H2H2 Update

As some of you know, there is a pickup game that's in the works for the H2H2 festivities. If you're at all interested in joining in on the fun, click here to fill out the form and get your name on the list. In the meantime, enjoy me getting busted taking a picture of TPH

You get to choose

Is it a post-goal celebration or a mini huddle to Rock, Paper, Scissors who has to be the 3rd string goalie?

Here's hoping we only see one of those options tonight!

Get your rest

So, with all the injuries right now, some of the team has been asked to step up more than they otherwise would have this season. In light of this, they might need a little more rest in between games... I'm fully in support of this:

...just be ready come game time, ok?

Backwards post

I know these normally go up in pregame, but in light of the attitudes of both goalies last night, I felt the need to show Jimmy a little love...

Prepping for the game

Skipping the usual pregame, we're going in a different direction today. Presented by someone who has never played any hockey more organized than "grab your rollerblades, the kids are starting a game on the tennis courts" is how to prepare for a game.

Step One: Explain to the foreign kid the importance of good eyebrow grooming...

Step Two: Stretch

Step Three: Do the Homer! (not my picture, obviously)

Step Four: Get death stared at by the coach for goofing off.

Step Six: Be required to trail one of the coaches as punishment for having goofed off...

Step Seven: Warm up in traditional Datsyukian fashion.

Step Eight: Stare down the net

Step Nine: National Anthem

Step Ten: Faceoff (not the opening one, but you get the idea)

I'm pretty sure you can figure out the rest of where the game goes from there. Let's hope we get to see this face when it's over...

Wings vs Hawks Mini Pregame

I think this says it all...

The Big Chill

I know I'm really behind in posting and this is kind of off track, but how could you go to this event and not want to post about it? I'll save my Spartan friends the pain of a recap (5-0, Go Blue! State's coaches did have much better hats though, very Babcockian) since I don't do those anyways and stick to the pictures. My little brother and I were in row 90 of the end zone closest to the Michigan bench. Something like that... we were surrounded by drunks, one of whom kept harassing the girl next to me because she'd never seen porn and yet still called herself a college student and another one picked up my hat and threw it into the crowd (still angry about that... luckily a nice State fan took pity on me after I pleaded with him and Jeffy death stared him into tossing it back to me) but it was still one of the coolest hockey experiences of my life.

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here's what the stadium looked like.

The nice, not drunk guy two rows behind us offered to take a picture of us in front of the field...

Michigan skating out shortly after fireworks went off around the ice

And the Spartans skating out, sans fireworks...

Both teams, lining up before the game.

And some shots from the game. Pretty sure almost every shot has the same line on the ice for U of M, not sure how that worked out...

In the corner...

And shaking hands after the game...

And finally, my favorite goalie ever. Or at least of the Big Chill :)