Hockey Harlots: Burrows

So I still can't believe Luongo and Burrows came walking up together side by side like little mobsters! Be still my beating heart! I'm still looking for the right words to explain what April 18th 2013 meant to me.

Me and Vanessa at warm ups! I'm rocking my new Burrows jersey!

WOW I'm going to go out on a limb and say Luongo and Burrows remembered me from the hotel because that is the fastest any player has shown me love at a warm up drill. They mostly don't make eye contact and try to pretend we are not there. But I will admit our signs mostly say "Cory catch a goal in my pants!" and "Luongo keep the Canucks sexy STAY!". This time we toned it down quite a bit and got lots of love from the boys! Not that there were lots of fans there but something tells me the hat was a big deal in the locker room at pre-game skate.

I had to stop myself from tearing up at warm ups and even as I write this I must stop myself from tearing up! ROBERTO FUCKING LUONGO SHOT A PUCK AT ME!!!!! ME!!!! And not just one MANY! I wonder has he ever done this before in warm ups? I was very surprised when I felt the glass shaking looked down and saw ALEX BURROWS was the one hitting it! No one, not even Vanessa know how big that was for me. I'm sure all three of them have a good idea the way I was jumping up and down but they will never truly know. It was so great to see him so happy and I think me making him happy made Burrows happy too!

And because Weise and Raymond are always so nice to us when they come to Dallas I thought it would be nice to give them a sign as well! Good thing Vanessa forgot her Cory sign cause they both smiled and gave us much love as well.

My super friend and fellow Burrows fan Shauni tweeted this photo of us to me during warm-ups. She said we were on TV in VanCity!

Burrows gave me much love! Je Adore!!!!!


Luongo shoots puck at... ME!!!! I can't feel my legs!

So after the love of warm ups I went upstairs to grab a Molson since our tickets had Platinum club access. That is the only place you can get Canadian beer in the whole arena. Just one catch you can't bring it down stairs :( Screw you America! I later went down stairs and was laughed at when I asked if they took Canadian money in the beer line. I said fuck it because I didn't want to miss Lu coming out.

Vanessa and Pierre diss the Kari Lehtonen photo! In hind-site this may have been bad luck!


Pierre and Callahan get their first arena photo together!

So I went back to my seat and who do I see coming onto the ice?? THE FUCKING STARS! No really after that it was the Vancouver Canucks! The whole team first and then Luongo and Burrows. They both looked at me and smiled! Then they whispered something to one another. Then Lu removed his hat for the moment of silence for Boston, which was later followed by the Star Spangled Banner... That was odd but well placed seeing as this country has been through so much in the past few days. I stood there in silence praying for Boston and because our anthem is so long snapped a photo of my boys. When the Canadian anthem came on I was yelling "Oh Canada!" Then it was puck drop time!

Luongo and Burrows respecting the USA.

Canucks entering the bench.

Burrows!


First Line respecting the USA.

When the game started I believe I hugged the glass. Lu caught this out of the corner of his eye and let out a little chuckle. What I noticed during game play is Burrows didn't move down with the rest of the first line. He stayed seated right beside Lu the whole time, as if to support him just as I had set behind him the whole time to support him. I feel bad for saying this but I hoped Cory would get pulled so I could see Lu play. But alas no such luck.

Burrows and Lapierre on the bench.

The highlight of the night was when Lu was talking to his trainer and he was smiling. I turned to Vanessa and pointed to Lu and said, "HE'S SMILING!" I feel like such an idiot! He stopped as soon as he realized I was watching him! And during an icing call I asked Vanessa to take a picture of me and Lu and she did. She said he was trying to turn but also trying to pretend he wasn't.


I'M in HEAVEN!

And the game wouldn't have have been right if Cory didn't come by for a sip of water to see Vanessa. I was so happy that she could be as happy as I was even if just for a few seconds. He and Lu shared a few word and Cory pointed to us. Vanessa didn't see but I did.

Cory tosses his towel to the trainer.

More Cory... Still not pulled...

Not sure if he is trying to bite his nail or what...

And finally to top off a REALLY bad game the goalie trainer looked at me in the end and said, "You want this?" I just smiled and nodded! I couldn't believe what I was hearing!!! I GET SOMETHING!!!??? I had no idea who's stick it was and Vanessa later told me it was Edler's. AAAAAHHHHHH I have my first stick!!!!!! OMG!!!! MY FIRST STICK!!!! I gave Vanessa the puck they through us at warm ups cause she gave me the Mason Raymond water in February! What are best friends for right?!