Black Friday sales? How about some hockey instead?
by FrankD on Nov 27, 2009 4:00 AM EST
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A quick and easy preview lined up for ya here, as I'm sure some of you might be out hustling and bustling early in the day to get a jump on some doorbuster sales with hopes of buying a bunch of crap you probably don't need. But hey, $19.99 for a circular saw? Grandpa might like that.
A 2:00 start isn't all that strange but a 2:00 start on a Friday just might be. Such is life. I'm up for a little early-afternoon hockey, and hopefully a few of you are on board for it as well.
On November 26, 2008, nearly one year to the day, the Penguins shot out to Long Island for a pre-Thanksgiving game against the Islanders. Fleury was injured at the time, so Dany Sabourin got the start in net but it didn't last. Before long John Curry, yet to even start an NHL game, was called upon to keep the Pens in it. Or, at the least, get a little NHL experience under his belt.
The Pens entered the third period down 3-1, but by the time the horn sounded it would be a 5-3 win for Pittsburgh. Evgeni Malkin picked up the hat trick, Crosby a few assists and Curry his first NHL win.
Today the Pens look to pull one out on the island again, preferably with less dramatics. New York's coming off a 2-1 loss to the Flyers Wednesday night in which Marty Biron just couldn't get any offensive help. Prior to that, Dwayne Roloson put on a ridiculous 58-save performance against the Maple Leafs on Monday night to send it to OT. Lucky for him the effort wasn't put to waste as the Islanders edged it out 4-3. They're 5-5-2 for the month of November.
Keep your eyes on team point-leader John Tavares (9g, 11a), Matt Moulson (11g, 8a) and Mark Streit (4g, 10a). Also worth noting: Eternal IR staple Rick Dipietro started practicing with the Islanders this past week. I don't know what the ETA is, but to the best of my knowledge it's the first time he's taken the ice in over a year.
Puck and thread drop at 2:00. Avoid the traffic and craziness of shopping and chill out here instead.
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What’s Black Friday?
Damn, it’s an early game, 8am start down here on a Saturday so might wake up sometime during the second period
I don’t know much about it either, being from Canada. I think it is is the start of Christmas shopping for Americans, lots of sales etc. I’ll be at work as us Canucks don’t get the day off to shop, or watch hockey, boo.
Stores have good sales (but usually very limited supplies) and open upqt the butt crac of dawn for herds of holiday shoppers to trample and duke it out to get to the products first…only the insane really venture out.
You come at the king, you best not miss.
by Hooks Orpik on Nov 27, 2009 9:50 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
My out-of-town relatives, along with Beloved, were among the insane. My SIL bragged that she “totally won Black Friday.” She is wrong. I did. I decided that swimming and belly-dancing classes at the gym would be more pleasant ways to work off last night’s pie, then took my cousin to the airport.
And now I’m home just in time for a Pens game! Awesome!
"Darling, you say Brooks Orpik 'checked' that guy. He did not 'get under him and put him into the wall'."--Beloved to me, Winter 2007
"Don't beat yourself!"--Darrell Waltrip
by GreenEyedLilo on Nov 27, 2009 2:01 PM EST up reply actions
Those all sound like excellent alternatives. I chose to sleep, jog PAST the mall to burn off yesterday’s feast and kick up my feet in front of the TV for a bit before this game.
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Yeah it’s the biggest shopping day of the year in America. They call it Black Friday because “allegedly” the stores all lose money up until this point, and so this big shopping day takes them out of the red and puts them into the black, in financial terms. I believe Boxing Day is the Canadian version of it,
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I hope not. Boxing day is Dec. 26. :)
From the all-knowing Wiki:
“The name derives from the English tradition giving seasonal gifts (in the form of a “Christmas box”) to less wealthy people. In the United Kingdom this was later extended to various workpeople such as labourers, servants, tradespeople and postal workers."
My buddy from TO says companies do crazy doorbuster sales on Boxing Day. I dunno. You’ll never see me on line at any of those stores anyway, regardless of the day
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Over here in NZ we have massive Boxing Day Sales so everyone heads out shopping the day after Christmas. I imagine we just follow the English tradition, being part of the Commonwealth
We have after-Christmas sales here, too, but they never mention the name Boxing Day.
What I meant in my “I hope not” comment was that the stores are running at a loss until the last 5 days of the year. :)
What I meant in my "I hope not" comment was that the stores are running at a loss until the last 5 days of the year. :)
I highly, highly doubt it. I worked at Best Buy for a year or two in college. There’s no way they were losing money then.
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Why would they schedule a 2:00 game? Don’t they know that relatively few people actually get today off?
They did this once last year and i remember thinking the same thing.
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Ah well, I guess that’s what the DVR is for. Pity that I won’t be able to participate meaningfully in the open thread, being at work and all.
It’s ok, we’ll rain check it. You can’t catch em all
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Yea I watched the game 5 of the caps series and 6 and 7 of the SCF yesterday. Its nice to already know the outcome of these games haha.
by Repperson29 on Nov 27, 2009 11:37 AM EST up reply actions
Indeed. I do kind of wish they had played something other than the last playoffs, though. Something from the early ‘90s, maybe? They should still have the rights. KBL was a Liberty Media station, and so is “FOX” Sports Pittsburgh (FOX in quotes because Fox doesn’t actually have anything to do with our FSN).
Yeah I remember seeing that as an option on the FSN poll. The 90s thing would’ve been cool
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I forgot that the game was a matinee (boy, the Islanders love those), so I’m glad I checked here and you posted! Thanks!
Brent Johnson as goalie? That’ll take us well into the evening.
"Darling, you say Brooks Orpik 'checked' that guy. He did not 'get under him and put him into the wall'."--Beloved to me, Winter 2007
"Don't beat yourself!"--Darrell Waltrip
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