A Natural Disaster: Hurricanes vs Thrashers

This Thursday was another "Thrashers Thursday." We are getting killed with all of these Tuesday and Thursday night games. Attendance is awful. Maybe it's a good thing no one was here to witness the Thrashers take a big shit on the ice.


I've never taken pictures of the Hurricanes. I despise them. I thought it might be cool to take pictures of them at least once, plus, I wanted to see Manny Legace!


Jussi Jokinen, how I absolutely loathe you. He is in my top 3 hates with Chad LaRose and Cam Ward.


Want to know why I hate Jokinen?






Tonight was the first game with the Canes new captain, Eric Staal. Congrats Staalsie, it looks good on ya.





Brind'Amour cleaning out the net. His face is rough, but they don't call him "Rod the Bod" for nothing.





Stupid Cam Ward.





Yay!!! Manny Legace! I'm so glad he found his way back to the NHL, even if it IS with the Canes. I wish it had been with us!





Whitney taking some shots at the net.





I know, Moose. They disgust me, too.





Except for Manny. This is the goalie tandem I wanted for the year. Moose and Manny are glad to catch up with each other.
Moose: Hey Manny! Glad to see you again.
Manny: Good to be back.
Moose: I'm glad to hear that you found an NHL roster.
Manny: Yeah, me too. Even though they do suck.
Moose: Hey, it could be worse, you could play for the Thrashers...oh wait, the Canes are actually WORSE than the Thrashers.





Cam Ward is a phenomenally talented goalie. Cam Ward is also smoking hot. I hate Cam Ward.





Manny!!! I banged on the glass every time he skated by and yelled his name. He smiled at me. I love the way you can see his little blond hair sticking out of the back of his mask.





Eric Staal puckering up. I've got something you can kiss...MY ASS!





Patrick Dwyer waiting to shoot on the net.





Heatmeiser is antagonizing Chad LaRose. Good job, Heat.





Niclas Wallin





Yeah, I know. The place is empty. Don't rub it in.





Captain Staal





#&@*$&@ *@&!@(! $*)(@)! Chad @#&@%! LaRose.





Manny taking some shots.


I didn't take as many warm up pics this time. I would actually forget to take pictures and have to remind myself. I was too busy seething with rage and hate.




First Period!





Some early action in front of Ward.





Ward making a save.





Just go on and pass the damn thing to Sutter, it's going to be that kind of night anyway.





Yay, great, a save. Slava is taking it to the net though.





Action in front of Pavs.

At the end of the first period, shots were even with both team having 8. The difference was, we let two of their shots in! That's right, for the 2nd time in 2 games, we went into the 2nd period down 2-0. Unfortunately this game would not have the same outcome as the Toronto game.




Second Period! Hainsey is adjusting himself.





What the hell is Zach doing? It looks like he's squatting behind Pavs.





Freaking Jokinen. Look at him with the puck on his stick. And oh yeah, it IS about to go in the net.





Pavs making a save, not enough of these going on.





Nik can't score, so I guess he decides to show Cam Ward his best quality.





Thor makes life difficult for Cam Ward and Joni Pitkanen.





So close, Slater! Damn you, Cam Ward!





Woo hoo! Score!





Nice job, whoever you are! (don't forget to enter my Crazy Leafs fan contest!!!)






Nik in front of the net.





Boulton tried to spark the team and get some energy going by pushing on Gleason, Gleason didn't take him up on that dance offer.





Thorburn didn't take no for an answer.

The good times continued in the 2nd period with Carolina scoring two more times and putting us down 4-0. Peverley got us on the board with a goal so we went into the third period down 4-1. Shots were about even with Atlanta out shooting Carolina 10-13.





Some intermission entertaiment, sumo hockey.





These guys were something else. They came into the game when the first period was almost over. The were at least in their 40s, so no blaming it on being teenagers. They made out the entire time. She sat in his lap and they tongued, groped, kissed and fondled. When it was kiss-cam time, we were all pointing to them. Then she got up and left! You've been having sex in front of me the entire time and you get up during the kiss cam? While she was gone, the usher told the guy they needed to cut it out, there were kids around.





Welcome to the ice! Moose being the Wal-Mart greeter.





Third period!





Slater working hard as always.





Sorry Slates, it doesn't count if you put Cam Ward in the net, he has to have the puck with him.





I'm excited about this picture of yet another blah blah blah great save by Cam Ward.





Booooooo! I don't care that you are wonderful, talented and hot.





Pevs working hard in front of the net.





Cam clearing the puck away to the side of the net.





Get it, Army!! He did! Army scores and the score is now 4-2! The Thrashers got two power plays, one late in the period. Of course we didn't score ANYTHING during those power plays. Totally winable this game was. If we could have scored on a power play, we'd be within one. Then we could have pulled Pavs and tied it up.





Well, we did pull Pavs, but of course all that resulted from that was an empty net goal.





Time Out Atlanta! They aren't going over plays, they are discussing the exits from the building so they don't have to face the fans.


Another craptastic game in Blueland.