Devils @ Hurricanes 4/19/09

7:30 – A glimpse of Captain Langs leaving the bench in one of the clips on the recap. No footage of the injury though.

7:32 - A clip of Jamie taking a slap shot. That’s the injury? WTF Jamie.

7:35 – Hurricanes fans are freakin’ loud. Shut up. You don’t even have ice in Carolina! (thank you drunk Devils fan from Friday).

7:39 – A little girl is singing the National Anthem. Somehow, I really could care less about a little Canes fan! Boo you, child!

7:40 – The puck drops in Raleigh! Also, Jay Pando’s got a nice playoff beard going.

7:41 – The Hurricane fans are annoying me. We’re only 75 seconds in and I think they oughta shut the hell up. Oh, yes, playoffs make me bitter.

7:41 – Brian Gionta takes a sharp angle shot from the middle of nowhere. He made that exact same shot five times on Friday. Also, the new ZZPOP line is out. It’s kind of ZZROL now since it’s Rolston instead of Pop Langs.

7:43 – Rolston fires one. Misses. The puck comes back down to MB30. A scary wrap-around attempt ensues but thanks to the 35 Devils that seem to be standing in front of the net stop it.

7:44 – Mike Rupp; another one sporting some playoff stubble.

7:45 – ‘Canes fans go wild over NOTHING. They think it’s a penalty so they cheer. How gay.

7:46 – MB30! Now that’s how you stop a puck! Why don’t you do that more often?!

7:47 – You know, normally, when I have my head down and looking at the screen, the crowd is helpful because they cheer at approptiate times, like when there’s a breakaway or a fight or something. But with this bunch of retards, it’s like ‘YAAAYY! CANES BREAK AWAY!. YAAAY!! ERIC STAAL’S SHOOTING! YAAAY ERIC’S DRINKING WATER!!! YAAY, I SEE A BUG!!’

7:48 – ZACHARY PARISE! 3rd goal of the playoffs! Jeez, man.

7:49 – BOO! CANES, YOU SUCK! 1-1.

7:51 – Brian NotSoGiant-a tries to play defense but gets twisted like a mini-pretzel.

7:52 – The Hurricanes announcer is louder than the Devils one.

7:53 – Is anyone else sick of the ‘Technologic’ commercial for Lincoln?

7:56 – Babchuck takes a shot. OHSHIT. Bryce Salvador is down…a lot of blood. Puck to the face? SHIT. BAD. NOT GOOD. He isn’t getting up…oh, Lord. Never ever good. Bryce is not leaving. He is on the bench, towel to the face, rocking back in forth in pain but staying in. God, I love him.

8:01 – Johnny Oduya (my favorite playoff beard from last year) takes a one-timer. Misses wide. Takes a second try. Cam Ward, you suck. More shots. Lots of shots actually. 50 seconds…hurry, Devils. Hugely open net shot but no one there to take it, since it’s a rebound.

8:02 – Staal boy toe-drags and makes an attempt but shoots too high. SIGHS. Power play (the four-minute one) is over.

8:03 – You have no idea how much I want to stuff those playoff towels down the throats of all those Canes fans.

8:07 – A fight that could’ve been. My favorite little pest David Clarkson and some random Cane jackass corner each other but don’t drop the gloves fast enough and it’s broken up by the refs.

8:10 – Penalty to Rob Brinda’gay. Hooking. Silly Cane.

8:12 – That’s right Devils…keep letting the Canes clear it out. I’m sure the puck will send itself into the net.

8:14 – I don’t understand it. We are a good team but as soon as we go on the Power Play, we turn into a bunch of incompetent baboons on ice skates! MB30 ends up playing the puck for 80% of the PP because all they do is clear it out,

8:16 – GIO!! LITTLE GIONTA SCORES WITH 8.6 SECONDS LEFT IN THE PERIOD! WHO SAID ONLY BIG GUYS SCORE?!

8:17 – And the first period ends. Ha, sure shut up those jerkface Canes fans!

8:35 – We’re back. Mad Dog takes a penalty. Failure.

8:38 – Mike Mottau gets crunched.

8:43 – Paul Martin’s a fast skater, despite the fact that he got splattered.

8:47 – Dainius Zubrus gets a penalty because pretty boy Staal punched him in the face. That makes sense.

8:48 – Thank you frantic, make-shift, totally spazzy, completely unorganized Devils defense.

8:52 – Stuff happens. I’m not really sure what, though.

8:54 – Bobby Holik gets a penalty. Boo. Why does he do things like this?

8:58 – Keep it up, MB30.

8:58 – DAMN YOU, PENALTIES. Paul Martin takes a penalty. 5-on-3. GULP.

9:02 – AGGGGGHHHH!!! 2-2.

9:06 – PP. PP. PP. PP = LOVE. (And our very unorganized power play).

9:10 – Staal VS MB30. They both take penalties.

9:13 – Period 2 over. Be back in 17 minutes.

9:32 – And we’re back.

9:34 – Staal and Zubrus are released from their pens.

9:35 – Colin White hits Staal boy in his head. xD

9:36 – I’m getting a little anxious with this game.

9:38 – A ‘Cane loses his edge and wipes out so Johnny O does what he’s supposed to and pokes him and the ribs a dozen times with his stick.

9:40 – Holy mother of God that was close. The Canes almost made it 3-2 but luckily, their rebound retrieval skills are worse than ours.

9:40 – GIONTA, STOP WITH THE SHARP-ANGLE SHOTS. You can score straight on, bud.

9:45 – SIGH. Colin White. Roughing.

9:47 – Save by MB30. Sigh. I really don’t want to do overtime again.

9:51 – Bleh.

9:56 – Just BLEH. Frantic hockey. We just hurt a Cane, too.

9:57 – Bryce Salvador is still a badass. Took a puck to the face (or a stick?) and played through the pain. Love him.

10:03 – Sheesh, almost got the go-ahead goal there but MB30 has us saved.

10:05 – MSG turns gay and freezes.

10:07 – AGH. The stress and the suspense and the chaos is killing me.

10:09 – Overtime…time.

10:29 – TRAAAAVISSS ZAAAJAACCC!! DEVILS WIN!! ZACH PARISE DOES HIS NORMAL JUMPY HUG ON ZAJAC AND THE TEAM GOES CRAZY, SHUTTING UP THOSE ANNOYING CAROLINA FANS!! FINAL SCORE: 3-2. NOW WE LEAD THE SERIES 2-1!