More Adventures of Suzie

We welcome back Suzie another week, hope you enjoy this weeks adventure.

Take it away Suzie.


So like I didn't go to shinny on the usual day this week because I totally had to get up WAY too early the next day, so I like went on Tuesday. Tuesday shinny is like totally not cool at all. There was like a total lack of flowy hair, and I found it like completely depressing. TRG was there with a few of his totally awesome friends. And there was like some other stupid girls there and I was like 'omg, all the guys should be like looking at me because I'm the shinny slut.' But whatever they were like totally not as hot as me.

I had a few totally wicked breakaways on TRG and one I like got him sliding across the crease and totally would have scored but I didn't want to like make him look totally uncool or something. So there was like this other chance I had on TRG, I thought I was totally going to score but like out of nowhere came his glove, it was a totally gnarly save.


Thanks Suzie for that wonderful story, and we can't wait for the next one.

Who Looks Younger

Option A: Mike Komisarek (don't you want to give him a hug?)
or
Option B: Paul Reid at about 15 years(our good friend over at DSBT)

ps Paul said he doesn't want any hugs...take that as you will.

"AllStar" Weekend

"AllStar" Weekend is upon us again. For the players not selected for this weekends festivities in the beautiful city of Montreal, it's a nice break for them to go home, visit family and partake in other fun activities such as fishing.

Thank you Yahoo, that really affects my Fantasy Hockey team.

For those who have been lucky enough to be voted in for the starting lineup (every single player on the Montreal Canadiens) or who were chosen as reserves, they get to spend a weekend of fun including a Skills competition and something which may or may not be called hockey game.

Let's take a look at who was voted in.
For the East: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Alexei Kovalev, Andrei Markov, Mike Komisarek and Carey Price.
For the West: Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Ryan Getzlaf, Brian Campbell, Scott Niedermayer and Jean-Sebastien Giguere.

Who might be missing from here if it was to be an actual Allstar game. How about league leader in goals at the time of voting and for most of the year, Jeff Carter or perhaps the leader now, Alex Ovechkin. And how about league leader in points among defensemen, Dan Boyle or the leader in goals among defensemen, Shea Weber. Still not done, how about the league leaders in wins, Miikka Kiprusoff and Evgeni Nabakov or the goalie with the best save percentage in the league, Tim Thomas. Clearly the fans don't agree with this. They just want to see their favourite players there whether they deserve to be there or not. I will give credit to Crosby, Malkin, Markov and Getzlaf for racking up enough points so far to actually be considered Allstars.

I'm not going to say don't let the fans vote because that would be wrong, it allows the NHL to get fans more involved in the Allstar weekend which is the whole idea behind it, is it not? But I do have a problem with allowing fans to vote as many times as they want. Make it so fans can vote once per day and then there won't be these pissing contests between cities *cough* Montreal and Pittsburgh *cough*.

Just a few notes about this pissing contest that went on, Sergei Gonchar, who has not played a game this season, and Ryan Whitney, who just recently started his season, almost beat out Markov and Komisarek for starting spots. And Marc-Andre Fleury was close to being the starting goalie even though he was injured during the time of voting. It wasn't just in Pittsburgh and Montreal, Chicago and Vancouver got in on it as well, Kane, Toews and Campbell were miles ahead in voting and Roberto Luongo almost made starting goaltender for the West team. Does this seem right to you? I think not.

Even if the NHL fixes the fan voting problem, they still have a long way to go to have a legitimate Allstar game. One quick way is to do away with this "atleast one player from every team must be at the Allstar game." Welcome Dustin Brown and your 33 points in 46 games to quite possibly your one and only "Allstar" game. And Mike Modano and Keith Tkachuk were once great players, just not Allstar caliber anymore. I would just like to note that while Tomas Kaberle is probably only there because he is the best player on a bad team, he like Rick Nash belong at the Allstar game.

My only other problem with the "Allstar game is the way the game is actually played, but it is played like almost all other Allstar games, no one wants to get hurt (like the recently traded John Tavares, although he didn't miss too many games) so the game is not played to the highest level it could be by all these "Allstar" players.

Whatever your views on the NHL "Allstar" game are, I hope you enjoy watching the festivites this weekend including the always interesting (even though it was only started last year) Breakaway Challenge (if Ovechkin can do what he did last year and actually make contact with the puck, I give him the automatic win).

Adventures of Suzie

So here starts the tale of our friend Suzie. She is a Shinny Slut, and no we aren't too sure what a Shinny Slut is either, but hopefully through this written record we will all learn a thing or two. Suzie will do her best to entertain us all with a tale every week of her epic adventures at shinny.

Take us away Suzie.

Sooooooo, we were totally at like shinny the other day, and as usual it was way cool. But see here, there there was this totally sketch goalie, he looked like a bogus 8-year old. But, whatever, the like big prob was that he was way un-cool and wouldn't switch with like the third goalie there. Totally lame sauce. So, you know, this like other totally rad goalie (TRG) totally went over and like kicked him out, like wicked! TRG is like totally the man, annnd he's a super sweet tendy too, like gnarly saves all over the place. It was like awesome.

Anyways, there were like these two totally dreamy guys who kept passing me the puck and i like really didn't want it. Both the guys had like the flowiest hair EVER, i think it like made them play better.

So I had a this like totally wicked breakaway and I totally would have scored if the puck didn't like trip me on the rebound after the TRG stopped my shot. And I had like a really sweet pass to a guy infront and totally got an assist, like woah I'm super wicked.


Thanks for that riveting shinny tale. We hope to hear more from Suzie the Shinny Slut in the near future.

I spent entirely too much time on this

Click to enlarge...it's worth it.

Fantasy Hockey Problem

Don't you hate it when all 3 of your fantasy hockey goalies are playing in one night and you have to leave one of them on the bench. Don't you really hate it when the two lesser goalies are playing really crappy teams and you know the right thing to do is bench the super awesome goalie playing against a decent team but you can't because you know he will end up getting a shutty. It's a really tough world we live in.

NEW STICK

So the last post has reminded me of back in the day when i used to use a wood stick, Sherwood with a Coffey curve. Boy was that a wicked curve. I recently bought my first wood stick in years because it was a Coffey curve and it's nice to go back to that once and a while now that I've played with one piece sticks for a bit.

My first one piece was a Crosby curve, it was a beauty, mostly black with a little bit of orange, and I taped it up with orange tape too. It should have lasted me a long time but a gap in the boards near the zamboni door decided it was the sticks time to go just a few weeks after I got it. The blade got caught in the boards while i was trying to get the puck as i skated by and it just snapped at the end of the shaft. It was very sad, but it allowed me to get a new one piece. It was a Team Canada stick and a new type of curve, my favourite player, Simon Gagne. The first few games i played with it I was very cautious with it but it has lived through until today and it has had some awesome passes and goals come off it.

Last year I found a pretty much fully orange stick at a ProShop at a rink and decided I'd buy that so i could have 2 one piece sticks. It's a little shorter and my other one but a decent stick. However it does not compare to my new stick which I got yesterday...

Bauer Vapor XVI..what a beautiful stick. Best part, it has a Gagne curve. It has yet to be used but I'm hoping it has some luck in it for the first game as most of my other sticks have.

The Internet is Dangerous

Jordan Staal Stalkers unite here.

And I refuse to see any legitimacy in the Lecavalier rumours mostly because I don't want half of the Habs to leave, including everyone's favourite: PK Subban.

And he isn't even a Hab yet.

Only 200 kilometers away!

Guess who:
He was born on the same day as Patrick Roy, in the same Canadian province, just 200 kilometers apart.

Mario

(ONLY 200 km away!)



Next, who lived with Mario after he was drafted?

Crosby, yes.

Who else?

Fleury, yes again.

Who else?

Yes there was someone else, Mario has seemed to make a habit of it.

ЯГР


What's the most awesome anagram for Jaromir?

Mario Jr.


"I didn't even know what anagram meant in English, how could I translate that into Czech?"
-Jiri Hrdina, former Penguins and teammate of Jagr, and fellow Czech trying to explain to Jágr that mixing the letters of "Jaromir" actually spells "Mario Jr"

Also, Hrdina and ЯГР were called Czechmates, hilarious, I know.


Did you know that Mark Madden said he would donate $6500 to the Mario Lemieux Foundation, if Mario scored directly off a faceoff in a radio show. That night Mario did just that. Check it.



ЯГР's father owns a chain of hotels.


Paul Coffey preferred his skates to fit as tightly as possible, and wore two sizes smaller than his shoes. They were tied with two sets of laces, one laced from the bottom to half way up, and the other from the halfway point to the top. The skates were so tight that rather than untying them trainers cut the laces to remove his skates after every game. Also, he preferred to grind the blades of his skates to a very dull finish resulting in him "gliding" over the surface of the ice.

Coffey is into car dealerships.

He also has an epic stick curve.


Thank you wikipedia.

ЯГР

ЯГР says he would play for the Penguins if Mario gives him a ring and asks him to.
Read This
That would be unreal.

Ballin'

Check this out too, some pretty epic pics of Jagr and Mario
ps check out that hair.

More World Jrs

Just to note that 15-0 is a tournament record for goals and the 8 powerplay goals by Canada was a record for Canada. As for player records, John Tavares tied Eric Lindros and Jeff Carter for total goals with 12.

Now a bit about the semi against Russia tonight. We were playing our own hockey game during the first 2 periods but we caught the most important part of the game. I must admit when there were about 30 seconds to go I thought Canada was done, and I was mostly thinking no one would score in overtime, but I had all the faith in the world that Canada (mostly John Tavares) would get it done (like Johnny T got it done against the USA). And look at that, they did. Canada plays a tough opponent on Monday night in Sweden, should be a great game and as shown by today just cause Canada looks down and out doesn't mean they are.

One more quick note:
5.3 seconds..way to take it to the wire

Lil about the 2009 World Junior Championships

If you have been following the IIHF World Jr Championships in Ottawa, you have probably heard all about how the tournament should be an 8 team tournament so there are not as many blow outs (See Canada vs Kazakhstan..or anyone vs Kazakhstan). The logic of bring 2 teams up was that if they played the big boys they would see what the need to do to beat the big boys and then would get better. That only works if the team is at least close in skill level. Also there is a wonderful in the IIHF tournaments that when a tie occurs it goes to goals. This means if you are winning 5,6,7 or 8 to 0 you can't just lay off and not score because it could mean the difference between getting a bye to the semis or playing in the quarters. This is a wHeak rule and really should be changed if the tournament is going to stay in its current format. (The IIHF was considering making it a 12 team tournament but that idea got trashed after Canada trashed Kazakhstan 15-0)

Anyone watch the game everyone was waiting for in the preliminary round? Canada vs rivals USA. Always a good game, and everyone knew this one was going to be no different. But boy was it ever, one of the best games of the tournament and of recent memory. Canada went down by 3 early but were sparked by (at least Don Cherry and I like to think) one of the American players going by the Canadian bench after the 3rd goal with his hand to his ear. TSN turning point anyone? It may not have been the reason but Canada came back and scored 3 and ended up winning 7-4 (2 homo goals, one by Tavares to complete the hatrick) and got the bye to the semis. Fun fact to note, USA lost to Slovakia in the quarters and are out of medal contention. Canada plays Russia Saturday night for the chance to play for gold on Monday. Go Canada Go!