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Now that hockey season is over I will have to find something else to write about. Little dissapointed with the end of the Sabres season, but Ottawa has to be given credit. They really handed it to the Sabres. All I can say now is, GO DUCKS!
Well for all you Sabres fans (and maybe you non – Sabres fans), you should check out their new website. The NHL is converting all of the web pages of the 30 hockey teams into a universal format. The Sabres are the 8th team to transition into this new universal format. It looks kind of nice.
The big news on the page is that Briere, Drury, and Zubris all want to stay in Buffalo. Isn’t that GREAT! I hope it happens.
On the page you will be able watch all three of the playoff movies that were created just for the Sabres. I didn’t know there was three versions of the playoff movie. You should go watch them. Also the Sabres have released a new video to thank the all the fans that supported the team through out the regular season and the playoffs, which brings me to the title of this post.
The video has commentary from the players as well as scenes from outside the arena during the playoffs. It’s set to the music of Pirates of the Carribean.
Half way through the video is a shot of a fan holding a sign which reads (probably the best quote), “ONLY GOD SAVES MORE THAN MILLER.”
Well what can you say about the Senators. They are having a great playoffs. I guess we will have to see what happens, but for right now I am not holding my breath. I would love to believe that they could pull it off, but it will be tough. Anyway, I got an email today that was pretty funny, so I thought I would share it with you.
***Amber Alert***
We are urgently looking for a group of 20 hockey players, believed to have disappeared between the 2nd and 3rd round of the NHL Eastern Conference Playoffs. Last spotted in New York City on May 6th. The leader goes by the name “Danny.” The group consists of a bunch of multi-nationals. It is believed that they all understand English, but you never know! We expect them to be in fine physical condition because they haven’t hit anything in weeks! If anyone knows their whereabouts, please advise the Buffalo Sabres home office. they must be found before 7pm Wednesday and flown to Ottawa before it’s too late! If found, there is still that slight chance for 4 in a row!
For all you readers of my blog (which is probably only my little brother Shaun) this is going to be another hockey rant, so be prepared. You know the funny thing is I never played hockey or even what it was when I was little. Know I am addicted to it like crack.
Well I have been getting ready for the Sabres / Sens series by reading up on ESPN, NHL.com, and just other sporting websites. I do have one question. Is the series over with. Did the Senators win? Because everwhere I read Buffalo is getting beat by the Senators. The Senators have to much momentum moving into the Eastern Finals. They are going to run all over Buffalo. They cant compete with the Heatly, Spezza, Alfredsson line. They couldn’t stop the Jagr line, how are they going stop Heatly, Spezza, and Alfredsson. If I am not mistaken Buffalo won that series.
Predictions are one thing, but to count a team out even before the series has started is another thing. Ok, so Buffalo didn’t play that great against the Rangers. And maybe they were expected to sweep the Islanders. It took them six games to move on. So what. Nobody is talking about how it took Detriot to win in six games.
I have come to realize that everyone hates a No. 1 seed and everyone loves an underdog. Even though we are the No. 1 seed in the East, I feel like we are the underdog with all these reports of the Senators beating Buffalo.
Let me tell you, it might have not been the best series against the Islanders or the Rangers, but these boys are here to finish what they started last year.
Sunday afternoon the Buffalo Sabres finished the Rangers off with a 5 – 4 victory at Madison Square Garden. It was a hard fought battle by both teams (buffalo didn’t play well at all against the Rangers in games 3 & 4) and if you look back at my earlier posts I did say the Sabres in 6. However, I did have some problems with the coverage of the series. Except for games 1 and 5 the coverage was mostly on Versus or NBC. That shouldn’t matter to anyone right! Wrong, to a Sabres fan that is everything, especially since NBC owns Versus. For the entire series all I heard was how good the Rangers are, Jagr this, and Jagr that. I DON”T CARE ABOUT JAGR. If you are a Rangers fan you were probably in heaven, but for a Sabres fan it was HELL! I mean the sportscasters on Versus couldn’t even say the players names right half the time. One sportscaster call Derek Roy “Travis Roy.” WHO THE HELL IS TRAVIS ROY?
I guess the culmination was this past Sunday afternoon even before the game started. Yeah 2 out of the 3 sportscasters picked Buffalo to win, but Brett Hull had to open his mouth. We don’t hate you in Buffalo Brett; we just hate how you cheated to win a Stanley Cup! I don’t suggest making any plans to broadcast or even visit Buffalo any time soon Brett after your comments on Sunday. You probably wouldn’t come out alive. Ok, back to the game.
The First period was rough, 1 goal by the Rangers. However, the second period was great. Buffalo, in true Buffalo fashion came out and scored 4 goals, but if you were listening to the game and not watching you probably wouldn’t have known Buffalo scored 4 times. The sportscaster kept talking about Jagr, or how the defense didn’t slide over and that is the only reason Buffalo scored. At one point they broke from the Broadcast to show Roger Clemens announce that he is going to return as a Yankee. WHO GIVES A SHIT! I was quite confused? But when the game came back they were still talking about Jagr. “If your wondering, Jagr is not on the bench. He has gone to the locker room for skate repairs. So for all you fans out there wondering were Jagr is, he’s in the locker room getting some repairs.” Wow, I am going to sleep so much better knowing Jagr is ok. I think during that time Buffalo scored. Do you think there was a, hey nice goal, or way to pass that puck. Instead, us Buffalo fans got. “Jagr is still not on the ice. Buffalo has some great opportunities right now with Jagr not on the ice.” So you sportscasters are trying to tell me that the only reason Buffalo scored is because Jagr wasn’t on the ice. Give me a break!
If this game wasn’t that important then I probably would have listen to it on the radio instead of watching one of the worst broadcasts of a hockey game. That wasn’t it. Then the excuses and the whining started. They were tired. Moving the game back a day broke our momentum, yadda, yadda, yadda. I thought it was a disgrace to hockey and all the fans that these Broadcasters at Madison Square Garden and at NBC couldn’t just congratulate the Buffalo Sabres, but instead have to come up with excuses for why the Rangers lost.
I hope I have to never watch another NHL game on NBC, but unfortunately NBC only cares about playoff hockey and not regular season hockey. There logo should be “If your not a Ranger or Yankee, we don’t care.”
Well it’s off to the Eastern Conference Finals. I am going to go out on a limb and pick Buffalo again in 6. This series is going to be harder. Buffalo needs to play a lot better at home and away.
Saturday night I got a chance to see Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Rose Theater in New York City. They presented a program entitled “The Legends of Blue Note.”
The music is some of the best ever made–Lee Morgan’s Cornbread, Horace Silver’s Song for My Father, Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage–all wrapped up in album cover art as bold and legendary as the music inside. The JLCO with Wynton Marsalis debuts exciting and long-overdue big band arrangements of the best of Blue Note, complete with trademark cracklin’ trumpets, insistent drums and all manner of blues.
The concert was unbelievable and did I mention my seats. Yeah, I didn’t. The Rose Theater is designed so that audience surrounds the performers. So there is the regular orchestra, mezzanine, and balcony seats, but there is also box seating all the way around the theater. My seats were in the orchestra level on the stage. I was 20 feat from Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (the picture above is from my camera phone). Wow, I keep forgetting to mention that I got to meet Wynton. However, my friend had the camera so once he emails me the picture I will load it for you all to see. You should really go and see the Wynton Marsalis and the LCJO. Probably the best concert I have ever seen. Yes, better then Billy Joel and Huey Lewis and the News.
