Love/Hate: J-M vs. Pittsburgh Fans

After an amazing ballet, we took a nap at T’s from midnight to 2AM. Got up, had a 3 egg omelette and finished up packing the car, and we were off. Surprisingly, not too bad a drive from Montreal to Pittsburgh. Customs was jokes because he only asked us 2 questions to two 22-year-old guys who were going in the US for 5 weeks...

Rain was coming down for most of the drive and the winds were pretty intense, but we finally made it to the Radisson Pittsburgh at around 1:30PM. Mellon Arena was awesome again, but I don’t want to compliment it too much, I hate the penguins too much right now. Especially frail, cherry lips Crosby. Habs support was good, i’m proud of montrealers...about 1500 fans on my count. Hoping Gill is back for Game 6, the guy is a beast. Stupid, stupid fans...I can’t stress that enough. Kids everywhere in my section asking their parents why I’m not wearing their dumb “White-out” t-shirt... “Cuz IM A HABS FAN!...dumb kid...”

As you can expect with anyone with barely 2 hours sleep and an 11 hour-drive, I was pretty pissed at losing. But back at the hotel with a stiff rum and coke, I felt a lot better. Especially when Big featuring the legendary Tom Hanks came on TV.

Tomorrow will be another day.

Driving today: 10.5 hours

Best album of drive: 1990 by Daniel Johnston

Quote of the day: Well, you know, Mario Lemieux, you know, he’s the greatest thing that happened to this team, you know, and, you know, with Sid and Malkin, you know, hockey is really becoming big in Pittsburgh, you know.

- Paul, our shuttle bus driver


P.S. I might have forgotten my camera cable, so pics are unavailable at the moment. My apologies.

Habs Road Trip Project: Western Canada; a sure thing

The road trip will begin on a greyhound on October 1st, 2009, where I will make my way to the funeral home they call the ACC and see the Habs manhandle the Maple Leafs in Toronto. We are to leave post-game and take an overnight bus (which will also take 2 days) to Calgary. After a few days in a Calgary hostel and seeing the city, the canadiens will play the flames in game 2 of the trip. We follow that with an overnighter bus to vancouver. 2 nights in vancouver and an awesome game 3 with Luongo followed by a greyhound back to to edmonton for game 4 and the last of the trip. We sleep that night and take the longest greyhound back home, about 3 days to montreal. We will be home on the 14th.

After these arenas, I will have seen:

1.Toronto
2.Ottawa
3.Boston
4.Buffalo
5.Pittsburgh
6.Florida
7.Tampa Bay
8.New Jersey
9.Calgary
10.Vancouver
11.Edmonton