Detroit Liveblog: Playoff edition

Well...dunno when another liveblog will happen. Times like playoffs, I miss having a laptop...thanks for hanging out as always. It will be done again!

Sometimes I wonder who will lose their voice/black out first, Peter Maher, or Beasley the PA guy.

12:08 AM: Ahhh. They're playing Johnny Cash in the rink where he belongs.

Awesome.

12:07 AM: AND....YOU CAN PUT IT IN THE WIN COLUMN!

12:06 AM: Iggy! That's the most exciting play in hockey! You can't miss that! Especially when Hasek coughs it up like that!

12:05 AM: There you go. Now my pulse is accelerating. 1:45 left to go...

12:04 AM: Icing the puck repeatedly with 3 mins left in the game is going to make for a long night.

12:01 AM: Ok, actually... can I rant about the kind of pressure Detroit's putting on us? Why does this have to be all Kipper?

12:00 AM: Kipper. He is the man. I have (I suspect) little to do tonight besides worship the goaltender.

11:57 PM: Bit of a scrum. I'm really hoping Draper will go off for something. Like, (borrowing HG's word of the night) for being an asshat.

11:55 PM: Goddamn. Longest PK ever. Kipper, you're a god. Friesen...you're forgiven for that penalty at the start of the period.

ALL HAIL KIPPER!

11:54 PM: Yelle's been so crazy good today. Good work on the PK so far, guys...

Isn't this so much better than this time last week?

11:52 PM: Oh, Rhett. Good call in taking the penalty, but you want a time out, just go back to the dressing room to get stitched up again, eh?

11:50 PM: It occurs to me that I've been doing this for two hours, and I haven't screamed at my computer once. What is it about TV that's so stressful?

11:47 PM: Juice! You're alive! Now, I hope the next one doesn't go off the post.

11:45 PM: Ooo...another PP (drawn this time by crazygood Lombo)? Zyuzin gets a shot at the goal? What's next?

11:43 PM: Langkow tries for the boot trick. Gworgeous setup from Iggy. No dice. Awwwww...

11:40 PM: A boring period wouldn't be that horrible a thing for us. Yawwwwwn. Can I just say that my commentators are better at telling me what's happening than yours are? Screw all that moving-picture business.

11:37 PM: Mostly all Wings this period...but wait, Amonte steals the puck? And Lebda is back, I see. Wait, I can't see anything...

11:35 PM: Stuart's had another good game, I think. We're not missing Regehr nearly as much as I feared we might, overall.

11:34 PM: Susan? Did you make a play to clear the puck? And it worked?

11:32 PM: I make incoherent gibbering noises. I know Detroit's PP isn't strong this series, but let's not throw them any frickin' bones, eh?

11:31 PM: Oh, Friesen. It's been a while since you were a dumbass. Not a good way to start the third...

11:30 PM: Here we go... finish strong, guys! (Peter Maher just pimped Intellibed, for those of you keeping score on the advertising front. Remember when we talked aobut his sideline as a mattress salesman?)

11:23 PM: Well. They're not stumping the Schwab in the intermission interview. He thinks hockey is all about "what have you done for me lately?" He's probably got a point...

11:16 PM: Nobody on the team has a "personal services" contract Gretzky style, do they? 'Cause I just had the thought that maybe they were threatened with having to do the dishes at Flames Central 'till playoffs are over if they didn't shape the hell up...

11:12 PM: Buzz

11:07 PM: FORTHELOVEOFGOD CLEARTHEDAMNPUCK

11:06 PM: Lebda heads to the dressing room? Let's see if they can come back for the rest of the game the way our guys can...

11:04 PM: Oh, Iggy. The radio guys thought it was going to Chelios. Tricky man.

11:03 PM: Our PP starts. Langkow... come on... please?

11:02 PM: What did I tell you about Yelle? Didn't I say something like Who lets him go on breakaways? already tonight? And he draws a penalty. Good man.

11:00 PM: We're on the PK. Dangerous. Yelle's had a strong period though. So underappreciated, is ol' Sandbox.

10:57 PM: Peter Maher's put Langkow on Boot Trick alert. I guess Alberta Boot hasn't been giving too many pairs away.

Shit, did I just crash Blogger?

10:54 PM: "Third lead of the game." Just hearing that makes me giddy.

10:53 PM: Has anybody besides Hammer gone after Cleary yet?

10:51 PM: DAYYYYYYYYYYYYYMOND LANNNNNNGGGGGGKOW! Hot stuff. Glad he and Tangs came to play today.

10:50 PM: Another 5-3 caused by Iggy. And colour me biased, but Lidstrom's been not his usual self tonight.

The Doomsday chips are heating things up. I just popped a window open. Just to get cooler.

10:48 PM: Enjoying Steady Eddy, kids, huh?? We're going on the PP, btw. Thanks to Robert Lang, and Baywest Homes, and the Power of the Red Pen.

10:44 PM: Flames need to come back out of the dressing room.

10:40 PM: Kipper is stepping up so far. I think. I was on the phone. Poll: Do I let Dave take over during the third and hop in my car and drive five minutes away to somebody with time-splitting?

10:38 PM: Apparently Maher isn't immune to broadcastitis. We had Same-uelsson for a bit.

10:37 PM: Detroit comes out hard. Iggy hits back. But it's Huselius with the penalty. Sorry Dave, I liked him better when he was being invisible.

10:34 PM: Here we go again...

10:29 PM: I've just uncorked my doomsday device. That's right, Old Dutch chips. The jalapeno cheese kettle chips. You got nothin' on the chips, Detroit.

(Note to people outside of Ontario. They finally started selling them here. You wouldn't understand what it's like...

10:17 PM: Buzz. Well...a strong start for us. Unfortunately also a strong one by Bertuzzi. Damn him.

10:12 PM: As a calibration point, the crowd noise really hasn't changed despite who's scored more recently. It's just always really fucking loud. Good for them. Now if we can convince some of these guys to pick up some Hitmen tix too...

The radio guys lecture on the importance of winning faceoffs. Heed their wisdom.

Thanks, Dave

10:10 PM: Oh, boourns. Somebody hit Bertuzzi harder. Yes, Phaneuf, I'm looking at you.

10:08 PM: Ok... can we step up the play after we score? It makes me nervous when they come back strong after we pot one.

10:06 PM: Oh, the sweet sweet sounds of goalies being heckled.

10:04 PM, II: Conroy! About time you got something for your work up there. Woot!

10:04 PM: Hmm. Who let the Wings wake up? That high-altitude air plus the late gametime was supposed to make them more drowsy than me, at work just after lunch.

10:00 PM: Oh! New commercial on the radio. Though washable leather shoes sounds like ... vaguely infomerical-type material.

Oh, boourns. Bertuzzi? You're kidding me.

9:57 PM: Is it bad of me to get the giggles whenever Yelle runs into the offensive zone with the puck? Or Nilson? But good pressure there. What are the Wings doing, letting them get chances? But who cares... just do it more!

9:54 PM: I grow impati...

WHOO!

The big line finally acts their size.

9:50 PM: Oho! Is that a 5-on-3 Iggy drew? Shwwweeeet. I'm told that it could have been offsetting penalties, but let's hope this is the beginning of Hasek going off his rocker.

9:47 PM: PP. Let's do 'er.

9:46 PM: Awright! I expect this to be the night of people finally showing up, dammit! That's you, Conroy, and you, Tanguay, and you, Huselius, and you, Moss.

9:45 PM: Not a fantastic PK, but we're hanging in there. Don't make me regret writing that.

9:43 PM: Well. That was quick. At least we held off with the penalties a bit longer than when in the Joe, eh? Oh, Davey.

What I said last time about the crowd. Damn you, CBC! So far I haven't had to worry about Regehr still being out. Phaneuf and Warrener are back in.

9:40 PM: Puck drops. Booyeah!

9:33 PM: I receive the first complaint of the night about Drew. Also, what is the deal with all the bloggers getting tickets to the game? At least I won't be competing for liveblog attention with BofA's Fenwick tonight.

9:31 PM: Laughing my ass off at HG's vid...jitters, jitters, jitters. Wondering how my boys are doing with that chick flick they opted to go for instead of internet radio happiness with me.

My tax dollars are apparently not supporting a broadcast of the Calgary-Detroit game on cable where I live....so what better time to trot out the liveblog???

(People who remember the last one will know I'm doing this using internet radio from the Fan960, chilling with my favourite Flames broadcasters ever. So. No IMing about stuff related to the game till after I post snarky comments about it.)

And without further ado: Just. Bring. It.