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I'm officially declaring Mom a hockey fan. I haven't asked her if she agrees or not. I went over and watched the game on OLN and she watched most of it with me and was excited through the whole thing. Dallas v Detriot, she started rooting for Dallas and had fun.

OLN only showed a tiny bit of the Atlanta WAshington game and at the end of the Dallas Detriot game they took some time recapping the game when they should have been showing the Thrashers LOSE!! HA! Enjoy the golf!

Mom looked at me like I was a freak when I did a celebration "we're in the playoffs! Atlanta sucks!" dance. Although this was tempered with the knowledge that tomorrow Tampa plays Washington. The Caps won tonight 6-4, and it's going to be a tough game tomorrow. I hope my guys do well. If Tampa and Montreal win tomorrow or if Tampa loses and Montreal wins then the standings won't change.

Tomorrow is a huge night for the Eastern Conference and teams are still jockeying for position. I don't know who I want Tampa to go against -- Ottawa or Carolina-- but I can't wait for playoff hockey!!

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Hee! Yay for mom.

The SO wrote a haiku about Atlanta playing golf. He's very happy, too, between that and Sid the Kid hitting his 100 points in his rookie year, youngest in the NHL to do so. He's hoping for good things for his Penguins in years to come.

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I'd love to read the haiku. OLN showed a highlight of Sid's 100 points, but I couldn't pay attention because Mom was venting about work at the time, but I could see the guys celebrating.

The Penguins have had such a really rough year, I hope that they get some good players on the team to start next year. I haven't seen Crosby play a lot this year, but I want to go back and find some games to watch, I can't imagine what it's like for him to be under so much scrutiny.

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Yeah, it's been really crazy. They still have Yvgeni coming if he can get cleared by Russia to play next year, and he's reputed to be better than Ovechkin. If he and Sidney are able to work well together, it'd be great to see another Lemieux/Jagr pairing for the Pens. But hopefully Sidney will settle in either way and over time, they can build.

Crosby had so much pressure on him this year, I want to hope that there won't be as much scrutiny but everyone will want to know if he can match his freshman year.

Plus the Pens don't have a Captain right? I know Crosby has an A do you think they'd make him captain?