Robertus Runs (Game 5)!
Pregame: Scott celebrates the fact that Charles Wang just bought out Alexi Yashin, Daniel Alfredsson's nose grows three sizes, Bret Hull offers me a discount on swampland in Florida. Of course Alfredsson shot the puck at Niedermayer.
Of course he did.
In fact, that's the reason Jill is rooting for the Ducks again. She started off rooting for the Ducks, and then Chris Pronger elbowed Dean McAmmond in the head (note: we were at dinner and did not see Chris Neil's high hit earlier in the game). She started rooting for Ottawa (to the point that I considered getting her a Senators' sweater, and then Alfredsson shot the puck at Niedermayer. Ye gods, people.
20:00: And we're off! We're in the booth with Bill, Brett, and Ray, The Ducks in black moving left to right in your weblog.
19:59: This is not Pizza Milano pizza. Scott went to that New York style place in Columbia.
18:20: That was entirely too fast - Ottawa penalty for holding (interference would do just as well) and an immediate scoring chance for Selanne. Frankly, the hold was positively Duckian in its stupidity.
16:35: And a quick, ticky tack call on Volchenkov for hooking,particularly on the heels of a possible goaltender interference
16:19: Pass to McDonald and GOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL
16:18:59: What is that quasi Florida State chant they're playing over the PA system?
14:41: Three straight penalties to Ottawa, this time to Spezza for holding (yes, it was a hold). The Senators have looked sloppy tonight. Even the elbow drop to Pronger was poorly executed.
13:30: Meszaros gets smoked.
Scott: "A lot of people are finishing their checks tonight. I like that."
11:30: Meszaros throws a beautiful check to break up the Ducks' rush.
11:11: BEAUTIFUL PASS TO JASON SPEZZA WITH AN OPEN NET... AND A GREAT SAVE BY BEAUCHEMIN!
10:40: Alfredsson bounces off Perry, leading to cheers from the Anaheim faithful and a Ducks scoring chance. Until then, the Sens appeared to be coming on strong. Welcome to the game, boys. Glad you could make it.
Penalty to Anaheim as we go to commercial.
7:15: Ottawa is looking tentative physically. A nice play by Getzlaf left the puck in Pahlsson's feet, and yet he was only weakly checked. Even Perry getting "run over" wasn't as bad as it looked or sounded - the Ottawa player hitting the boards caused the racket.
4:50: Meszaros gets smoked by Penner, followed quickly thereupon by a sketchy roughing call from the back official (Devorsky, rather than O'Halloran, who was three feet from the play). The announcers crow about a missed hook on Redden.
3:10: Devorsky takes one on the kiester. Alfredson picks up the puck to raucous boos. There is hope for sun belt hockey yet.
2:19: Rob Niedermayer smokes the Ottawa defender (not Meszaros this time) and goes to the backhand as the penalty expires to give Anaheim a two goal lead.
1:03: Excellent, excellent holding call on Selanne and a solid non-call on the followup slash.
0:00: And thus ends the first period!
Second Period!
During the intermission, we learned that Ottawa was brutal (quoth Ferraro), terrible on the puck, terrible off the puck, just terrible (quoth Hull), and emotionally stunted (quoth Bill). Why don't they just kick their dog, while they're at it.
Also, arsenic is like poison, gelling gelling is compelling, elephants will steal your identity, buns are still not biscuitesque, men are all about the latest in antiperspirant technology, and Brett Hull was a defenseman:
Scott: "Ray Borque had the best line in the intermission report!"
Robertus: "You mean Ferraro"
Scott: "Not Ferraro, the other guy"
Robertus: "That's Brett Hull, not Ray Borque"
Scott: "Right, Hull. Oh well, they're both defensemen."
Statistically, the game has been a dead heat.
20:00: And we're off! Ottawa starts with 10 seconds left on the power play, which is just long enough for Ottawa to carry the puck out of their end. It was fun while it lasted.
19:02: Scott: "My god, Emery made a save!"
16:06: Three minutes of relatively solid action in the Anaheim end, but scoring chances have been few and far between. The two Ottawa chances have been turned aside by the Anaheim backcheck.
14:20: Two straight minutes in the Ottawa end. Hull mentions that Ottawa is losing all the battles, and he's right. I just checked to see if Anaheim was on the powerplay.
11:15: Jill joins us for the back half of the game, which I described as the "pasta station" of 2-0 games (we had a lackluster experience at a tasting on Monday evening). Jill offers to fill Scott in during the "intermission. Intermission?"
Progress.
8:30: Alfredsson bounces the puck off CoreyHaim Perry and INTO THE NET! Two-one Anaheim!
6:36: Spezza and Sens coack Bryan Murray get into it on the bench. Ottawa seems to have come alive here in the back half of the second period.
5:10: The next five minutes could not pass fast enough for Anaheim.
4:16: Sens defenseman Craig Phillips puts the puck into Emery's feet, EMERY PUTS IT IN THE NET FOR AN ANAHEIM GOAL!
4:16:58: Scott: "You know, they shoot people in Colombia for that."
3:25: The "EM-ERY! EM-ERY!" chant begins in earnest. A classic!
3:15 : We're treated to the Eddie Olczyk checking clinic after a bad elbowing penalty on Ottawa (the call was good, the penalty, bad
2:22: ALFREDSSON SCORES SHORTHANDED!
1:32: Pass back to Beauchemin who LAUNCHES A SHOT AND GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!
0:17: The EM-ERY chant begins again after a brief, unyielding silence.
0:00: And the teams go to the locker rooms, and Jill launches on a tirade about the trifling tasting we had last week.
See you in 20 minutes!
Third Period!
Robertus Runs Game 5
20:00: And we're back!
19:03 The conversation about college professors continues over from the intermission, with a brief interlude to explain the difference between a "fight" and a "battle."
17:04: Everyone misses a check behind the net. Both teams are playing with the desperation befitting the situation (it's a Cup clincher, you know).
15:59: A quick shot from Niedermayer, Moen deflects and GOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!
14:12: Slashing on Cristoph Schubert of Ottawa. Anaheim needs to keep the ice tilted and not let Ottawa back in the game. Thirteen minutes is still a lot of time.
13:26: Scott decries that nobody will be able to leave the stanley cup on the side of the road.
12:37: Antoine Vermette goes in on a BREAK AND PENALTY SHOT! Penalty shot!
Here comes Vermette into the hashmarks a deke and LOSES THE PUCK!
THat has to be the dagger in the heart (he says with 11:50 left) of Ottawa - to have a free scoring chance and not manage to get a shot is a backbreaker.
8:50: Spezza fires the puck ten feet wide of Giguere.
Scott: "Can Ottawa call time out and go tag in Buffalo? That's the only way they're coming back.
7:33: Whereupon a discussion of playoff beards is undertaken.
5:52 I wonder how quickly Selanne gets the Cup during the postgame festivities.
5:14: A quick shot on goal by Ottawa, turned away by Giguere.
5:12: The next five minutes cannot pass too fast for Robertus.
4:31: Scott: "Still, if you're gonna see the biggest comeback in sports history..."
Jill: "If this is gonna be the biggest comeback in sports history, Ottawa will have to shoot the puck.
3:27: Number of times "x is an awful lot of time" has been said: seven.
2:57: The coffin was already nailed shut. Corey Perry just lit it on fire. Six-two, Anaheim.
1:38: The boys in the booth debate whether this is Selanne will retire at the end of the year. Selanne isn't Borque, who was on his last legs in Colorado, so his future is very much up in the air.
0:52: Spezza and Heatley on the ice to end the game. Emerick goes on about T-shirts.
0:00: Zero seconds is not enough time, and the AnaheimMighty Ducks are your 2006-2007 Stanley Cup Champions!
Coming Soon! Robertus recaps!
Of course he did.
In fact, that's the reason Jill is rooting for the Ducks again. She started off rooting for the Ducks, and then Chris Pronger elbowed Dean McAmmond in the head (note: we were at dinner and did not see Chris Neil's high hit earlier in the game). She started rooting for Ottawa (to the point that I considered getting her a Senators' sweater, and then Alfredsson shot the puck at Niedermayer. Ye gods, people.
20:00: And we're off! We're in the booth with Bill, Brett, and Ray, The Ducks in black moving left to right in your weblog.
19:59: This is not Pizza Milano pizza. Scott went to that New York style place in Columbia.
18:20: That was entirely too fast - Ottawa penalty for holding (interference would do just as well) and an immediate scoring chance for Selanne. Frankly, the hold was positively Duckian in its stupidity.
16:35: And a quick, ticky tack call on Volchenkov for hooking,particularly on the heels of a possible goaltender interference
16:19: Pass to McDonald and GOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL
16:18:59: What is that quasi Florida State chant they're playing over the PA system?
14:41: Three straight penalties to Ottawa, this time to Spezza for holding (yes, it was a hold). The Senators have looked sloppy tonight. Even the elbow drop to Pronger was poorly executed.
13:30: Meszaros gets smoked.
Scott: "A lot of people are finishing their checks tonight. I like that."
11:30: Meszaros throws a beautiful check to break up the Ducks' rush.
11:11: BEAUTIFUL PASS TO JASON SPEZZA WITH AN OPEN NET... AND A GREAT SAVE BY BEAUCHEMIN!
10:40: Alfredsson bounces off Perry, leading to cheers from the Anaheim faithful and a Ducks scoring chance. Until then, the Sens appeared to be coming on strong. Welcome to the game, boys. Glad you could make it.
Penalty to Anaheim as we go to commercial.
7:15: Ottawa is looking tentative physically. A nice play by Getzlaf left the puck in Pahlsson's feet, and yet he was only weakly checked. Even Perry getting "run over" wasn't as bad as it looked or sounded - the Ottawa player hitting the boards caused the racket.
4:50: Meszaros gets smoked by Penner, followed quickly thereupon by a sketchy roughing call from the back official (Devorsky, rather than O'Halloran, who was three feet from the play). The announcers crow about a missed hook on Redden.
3:10: Devorsky takes one on the kiester. Alfredson picks up the puck to raucous boos. There is hope for sun belt hockey yet.
2:19: Rob Niedermayer smokes the Ottawa defender (not Meszaros this time) and goes to the backhand as the penalty expires to give Anaheim a two goal lead.
1:03: Excellent, excellent holding call on Selanne and a solid non-call on the followup slash.
0:00: And thus ends the first period!
Second Period!
During the intermission, we learned that Ottawa was brutal (quoth Ferraro), terrible on the puck, terrible off the puck, just terrible (quoth Hull), and emotionally stunted (quoth Bill). Why don't they just kick their dog, while they're at it.
Also, arsenic is like poison, gelling gelling is compelling, elephants will steal your identity, buns are still not biscuitesque, men are all about the latest in antiperspirant technology, and Brett Hull was a defenseman:
Scott: "Ray Borque had the best line in the intermission report!"
Robertus: "You mean Ferraro"
Scott: "Not Ferraro, the other guy"
Robertus: "That's Brett Hull, not Ray Borque"
Scott: "Right, Hull. Oh well, they're both defensemen."
Statistically, the game has been a dead heat.
20:00: And we're off! Ottawa starts with 10 seconds left on the power play, which is just long enough for Ottawa to carry the puck out of their end. It was fun while it lasted.
19:02: Scott: "My god, Emery made a save!"
16:06: Three minutes of relatively solid action in the Anaheim end, but scoring chances have been few and far between. The two Ottawa chances have been turned aside by the Anaheim backcheck.
14:20: Two straight minutes in the Ottawa end. Hull mentions that Ottawa is losing all the battles, and he's right. I just checked to see if Anaheim was on the powerplay.
11:15: Jill joins us for the back half of the game, which I described as the "pasta station" of 2-0 games (we had a lackluster experience at a tasting on Monday evening). Jill offers to fill Scott in during the "intermission. Intermission?"
Progress.
8:30: Alfredsson bounces the puck off Corey
6:36: Spezza and Sens coack Bryan Murray get into it on the bench. Ottawa seems to have come alive here in the back half of the second period.
5:10: The next five minutes could not pass fast enough for Anaheim.
4:16: Sens defenseman Craig Phillips puts the puck into Emery's feet, EMERY PUTS IT IN THE NET FOR AN ANAHEIM GOAL!
4:16:58: Scott: "You know, they shoot people in Colombia for that."
3:25: The "EM-ERY! EM-ERY!" chant begins in earnest. A classic!
3:15 : We're treated to the Eddie Olczyk checking clinic after a bad elbowing penalty on Ottawa (the call was good, the penalty, bad
2:22: ALFREDSSON SCORES SHORTHANDED!
1:32: Pass back to Beauchemin who LAUNCHES A SHOT AND GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!
0:17: The EM-ERY chant begins again after a brief, unyielding silence.
0:00: And the teams go to the locker rooms, and Jill launches on a tirade about the trifling tasting we had last week.
See you in 20 minutes!
Third Period!
Robertus Runs Game 5
20:00: And we're back!
19:03 The conversation about college professors continues over from the intermission, with a brief interlude to explain the difference between a "fight" and a "battle."
17:04: Everyone misses a check behind the net. Both teams are playing with the desperation befitting the situation (it's a Cup clincher, you know).
15:59: A quick shot from Niedermayer, Moen deflects and GOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!
14:12: Slashing on Cristoph Schubert of Ottawa. Anaheim needs to keep the ice tilted and not let Ottawa back in the game. Thirteen minutes is still a lot of time.
13:26: Scott decries that nobody will be able to leave the stanley cup on the side of the road.
12:37: Antoine Vermette goes in on a BREAK AND PENALTY SHOT! Penalty shot!
Here comes Vermette into the hashmarks a deke and LOSES THE PUCK!
THat has to be the dagger in the heart (he says with 11:50 left) of Ottawa - to have a free scoring chance and not manage to get a shot is a backbreaker.
8:50: Spezza fires the puck ten feet wide of Giguere.
Scott: "Can Ottawa call time out and go tag in Buffalo? That's the only way they're coming back.
7:33: Whereupon a discussion of playoff beards is undertaken.
5:52 I wonder how quickly Selanne gets the Cup during the postgame festivities.
5:14: A quick shot on goal by Ottawa, turned away by Giguere.
5:12: The next five minutes cannot pass too fast for Robertus.
4:31: Scott: "Still, if you're gonna see the biggest comeback in sports history..."
Jill: "If this is gonna be the biggest comeback in sports history, Ottawa will have to shoot the puck.
3:27: Number of times "x is an awful lot of time" has been said: seven.
2:57: The coffin was already nailed shut. Corey Perry just lit it on fire. Six-two, Anaheim.
1:38: The boys in the booth debate whether this is Selanne will retire at the end of the year. Selanne isn't Borque, who was on his last legs in Colorado, so his future is very much up in the air.
0:52: Spezza and Heatley on the ice to end the game. Emerick goes on about T-shirts.
0:00: Zero seconds is not enough time, and the Anaheim
Coming Soon! Robertus recaps!
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