TOTAL AWESOMENESS! (except for the 2nd and 3rd periods)

Man, that Pittsburgh game started out great.

Yes, the fight that I have been anticipating since March 4, 2006 occured - ERIK COLE v. BROOKS ORPIK!!!!
Totally awesome. True, it was more like a wrestling match than an actual fight, but just the fact that it occured was TOTALLY AWESOME! I mean, Cole fighting somebody is awesome alone, but when you couple that with the fact that it was the despised one he was fighting... TOTAL AWESOMENESS!!!!

So, I was totally, absolutely pumped up after that, and when Sergei Samsonov scored in the first, the game looked to be going in the right direction.

Then the uninteresting second period came and went.

Then the third period came. The Canes allowed four unanswered goals in an absolute meltdown. Quite pathetic, actually. A really lame end to an awesome beginning.

Tomorrow they play Nashville. 60 minutes of hockey guys? Please?

Erik Cole stats: TOTAL AWESOMENESS!!!!