Holy Hannah! Niiice win! Made my Thanksgiving day start a LOT happier.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Hope all of you,your family and friends are all safe and happy. Wishing you all good food, much laughter and happiness!

We continue to own the Columbus BlueJackets. By the skin of our teeth and on the backs of Tellqvist and Michalek this time. Z turned in perhaps the most phenomenal performance of the season so far. Notching 27+ minutes of sacrificing defense adding 3 more blocks to raise his total to 68!

Michalek on the Job

Mikael Tellqvist stole us a game. The Swedish Wolf did everything but turn himself inside out in this game. At times it seemed like he and Huselious were having a 2 man showdown… Hussy blinked more often than Telly. If not for Telly, this was an easy 8 -3 Jax game. Seriously! the guy played like his life depended on it. 38 saves! You go boy! Make Bryz fight to get back in the net.

Not today Jackets, Not Today

There were some blockbuster moments. DHL finally delivered! David Hale with his first NHL GOAL! DHL tied the game up and got us rollin. Perfect time for such a great milestone. KT’s pass was right on the money and Hale put it to bed like he’d done it a dozen times b4.

DHL, he delivers!

DC picked up the second part of a possible Howe Hattie. After taking Jacket cruiserweight, Dorsett out behind the woodshed early in the first, Danny proceeded to notch another marker giving us the lead and setting the Jackets on their heels for the first time in the game.Beautimous deflection from the Yandle shot! Just Beautimous! Late in the third after what seemed like a bazillion shots from the Jax, Viktor Tikhnov did the GWG thang with an awesomely patient, scorers goal to give us the lead again and then it was all survival mode as the defense and Tellqvist shut the doors on the Jacket’s hopes.

Not to say we ran this game by any means. The Jackets worked us over pretty good all game.Former Yotes came back to haunt us with Huselious scoring a beauty of a breakaway in the first, blasting one past Telly. And then in the first minute of the third Jason Chimera gave us fits by tying the score on a pretty good feed from RJ Umbereger. I have to give it to the Jax, this was a hard fought contest.

Notable things… when we come to play, we win. It seems like we got all the tools, we just don’t always have the will. Hopefully that will come to a screeching halt now. Gretzky has finally taken a good look at giving Jovanovski all that free PP time (JV only played 16+ min…he was only on the ice for a few seconds during that critical 2 minutes of kill time at the end of the third!) Big Ed came to life tonight w/ 2 assists and was moving like a real NHL defenseman for most of the night. (so no tryke pic on the next GDT) Fridge and Ports may have appeared to be having quiet games but take a look at their hit stats! Fridge w/ 6 and Ports w/ 5! Apparently we need another day of face off practice! 40%… sighhh Is there anyway we can entice No Panic Yannik to be a special team coach?

We lost the Joker tonight to a possible shoulder injury. After 397 consecutive games, Joker joins another iron man DMo on the injury list. Olli Coyote will probably miss a couple. No definitive word yet.
http://coyotes.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=394738

So anyways… a glorious turkey day win. The boys come home for the Friday matinee match against the Avalanche. Come join us in Lot J for a welcome home tailgate starting at 11. We’ll be celebrating the return of one of the Coyotes biggest fans Sgt. V and of course the return of our very own MIBs as the Yoties will be rockin the new black 3rd jerseys for the first time.http://coyotes.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=Recap&gameNumber=313&season=20082009&gameType=2