Gizmodo shows you how to be Super
Apr 25, 2007 Gadgets
The Giz outfits you wannabe crimefighters with some tools of the trade. My personal fave is the Tesla coil attachment for your ‘Super’car. Which in this case appears to be a hatchback.
Sabres vs. Rangers, 7:00pm
Apr 25, 2007 NHL
*twitch* My much-needed hockey fix comes tonight as the Sabres host the Rangers for the first game of their Round 2 playoff series. The Rangers come in off a sweep of the unfortunate Thrashers, and are generating an astounding amount of hot air which might just be the death of them in this series. The Sabres really seem to be a team that will respond to that sort of thing with a beat-down on the scoreboard.
The Rangers fired the opening salvos, with coach Tom Renney saying he’s not sure the top-seeded Sabres are “the cream of the crop” and pesty forward Sean Avery warning, “I’m going to hurt them.”
I think Ryan Miller has the best response:
“He better have respect for some guys in here because if they approach it that we’re not that good, it’s going to bite them in the butt,” goaltender Ryan Miller said. “But if he’s just trying to prepare his team, it’s psychological warfare, and I don’t think anybody in here is going to play that game. I don’t think we need to.
“We feel like we’re a team that’s built to win, and we’re built to play good hockey. We just have to go out there and execute. We can’t worry about what they say. We can only worry about what they do on the ice. We especially can’t worry about what their coach says. We’re never going to see him on the ice. There’s no way to get back at the coach, so to speak, besides winning hockey games.”
All of this is at least bringing a bit of drama to a series where the teams haven’t seen each other since December. Both clubs are much different thanks to deadline acquisitions (and the Sabres having their players healthy). It’s been forever since they met in the playoffs so no bad blood to spill over that, either.
When Buffalo and New York met in the 1978 playoffs, current Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff was an undrafted 18-year-old defenseman with the Lethbridge Broncos of the Western Hockey League. Only seven Sabres players were alive when that series was being played, while the Rangers had nine.
I hate making predictions, but I feel a 4-1, 4-2 type outcome is likely tonight (for the good guys, of course).
