Making Puck: WTF edition?

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K, MYFO’ers. The Sabres went down in flames…the Thrashers are on a winning streak….and Jose Theodore blew a game. Well….maybe some things aren’t so strange.

Av’s Goalie Controversy Update

Theodore owns the Flames, Nobody else

Jose went out last night and played another great game against Calgary allowing only 3 2 goals with one saved by the whistle. Marek Svatos shoveled one in with four and change left to force OT and Ryan Smyth adding the game winner. This brings the mulleted one’s GAA versus the Flames to a very nice 1.18. That is all well and good until you look at the other two games he has played in against Chicago and St. Louis. Four goals apiece. My mastery of the maths tells me that his non Calgary GAA is 4.00. Perhaps the goalie race may not be as close as it appears.

Battle of the Biddies

The Jose-Paris Hilton relationship is long since busted and Jose has moved onto greener pastures and has since knocked up French hottie Stéphanie Cloutier on no fewer than two occasions. According to inside sources, however, Budaj is a different story. The day after his disastrous 4 goal in 18 minute start against Calgary and then watching his team win behind Theodore, the Slovak was on the prowl for a slumpbuster. Using Joe Fucking Sakic as his wingman, the downtrodden goalie scored a date with the clubhouse girl at the ritzy Cherry Hills Country Club, only to be denied the five hole while trying to score some afternoon delight.

The completely useless and arbitrary score stands at Budaj 57 – Jose 48

Making Puck: Goalie Controversy

Jose Theordore likes his job. Theodore had 39 saves as the `Lanche won 3-2 in Overtime. Ryan Smyth scored the winner 23 seconds into the extra period. Joe F’n Sakic added a goal to his season total.

The Red Wings aren’t going to take it anymore. The Wings lit up the Sharks for a 5-1 victory. Henrik Zetterberg popped in two goals in the third. He’s scored a point in every game this year.

Sabres play with the Panthers before killing them. The Sabres, down 2-1, scored three goals in the third period to come out on top. The Sabres losing streak stopped with Stafford’s game-winner.

The Habs like to play with an extra man. The Canadiens beat the Hurricanes 7-4. Five of those seven goals were on the Powerplay. It’s not nice to beat up on outnumbered children, Montreal fans.

Roberto Luongo hates politics, but loves the nightlife. Luongo has won ten straight against the Caps with last night’s 3-2 victory. Ovechkin tried desperately to score to level things up in the closing moments, but couldn’t get the puck past the veteran.

Budaj v Mullet Round One

I really hope this thing doesn’t last more than three rounds because if there is still a goalie controversy by the time the the World Series is over, the temporary blinders will be off of Denver and I’m going to have to hear about it from every goddamn sportswriter and anchor on the local news. I really don’t think I could handle that. And just to make matters worse the town is hopelessly biased as to their decision. On the one hand we have the devout Catholic who came out of nowhere to lead the team on an improbable run at the postseason at the end of last year and he’s a Simpsons fan. Then we have an overpaid, oft injured biologically engineered mullet  touting french-Canadian (the mullet, not the goalie), Paris Hilton canoodling douche with an ever changing pronunciation of his name, and expectations to be the next Patrick Roy that were never met. So I think the town might be pulling for one over the other, just a little bit.