Flames still can't get any goaltending, Mangiapane still utterly useless, and Backlund is nothing but an overrated 4th-liner. No talent on this team at all. Their only hope is to gut out a 2-1 win, and against a high-flying team like the Caps, you just can't do that (as the score proves).
On top of that, my wife was watching some damn fool thing on the living room TV, so I had to use the ancient TV in the basement and the remote was dead. While fiddling around with the buttons on the side of the set, trying to adjust the volume, I managed to change to channel 3.0, and there was no way to get the Shaw box back, so the rest of the game was just snow. Of course it's the only remote left in the world that takes AAA batteries, and I have a drawer filled with AA's and 9-volts, but was there a AAA in sight? You just know the answer to that one. And all the stores were closed by then, except Circle K which wants like $5,000 for batteries if there are even any in stock. And there wasn't even enough time left on the clock to make the trip.
Damn the remote, damn the AAA batteries, damn Circle K, and above all, damn this worthless hockey team that can't ever win a single damn game.
