RoBorat Luongo

Ronnie "The Hockey Goon", of the Havoc Fanatics worked on a project all day long Saturday, no exaggeration. What project, may ask? Well there's a good chance, at least if you're a local fan, that you've heard RoBorat Luongo thrown around a few times. It's truely uncanny how similar Roberto Luongo looks to Borat. Anyway, the point of this article is to tell you about Ronnie's project, not describe the similarities between Borat and Roberto.

You see, as a joke during the watching party for Game 5, Ronnie, Jeff K and I all joked about how great it would be to have a giant poster of RoBorat, to help raz Roberto during warmups. Come Friday Ronnie and I were passing back and forth an image that we were considering use for this project. Finally, come 11pm Friday night Ronnie stopped by my office (we have a nice color printer) with a pack of cardstock to do some prints. We decided to do something a little different though, instead of a giant poster, how about a few heads-on-sticks?

And thus became Ronnie's all day project, cutting out, taping together, and adding handles, to 30 slightly-larger-than-life RoBorat Luongo heads. And what an effect it had. At one point Robert skated over to the glass laughing and asked if he could have one, of course I, being a dumbass, forgot they didn't go back to their bench but left out the corner, and wasn't able to get it to him.

We were only able to get 30 out for the game, but if you wanted to make your own here's how:

1. Print out this image
• We printed it out to stretch to fit 2 sheets of paper white card stock (80lbs) paper in landscape format, which made the head about 50% bigger than life-size
2. Tape the two sheets of paper together, front and back, so that the image lines up
3. Cut out the image so the excess paper is gone
4. Take a long stick, or as we used a 3rd sheet of cardstock folded up many times, and tape it to the back of the head as a handle, make sure it sticks out 3 or 4 inches to give you something to grasp

Simple, isn't it? Here are a couple shots of the heads in action, including this one from Getty Images (pardon the water mark):

What it's going to take...

The first thing that comes to my mind is the boys are going to have to come out to play. They can't win the game if they don't come out to play. Next, goaltending. They can't win a game if they don't keep the puck out of the net, and as long as Marty keeps doing what he has been doing and keeps his mind clear of all the negativity going around, he will "Git er done"! For the final ingredient for what it's going to take, goals. Not just one goal or two goals, but three, four, five...however many we can shove behind Luongo to prove that we have what it takes.

Jokinen didn't make the trip up to Vancouver due to an upper-body injury sustained in Tuesday night's game. Lindros, who has been out with a groin injury, made the trip and may get the nod to play tonight. Will Big E bring enough offense and grit to help the rest of the team to another victory? Let's hope that his presence in front of Luongo will give the screen we will need or the deflection that pushes the puck past the tenacious force in net for the Canucks.

Vancouver knows that this game won't be easy, but I don't think they realize how much emotion the Stars will bring to tonight’s game, Saturday night’s game and Monday night’s game. I am confident I will see the Stars team I saw in Game 1 and in Game 2 where we dominated play, we out shot them, we got pucks past Luongo and we outplayed them. Look out Canucks; the Stars aren't going down that easy. They DO have what it takes!

Stars @ Canucks

It was truely a great game. I know, "but Jay, it was another 1 goal game!" It was one of the most exciting 1 goal games I've ever seen. First of all, that was a beautiful goal. Stefan's pass up to the break-away Eriksson ... it just couldn't have looked any prettier. That, followed by the shootout? That heart wrenching shootout? Yes, we lost in the end, sure there are shoulda woulda coulda's ... If nothing else, look at the Three Stars of the Game, or at least the first two. Roberto Luongo and Marty Turco. How often do you see the losing goaltender in that list?

I hope you had a chance to watch that game. If not, I hope you have it recorded somewhere or can find it on YouTube or Google (I looked already today, couldn't find it).

Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to tonights game vs Edmonton. Mark over at Andrew's Dallas Stars Page has pulled out and put back and pulled out again the big red panic button and if we don't win tonight I think I'll let him hit it. Good news for us? We're a strong team, even with our 4 forwards out, our backups are showing their worth. Also, we haven't lost a game in Edmonton since 2004, so we've got a great streak up there. However, Vancouver just came off their 1000th franchise win and snapped a 4 game losing streak by throwing Florida to the ice 4-1 Tuesday. I guess we'll see.