I just got back from the Irish Embassy St-Paddy's breakfast and had a few Irish coffee's. It's not even 8:30 am, and I would like to go back to bed and click restart. That being said, I am still feeling the electricity of last night's win. Maybe it's because I had pvr'd the game and got to watch the entire thing commercial free, but that was one of the more exciting games of the season
Carey Price, aka C-Diddy, aka C-Pri$zz really inspired me last night. In a sport that too often lacks personality, Price inserted some early 90s b-boy love into his game, and since then I can't get Vanilla Ice out of my head. Man, I really loved 90s white-boy rap, The Beastie Boys' Paul Revere is still my favorite song, and if you get me drunk enough I could do the whole thing for you. Anyhow, this little bit here is dedicated to C-Love
Welcome to 2011, the post-LaPierre era :) With the New Year comes time to review what I thought would happen in this 2010-2011 season. By the end of this week, our Habs will have played their 41st and 42nd game, meaning by Sunday morning the season will be just over the halfway mark. I don't pretend to be the Nostradamus of hockey, but in looking back at what I predicted, I'm not doing so badly. I would give myself a B-. Below, in bold are my the prediction I made, in italics is the reality, and in plain old font is my self-assessment. It's kind of like the yearly self-evaluations I do at work, but instead of the cash bonus I will reward myself with the uninhibited adoration from my millions of fans.
Well…wasn’t that a debbie downer of a game. SO much promise for about 58 minutes, and then BAM! it all comes tumbling down… Here are my ten points, on what was a really exciting but really disappointing home opener. Gionta’s player introductions really was special. I love how the Habs marketing department are all over the Captain’s french lessons. I am sure LaPierre had a good laugh over being call LaPierrere All joking aside though, that took some courage. Speaking a language you barely know in front of over 20,000 people is no easy task. Well done Captain! Ryan, Ryan, Ryan…. why oh why do you have to get a delay of game penalty EVERY SINGLE TIME! Powerplay? What powerplay? Half the opportunities were cut short because neither Cammalleri nor Subban can keep their emotions in check, and the other half of the powerplays were once again fruitless. At...
Went to the game last night. Snapped a few photos to share with you all, and gave my humble five observations. I'll try and do a similiar post whenever I go to a live game. I'd like to be able to do it EVERY game, but time constraints would make that impossible. Enjoy!
I agree with Damian Cox in his futility assessment concerning rookie camps. So while there are a plethora of rookie camp story lines I could take up and write about, I want to instead look to the future and make my 2010/2011 season predictions. The first of which is that 9 out of 10 won't happen and my credibility as a forecaster will be lower than Pierre McGuire's (remember his man-love affair with Komisarek and how he's take the Leafs to the promised land). So without further ado...my predictions
