Preseason. Yay, preseason!

So I'm at Sunday's game agin the Panthers (which would have been a real sellout had it not been for those STHs that feel that they don't need to come to preseason games), and Martin Gerber has given up a second goal--when all of a sudden I hear the following from this woman about 5 feet away:

"This goalie sucks! We need to get rid of him right away."

Uhhh, exsqueeze me?

Let's review:

PRESEASON. ONE GAME. NO HELP FROM THE GUYS IN FRONT OF HIM.

I don't blame Gerbs one bit for two of those goals--but chucking him under the bus already, after ONE PRESEASON GAME? WTF?

Pavel Brendl--why did we make him a QO again? Some mental giant on a message board once said that he had to be good just because he was the 4th overall pick in the Draft in 99 (was it 99? Is it important?)--if that's the case, then I must be Agnetha Fältskog just cos I'm part Swedish.

After hearing ChuckandtheletterK and KAdams talk up Andrew Hutchinson during Friday's beatdown of Les Crapitals de Washington, I decided to pay him some close attention on Sunday--and I must say, I am impressed. Smooth skater, aggressive on the forecheck, and a vurra nice shot. I was also very impressed by resident lounge-lizard Mike Zigomanis. Dudeman's been all over the ice, pouncing on every potential scoring chance like Danny Markov on a Balshoi Piotr. I think he really wants to try sticking with the big club (and I admit, so far it's been nice watching him make fools out of the people that called him "a pure scrub" just because of one game where he didn't manage to do a whole lot).

Be interesting to see how the 'Canes fare against Atlanta on Wednesday, especially now that they have Peter Bondra (goddammit, why can't he go out of our damn conference?)