Jason Pominville Appreciation Post

Happy 26th Birthday, Pommer!

WooHoo!!

To My Lovely Pommer on your Birthday,

I hope you are thoroughly enjoying spending a day off with your very attractive girlfriend and all of your Sabre-bros. I'm sure that Goose got you a special new blanket for nap buddy time and Ryan played you a nice birthday song on the guitar. I hope Spacho let you be Pigeon of the Day at practice today. I also hope you did not ruin your birthday by watching that horrid Bills game that I will not even acknowledge with more than a sentence.

Here's to a hat trick tomorrow to celebrate, and I hope you didn't go Soupy-style in your celebrating downtown to the point that I can find youtube videos of you and Goose playing some bad cover song and yelling obscenities. Although I think you would indulge with cupcakes and milk rather than rum and Coke.

~Katie~

In addition to these birthday wishes for everyone's favorite "system-abiding" Sabre, I promised to reveal why I chose his jersey over all the other candidates. When push came to shove, it was the most logical choice. Cap'n Craig and I have been fighting lately (really since he stopped fighting with people on the other team). I still wonder if he's playing hurt, but back to Pommer.

With Pommer's jersey, I still get my dream of having a letter on the front (albeit an "A" rather than a "C"), and he is part of The Core that we all love so much and the Trio (Goose, Pommer, and Miller) that I hold so dear. He does a lot of work in the community and just seems like a genuinely good person. Add to that the fact that he is pretty sweet on the ice as well and that he's my sister's favorite, and I made my decision rather quickly under growing pressure from my mother.

So now I will have the two best roomies ever side-by-side in my room (or at least their jerseys...)

Finally, no Jason Pominville Appreciation Post would be complete without this picture:

I hope you don't have this much trouble with your party hat, Jason!

I Need a Life...

Muckers and Grinders is a week old today!

To celebrate, I have decided to get this humble blog a mascot.

My sister has collected stuffed animals since she was a toddler, so for her birthday my mom got her the most ADORABLE plush puppy that either of us has ever seen. Now, when we in the Sabres blogging world think cute puppy, who immediately comes to mind? Jason Pominville, of course! The wonderful ladies over at IPB have already extolled the likeness between our Captain and a baby labradoodle.

Don't you just want to snuggle him and scratch behind his cute little ears?

So, to wrap up the most pointless post you will read today, I introduce you to Pommers:

He enjoys shootout goals, blogging, and sticking to the system. He can usually be found hanging around geese (well, one Goose in particular).

I promise, tomorrow I will get back to sensible blogging: Sidney Crosby - learning to love him even when his "playoff beard" gives you nightmares.