Knee-Jerk Reaction: Sabres vs Red Wings PLUS Shepherd’s Pie!
By Editorial Staff
The Detroit Red Wings are on a 14 game winning streak at Joe Louis Arena. The Sabres, meanwhile, haven’t won consecutive games since phones had cords on them. BUT, the good news is that the Sabres lost their last game. So, sadly, that ups their chances to win this game…right? Is that how this works?
I’m going to be making some homemade shepherd’s pie while watching this game, so I’ll be sprinkling in some tips on how to make your own shepherd’s pie and be sure it’s delicious. My reasoning behind this is similar to why Francis Ford Coppola included the “how to make spaghetti sauce” scene in The Godfather; in case this game is a travesty, at least you’ll learn how to make food!
Be sure to include a good amount of onion and fresh garlic with your ground beef. I use 93% lean, but that’s a health choice more than anything.
Here’s a joke. Ready? Knock-Knock…(who’s there?)…the Buffalo Sabres power play. Maybe Derek Roy should try to skate past 3 defenders with the extra man. It’s amazing this team played more like a, well, like a team when he was out last year.
Some people put green beans or lima beans in their shepherd’s pie. That’s bunk. Corn, carrots, peas. Don’t complicate things too much.
Lindy Ruff rewards Derek Roy’s complete lack of effort by putting him up on the top line with Thomas Vanek and Jason Pominville. Lindy could acquire a corpse from the morgue and put it between those two, and the corpse would probably get a point out of it. What I’m saying here is let’s see if Roy can do as well as a dead guy.
Go ahead and add the peas, corn, and carrots right in to the beef. Mixing the flavors together is what makes this more than just meat and potatoes with some veggies. Live a little.
Derek Roy was quoted by
as saying, “
Going forward now there’s low expectations. So now it’s easier to play…”
Alright Derek, Nik Lidstrom just put Detroit up 3-0 in the first. That should be good for taking all the pressure off you. Someone please get this guy off this team. Please.
Now is a good time to point out that the most important part of shepherd’s pie is that you cake the mashed potatoes over the ground beef / carrots / peas / corn. You want to form kind of an air tight seal with potatoes…this locks in the juices underneath so that all those wonderful flavors can blend together. Work as a team. Score 5 goals against the Buffalo Sabres.
At this point, what do you want me to say? The Sabres came out incredibly strong, and remained that way after the first goal. They looked like they could maybe make a game of it against the Red Wings, but there have been two key differences. First, the Sabres give the puck away to the best Red Wings players just about every chance they can. Second, Jimmy Howard is able to make a save. Two incredibly big things, but really only two.
Two periods down, and the Sabres fanbase is a wildfire on Twitter, via text, and calling in to radio whatsis. The two big topics are 1.) Has this team quit on Lindy Ruff and 2.) Will Lindy Ruff be fired after this game? Third in line is that Ryan Miller is a bum. HEY! You get one guess at what Jerry Sullivan’s column is going to be next week. I’ll help you out…just copy/paste a dozen tweets from Sabres fans watching this game, and be sure to throw in something about the new locker room and the owner being naive. Somebody put me on the front page!
Notice I left out a lot of steps in preparing the perfect shepherd’s pie? I gave you some great tweaks and key ingredients, but I left out the parts that put it together. Something something relates to the hockey team.
This evening’s Tweet of the Game comes from WGR’s own Paul Hamilton, early on in the third period:
follow Dan on Twitter because you never know, you might have to cook for 20 guys someday