Thrashers Kryptonite: Tampa Bay vs Atlanta

Twas the night after Christmas and all through the rink.
fans wanted a win so that we wouldn't sink
farther down the division standings of the south east,
But Vinny scored 2 and proved to be a beast.
Stamkos was there and St. Louis was too,Even though there were rumors that he had the flu.


More importantly, Johnny shaved!



Mason warming up. Mason and my friend Randy have this "bond." Mason always gives him a stick tap and a wave. I made DOZENS of little moose posters, as me how many waves Johan gave me. The winks were nice though.



Something has caught Kaner and Eager's attention.



Big Buff.



Johnny blowing kisses? I'm over here, Johnny!!



Swarming the goalie.



I SWEAR Johnny has more facial hair now than he did 6 minutes ago. He'll have a playoff bead by the end of the game.



Burmi taking his post warm up shots.



Pavs picks up an extra stick on the ice. Hey, you never know when you might need another!



Tampa having a huddle, probably talking about how even with Dan Ellis in net, they are dominating us.



Dan looking like he's checking his watch. Got a date? Maybe he's set to meet with his financial advisor to discuss how he barely makes enough money to live.



USA! USA! We had a large group of soldiers from Ft. Bragg in for the game. The best part was they were on that Home Depot game. They won and got some prizes, one of which was this ridiculous lawn ornament/snowman. I was like "wtf are they going to do with that?" When it was time to get the crowd pumped up with the music/flags/make some noise signs etc they'd put these guys on the jumbo tron and there was a guy waving the snowman. It cracked me up every time.



Damn you Ryan Malone! Ryan Malone is my all time favorite kiss cam participant. Last season he put his arm around Stamkos. No such entertainment this time.



Some chaos at the other end.



Meet Glenn Beck. No, it's not the real Glenn Beck, this guy never actually cried. I just thought he looked like Beck from the back. He was a super obnoxious Lightning fan, but apparently too much of a pussy to wear a Lightning jersey. He's holding up four fingers because Toby got a penalty and he wanted to make sure the refs knew it should be four minutes.



Looks like Glenn has some friends with him. Sit down, douchebags.



Fake Glenn Beck was a perv, too. He was taking pics of the girls bending over and squatting.



Malone all up in Pavelec's Kool Aid.



Sopes trying to get him out of there.



Pavs slides across to try and make a save.



Booo. Lightning scores. Fake Glenn Beck is happy. Come on Pamela (usher) can't you toss him for being obnoxious?!?



Pavelec managed to steal us a point, but the Lighting win in OT.


Very late in the 3rd period when it was very apparent that we were heading to OT Buff very stupidly boarded Randy Jones, putting us a man down in OT. This is the NINTH straight game the Thrashers have dropped to the Lightning. The last game we won was the opening night game of the 2009-10 season.