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The Russians tell us that revenge is a dish best served cold. Of course, the Russians also tell us (okay, technically it was a couple of whack job Germans, but still...) that paradise on earth awaits if we just hand over the means of production to the gibbering masses who have no idea how to use them. Seeing as that didn't work out so well for them, take it for what it's worth. In other words, it is complete and utter bullshit.
Give me my revenge hot, thank you very much. I want heaping, steaming plates of it! Mounds and mounds of it so that I may revel in its moundy steamy glory! I want to roll in it! Hold it to my bosom and make sweet sweet love to it! I want to hold it high in gore streaked oven mitts and look upon the face of my conquered enemy and there see horrified understanding dawn across his panicked brow in the moment before I plunge my implacable sword of vengeance into his black heart to leave him eviscerated on the floor!* And if he pees himself a little bit, that's okay too.
Which brings me to last night's game against Tampa and a certain ass clown of no repute, Steve Downie. You remember Stevie, right?
Dean McAmmond might be long gone, but Downie’s cheap shot from two years ago (earning him a 20-game suspension) wasn’t forgotten last night. Chris Neil nailed Downie, a Tampa Bay Lightning winger, with 6:04 left in the third period of a 3-1 pre-season win.
“I didn’t get him as good as I would like to have,” said Neil. “He drops his gloves with me and then he says, ‘Oh, I’m not fighting.’...I finished my check. It might have been a little late. It was a clean hit. It’s one of those things. He was just lucky he was able to get me down before I got going.” -- Ottawa Sun
That was just a taste, Steve. Your bill is still owing, and the Good Lord willing, we'll soon be collecting in full. Well, looky here...October 15th, at The Bank. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go sharpen my implacable sword.
*Before you ask, yes. That's exactly how I approach all of my meetings.
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Should be a battle next time around...