Into 8th Place - Hey CBJ! It’s Mueller Time!
Whoa nellie! Who woulda thunk it? Sorry to take so long… between work and technical difficulties (as in I’m a total dorkette) I bring you the total euphoria that was the CBJ game.
First off when the hell did we become a team that can come from behind? with authority? twice? Just askin, cuz thats exactly what we did! Move over Hammer, the big PM has more moves than you do and a better entourage and pants too.
TGO called this, one of the best games we have played. Its getting to the point where nearly every game is the best one. I have to agree with him on this one. Just wow, what a battle!
Our resident net hound got hit early…(seriously Breezy… can you just pretend you let in the early goal and just not do it?) Modin lit us up in the first 30 seconds of this one. Setting everyone’s hearts into the first of many cardiac arrests. Jonesy tried blocking (taking a nasty Malhortra slap shot to the chest) and the rebound just bounced right onto the tape of Modin. Talk about unlucky. Both teams settled into siege mode. The return of ScrappyDo (Danny Carcillo) was marked by an inaugural beat down of Ole Tollefson. Carci practically shoved the refs out of his way when they tried to break it up. That boy had a full head of steam and took it to Ole pretty good. Welcome back lucky #13. The first period ends 1 - 0 Jackets
The second period (arguably our best most games) starts out with a DMo penalty. Opening the door for pessimism to poke pissy lil paws in our boys minds but we manage to fight through the PK. And then the big PM ghosted up the boards unmolested, patiently waiting for Leclaire to twitch… and twitch he did, opening up just enuff for Mules’ deceptively quick wrister. MULES scorzes!
1 - 1 game. We took it to them pretty hard for the rest of the period trying to get some insurance. But of course players-from-Coyotes-past, always bite us in the hindquartes and Chimera is no exception as he takes a drop pass from that sneaky Zherdev and puts an ugly, late period, snap shot high glove on Breezy. We can’t quite answer before the period ends. 2 - 1 Jackets and hearts stutter again. This is a battle to the death apparently as we seem destined to give up late period back breakers.
We go into the third, nasty and wound up like springs. The oft over looked TQ made like Rod Carew off a high Vrbata rebound.
TQ scorzes! I don’t think poor Leclaire knew where the puck went, until TQ was skating away. 2 - 2 game and I for one, am on the edge of the couch cushions because there are nearly a full 18 minutes left and I am Nashified (a reasonable phobia of Rick Nash). The Jackets seemed to turn on the heat but we just keep turning them away and having a blast hangin out in their end. We have another bad moment when we get caught with the the ugly too-many-men and the Jackets go crazy with 4 or 5 great chances that Breezy just smothers (the puck actually goes in the net from behind under a lifted net, I nearly cried til the ref waived it off). We kill that muther! and hope lifts her head and looks around a bit. (Rhino runs rings around the CBJ defense and the BigKids line make Leclaire miserable).
Then the big PM and his faithful Captain step on the pedal again. What a freakin tandem they are. Jovo to Donor, who barely even looks up (he knew exactly where PM was headed) and just hangs a long pass down and across ice onto Mules’ stick. Mules is never one to look a gift goal in the mouth. He charges past his defender (with Rhino on his right) and slips a snap shot right under a befuddled Leclaire. MULES scorzes! 3 - 2 Yotes. Oh sweet goddess of hockey fortunes, can we hold onto it? or are we gonna pull out all the stops this time and try to get one more?
Apparently we are going to try to give Onyx a heart attack by letting the Jackets turn physical. Silly me, our boys have learned a lesson about playing to tie/protect a lead. The afterburners I didn’t know we had kicked in and we go head to head, in a wide open, shot fest. We hang tight in the suddenly speed and shot driven last 5 minutes. Breezy turns into a total monster (turning away multiple sure thing attempts by the Jacket’s top players Nash and Zherdev). Talk about end-to-end rushing!
TQ misses the empty net… barely. Hanzal (crucial inerception)… misses the empty net… barely… Icing call. The biggest face off of his career probably… HANZAL!!!! wins it!!!! Then gets another interception to Vrbata who pots the empty netter! Vbrat! scorzes! with less than 10 seconds left. 4 - 2 YOTES! Leclaire fills his last closeup with F-bombs as the Coyotes slip into 8th place in the playoff standings!
NOTEWORTHY:
Mules takes up residence in the rookie goal race right next to Toews. The Captain extends his point streak to a personal best. And the Yotes are in a playoff berth!
~photos from Jamie Sabau - AP~
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