It's not fun when a team you genuinely like shoots themselves in the foot and has to hope that a twelfth seed can beat a team on the bubble. And it's not fun when you genuinely like both teams (albeit one a little more) that are fighting for the playoff spot.
Needless to say, we were emotional wrecks when the night was over. It was just too much.
Here is a breakdown of our emotional states between the end of the Hawks game and the end of the Stars/Wild game:
stupid assholes had to go and lose and now Hawks fans have to wait for Dallas to fail against a team that is twelfth in the Western Conference
greeeeaaaaaat, Detroit won again ooooohhhh yay, whaaaaatever!
[sniffle] WHY DID THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN? WHAT DID WE DO TO THE HOCKEY GODS? IS IT BECAUSE NOODLES BROKE HER ANKLE AND JINXED ANZE KOPITAR? [blows nose and more tears]
Wait, wait you mean that wasn't a dream, the Hawks actually have to wish ill on the Dallas Stars to get into the play offs...WHERE IS MY DAMN VOO-DOO DOLL?!
But we like the Stars! Brad Richards is too good to not be in the play offs. Oh, and Kari Lehtonen has been amazing this season. And oh shit, Alex Goligoski is there, right?
Don't tell Noodles...
Shit, who told?
Why do they have to play so well yet we want them to lose, right?
Oh this hurts. Who are we rooting for again? We don't like the Wild...
Why did you have to score? Damn you!
But the Stars are a good team, they deserve to be in the play offs. But the Hawks are our (tied for second) favorite team. But, but but...
Oh no, they pulled the goalie! Do we want them to score or not, shit we are biting our nails.
Wild win. Okay...
And more tears.
Whether they're from sadness or happiness we will never know but it has been an emotional evening.
Don't let us down, Blackhawks
we aren't kidding...
8 comments:
Yeah NO KIDDING. Talk about using your Get Outta Jail Free card right out of the gate. The 'Hawks have binged out on all their cookies for the playoffs. No more sugar for them. As for the Stars, they put forth an incredible effort but they took too long in the bathroom a few weeks back and messed everything up for themselves. Gotta keep things moving!
As for you guys, you need to splurge on a Whoopie Cake and a case of Maximum Strength Midol Cramp. I hope for our sake that the Finals don't coincide with your menstrual cycle(s), which are doubtless all sync'd up and as hormonally choreographed as the Sedins when they're craving some pickled herring.
Yesterday here in Chicago it was 82 degrees--highly unusual for April 10th. Strange vibes abounded in the air...I should have known some weird mojo was afoot.
My brother and I are superclose. He called me after the Red Wings game and I spat my true feelings at him--that they were the assholes for getting themselves into this predicament, that suddenly those 'oh well' losses to the Oilers and the Blue Jackets weren't so 'oh well' anymore, that I hoped they choked on their lemonade at the back nine all summer as strongly as they choked all season in the third period.
I refused to watch the game but I followed the ChiHawks ESPN guy on Twitter...trying not to pay attention but my trigger finger kept wanting to punch in NHL Network. When it was 4-3 with 10 minutes left, I had to. I mean, a guy who hadn't scored in over a year (Cotton Mather? Cotton Gin? Wayne Campbell?) potted one?
I stood in disbelief as the seconds ticked down, shouting to my tv "This isn't happening! This isn't happening!" And after the empty netter, my brother called back. I had honest to goodness tears in my eyes. He has emailed me twice today saying the sound of my voice was priceless. To go up against Vancouver? Are you KIDDING me?
I did truly take a moment to send wordless hugs to Shanny--I'm sorry, cupcake, I'm really and truly sorry. I wish it didn't have to be Dallas.
Bobby Lu, what's that behind you? Did you hear something? In the shadows?
And yep...."It's Back."
http://video.blackhawks.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=894&id=107941
Dallas fan here! Thank you for the condolences. Ya'll are so sweet!
@Shanny - I echo Jennifer wholly and completely. It was really difficult to watch Dallas lose, 'cause I wanted to see them kick ass in the playoffs for so many reasons. :(
But like I said, they SPENT WAY TOO MUCH TIME IN THE BATHROOM. By the time they were done, they were OUT OF TOILET PAPER and BOOM. Playoffs.
Let this be a mean, unforgiving lesson for next year. No doddling in the bathroom, and cut back on those giant burritos for Chrissakes. Everybody's invited to the awesome party to come in the Mission when the 'Hawks humiliate the Sharks. Call in sick and square away your standby airfare, bitches. It's now or never!
Oh, and Drew Remenda's buying for us at Puerto Allegre and Zeitgeist!
I guess now is a good time to end my silence. It's not silence so much as I'm still rendered speechless by yesterday's actions.
I would like to thank everyone for their kind words. It makes me & the rest of Stars Nation feel better with every post.
@Jennifer: You weren't the only one with teary eyes yesterday. I really hope the Hawks kick the shit out of the Nucks. So, good luck to the boys going forward. Except Brent Seabrook...he just has one of those faces that's screaming for me to punch it.
@MG: Giant burrito! Bathroom! oh, you don't want to know the dirty thoughts that are running through my head right now. They also spent too much time in the bathroom after the Olympic break last year. Any suggestions on how to stop a free fall after a few days off are very welcome?
@Shanny - I think the Stars should be forced to wear adult diapers for the 2011-12 season so they never forget what just happened. Technically, they will still be able to indulge in all the giant burritos to their hearts' content but they just won't be allowed to go the little boys' room. They'll have to wear their gluttony and shame.
The Gary Roberts Diet might also curb free falls or such things.
Oh, and a "motivational speech" by Brett Hull. Just to "jar" their memory. ;)
No hugs for Seabs? Say it ain't so. How can you not have a soft spot for that widow's peak?
My girls and I all agree--Seabs is the asshole drunk frat brah that you would totally make out with in a Jagerbomb-induced stupor and then swear your friends to everlasting secrecy the next morning.
But it would be GOOD.
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