Goodbye Playoff Beards...

It's been an epic 40 days with playoff beardage...a sad shave it was.

Of course I couldn't shave without being a little curious how a mustache would look...



Ashok, also curious...



And one of Ashok's friends, Seth, decides to rock the 21st President of the United States, Chester Arthur's beard...

Sabres Fall to the Sens

When Alfredsson's shot went into the net in OT, it was as if the entire world stopped moving. No one spoke for minutes. The dream season came to an end. Although heartbroken, it only took a few moments before the "Let's Go Buffalo!" chant rang through the rafters and through the hallways of HSBC again. It was a great game, probably one of the best I'd ever been to. It was amazing seeing how charged the entire city was. I'm glad I got to see the end of this historic season, even though it ended in a loss. As for now, a quote from my facebook wall, the quote Franklin texted everyone hours after the game, the quote Marv Levy put in the locker room after the first Superbowl loss...

"Fight on, my men, Sir Andrew said,
A little I'm hurt but not yet slain.
I'll just lie down and bleed awhile,
And I'll rise and fight again."
-Uknown Poet

Next year, slighty different team, same goal.

Playoff Beards Week Three

Here we go...Week 3 Playoff Beards with matching player beards!






Baker/The Goose
Full beard let grow for the most part without trim, not as full as others




Franklin/Briere
Small, slow growing hair, concentrated only in certain areas of the face




Pete/Drury
Heavy beard growth, trimmed around cheek area






Ashok/Campbell
Full beard growth at a rapid rate, little or no skin showing in chin area.






Josh/Miller
Scraggly, quick growing, minimal groom, not full, face still viewable in patches






Wilson/Pominville
Trimmed, yet firm and highly concentrated

Week Two Playoff Beards

It's just after 2 weeks since the playoffs (18 days)...The Sabres are in Round 2 v.s. the Rangers, up 2 games to none.

Here's a story from the Buffalo News about playoff beards in Buffalo...

Week 2 playoff beards...Gettin' kinda scraggly...scraggly good.


Baker (Could be a stunt double in one of those pics)


Franklin


Pete


Ashok


Josh


Wilson


Playoff Puppy?

Cup Build 2007

This weekend fellow hockey enthusiast Don Ferlazzo and I decided to build our own Stanley Cups to help cheer our teams on through the playoffs. We both chose different materials and methods of construction.

From good 'ol trusty Wikipedia... "Commonly referred to as simply "The Cup", "The Holy Grail" or facetiously (chiefly by sportswriters) as "Lord Stanley's Mug", it is one of the most-recognized symbols in North American sports and is at the center of several legends and superstitions."

You too can impress your girlfriend with your very own Stanley Cup. Here's a brief photo essay on how we did it...


The materials (Mine on the left, Don's on the right). You haven't lived until you've walked around Home Depot with a bucket of Stanley Cup.


Don decides to hammer the air while singing "If I Had a Hammer" as I discover that the Super Glue is only sticking to my fingers, not the plastic buckets.


Just before I realize the metal bowl won't work. Don discovering drain piping can also be used for the Cup.


Damn tin foil just isn't working, time for a last minute re-design. Don concentrates on his gluing.


Super Glue and tape isn't holding up my Cup. Don suggests using the dozens of Ithaca pins Zach took from "Ithaca Night" at the Riviera Country Club. Shockingly enough, the pins do work and hold my Cup tiers together.


Thanks to Ithaca College my Cup stands tall. Good thing I also bought a plastic bowl. Don finishes his Cup.


My cup becomes silver along with half of the other patio furniture.


Don walks off, pretending the New Jersey Devils just won the Cup. Pretend is all he can do this year because he knows the Sabres are just too good to beat.


Goodnight Cup...dreaming of the Chippewa Cup Celebration 2007...

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