#Winning

I remember last year when I was covering for Andrew for the Chronicle and I thought the Aeros played a terrific game, had my story three-quarters written. I run downstiars for quotes and ... Yeo is just pissed. He hated the game. And I'm thinking, "Great! REWRITE!"

Well, tonight I got the opposite. I thought the second period was absolute crap and they were extremely lucky to get out of that with just a tie. Was expecting Yeo, or someone, anyone, to acknowledge this. (And then when they didn't, I didn't want to be the jackass to say, "Yeah, you won, good for you. But what about that AWFUL second period?")

But everyone we talked to was full of praise and pride. I mean, obviously limiting shots like that is impressive, but man, all three of us, at the end of the second period, said, "Milwaukee is winning this game tonight. No. Question."

Hey, shows you what we know.

What I do know is that Ally, @TheAnthemSinger, had the tweet of the night. She sits down behind the Aeros' net and often has signs with her: "NEW SIGN SIDE 1: Stay Hackett, stay. Good goalie. SIDE 2: Bad Goalie."

Seriously, this going behind the net and standing around back there in a crisis of indecision is going to burnnnnn like a thousand suns when it results in a goal. I am literally gonna have a stroke and die one of these nights watching that.

Seems like a fairly new thing, too. Looks like a Tordjman move, come to think of it. Stop doing that.

Also, in the third, I said, "Man, I'd LOVE a McMillan goal right about now." BOOM, I really DID have you in the pool, Big Mac! He's photogenic AND clutch. Can't really ask for much more from a hockey player.

I told the boys that if the Aeros lost tonight, I was going to do a stick figure of Kassian sitting in the stands in a suit in my usual "stick figures as a form of protest" way. Glad I didn't have to do that, because I wanna go to bed ASAP. And despite Bulmer passing it right to the stick of an Admiral when entering the zone on the first solid offensive chance I saw for him, he did seem to have more of an impact tonight, playing more minutes, etc.

Finally, props to the Aeros staff for the really funny Billy Madison clip. Totally went top shelf on that one. WTG.

Anyway, see you crazy kids tomorrow night. Bring your outside voices.