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Diva In Net: Sounds Like A Reason To Drink

10/13/2017 at 9:00pm EDT

I'm going to the Lions game in New Orleans on Sunday, and I'm worried. I'm worried that I'm wasting money on a loss and I'm worried that I've never been to a Lions game that they won. I feel superstitious and sickly. I'm gonna go but I wanted you all to know that I may be the game killer.

Or maybe I feel like throwing up in my very mouth because Petr Mrazek is in goal tonight.

Maybe I predicted last October that Jimmah Tiberius of the Dong Tribe Howard was our best goalie and eventual starter. And maybe, maybe, some of you poked fun at me for that.

Perhaps, or even perchance, I recognized that Mrazek makes the occasional brilliant save but lets up softies because he has a soft mind. Maybe.

Well, he's in net tonight. And that makes me a little sad.

Vegas. I feel for Vegas just as I feel for any city wracked and wrecked by assholes.

It's a new town for Gary and it's probably going to work, from an attendance standpoint. It will not work from, say, a Winnipeg or Ottawa or Detroit or Boston perspective, where there are true fans who know hockey and develop an emotional attachment to their team. No.

It will be Denver and it will be Carolina. It will be Tampa and Miami. Bored, hockey-loving northerners who will migrate to the team in the city they moved to because the snow wasn't to their liking. That's fine.

It's Gary's plan and it works, actually.

So, here the Wings are...in the city professional sports have avoided because of the spectre of gambling and racketeering and the Corleones. Not the NHL though, boy. Not the NHL. Gary doesn't care. Not one bit. He'll take the kickbacks and he'll revel in the adoration of dwarves the world over.

It will be an extravaganza tonight, the one planned before a psycho wrecked the schedule. No city deserves that. My jaw sets when I think of the carnage and the reaction of good people.

Either way, the Wings are there. With Mrazek in net. Win despite him and let's get home where Tampa awaits.

It's a Live Blog, bitches.

LGRW.

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