And boy, do I feel like death on a cracker. /rimshot

ANYWAY! Last night the ‘Canes took on their bitches errr the Atlanta Thrashers at the RBC–and I, of course, was at work poppin’ DayQuil and spreading my Cold From Hel to half of Raleigh because I couldn’t find anyone to work for me.
Go figure.

So I flopped on the couch with the DVR remote and three of four Chancellors, and watched the game. After a pretty slack fight between Hands of Feet and Shane Hnidy, and a goal by Eric Boulton, the ‘Canes roared out to a 3-1 lead to end the first period. It would have been 3-0 had Brad Larsen not whiffed on a shot and had that whiff drift over to Boulton (who potted the opportunity), but shit happens.

Then the team went to the locker room, Cory Stillman joined Fearless Leader and The Mighty Forslund in the broadcast booth to talk about his and Frankie Kaberle’s rehab progress (Stiller’s due back around Yule or so, from what I understand), and things kinda went to Hel after that.

What in the name of Freyr’s left nut was that second and third period all about? Seriously, that was some of the most slack-ass slackassitude that I’ve seen since the reign of Chairman Mo. Two nice highlights were Cam Ward’s OMGWTFBBQ save in the second (where the boy just reached up and snatched the puck away from Marian Hossa (I think it was Hossa–I’d become distracted by Chancellor Jasmine Liao deciding she wanted some attention, so I didn’t get a good look at who shot the puck)), and My Man Ryan Bayda’s goal to make it 4-3, and Remo Williams was his usual Sinanju-using kickass self, but that was it. Hedican looked like total ass out there–actually, it looked more like he was skating in pain. If you want some of my Happy Fun Pain Meds, Bret, let me know. Seriously mang, I can get you the hookup.
And then there was OT. Wow.

Anton Babchuk scored this goal that was….well here, look at it for yourself:

Click me–and make sure that you have Windows Media Player installed!

That was positively Glenn Anderson-esque, if you ask me. The interview afterwards was kinda funny–for a minute I thought I was listening to an Alex Ovechkin interview, when Fearless Leader asked Babs a question about the defense and his answer indicated that he didn’t totally understand the question. It was amusing.

The Good: Hutchinson looked good, Commodore stayed out the box, and Remo Wiliams just keeps making that trade look better and better all the time (though I miss Joe, Lord of Evil–call me nostalgic)

The Bad: Second and third period.

The Ugly: Bobby Holik.

And now I’m going to go back to being sick.