mentioned road kill, it's all over the place here on the Mellon Arena ice!"

So to clarify, does Malkin have an indomitable spirit?

"Well, feeling a little shame now, Mr. Roberts. He was drinking the water and it wasn't Fiji!"

Steiggy: "He has that frisky look about him, like a horse that wants to run forever."

Game 52; Pens vs. Habs

2009-02-03T19:36:00.002-05:00

Tired + drifting mind = I got nothing...

Anyone?

Game 51; Pens vs. Leafs

2009-02-01T23:52:00.002-05:00

Pass...

Steelers side note: did anyone else watch the post-game and notice how worried David Johnson was about the dumpster fire in the middle of Forbes Avenue? It was bordering on an obsession and he kept making the guy in the chopper talk about it. Phenomenal. Don't worry David, it's not going to spread to anything else...

Game 50; Pens vs. Devils

2009-01-31T10:54:00.002-05:00

"That man is a big, scary fella!"

"Bobby Holik. He may be using wood sticks, but he's as thick as a brick."

"There's Eric Godard! He was like Godzilla the other night in that fight! I gotta tell you, oh my God was he scary! The demolition man, Eric Godard... Grabbing those cars and...throwing them up, and stomping on anything. I love it! He is a wrath...of destruction whenever he is out there."

Game 49; Pens vs. Rangers

2009-01-28T19:38:00.002-05:00

Errey: "I would've shoe checked him!"
Steiggy: "Tell them what a shoe check is so they know what you're talking about..."
Errey: "Well...you know...you get under the table, throw a little ketchup, some HP sauce, A1 Sauce, HP in Canada...House of Parliament...but you throw a little something on their shoe! And then you tap the glasses. I shoe checked Bob Johnson in the Stanley Cup Finals!"

Ryan checks in from the game with this gem of an overheard quote: "Oh yeah! How was your big sex weekend?"

"Is that a sixth goal or a sick goal? Are you kidding me?!?!?!?"

Game 48; Pens vs. Whalers

2009-01-20T21:16:00.003-05:00

"Evgeni Malkin stayed with this puck like nobody's business!"

"Boy...you talk about thick guys!"

"He looked like Arturs Irbe with that pillow! That mattress inside!"

Note to crowd: why were you booing the home team at the end of a 2-1 game when Cam Ward played lights out in the third period to prevent a tying goal?

Game 47; Pens vs. Rangers

2009-01-18T15:03:00.002-05:00

Two things:

1) Good signing of Wade Redden in the offseason, Rangers. So with that contract, did you think you were signing the Wade Redden of 3-4 years ago? You know, the one that made the Sens pick him over Chara because they couldn't keep both? Six years for $39 million... Don't worry Rangers fans, he only has another 5 seasons taking up a large chunk of the salary cap. And he only apparently has a partial no-trade clause (he wanted a full one, but apparently Sather only would let him submit a list of teams he would be willing to go to if they occasion ever came up that they wanted to trade him). Plus, there were rumors (unsubstantiated and probably untrue) in Ottawa that he was a coke fiend...

2) How does Mike Milbury still have a job? He has been consistently awful for the past several seasons a commentator (before anyone says it: no, it's not because he criticizes the Pens. I don't care about that. His opinions on the sport in general are abysmal.)

This is like Matt Millen becoming an NFL commentator despite his terrible front office tenure (Good idea NBC. Are we supposed to take him seriously and listen to anything he has to say now?). Just to refresh some of Mike Milbury's greatest hits as Isles GM:

17-Nov-96: Islanders trade Darius Kasparaitis and Andreas Johansson to the Penguins for Bryan Smolinksi.

6-Feb-98: Islanders trade D Bryan McCabe, C Todd Bertuzzi and a third-round draft pick(LW Jarkko Ruutu) to Vancouver for Trevor Linden.

30-May-98: Islanders trade RW Jean-Pierre Dumont & NYI 5th round pick in 1998 Entry Draft (later traded to PHI. PHI selected Francis Belanger) to the Chicago Blackhawks for C Dmitri Nabokov.

20-Mar-99: Islanders trade G Tommy Salo to Edmonton for F Mats Lindgren & EDM's 8th round choice in 1999 Entry Draft(D Radek Martinek).

24-Jun-00: New York Islanders traded Olli Jokien and Roberto Luongo to the Florida Panthers for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha.

23-Jun-01: Ottawa Senators traded Alexei Yashin to the New York Islanders for Zdeno Chara, Bill Muckalt and 1st round selection (Jason Spezza) in 2001. (We should also add the subsequent 10-year deal they signed Yashin to right after this)

Milbury's Legacy:

Were it not for a series of owners who skimped on payroll and some outright dumb trades by Milbury, there might be a second dynasty on Long Island today. Consider the following roster:

Goal: Roberto Luongo, Defence: Bryan McCabe, Wade Redden, Zdeno Chara and Eric Brewer. Forwards: Olli Jokinen, JP Dumont, Todd Bertuzzi, Jason Spezza (selected by Ottawa with the first round pick moved by Milbury for Alexei Yashin), Tim Connolly, Taylor Pyatt, Raffi Torres, Michael Rupp.

He also passed up the chance to draft either Dany Heatley or Marian Gaborik in 2000 to select Rick DiPietro, which wouldn’t have been necessary if he’d held onto Luongo.

Almost all of those players were moved, not because they were expensive to retain since almost all of them were just young, affordable players back then, but because Milbury just couldn’t resist making deals.

Game 46: Pens vs. Coach Bombay

2009-01-16T19:31:00.004-05:00

Errey: "You know he was pitchforking that hay in Regina, Saskatchewan!"
Steiggy: "Yeah...and Jordan Staal was lifting those...big...slabs of sod in Thunder Bay..."

Errey: "We need Hot Lips Houlihan!"
Steiggy: "We were gonna try to play the theme from MASH tonight, but you're not allowed to do that."
(camera shows Chris Stewart)
Errey: "Who's that?"
Steiggy: "That's Chris Stewart."
Errey: "Well I know, but in the MASH theme of things..."
Steiggy: "I guess Kadar is Radar."
Errey: "Who's Alan Alda?"
Steiggy: "Dan Potash sounds like Alan Alda sometimes when I hear him on the radio..."

"This is just what the doctor ordered...no pun intended there..."

"His wife can glide! Kristi Yamaguchi, are you kidding me?!?!?!?"

"You know Ducks can't fly in this weather! They should be down south!"

On some dude's hat:
Errey: "You're not going to find that in the OC!" (editor's note: don't call it that...)
Potash: "You know what though, you wear that in LA and you start a trend. It may be 90 degrees, but if Paris Hilton wears that, everyone will wear it."
Errey: "The question is, how is Paris going to wear it?"

On Cooke barely missing a hat trick:
"We would've had that hat we were looking at!!! It would've been on the ice!"

"You've got golfers on your mind with Bobby Jones. You've got Mickelson out here, of course you've got golfers!"

Errey: "Oh man...It's beautiful...and that (Parros' mustache) is beautiful!"
Steiggy: "You ever been to Scenery Hill?"
Errey: "I don't know, but I had a 'stache like that once. Well it was kinda a rip off of that. THAT is a mustache!"
Steiggy: "You can see it from Scenery Hill!"
Errey: "Actually...I got lost there once. Got off the wrong exit trying to find an...indoor soccer facility."

Errey: "It's like that old hockey pic everyone's got in their rec room! The wide stance!
Steiggy: "Atually, he looks like Darkwing Duck* to me. A guy...the mascot for the Ducks who comes out of the ceiling. Is that his name?"
Errey: "I have noooooo idea."

*Actual name of Ducks mascot: Wild Wing. Whether or not he kidnaps small children during games is unknown.

Game 45; Pens vs. Caps

2009-01-14T19:30:00.002-05:00

"He scored a beautiful goal last night...like butter! Carving through a couple of defensemen."

"Isn't it great to have that internet out there?"

"He is a wild stallion, there's no question about it."

To summarize tonight's game: "There goes Sidney Crosby..."

"There was a delayed penalty and then they pulled their goaltender...can you get seven guys on the ice, Steiggy?"

Game 44; Pens vs. Flyers

2009-01-13T19:01:00.002-05:00

"Thank you Mr. Shero for the new contract. The handcuffs are off. He's got buttery hands!"

"It's time for our Subway sandwich...and it's a knuckle sandwich!! Courtesy of Eric Godard. You got about 10 meatballs on that one, too."

"Staal and Kennedy...they looked each other in the eyes there. I'm not trying to get soft with you here..."

"You're not going to see Brooks Orpik upset the apple cart here..."

"The ollllld Ulf Dahlen move..." (editor's note: I have not heard that name in years and was unaware he even had a "move")

Jesus...this is the most times Ulf Dahlen's name has been used in the past 5 years...

Game 43; Pens vs. Nordiques

2009-01-10T15:02:00.003-05:00

"Joe Sakic. Quit messing around with those snow blowers, Joe."

Has anyone been keeping track of how many times the phrase "center drive" has been used the past three or so games? Estimated count: 372

Steiggy: "Hal Gill with the reach around on TJ Hensick."

"There's a lot of girth out there."

Game 42; Pens vs. Preds

2009-01-08T20:07:00.003-05:00

"Who knows what goalies think about? I try not to think about what they think about, Steiggy."

Errey: "They're a different breed, goalies. Except, if you're listening Wendell Young, you were pretty normal."
Steiggy: "Really?!?!?!?"

"It went off Jason Arnott, did it not?" (much funnier with the name being pronounced "Are-Not" all night)

"You were drinking your saki there, weren't you?"

Third period at Hough's, so I got nothing else...

Game 41; Pens vs. Thrashers

2009-01-06T19:28:00.003-05:00

"And then he's going to be called for a...hold. He likes him! It's just a hug!"

"That's Crabb! Clawing his way into Sidney Crosby's territory!"

Game 40; Pens vs. Rangers

2009-01-05T17:33:00.002-05:00

Stupid Versus...

But just so more people see this clip...

Games 35 through 39

2008-12-23T21:57:00.002-05:00

Errey Blog gone skiing.

Maybe Ryan will pick up my slack, maybe not...

Game 34; Pens vs. ex-Pens

2008-12-23T19:32:00.002-05:00

"This is like a bunch of vultures on a dead animal!"

Game 33; Pens vs. Sabres

2008-12-22T20:56:00.001-05:00

These Versus announcers are terrible...

Where are the stories about bears eating baby moose? Come on!

Game 32; Pens vs. Leafs

2008-12-20T19:02:00.003-05:00

"...and Siefers couldn't decipher what was going on."

This game was too depressing to pay close attention to, so I got nothing else...

Game 31; Pens vs. Why is there a hockey team in Atlanta?

2008-12-18T19:02:00.005-05:00

"The key for the Penguins is to jump on Ottawa. Maybe Ottawa, they're having a tough time... oh, sorry. Atlanta..."

"Tim Wallace was telling us today he was on the golf course watching a bear eat a baby moose and he went right up to it! What are you thinking, Tim?!?!?! He said, 'I don't know it wasn't a very smart idea.' Blood all over the bear... Is this too descriptive for you right now? Sorry. Turn your sound down at home, folks. Sorry about that kids."
(This is an early nominee for story of the year)

Steiggy: "A bear, eating a baby moose, on the golf course..."

"The moose must have gotten hit. He must have shanked one."

Game 30; Pens vs. Flyers

2008-12-18T19:02:00.001-05:00

Whoops. Pass...

Game 29; Pens vs. Isles

2008-12-11T20:04:00.004-05:00

"I had to sign a waiver to sit between the benches. I had to sign on the dotted line!"

"It goes right by that glove again. Somebody's gotta get some fishin' line or something into Joey McDonald's glove!"

"These are tape measure shots, Steiggy…You can get your tape measure out and you, uhh, might run out of metal."

"You can only control what you can control."

Steiggy: "Remember that movie Mystery, Alaska...which I thought was a terrible movie by the way..."

Steiggy: "What was better: Mystery, Alaska or Sudden Death?"
Errey: "Uh...Sudden Death had a sudden death."

"Uh oh! Is there any hats left? If you kept it on the first time, well, shame on you...but...we love to see you puttin' it out there the second time! And I hope they're going to be down... Oh we got bags! We got everything coming down here!"

Steiggy: "...and the fans are chanting 'we want 10'!"
Errey: "It used to be 'we want chili!'"

"Everyone's going to go home without their lids on tonight, Steiggy. And no bags! We saw a lot of bags come on the ice...:"

And some more thanks to Nick since I was on the phone for half the game:

"I'll tell you right now, Matt Cooke is a hockey player."

"I can't wait to see the Alaskan crab up in Atlanta!"

"No… I think the election screwed up interest in Alaska…"

"...and Dupius came in the back door to tickle that twine."

(in reference to Curry falling on his stomach): "Orpik can-opened him!"

"Gotta give some credit to the ice crew… you don't score 8 without good ice!"

"All those hats are gonna be in the Sykora locker room after the game."

"Billy Guerin just can't do enough to get thrown outta this game."

Steiggy: "Billy Guerin is going down the runway."
Errey: "Ha ha... the early shower!"

Game 28; Pens vs. The Empty Seats of Newark

2008-12-10T19:10:00.005-05:00

Entirely too many new people and new numbers. So many questions...

"Watch these stars play, you'll learn a lot. I wish I would've learned that!"

On Gionta: "Orpik took that license plate number...and it was a small plate."

Steiggy: "Speaking of snow blowing, did you hear about Joe Sakic?" (Best transition since "Speaking of cancer, Jason Blake...")

Steiggy: "Malkin roaming around like a shark..."

"Doesn't give you the right to punch someone in the squash. Talk about squashes! Holik in the box..."

Game 27; Pens vs. Sabres

2008-12-10T19:10:00.001-05:00

Stupid Versus...

Game 26; Pens vs. Senators

2008-12-06T14:02:00.003-05:00

"That's a lot of flesh!"

I planned on watching the rest of this game on the DVR after only seeing most of the first period, but it's probably never going to happen...

Game 25; Pens vs. Canes

2008-12-04T19:10:00.004-05:00

Steiggy: "The shot clock is difficult to find here. We need a periscope...
Errey: "It's right there, Steiggy."
Steiggy: "Oh yeah, it's right there..."
Errey: "You're trying to look through banners, and everything else and it's two-inches from you here!"
(Insert Errey singing/humming here)

I love Melichar...

Q: Can we go a single game against Carolina without Ray Whitney being called a waterbug?
A: No.

Steiggy: "Ron Francis doesn't need a system. He has a system in his head."

On that note, it's Hough's time...

Game 24; Pens vs. Rangers

2008-12-03T19:06:00.003-05:00

"It took a while, but the laundry's off!"

"Oh man, he curled and dragged it around Koharski!"

Steiggy: "That's how you know you've arrived, when you get your own bobblehead."

"It's okay if it's Bobby Orr, but not Colton!"

"It's time for a star player to put his name in the headlights. Headlights? What are those boards called in...Times Square?"

Game 23; Pens vs. Devils

2008-11-30T14:09:00.000-05:00

...

Game 22; Pens vs. Sabres

2008-11-28T19:31:00.003-05:00

"24...the Flower! Getting old!"

"It's the tryptophan curse, Steiggy! Everybody's full and they can't move. They were all shopping at four in the morning! Weren't you at Wal-Mart?"

"There's nothing like a free meal! I know...I know..."

If I have to hear this goddamn Clarks song one more time I might end up killing someone...

"Like a golfer. He kept his head down and boy did he swing. He looked like John Daly." (Hopefully not like this John Daly...)

"Think he ever makes himself dizzy, Afinogenov?"

To clarify...is John Curry unconscious right now?

Yep...unconscious...

I am guessing he is now "conscious."

Game 21; Pens vs, Isles

2008-11-26T19:25:00.011-05:00

"We saw Scuderi last year have his finger explode..."

"It hit Sabourin right in the mask. He's got a frog on the side of it and it jumped right off of it!"

"Pat Sajak's in the house here in Long Island tonight!"

"2-0, N-Y-I."

Okay...so I thought Sabourin's new mask would mark the end of the Creepy Baby Mask era...but holy hell...did anyone else see the back of his new mask?!?!?!? That might be creepier than the old one...

Steiggy: "He got the wind knocked out of him."
Errey: "You mean the stuffing? Oh no, that's tomorrow..."

"Exactly what the Islanders weren't looking for...unless they were looking to go shorthanded because maybe they have a better chance of scoring that way..."

Steiggy: "Evgeni Malkin is the McDonald's player of the game."
Errey: "Is that M for McDonald's or Malkin?"

Game 20; Pens vs. Canucks

2008-11-23T11:08:00.002-05:00

"Steiggy, it's great being down here! You know I love this stuff!"

"And you really miss Matt Cooke, because he gets them the ugly way. You dump it in, you work it out. They're going to find some other plumbers to get it done."

On Boucher saving all press clippings written about him during his career:
"Doesn't everyone do that? Haven't you seen my bathroom wallpaper, Steiggy?"

On Letang without his helmet:
"He's like Randy Carlyle back there!"

"He's staring down everything he sees in white. He's even staring me down! I gotta change my shirt!"

Game 19; Pens vs. Thrashers

2008-11-22T01:05:00.002-05:00

As my slacking/inability to post goes on, the number of followers I have continues to increase. Weird...

Hopefully Saturday I will be able to actually a) watch the game, and b) watch the game not in a bar and with sound.

What can I say? Grad school + somewhat finding a life = bad for Errey blog...

Game 18; Pens vs. Wild

2008-11-18T23:19:00.002-05:00

Multiple gripes with this game:

1) Pens lose in a shootout.

2) It's on Versus.

3) Mikko Koivu scores a goal the day after I drop him from my fantasy hockey team.

Game 17; Pens vs. Sabres

2008-11-16T12:43:00.000-05:00

Errey Blog MIA...

Game 16; Pens vs. Flyers

2008-11-14T12:28:00.002-05:00

I saw about 2 seconds of this game, so I got nothing.

Ryan, anything?

Game 15; Pens vs. Red Wings

2008-11-12T14:00:00.001-05:00

At least Errey was on NHL on the Fly last night...

Game 14; Pens vs. Isles

2008-11-09T11:53:00.002-05:00

"He's got more feeling in his hands than most people, Steiggy!"

"Talbot just got high sticked. Right in the, uh...fu-manchu!"

"I wonder what apparatus he has underneath that mitt..."

"We have no idea whether it's his fingers, his palm, the hand part..." (Ed. note: the hand part??!?!?)

"Kennedy loves those wraparounds. Give him a bad angle shot and he'll take it!"

"Tyler Kennedy...it looks like he's got a deuce!"

"Look at this! Fallsies!"

"Protect that puck, folks!"

Game 13; Pens vs. Oilers

2008-11-06T19:03:00.003-05:00

"A little conversation between MacIntyre and Godard...and the conversation leads to a dance!"

"Well thanks, Danny, you're not fat...unless it's p-h-a-t. That phat!"

Heading to Hough's for the third period, so you're on your own...

Game 12; Pens vs. Blues

2008-11-03T11:03:00.002-05:00

Errey Blog gone fishin'...

Anyone got anything? Since I got nothing, I'll just share this picture instead...

Game 11 - Pens vs. Coyotes

2008-10-31T00:42:00.001-04:00

Pre-game:
Sweet interview by Danny Potash with Mr. Kennedy

1st Period:
Steigy: "He's built like a fire plug!"

Errey: "Who taught him that? We know who taught him that. It was the MASTER! Ulf Samuellsson."

Errey: "He waited almost a week to make that shot." (Was he referring to Bryzgalov's absence from the lineup or the Penguins' seeming complete unwillingness to shoot the puck?)

Recap: Terrible period. No energy, no passion, no puck support, no forecheck. 15 shots in 5 periods now. That's 3 a period. When you're having as much trouble generating offense as the Pens have been, you can't pass up shots. On the plus side, the Pens are playing excellent team defense. They give up a lot of shots, but not a lot of good scoring chances. The good scoring chances they do give up are shut down by incredible play from both goaltenders. The offense will come. What's impressive to me is playing such incredible D without the two best defenders.

2nd Period:
Why are the Coyotes playing the Ghostbusters theme song over the arena PA?

Errey: "I know he didn't play much baseball growing up!...at least, I don't think so."

Errey: "We talked about his groin."

Errey: "There's Gretzky wearing his...cancer...tie."

Recap: That was a much better period in everything but the goal count (unfortunately, that's all that counts). The Pens played like you would expect them to against a weaker opponent like the Coyotes. Unfortunately, lackadaisacal clearing attempts during the first PP and a bad bounce on the second PP cost the Pens. I wasn't particularly fond of either call that put the Pens on the PK, but they'll just have to get it back. You have the feeling right now that if they can keep their level of play up, they will ultimately win out. The Pens had more shots that period than they did in the 5 periods of hockey before that. Intermission quote from Errey: "The Penguins, Steiggy, gotta put the pumpkin in the basket!"

3rd Period:
Errey: "Get well, Mrs. Steiggy!"

Errey: "If he doesn't go up the butt of Talbot..."

Errey: [about Kurt Sauer] Wow, he's sour now!"
Steigy: "Ha! Ahh, that's beautiful."

Errey: "When I say 'hilarious', it really isn't THAT funny."

Game. 4-1 Yotes
Recap: All-around a pretty miserable road trip for the Pens. They need to try to get a point in St. Louis on Saturday night and then just get home and regroup. There's not much to say about tonight. Pretty miserable to watch Phoenix thoroughly beat your favorite team, but they simply outworked the Penguins. The officiating was lacking, but the Pens didn't deserve to win anyway, so there's nothing to complain about. Goligoski's having a tough stretch, but he's learning through trial by fire right now. He'll cost you now, but be better for it later on. Any possible injury to Sid is a big loss (obviously). I'm not sure they're in a position right now to carry on without him as they did last season. To keep it in perspective though, the Pens hovered around .500 all the way through to Thanksgiving last season, before turning the season around. Even Detroit lost 7 in a row last season. On the plus side, Satan scored an amazing goal (and is on pace for 30-40 goals), Letang had a brilliant defensive play against Boedker, and Malkin tried to singlehandedly win the game for the Pens, offensively and defensively. Unfortunately for the Pens right now, Letang and Malkin aren't enough to carry them to victory.

Pre-gaming, Game #11 - Pens vs. Phoenix Coyotes

2008-10-30T14:42:00.003-04:00

Hey all. My name's Ryan and I (and possibly our friend Nick) will be doing the posts for the next two games while Keith is in Philly, presumably celebrating the Phillies' World Series title....or just visiting friends, whatever. (Props to Philly by the way. This win only leaves them 7 major sports titles behind our fair city. Then again, who needs championships when you have murders)

Pens vs. Coyotes

The game will be in HD tonight on FSN. Both teams are going with their starters, so Fleury will be in net against Ilya Bryzgalov. The Pens juggled their lines today and will roll with these tonight:

Dupuis-Crosby-Fedotenko
Cooke-Malkin-Sykora
Mr. Kennedy-Staal-Satan
Bissonnette-Zigomanis-Godard

Talbot is still out with an undisclosed injury. Dupuis was hit by a shot in practice and his status is up in the air. The Pens have recalled Chris Minard from the Baby Pens, so maybe not a great sign for Dupuis. Minard, by the way, has 7 goals and 6 assists in 7 games to lead Wilkes-Barre and is a plus 9.

Some numbers for the game tonight:
Malkin is second in the NHL in points with 15
Crosby is fifth with 13
Fleury is fourth in save percentage at .933 and sixth in goals against at 2.17
Olli Jokinen leads the Coyotes with 7 points (1 goal)
Shane Doan leads the Coyotes with 4 goals; Mikkel Boedker and Peter Mueller are the only other Coyotes with more than 1, with 3 each
The Pens are 5th on the PK and 7th on the PP
The Coyotes are 22nd on the PK and 26th on the PP (Phoenix is also worst in the league on the PK on home ice at just 63.6%)
Phoenix is worst in the league at faceoffs as a team winning only 41.6% of the time
The Pens are, shockingly, 10th at 50.8%

Thoughts
This game seems like a solid matchup for the Pens. Phoenix has struggled offensively recently, as well. The new lines appear to give substantially more balance to the lineup. After struggling to put up 11 shots against San Jose (did that game remind anyone else of the first two games of the Stanley Cup Finals last year?), the Pens will be in a shooting mindset (i hope). The Coyotoes D took a shot when they dealt Ballard and Boynton to Florida in the Olli Jokinen deal. The Pens should be able to put pucks on net and score some goals tonight. The Coyotes, offensively, are very young with four players being 20 or younger. The talented group of young guns includes 18 year old Mikkel Boedker, 19 year old Kyle Turris, 20 year old Peter Mueller and 20 year old Viktor Tikhonov. That last name should ring a bell with long time hockey fans (or anyone who's seen the movie "Miracle"); Viktor is the namesake of his grandfather, the legendary Soviet Red Army coach who was the victim of Herb Brooks and the Miracle on Ice 1980 US Olympic team. The Pens are in a good position to end their losing ways tonight. Oh yeah, and I guarantee Daniel Carcillo fights Paul Bissonnette, Eric Godard, or both tonight. Also watch out for Kurt Sauer and Brian McGrattan in the combat arena.

Game 10; Pens vs. Sharks

2008-10-28T22:38:00.002-04:00

After Steiggy mentioned the ages of Rob Blake and Jeremy Roenick:
"hahaha...they need a couple of walkers out there right now!"

Game 9; Pens vs. Rangers

2008-10-25T18:29:00.002-04:00

"Something is going right on that sod farm!"

Errey: "Drury couldn't put it in the ocean right now."
Steiggy: "Gomez will now try to put it in the ocean."

"Steiggy, I'm getting hungry! There's a lot of food being eaten around the National Hockey League tonight with all 30 teams playing!"

"The t-shirts! The nachos! That doesn't even account for all the food we're eating up here!"

On Orpik: "Look at those eyes. Steely..."

"Look at that chinstrap! He looks like a Mountie in Canada!"

Game 8; Pens vs. Canes

2008-10-23T19:35:00.003-04:00

Steiggy: "Students love pizza, we know that, so you couldn't pick a better food to take to them...they don't get enough of that, right Bob?"
Errey: "You can never get enough!"

Errey: "There's Max Talbot sporting some facial hair. He figures that fu-manchu is going to help him out a little bit [...]"
Steiggy: "Maybe he's like Samson, Bob. If you cut his hair..."
Errey: "I think that's what he's thinking!"

"What's so amazing about that, Steiggy? That Mario's coaching? He should be! He knows everything...more...more than the rest of us! Get out there and disperse that...talent. That wealth of knowledge!"

"Well [Orpik]'s tougher than the boards. No doubt about it."

"He's got the pads on his skates, but not on his chest!"

"Boy, the Penguins really put their work boots on!"

Game 7; Pens vs. Bruins

2008-10-20T21:27:00.003-04:00

It's the return of the creepy baby mask!

"Well it's not going to be Savran on Sports Beat, it's going to be Sabourin on Sports Beat if he keeps playing this way!"

"Chara was standing on the red line touching the puck at the blue line! What reach!"

Errey: "A six-pack is a washboard...it's your stomach now. So people won't know what you're talking about, Steiggy! So yeah...beer!"
Steiggy: "Back then hockey players drank more beer than they drink now"
Errey: "That's right. That's why they didn't have a six-pack back then...they drank a six-pack!"
Steiggy: "That's true!"
Errey: "...or more!"

"Folks, you can't look through trees like that."

"[Letang]'s got that slick way about him where he's gel. He's like liquid gel. His shoulders can go and his hands can go...but he can still make the plays."

"I've never seen Pascal Dupuis make roadkill out of someone like that!"

"Oh, no! The linesman went down too! Same guy, Steiggy! He got hammered in that! He got sandwiched! Subway sammich!"

"Like a cobra...he just sucks you right into that."

Errey: "Oh boy, so when's he gonna play again?
Steiggy: "See you in a month!"

Game 6; Pens vs. Leafs

2008-10-18T21:16:00.004-04:00

"He fires this hockey club up, Max Talbot. He's sporting some facial hair. He said, 'I'm gonna turn this thing around.' He doesn't like the start he's gotten off to. So...you know...Max likes beards. He likes fu-manchu's, and he can grow a 'stache with the best of the them. He can grow it in a day or two!"

Little known fact: Curtis Joseph is still an NHL goaltender...

"I hope his friends by their own tickets, because that would be a costly season for Mr. Thomas."

"He's so good at swooping. The big pterodactyl is good with the angles."

"We gotta go back to that picture because...I mean, they stuck a bowl on him and cut his hair. Did you see that bowl cut?!?!? That was oneosfsfsfg...I mean...you know, I mean, I don't have the greatest hair, Steiggy, but uh, that was...that was a tough looking cut!"

Game 5; Pens vs. Caps

2008-10-16T19:32:00.003-04:00

Errey: "Steiggy, I won't take that as a slight by the way...greatest left wing ever..."
Steiggy: "Well you're my favorite left wing ever!"
Errey: "Aww, thanks Steiggy."
Steiggy: "You and Bourquey. I gotta include him too."

"Back to chemistry class: force = mass * acceleration"

Game 4; Pens vs. Flyers

2008-10-15T19:53:00.002-04:00

Stupid Versus...

Random side note: bravo to the two people who found their way to this blog by searching the keywords, "game 69."

Also funny (though for a completely different reason) is the person who found the blog by using the keywords, "'Murphy Dump' icing."

Game 3; Pens vs. Devils

2008-10-12T15:39:00.002-04:00

"You think you can touch your toes? Obviously Rob Scuderi can!"

I cannot remember anything else and forgot to write stuff down. So yeah, that's all I got...

Game 2; Pens vs. Senators

2008-10-05T14:46:00.003-04:00

"Was that from the Abba concert, Steiggy?"

Errey: Maybe it's those tighter jerseys, not those baggy ones they had a couple of years ago!
Steiggy: There are some holes now!
Errey: Especially in the Swiss ones, Steiggy!

"The Penguins were on that scavenger hunt...did they have to find any goals on that scavenger hunt?"

Game 1: Pens vs. Senators

2008-10-04T14:39:00.003-04:00

"Goligoski in his civies tonight..."

"Ottawa Senators look like tails wagging the dog there!"

"He can squirt water through his teeth as well, Steiggy!"

"Chris Kelly is checking his faculties right now...he thought he had him lined up from here to Stockholm!"

T-minus 24 days...or something close to that...

2008-09-10T14:27:00.003-04:00

I suggest muting your speakers before watching the first video...

Regardless, I am pumped for Matt Cooke being the new Jarkko.

Pens vs. Flyers; Game 2

2008-05-13T08:37:00.001-04:00

Yep...

Pens vs. Rangers; Game 5

2008-05-04T17:11:00.003-04:00

Man that was sweet.

A couple thoughts/questions:

1) I really wish Marian Hossa would stop choking in the playoffs. We would be so much better off with Crusher and Colby right now...

2) How does new Edge Shave Gel work? I'm a bit unclear on that...

Pens vs. Rangers; Game 4

2008-05-01T17:55:00.002-04:00

Get well soon, Sean! (Was this wrong of me? Eh...I'll just use any excuse I can to post this video...)

And also...

Pens vs. Rangers; Game 3

2008-04-29T18:20:00.002-04:00

"Their defense are just like...TREES in front of Marc-Andre Fleury!"

"You could hear him coming from, uh, Madison Avenue there!"

"When you get a high sticking on Hal Gill, you're really getting your stick up. He's a tall man!"

Did anyone else see Gorgeous Georges kiss Potash? That was fabulous. Someone get that up on youtube...

"Rest that groin up!"

"...you can whip it like a jai-lai player."

"They couldn't move their feet! It looked like they were stuck in cement...It was like John Gotti got a hold of them or something! Can you imagine?!?!?"

So I have to ask...what's up with Jagr and his Hitler mustache? I mean, I guess you could say it's an extension of his stupid soul patch (editor's note: never grow a soul patch...), but even still...

Pens vs, Senators; Game 4

2008-04-16T18:43:00.003-04:00

Okay...I really don't get the whole "booing other team's stars" thing. What did Crosby do to Ottawa that he gets booed every time he touches the puck? I understand Pens fans booing Derian Hatcher when he touches the puck. For a while I understood booing Jagr (which just seems ridiculous nowadays. Let it go, people). I just don't get random cities booing stars (Crosby, Ovechkin, etc) whenever they touch the puck. Especially since Crosby plays better when he gets mad/challenged. Do people really think it will throw a good player off their game? To summarize: stupid. (Of course, I'm also an advocate of never booing the home team...which not many people ever agree with me on. Will booing make them play better? No. Will cheering them on when they're struggling and needing support help them play better? A lot more likely than being negative.)

"His arms are going to fall off! It's a shooting gallery out there!"

Steiggy: "He is a man of sartorial splendor, Evgeni Malkin."

So if there was one word to describe Petr Sykora's stick, it would be _______.

"The kids in amateur have a stop sign on their back. Do they need it here for the Ottawa Senators?"

"What are you telling me? A couple detentions for Gary?"

Okay...watching the game on my DVR screwed me and I missed the last 5 minutes or so of the game as I didn't plan ahead and record whatever was on afterwards. Post anything I missed. Also, to Ryan: I missed the quotes you texted me about ("boiling an egg behind the net" and the maid comment). I'm hoping someone will post those in the comments.

So what did we learn tonight? Evgeni Malkin throws away Petr Sykora's shoes on a daily basis.

Pens vs. Senators; Game 3

2008-04-14T19:06:00.002-04:00

Gary Roberts on Sean Avery's jackass-ery:
Pittsburgh veteran Gary Roberts at first didn't want to even comment on it before finally saying as he walked away from me: "He's an idiot. That's my quote."

So just to clarify: Are we really going to go through 3 of the first 4 games of the playoffs without HD? Were all the HD trucks tied up at the Masters or something? In the immortal words of GOB, "Come on!"

Steiggy: "They have an actual Senator out on the ice...or someone posing as one" (in regards to the guy dressed as their logo...I'll leave it up to the reader to determine which of Steiggy's options is more plausible)

"The Penguins have talked about opening up the legs of Gerber."

"I love when the referees pick up the twig and...start hopping." (did he say hopping there?)

I wish there were a way to wager on things like, "Bryan Murray complains about officiating even though Chris Neil keeps punching people to get thrown in the box."

"There's some garbage on the ice. The 'classy' fans in Ottawa. Not all of them... It only take a few dodos."

Pens vs. Senators; Game 2

2008-04-11T19:44:00.006-04:00

"He overtook McAmmond like he was a midget player going against a pee-wee!"

"He almost made you eat your words, Steiggy!"

"He may be in the wrong kitchen right now."

"Bass replaced fish [...] I don't what they have next, trout?" (No idea on that first sentence...)

"It won't go back to small. It will just stay big!"

I have no idea how to transcribe Errey singing the music they play when Ottawa's ice crew comes out...let's just say it was phenomenal...

"In game one we saw Fleury give Lapointe the business!"

Steiggy: "...from Pilsner in the Czech Republic."
Errey: "Is that the beer spot?"

"That's what chemistry is...telepathy..."

I had to radio it for the third period on my way to play my own game, so post anything I missed in the comments. So instead of reading about the third period commentary, just go out and purchase the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album.

Pens vs. The Douchebag Bryan Murray/Senators; Game 1

2008-04-09T19:21:00.006-04:00

"Mr. Roberts in his neighborhood..."

Steiggy: "He's a native of Switzerland and the Penguins would love to make him look like Swiss cheese by the time this series is over."

J & D Waterproofing commercial featuring Bob Errey = best commercial ever. "1-800-very-dry" (Okay, fine. I'm not sure if this can beat the Steubenville commercial because it lacks the sweet, sweet music...)

"You don't want to take your head off that...er your foot off that snake there, Steiggy."

"It says Warrior on his gloves. That's the company name, but it could also be Gary Roberts' name."

"Therefore they can't bang the players they want to bang." (okay, horribly out of context, but still hilarious...)

On Crosby's injury earlier in the season: "That's like caging up an animal! He must have been going crazy watching those games!"

Steiggy: "Right in Mr. Robert's neighborhood!"

I don't know about anyone else, but I think the Senators were tanking this game. They clearly are hoping to take this to six games so they can get back to Ottawa again...

Game 82; Pens vs. Flyers

2008-04-07T20:16:00.002-04:00

So yeah...I'm late getting this up. I blame Marcus.

Watching this game in a room where Pens fans were outnumbered by Flyers fans 3-2 means I really didn't get to pay much attention to the game/commentary. Oh well.

On Hal Gill:
Steiggy: "He's like a big aircraft carrier out there!"
Errey: "He sure is!"
(Of course, this was followed by the Pensblog shout/crediting the reference. Looks like Steiggy loves reading the blogs!)

That was all I got. I'm sure it was probably a good one for commentary though. Let me know what I missed. Again, I blame Marcus...