Sens at Land's End

The Sens — I think it’s probably okay to use the name again — won 5-4 over Pittsburgh yesterday, and played much better. Not perfect, but better. Several players, I thought, had good games, though I still want both goalies dead (really, I yelled DIE GERBER! at the TV at one point during the game). The team has probably gone to California now, which I think will probably do them good: they get away from the media in Ottawa for a while, and go to a place where almost no one cares about hockey. Ahhh, relaxation and sun. They have Anaheim tomorrow, San Jose on Wednesday, LA on Thursday, and then Phoenix on Saturday. None of these games, with the possible exception of Phoenix, is on TV here, even though I’m on the west coast. It makes me want to cry.

I look forward to seeing how they respond to the Ducks in terms of emotion. It is also an interesting game statistically: Ottawa is the highest-scoring team in the league (213 goals for, avg 3.23 per game); Anaheim is 27th (out of 30) in the league in goals scored (165 goals, 2.46 per game). The Ducks have allowed the 4th fewest goals this season (158 total, 2.36 per game); meanwhile, the Sens are a truly pathetic 23rd in terms of defense (195 allowed, 2.96 per game). It’s great offense vs. great defense, and horrible offense vs. horrible defense. Which will prevail?! I just don’t know!

Tonight is my first hockey class. I’m interested to see what kind of people will be in the class, and how bad my skill level is going to be compared to them. Maybe no one else will be able to skate at all, and I’ll end up looking like Gretzky by comparison. Hey, it could happen. It looks like there are only 7 in the class so at least it shouldn’t be overwhelming. The class goes from 8:30 to 9:45 which isn’t really ideal, especially considering that I have an 8am class tomorrow. But it’s okay.

Other than that … I have watched about 10 or 12 episodes of The X-Files since yesterday. I made a conscious decision not to do any schoolwork this weekend. It seems less like slacking if I’ve actually decided not to do it, don’t you think?