HOMER!!!

The goalies of the NHL begrudgingly extend a hearty "welcome back" to Tomas Holmstrom. This time I didn't have to rely on the internet, Homer himself told me at the signing yesterday that he would be on the ice today. He also told me his butt is not as big as this picture (a slight variation on an earlier motivator) makes it seem:

What's that you hear?

Oh yeah, it's the collective pads of about 58 goalies shaking in fear. Welcome back, Homer.

Wings vs Stars pregame

It's Mikey's first game back in Dallas since the Stars decide he was obsolete. Let's show them how wrong they were, Mo.

And on to the motivation... Homer may call Mule "the grumpy" but we all know he can get a little irked himself.

And just because he's awesome...

Game 6 Pictures

I should have known this was gonna be ugly... Nick didn't smile at all in warm-ups. Given his future-sight, if Nick is smiling, you know you'll be smiling come the end of the game.

And just look at what Eaves thought of it...

And Mule? I think we all can see how he feels

It wasn't all bad though- in fact, here's Big Rig looking kinda like a Giant (that's for you, nursenitz) doofus to cheer you all up

Nick still looks grumpy, but Ozzie and Helmer are having fun

For @lizzlefoshizzle and any other Helm lovers out there, here's another one of him...

Here's Homer having words with Lepisto

For Dena, Kronner being awesome...

And speaking of action shots, how about some of Abby?

Growing up, fights, big hits and scrappy players made me fall in love with hockey. In the spirit of that, I'm just gonna finish off with an Abby tribute, given that he fought, had big hits and was generally scrappy tonight...

Here's a bit of his fight... My shots stopped just before he gained the upper hand, but I still like this one

Even when the refs had him in a headlock, Abby still tried to get in a few more while Mule stood watch.

And he wasn't done chirping when the fight was over...

One more for good measure

Here's hoping we have a better game 7