Monday Funday

It's amazing how beating the first-place Flyers 7-0, Lundqvist's league-leading 9th shutout (he was already league-leading at 8, actually), Callahan's first career hat trick (and it was of the Texas variety), Ryan McDonagh's best game yet, Richards challenging and subsequently getting his ass kicked by Dubinsky, calls so bad even the NBC guys got them right, and on top of it all using exactly the lines I wanted to use and scratching exactly the forward I wanted to scratch can all serve to turn a Ranger fan from nervous and depressed to elated in the course of a few hours, isn't it?

Nothing bad to say. Every hockey game should be this much fun. I'll just mention the one thing that everyone will quickly forget after such an exciting day: Stephen Walkom was responsible for all those awful calls, and should be fired.

Now, after beating the Senators and Flyers by an aggregate 11-1 for the weekend, we have a couple of days off before playing in Anaheim Wednesday night, then a couple more before playing San Jose Saturday night. By the next day, the Sabres will have played four games and the 'Canes will have played three, giving them each only one game-in-hand over us. So, it's a good time for those teams to lose some games. Meanwhile, all we can do is chill out and prepare for Wednesday. So, time to let loose with some fun things!

Fun Thing One, by way of Puck Daddy today, an educational film I call "Donald Brashear Shakes His Ass but Does Not Put His Beer Down until He Has Finished It":



Fun Thing Two, by way of this thing that appears to be a Thrashers-ish blog, a long time ago. You may have seen it back when it first made the Internet Rounds? I didn't. It's a music video starring a cute nerd and a ukelele. It's called "Puck the Bunnies," and it's written for those girls you see at every goddamn game - you know the ones. I'm reposting and dedicating it to sometime reader Melanie, non-reader Ruth, the ladies of Some Like It Blue, the ladies of Hab It Her Way, and any other actual female hockey fans who are given a bad name by Puck Bunnies everywhere.



Fun Thing Three, by way of that same Thrashers-ish blog, but recently: a flowchart that will help you decide which hockey team to root for. It's kinda hard to follow, because the creator didn't include, like, arrows on the lines or anything, but if you can follow it, it's worth it, because it's very funny. Way too big to consider embedding here, just follow the linky: This is the linky.

That's all! Go have a good day!