B's win, 6-3

Bruins beat the Islanders last night, 6-3.

• WHO in my section had the nacho cheese that smelled like feet?
• Last night's studs: Peverley had about 4 goals and 8 assists, had a lot of spring to his step, easily skated around the whodat Islander defensemen. Good stuff. Brad Marchand had plenty of looks and was skating around everyone after awhile. After the B's went ahead, it kind of became garbage time then...the Islanders just started to look like your father's thursday midnight beer league hockey.
• Last night's duds: Tim Thomas had some nice saves and 1 goal he had no chance on, but 3 goals on 13 shots doesn't look so hot. Lucic looked slow & lost. I really think Lootch is going to have an off-year. Like, epic awful, say 10 goals, 4th line duty, everything like that. Plus, he recently was the subject of a Margery Eagan "tsk tsk" article in the Herald the other day. Also, anyone who does the "do you know who I am" thing for real has it coming to them.
  
• Some dude tried to beat up Krejci last night, Krejci turtled kind of to avoid injury, then I heard something about the guy getting 2 minutes for instigating with a visor on, which is a penalty I've not heard before.
• WHO in my section keeps rippin' ass?
• Matt Kalman is everywhere. If there's someone in the media who has cashed in on the B's success, it's this guy. Every day, he writes an article on each player that pops up somewhere. It's either great hustle or a little scary. Personally, I think he's obsessed, but he's getting paid, so what do I know. I half-ass this blog for free. It's less than half-ass - a fraction of half-ass. It's, like, eighth-ass.
  
• People from Halifax, NS are called "Haligonians"
• Ryan Spooner, going back to the OHL.

Horrible.

Last night the Hockey Godz decided that the Bruins and their fans had not suffered enough. The Bruins, who had overall performed decently ("are the Bruins doing better, or does Columbus suck that bad?") during the game, were the victims of poor officiating. Late in the 3rd period, with the game tied, 2-2, Milan Lucic was whistled off for a high-stick after crashing the net. After replay review, it turns out that it was his own teammate that cut his lip. At any rate, Lootch sat in the box to serve the 4-minute double minor and the Blue Jackets scored on the ensuing power play.
Also, pile on David Krejci's Nate Kaeding impersonation as he shanked an attempt at an empty net (with Mason down), and you just have a frustrating game. Man, I hope we pound the Senators on Saturday.
random crap

• The Wideman Freefall Express continues to accelerate, as he coughed up the puck at his own blue line to set up Columbus' first goal. The boo birds were out in force last night as the Garden not-so-faithful razzed him everytime he touched the puck. Wideman is about a $3.7M cap hit or so...it's Section 311's opinion that he will not be traded.
• Lootch dropped the gloves with Jared Boll in the 1st period. We have been wondering if Lootch was injured or something, since he had not committed an on-ice homicide since his return. Boll is no slouch when it comes to fights. Both basically dodged each other's punches and got 5 minutes each.
• Minnesota, during one of his more philosophical moments during the Chipotle t-shirt toss, noted that crowd control could be attained by the t-shirt toss. He then mused, "when I become dictator, I will control the masses via the t-shirt toss."

"WE ARE ANGRY. Wait, are those t-shirts???"

• Steve Mason. Wow, his GAA is like, 3.30 or something these days. Remember last year, his Calder Trophy year? He was insane in net, and one of the trendy picks for the Cup this year was Columbus. Yup. So were the Bruins.
• Everything in its right place: Row 12 showed up for this game, seated in Row 12 where he should be. Previous game, we had allowed this filthy peasant to sit in Row 11.