Random info day =p

In hockey news....

Well, I can say for sure that was the least amount of fun I've had "watching" the NHL awards thing. I blame CBC for airing the thing an hour after it started. So I already knew who won via twitter before hand. Whoever was responsible for that messup should be waterbottled. Just saying. Also I predicted this over at A View From the Cheap Seats:

Hart - I’ll say Malkin… But I’d like to see Ovie get it. Obviously.

Pearson - Ovie! Ovie! Ovie!

Norris - Chara…..*sigh* (my Markov should be there)

Calder - Mason

Vezina - Thomas *sighs some more*

Adams - it should be Andy Murray but Julien is walking out with it *sighs even more*

Selke - Datsyuk although I’d take Richards winning the thing….

Lady Byng - Shorty Marty…. poor guy

......And was only wrong twice. In all honesty, I didn't actually see Shorty Marty getting the Byng thing over Turnip because... well, it's Turnip here (lesson learned: don't go against your gut feeling in this case). Not sure why I went with Eggplant over Ovie for the Hart though... That was just stupid. Probably to set myself up in the weird event that he actually did win it. So all in all, I was bored and annoyed with this whole thing last night. Mind you...some nice pictures came out of it.... I'm a sucker for pictures....ANYWAY... Congrats to Ovie for winning the Hart thingy and the Pearson thing and we already knew you were walking out with the Maurice Richard thing (how about we work on the assists and/or goals for next year so you can get the Ross again? *G*). And congrats to everyone else too (and someone please tell Chara that it's okay to deliver a short speech in the event that he wins something next time. I know the guy doesn't do anything short but really... I almost fell asleep!).

Two random things about the awards:

1. I loved Ovie's "it's too hot to touch" thing when he got the Hart
2. "I could really use two Stanley Cup rings to block out Roenick..." <-- Number31 last night on Twitter while Roenick was attempting to talk last night. She is a genius.

Not too much in the way of rumors in general and pretty much nada about the Habs. I'm not sure if I should be worried that there's nothing coming out of Habsland or if I should just be thankful that I don't have to think about insane rumors. The closest thing to a rumor I've heard from Habsland is that they're close to coming to a deal with Komi and there appears to be a big chance that Koivu's headed to the Wild. Meh. Heard that one about Koivu. Let me know if it actually happens (which I hope it doesn't).

The only other interesting thing I've heard is that those creepy Sedin twins want matching 12 year contracts worth 63 million.... Not that I care about where they end up or anything, but to me, 12 years is a long time and unless you front load the contract, you could end up with a b*tch of a time trying to get rid of them if you don't want them down the road.... I get that players want the security but as a GM, I'd be hesitant to do it.

In tennis news....

The biggest news is whether or not Rafa will be playing in Wimby on Monday. Apparently his knees are still acting up. I'm a bit torn on this. I'm ready to believe that Rafa is indeed in a lot of pain. I'm not making light of his injuries. I just wonder how it is that he didn't appear to be playing with a lot of pain a the French Open, still lost, and now we're hearing about this? Maybe he really was in pain throughout the French Open. Maybe it started afterwords. It's entirely possible. Honestly, I almost hope that he really is in pain and this isn't an attempt at trying to 1) soften the blow of his Roland Garros loss and 2) lessen the expectations for Wimbledon. I've heard before that Rafa is supposedly injured and then he plays and blows everyone out of the water for the most part. All this being said, I want Rafa to recover and play. I want him and Roger to play in the finals the way it's been for the past.... however many years *g* It wouldn't be a Wimby final without Rafa and Roger. I don't want Muzz and Roger. I don't want Nole and Roger. And I definitely do NOT want Muzz and Nole. GIMME A ROGER VS RAFA FINAL!

EDIT: He pulled out. *sighs* no Rafa. Messed up draw now.... I'm not very pleased with this. Not at all.

And in football/soccer and yes, baseball news....

I hate Toronto. I hate Toronto. I hate Toronto. I hate Toronto. I hate Toronto. I hate Toronto. I hate Toronto.

EP's version of the Awards Thing

Yeah. I was going to waste time predicting who was going to win what... but that sounded boring and I dont like half the candidates anyway. So instead, I'm going to steal the NHL's awards and hand them out as I see fit. Oh and I may or may not have changed around what the awards are for. I mean really...someone has to do something about that Lady Byng trophy. I die laughing at it every time... Sorry.. Anyway...... On with the show!



Hart - The player who's most responsible for EP's madness this season

• Ovie because those insane goals made EP go insane
  
• Kovy because all the time he hit the flipping post made EP go insane
  
• Puffy because he is talked about nonstop made EP go insane
  

After much debate, we chose Kovy. We think that EP wouldn't be half as insane if Kovy had actually put the puck into the back of the flipping net more often. We would like Gainey to resign Kovy so he can prove to EP that he can actually make the puck go into the back of the net.

Vezina - For the goalie that we wanted to hug the most for whatever reason *g*

• The Priceberg
  
• Jaro
  
• Simmy
  

After hours and hours and hours of debating... we decided to pick Price. He's had a rough year and we've pretty much wanted to hug him all season long. Mini hugs for Jaro and Simmy though!

Toskala - For the goalies who we've deemed to have failed epically in some respect

• Vesa Toskala for being a Leaf
  
• Squeaky Marty for being Squeaky Marty
  
• Cam Ward for that epic fail against the Puffles
  

So tough.... We really wanted to give all three of them it but as there can really be only one "winner", we decided that Toskala should get it. The thing is named after him after all.....

Norris - We're giving this out to the person who we deemed was significantly anti-Puffles this season.

• Semin
• Ovechkin
  
• Looch (fine, so he hasn't proven himself to be totally anti-Puffles yet. But in our imagination, he is crushing Puffy into the boards)
  

We really, really, really wanted to pick Looch. But like we said, Looch hasn't actually smashed Puffy yet. This makes us very sad and we hope that the Loochness Monster gives Puffy a Looching next season so we can give him the Norris. So instead, we're giving it to Semin. Those comments at the beginning of the year were funny. And we honestly do think he has a point. So yay for you Semin!

Calder- For the player who's attempt at a playoff beard we liked the most

• Puffy
• Peach Fuzz
  
• Captain Peachy
  

Well, as Puffy's wannabeard is just that pathetic, I'm disqualifying him. And Captain Peachy really only had those awful looking sideburn things. So Peach Fuzz wins. We like the fact that we can't actually see it very well on the TV. We do hope this changes when he can actually grow a beard but until then, we like what we see (or don't see).

Lady Byng - for the player who amused us the most for various reasons

• Shorty Marty (for just skating around and amusing EP for no reason)
  
• Squeaky Marty (for those epic fails)
  
• Boring Marty (for those epic fails against the Whalercanes)

Shorty Marty! He was very amusing for most of the season. EP found it very entertaining to watch him skating around. It makes no sense, no, but neither does this whole trophy thing anyway.

Selke - for the player with the lamest attempt at a fight

• Semin (vs StaalClone2)
• Puffy (vs Brett Mclean)
  
• Eggplant (vs Zetterburg)
  

This really wasn't much of a contest. Semin wins for that" bongo playing fight" against the StaalClone. Sorry to Eggplant who really did try to "fight" Zetterberg during the playoffs. It was a lame effort for sure, but not that lame. We think it would be a cool idea if Semin took on Eggplant next season.

Jack Adams - For the coach that annoyed us the most this year.

• Cory Clouston
  
• Ron Wilson
  
• Dan Bylsma
  

It was tough enough just picking these three (okay maybe not) and we really had to debate long and hard about which coach we would ultimately choose. Ultimately, we went with Ron Wilson because he has annoyed us since day one of the the NHL season, while Clouston and Bylsma only tortured us throughout the latter half of the season.

Bill Somethingrather - for the team that got smashed up the most and is not getting a top draft pick for it.

• Habs
• Habs
  
• Caps
  

HABS! Yes. We were smashed up probably more than most teams were and yet we STILL made the playoffs (unlike say, Dallas). We win! HAH!

Lester B. Pearson - For the player who had us screaming the most at their awesome goals

• Ovie
• Ovie
• Ovie

Hmm... Guess Ovie is winning it? *g*

Alex Ovechkin - While we wanted to swap places with this one and the Lester B. Pearson one, we decided to leave it as it. This is for the player who's name is apparently the most unpronounceable to the media.

• "Oh-vech-kin"
• "Buffsagwkjeagsdkjhf" (Byfuglien)
  
• "Pleh-ka-nec"
  

We had a whole host of people we wanted to nominate for this one. Including every French Canadian named Martin. Simmy will proably make it on this list next year but he's getting pass this time because he wasn't around much during the regular season. We're going to go with Ovechkin because we're very tired of hearing "OH-vechkin scooooooooores". He's RUSSIAN. Not Irish.

So I just watched the Habs '93 win...

Yeah, I nabbed the DVD from my library. No hockey and no tennis makes me a sad person.

Anyway... it was really bizarre and really awesome at the same time. Random notes because I can:

• I can't get over how young Carbo, Muller and Schneider look. I didn't see Breezer's face so I dunno what he looked like.
• I like Muller better as a player than a coach. A lot better.
• I was wondering what was wrong with Carbo... He was so quiet. And then he started getting angry at someone and then I knew this was indeed Carbo.
  
• Melrose looks more annoying in 1993 for some reason....
  
• There was exactly ONE Breezer play and it only ALMOST resulted in a goal. Let me repeat that: ONE Breezer play that only ALMOST resulted in a goal.
  
• Announcers in 1993 are just as annoying as they are in 2009
  
• How come I didn't know that Kelly Hrudey was the goalie for the Kings?
  
• Well, now that I do know, I can say that I loved seeing him let in all those goals =p
  
• What is with the ugly Wimbledon-esque sweaters worn by the trainers? Ew.
  
• The Kings one goal was very ugly. Bounced off multiple posts =/
  
• Seeing ex-coaches as players is still weird (hello Granato and Savard)
• Ties were ugly in the 90s (hello Demers and Melrose)
  
• The old Forum thingy looks pretty
• Habs fans chanting "Go Habs Go" made me shiver. Or maybe it was just the really cold water I was drinking...
  
• I'm pretty sure The Great One shook everybody's hands.....*coughs*
  
• Running over the Habs goalie - no matter what decade it is - makes me unhappy...
  
• When is Ron McLean going to retire? The guy has been around FOREVER and ever and ever and ever. PLEASE RETIRE! PLEASE!
• I wuvs my Habbies =)

(I know this is lame... I'm having trouble making my brain write out half decent things here)

Bettman's fantastically wonderful week

It was a good week for King Gary.

No. It was better than it. It was a fantastically wonderful week for the Supreme Ruler of the NHL.

It all started when Sidney Crosby won the Stanley Cup. Personally speaking, Gary was very much pleased when the Anointed One finally did something. Took him long enough, jeez. Just how long ago was the kid drafted? Four years ago now? Like they really had all day to wait for the Pittsburgh Penguins to win the Stanley Cup? It was getting to the point where Gary had to go and talk to the... uh.... talk to the secretary to find him some little stuffed Penguins for his kids. Yeah.... that was right... The kids loved the Penguins.

Anyway, that's pretty much neither here nor there now because the Anointed One did win the Stanley Cup and everyone could just go stuff it. Especially those pesky Red Wings.... Ugh... Gary took a lot of personal satisfaction from handing the Stanley Cup to Sid in front of all those Wings fans. A lot of personal satisfaction.

Of course the really good news came the other night. While Gary was busy re-watching the NBA NHL finals, he received news on his Blackberry iphone (he had broken his Blackberry last week - totally by accident of course), that the judge had rejected Balsillie's bid to move the team. The King literally jumped up and down around his office when the news arrived.

"YES! YES! IN YOUR FACE BALSILLIE! I WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN! YOU LOOOOOOOOSE!"

This continued on for a few more minuted before Gary got tired after so much physical exertion. He went back to his big puffy chair in his over-sized office and continued watching the NBA finals.

It was a good week for King Gary.

No. It was better than it. It was a fantastically wonderful week for the Supreme Ruler of the NHL.

The ultimate insult

Okay so last night I was playing pool with my dad. At one point I was complaining a little bit about the game (which wasn't exactly going in my favor at the time). Being the wonderful human being that he is, he turned around and said I was being the Crysob of pool.

EXCUSE ME?

Oh yes, he knew damn well what he was saying and he got what he wanted too: I shut up immediately.

So. I was thinking of ways to play next time that would ensure that I wouldn't be accused of being a Crysob (which for the records, I wasn't). I came up with a few ways:

1. After sinking the right balls, jump up and smash into the wall (reminiscent of Ovie's glass-slamming)
   
2. After a particularly beautiful shot, throw the cue (stick thing) down and pretend it's on fire
   
3. Declare that we're going to play pool and once the other person starts say "I WIN" and walk away.

I'm sure there's more I could do. I'll even take Markov's blank staring. Anything. I will NOT be called Crysob again. Not. Not. Not.

Oh and... does the sidebar looked totally stretched out? I had to modify it to add my magic countdown machine in....

Countdown begins

Huh.

I should offer my cursing skills to the other teams. I just cursed the Wings to a Stanley Cup loss.

No, I'm not taking this seriously. Just saying. It's funny. In a sad sort of way....

Being the semi-classy person that I am, I will now fully congratulate the Pens on their win. They deserved it. BUT I still hate Crysob. I can think he's talented and deserves it but still hate him. I'm not looking forward to hearing about him this summer or next year.... Damn you Crosby. I can't stand you or the media hype that surrounds you at all. But you deserve the win. So. Myeh.

And yes, I was born the same year that the Pens won their first Stanley Cup...Yup... There's your stupid fact for the day.

AND YES, I actually flipping predicted a Pens win in 7 games. First time I've ever gotten this stupid prediction thing exactly right.

Owch. I have a headache just thinking about this right now...

In better news....

The Baby Caps just won the Calder Cup thing =) Whoo for the Baby Caps!

Soon to be ex-seasons and Quidditch

For once I wasn't the person who started this randomness about hockey players playing Quidditch (you know, Harry Potter). That isn't to say that I didnt get in on the madness:

And tonight is the last night of the season. For real. After tonight, there will be no more NHL hockey for a loooooong, loooooooooong time. I'll try to enjoy it but it won't be easy.... I want those Puffles to go down SO much right now. *sighs* Oh well. For my first ever NHL season, it's been crazy. So thank you to my Habbies, Ovie and the Caps and Peach Fuzz for making it amazing. Oh and special "thanks" to Crysob, Squeaky Marty and the Sens for providing me with hours of easy entertainment. Maybe one day I"ll grow up and stop being mean to you but not right now.... Sowwy.

I was going to write up something more interesting but then my brain shut down on me so you're stuck with this lame crap. Sorry *g*