Our usual programming is delayed for this game recap.
The Hockey Junkies took a Christmas trip to Chicagoland to watch the Hawks defeat the Flyers.
It was a trip of a lifetime.
-We woke up around 7 a.m. and started the drive to Chicago after a trip to McDonalds of course.
-Ohio is flat.
-Indiana is also flat.
-Chicago was raining and flooding. There were still people shopping in the high-end stores lining the streets.
-The parking garage elevator had different music on each level. We parked on the Frank Sinatra level.
There was some crazy weather, raining and fogging and sleeting.
-We ate at Gino's East and gorged ourselves on deep dish pizza while we listened to emo 90's music. Ah, good times.
-Henrik, while wearing her hooker boots, stepped into a giant slush pool. She screamed as a cab screeched to a halt in front of her. Inside the cab was Jonathan Toews. We almost peed ourselves from excitement.
-Chicago Stadium...United Center. The most amazing arena in the world.
-Henrik bought a Patrick Sharp t-shirt and Noodles splurged on a Duncan Keith. We couldn't help it.
-The opening video was odd. The Hawks players were like back-alley raping these shadowy hockey players through the streets of Chicago.
Opening face off
-Music at the United Center is amazing. They played f-ing Head Automatica. That's worth the price of admission right there.
-Fans cheer and clap throughout the anthem. It literally gives you chills.
-The Hawks scored only a few minutes in. Andrew Ladd was first and Patrick Sharp did after.
-During the intermission, they played a video to write-in Patrick Sharp.
-Chris Gratton was bitching at Craig Adams on the bench and then they finally fought. It was pretty sweet.
-John and Joan Cusack were in attendance.
-We made Toews into a verb. When you Toews someone or "You've been Toews-ed" it means that you just got an eyebrow raise/bitchface.
-Hawks fans kept chanting, "De-troit sucks!"
-During the second intermission, they do a fan shootout. There is a child, a woman and a man. The woman is usually blonde, pretty and wearing hooker boots.
-Third period, Hawks scored two 5-on-3 goals. One was Brian Campbell and the other was Kris Versteeg, the leading rookie scorer.
-Commercial break had a video on the jumbotron called "One Minute At The Forefront" and some doctor showed us what a shoulder injury is by demonstrating on Kris Versteeg. Yowza.
-Troy Brouwer and Mike Richards fought. And Brouwer owned Richards. We really like Mikey (unfortunately) but he got pwned.
-When Scott Hartnell gets frustrated, he does stupid shit. He punched Martin Havlat in the back of the head before he skated to the bench. What a liability.
-There was a child in a Briere jersey and we had to hold Noodles back from punching him in the soft-spot.
-Outside the arena, Henrik was stopped by a man who asked her if she was the girl in the fan shootout. It was the boots.
-It was awesome to see the Flyers get completely owned by the Hawks. What an amazing game.
-Insane traffic going into the Burgh. Some moron decided to hit someone else right before the Fort Pitt Tunnels. Idiot!
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In other news, the Penguins shut out the New Jersey Devils.
Marc-Andre Fleury was amazing. And we were shocked that they even won. Guess it's a good thing that we don't expect the Penguins to win.
Timmy Wallace is our boy. He is a mini-Orpik. He will score a big goal for the team, we know it.
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