Garf, its been less than a week and I am dying for the NHL. I'm on hour 3 of the Golden Girls and I let my emotions get the best of me! LESS THAN A WEEEEEEEK!! Balls on chins. '
Anywhoo, slow NHL news day other than the "Dion Phaneuf is now the Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs (see, normally, I'd make a joke here, but thats joke enough) headlines. Not sure how I feel about this. As my prior, as in 3 years ago and I was a young fool, posts say I at some point loved Dion Phaneuf. The same way you love a good melon. Appreciate it when its ripe and sweet and juicy, but then it dates Sean Avery's ex girlfriend and Avery has the line of hockey douche history and all respect and juicy juicy innards has been lost. It doesnt help that his numbers have been on the decline and the once dominant defenseman plays like a skeleton of his old self.However, i dont feel like all hope is lost with this. Perhaps it goes back to that dirty intangibles word, however, it may not be a bad fit. I know little about the Toronto Maple Leafs, probably because they havent won a damn thing in god knows how long, but my most educated guess is that freaking anything would help that club right now. And, if it doesnt help, how much worse can it get?! In my humble opinion, you could have a captain as talented as Eric Staal, only to have it wasted by planning on not bringing anyone in at all to have that talent actually succeed. C'Mon man, even the Columbus Blue Jackets are trying! That aside, Toronto took a chance on a guy who no one really believes in but pretty much as no choice but to believe. I personally believe in the guy, but seems to me like this is a case of believing in a franchise instead of a guy. Its just easy to blame the guy when the franchise has let you down so much.
Granted, as a Rangers fan, I'm not facing the levels of despair Toronto might feel, however, having a waste of a captain, I can say one thing for sure: Its fun to blame someone!
Signing off. May someone somewhere be reading this.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
New Beginnings
So, as someone wise once said, where someone closes a door, another opens a window...or something. Its been a while since I posted, hence the love I once had for Wade Redden, my LIVE JOURNAL (?!!) and my apparent misunderstanding of the Staal family, but I am back.
I missed blogging about hockey. Its like a journal without all that deep emotional stuff. Just talking about something I love more than Golden Girls itself (yes, I'm a girl, you'll deal with the fact that I know more about hockey than you; everyone always does). Hockey season 09-10 just wrapped up with the Blackhawks winning the most coveted trophy in the world. Jonny Toews looked like wolverine on ice and Kane has quite possibly the best haircut in modern history. Duncan Keith lost more teeth than my 18 month old nephew has and Marian Hossa can once again look in a mirror without the word FAIL appearing over his head. And most importantly all the cabbies are safe. WHEW!
As for my beloved Rangers, we (because I logged 6:34 mins of ice time -- Dont believe me? Oh well. If you were a Rangers fan you'd probably be like well, you're probably better than Redden. And make less!) lost in a shootout to those pesky Flyers and Sather makes me want to break the legs of every other player in the NHL to even give the Rangers a chance to make to the playoffs in 2011. Marc Staal is a RFA and while Denis Seidenberg now makes 4 million dollars a year, Staal is forced to play on a line with Michel Rosival. Ahhh, the humanity! But all that aside, the Rangers had a terrible year, marked by inconsistency and overpaid, overrated talent. I say lets at least make the next year fun for us fans. Hire Barry Melrose for coach, have Pierre McGuire interview every player for MSG, and have Mike Milbury replace Joe M. Oh did I mention by making it fun, I meant lets just make so all out awful that all we, as fans, can do is laugh? Yes. Because that's what I meant.
Jokes aside, this offseason will be particularly interesting. Jason Spezza is the meat and potatoes of the trade market. So, another overrated center whose talent is only kind of proven and makes a shit ton of money?! A light bulb went on over Sather's head. The Blackhawks have no chance of keeping their core together but with Toews and Kane's growing talent (honestly, though how much bigger can it get) they might be able to repeat. Ilya Kolvachuk will get severely overpaid. Patrick Marleau can now have the opportunity to choke elsewhere. Ollie Jokinen can be the KHLs mistake. So many stories to tell, so little time.
So, in closing, I am happy to be back on the blogging scene. Hopefully you are too! May we have an offseason for the ages.
I missed blogging about hockey. Its like a journal without all that deep emotional stuff. Just talking about something I love more than Golden Girls itself (yes, I'm a girl, you'll deal with the fact that I know more about hockey than you; everyone always does). Hockey season 09-10 just wrapped up with the Blackhawks winning the most coveted trophy in the world. Jonny Toews looked like wolverine on ice and Kane has quite possibly the best haircut in modern history. Duncan Keith lost more teeth than my 18 month old nephew has and Marian Hossa can once again look in a mirror without the word FAIL appearing over his head. And most importantly all the cabbies are safe. WHEW!
As for my beloved Rangers, we (because I logged 6:34 mins of ice time -- Dont believe me? Oh well. If you were a Rangers fan you'd probably be like well, you're probably better than Redden. And make less!) lost in a shootout to those pesky Flyers and Sather makes me want to break the legs of every other player in the NHL to even give the Rangers a chance to make to the playoffs in 2011. Marc Staal is a RFA and while Denis Seidenberg now makes 4 million dollars a year, Staal is forced to play on a line with Michel Rosival. Ahhh, the humanity! But all that aside, the Rangers had a terrible year, marked by inconsistency and overpaid, overrated talent. I say lets at least make the next year fun for us fans. Hire Barry Melrose for coach, have Pierre McGuire interview every player for MSG, and have Mike Milbury replace Joe M. Oh did I mention by making it fun, I meant lets just make so all out awful that all we, as fans, can do is laugh? Yes. Because that's what I meant.
Jokes aside, this offseason will be particularly interesting. Jason Spezza is the meat and potatoes of the trade market. So, another overrated center whose talent is only kind of proven and makes a shit ton of money?! A light bulb went on over Sather's head. The Blackhawks have no chance of keeping their core together but with Toews and Kane's growing talent (honestly, though how much bigger can it get) they might be able to repeat. Ilya Kolvachuk will get severely overpaid. Patrick Marleau can now have the opportunity to choke elsewhere. Ollie Jokinen can be the KHLs mistake. So many stories to tell, so little time.
So, in closing, I am happy to be back on the blogging scene. Hopefully you are too! May we have an offseason for the ages.
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