Talk about truth in marketing. Watching it on Showcase right now. They're scheming to get liquor before some big party. Totally. Not. Funny.
Do people laugh at this shit?
Sunday, November 08, 2009
A post I'd like to see
Not sure whether any statheads venture our way, but I'd like someone to empirically determine whether blocking shots is worth it.
My curiosity is prompted by Dubinsky losing a wing to a Bouwmeester shot tonight. But it's been on my mind since last year, when the world's worst coach not named Gretzky had Paul Stastny blocking shots on the PK. Stastny broke his arm blocking one point shot, healed, returned, and broke his foot blocking another shot.
OK, you invest $6M in a starting goalie, dress him up like the Michelin Man, and then you send your scantily clad FWs charging out to block shots. One of five PPs result in a goal, give or take. Would that percentage change appreciably if you didn't have to shoot through the pins of your opponents? Or would most of those shots be saved anyway?
Meanwhile, the price of saving hypothetical goals? The very unhypothetical GPs missed while your star FW recuperates on IR.
I could maybe see sending out some random Finn to block shots and occasionally create a SHG. Guy goes down, dip into the farm to grab a random WHL grad. But one of your quality players? Dubinsky is marginally sacrificeable. But losing Stastny to two blocked shots in one season. That's expensive penalty killing.
Anybody?
My curiosity is prompted by Dubinsky losing a wing to a Bouwmeester shot tonight. But it's been on my mind since last year, when the world's worst coach not named Gretzky had Paul Stastny blocking shots on the PK. Stastny broke his arm blocking one point shot, healed, returned, and broke his foot blocking another shot.
OK, you invest $6M in a starting goalie, dress him up like the Michelin Man, and then you send your scantily clad FWs charging out to block shots. One of five PPs result in a goal, give or take. Would that percentage change appreciably if you didn't have to shoot through the pins of your opponents? Or would most of those shots be saved anyway?
Meanwhile, the price of saving hypothetical goals? The very unhypothetical GPs missed while your star FW recuperates on IR.
I could maybe see sending out some random Finn to block shots and occasionally create a SHG. Guy goes down, dip into the farm to grab a random WHL grad. But one of your quality players? Dubinsky is marginally sacrificeable. But losing Stastny to two blocked shots in one season. That's expensive penalty killing.
Anybody?
Saturday, November 07, 2009
"Sports"
Waiting for the Saturday night college game on ABC so I flip to the Geezer Induction Ceremony from The Hangar in Toronto. Boring. Flip to Sportsnet expecting to see Kypreos and crew previewing hockey.
Maybe I missed it, because Ms.Stripper Fitness USA is on. To be followed by the World Stripper Finals, or somesuch.
Ekaterian Meishvili is 7-5 favorite to take home the pole, or the tassles, or whatever the prize is.
Maybe I missed it, because Ms.
Ekaterian Meishvili is 7-5 favorite to take home the pole, or the tassles, or whatever the prize is.
Puck update
NEWS ITEM -- The Alberta government is continuing efforts to recoup a 21-year-old loan to Peter Pocklington it says now totals almost $13 million and is accumulating $884 per day in interest, according to recently filed court documents. This goes along with his "bankruptcy" declaration in the U.S. where he is slated to go to trial in January on charges of trying to hide assets from a federal bankruptcy court.
Insists the plucky Puck: "Slats says the cheque's in the mail."
The Special-led Alberta PCs and this guy really deserve each other. Really.
Did this happen while I was sleeping?
If that wasn't enough positive shit for ya, call Norman Vincent Peale.
Meantime, somebody tell me this is a typo:
Meantime, somebody tell me this is a typo:
Buono’s club will move outdoors to a temporary facility at the former site of Empire Stadium for 2010, while 26-year-old B.C. Place undergoes a $458-million renovation. By 2011, when the Lions are scheduled to return to the stadium, it will have been fitted with a retractable roof....
Mr. Positivity
Prompted by an anonymous comment in the last post, herewith something I really, really enjoyed:
But also this:
And this:
This:
Much more recently, this:
Along with this:
And, oh ya, Thirteen Rights and a Left:
But also this:
And this:
This:
Much more recently, this:
Along with this:
And, oh ya, Thirteen Rights and a Left:
Thursday, November 05, 2009
4x4 hockey
Watched BOS v MTL.
Endured 60 minutes of the most boring hockey since, well, the other night when BOS played DET.
A late goal by Bergeron sent it to OT.
Five minutes of fire-wagon hockey.
I might not have 20/20 vision but Hellen Keller could tell you that 4x4 hockey is 4x better than 5x5 pinball/grappling/trapping.
I'd like to hear one decent argument against 4x4 hockey that doesn't rest on: "It's not hockey/it's not traditional/what would it do to the record books/they took our jobs..."
Endured 60 minutes of the most boring hockey since, well, the other night when BOS played DET.
A late goal by Bergeron sent it to OT.
Five minutes of fire-wagon hockey.
I might not have 20/20 vision but Hellen Keller could tell you that 4x4 hockey is 4x better than 5x5 pinball/grappling/trapping.
I'd like to hear one decent argument against 4x4 hockey that doesn't rest on: "It's not hockey/it's not traditional/what would it do to the record books/they took our jobs..."
Oilers finish 5th
Made you look.
It's 21-century hockey sweaters, but a Top 5 finish nonetheless.
Anybody still wearing the crashing meteor to games?
Or is everyone out looking for the next saviour? Personally, I'd say the Oilers need the next Wayne Gretzky.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Kudos
In a world of neanderthal navel-gazers, OHL prez David Branch is unusually enlightened. Branch handed a season-long suspension to the talentless POS who delivered this hit.
This isn't the worst check in the world, but enough is enough.
The perp has 13 points and more than 300 PMs this year. He's a 20-year-old preying on a 16-year-old on this hit. And he's a repeat offender, having delivered a far worse hit on John Tavares last season.
The other kid is lucky to be alive. Did he "keep his head up?" Did he "turn into it?" Whatever. It's hockey. Not ballet. But also not NASCAR or MMA.
Am I the only one who would prefer to see skating, passing, shooting and scoring? Am I the only one who is happy Tavares survived that hit to play in the NHL (and probably star for 10-15 years?) Is the cliche about blood-thirsty hockey fans the reality?
Here's a fairly indicative comment from the Globe, but you can see the same sentiment expressed anywhere this hit is being discussed:
The assistant GM of the Erie Otters cried about Liambas winning the Otters' Humanitarian Award for reading to retarded children, or something. Keith Jones, whose career may even have ended due to concussion issues - or maybe he was born brain damaged, not sure - defended the hit. A curly-domed Toronto hack managed to string together 750 words - sans ellipses - in defending the collision as a "hockey play."
We've come a long way since the Oilers dynasty. Down the wrong road, I'd venture to say.
Here's the portrait coming to a post office in Southern Ontario in the near future. Let's see if he makes it to the top of the charts before an old lady fingers him as the kid who stole her loaf of rye.
This isn't the worst check in the world, but enough is enough.
The perp has 13 points and more than 300 PMs this year. He's a 20-year-old preying on a 16-year-old on this hit. And he's a repeat offender, having delivered a far worse hit on John Tavares last season.
The other kid is lucky to be alive. Did he "keep his head up?" Did he "turn into it?" Whatever. It's hockey. Not ballet. But also not NASCAR or MMA.
Am I the only one who would prefer to see skating, passing, shooting and scoring? Am I the only one who is happy Tavares survived that hit to play in the NHL (and probably star for 10-15 years?) Is the cliche about blood-thirsty hockey fans the reality?
Here's a fairly indicative comment from the Globe, but you can see the same sentiment expressed anywhere this hit is being discussed:
I was at the game and this was just another body check - nothing more - nothing less. A clean hit. Give us all a break!! These suspensions are getting ridiculous. If you wanna play the game you better be prepared to get hit!!
The assistant GM of the Erie Otters cried about Liambas winning the Otters' Humanitarian Award for reading to retarded children, or something. Keith Jones, whose career may even have ended due to concussion issues - or maybe he was born brain damaged, not sure - defended the hit. A curly-domed Toronto hack managed to string together 750 words - sans ellipses - in defending the collision as a "hockey play."
We've come a long way since the Oilers dynasty. Down the wrong road, I'd venture to say.
Here's the portrait coming to a post office in Southern Ontario in the near future. Let's see if he makes it to the top of the charts before an old lady fingers him as the kid who stole her loaf of rye.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Scalloped Potato
Some bad news for one of the newest Spuds.
Might be a long season for the Potatoes.
Add rookie forward Michael Grabner to the long list of injured players on the Vancouver Canucks roster.Pardon my French, but how the fuck do you manage that???Grabner suffered a fractured ankle during the pre-game skate on Sunday against the Colorado Avalanche and is expected to be out of the lineup for up to six weeks.
Might be a long season for the Potatoes.
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