Hope that your trades went through for this month. It's been tough with all of the injuries and Noodles has completely dashed all hopes of keeping on top of it for her team.
Quitter.
But there's hope for everyone else, we're sure. Hang in there until next month but if it gets too bad, we will definitely have another 'injury trade day' because it's getting a little ridiculous.
Here are the standings for this week:
Top five are:
1. Ramen Truck 2. Evgenia 3. The Bert and Ernies 4. Socially Awkward 5. Noodles
Good luck to everyone and let us know if you have any questions!
This may be a no-brainer but we thought that the NHL picked correctly this week for their number one star of the week. Every time we checked the scoresheet of Stars games, Jamie was all over it and that's hottie of the week material.
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Best Commercial of the Night
NHL Tonight
We love this because it's almost like a name-drop of hockey players to get you to watch the 'new' show. Hell, we were gonna anyway but this isn't a bad incentive.
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The Ryan Malone Wheaties Award
Shane Doan
We touched on it last night but the beetch finally got his first NHL hat trick. We were so happy for him and decided to show this video as a congratulations.
We thought that after such a terrible 2011 that the league and certain teams had, the new year would be different.
We couldn't have been more wrong.
It looks like more of the same for the Pittsburgh Penguins. And don't call us quitters but we don't see a franchise high 100+ points on their way to a fourth place finish this season with all of the injuries.
Jordan Staal will be out 3-4 weeks after colliding with Mike Rupp in the Penguins game against the New York Rangers and injuring his knee.
And then James Neal broke his foot. Yes, you read that right, BROKE HIS DAMN FOOT and is out indefinitely.
Then Craig Adams re-injured his knee colliding with Brooks Orpik during practice.
WHEN WILL IT STOP?!?!?!
It's beginning to be a little ridiculous.
Other injuries include Nicklas Backstrom taking an elbow to the mouth from Rene Bourque and suffering an apparent concussion.
NOT ANOTHER ONE!
Bourque was suspended for five games. Fine. And this is not Bourque's first suspension this season. What gives? Why is this happening right now? Who knows but it's starting to get tiring.
Let's add Backstrom to the concussion list.
Along with Ottawa Senators defenseman Chris Phillips who is day-to-day with a mild concussion after a hit in their game against the New Jersey Devils.
Another injured player is Tom Gilbert from the Edmonton Oilers. The player who hit him, Daniel Carcillo, has been suspended for seven games.
Does anyone care about safety anymore? Jeez.
Oh, and here are a few other links that depressed us:
- The Toronto Maple Leafs placed Colton Orr on waivers and from Brian Burke's comments it sounded like he did it to make a point about enforcers being an antiquated position in this day's NHL.
- John Tortorella was fined for the comments he made about the officiating after last Monday's Winter Classic game.
Fining him just made the NHL seem guilty.
- The NHLPA has killed the realignment plan that was suppsoed to happen last season. Just another bad thing on the way to a dying CBA and negotiations coming soon.
- During the Vancouver Canucks / Boston Bruins fight-fest yesterday, the referee threw Milan Lucic out for 'leaving the bench on an illegal line change' to get into the scrum happening on the ice. It was a mistake as the league later found out and the automatic game misconduct and suspension was taken away.
- In the same game, Brad Marchand submarined Sami Salo and now faces a disciplinary hearing tomorrow. Of course. It was stupid play and he should be punished.
Like we said, does anyone care anymore?
- And can we count a trade as bad news? The Lightning traded Blair Jones to the Calgary Flames for Brendan Mikkelson.
- We received an email a few days ago from Megan about ESPN's lack of coverage of hockey during their annual memoriam of important sports figures passings in the year. We know it's been some time since that happened but it's still making us angry.
Here is Megan's email to us: What a joke! Not one of the players who died this summer were mentioned in their Memoriam. No major mention of concussions, WNBA players made the notable new comers list, but not the reigning Calder Memorial winner Jeff Skinner or runner up Logan Couture, they mentioned the NCAA football realignment but not the NHL's, not even Bobby-Lu's "Tire-pumping" made it into the quotes of the year section, even though it lead to a riot! What is it going to take for ESPN to take their heads out of their asses and show Hockey the respect it more than deserves!
"The Worldwide Leader in Sports" neglected to cover the death of an entire hockey team in a plane crash in its year in review, but found time to feature lines from Deion Sanders' NFL induction speech. Three times. SportsCenter doesn't care about hockey beyond Sidney Crosby and the team that wins the Stanley Cup. Everyone knows that, but completely ignoring what happened in Yaroslavl, the deaths of Rick, Derek, Wade and every other hockey figure who passed away this year is disgusting. But hey, we got a 5-minute segment about how exasperated ESPN's talking heads were over Tim Tebow's winning streak. So that's something. Sorry, didn't mean to rant, but come on! How much of a joke can one company be?
Some good news?
- Everyone's starting to love the secret Swede on the Ottawa Senators: Erik Karlsson. He's becoming quite the hit.
- Esbee sent us this video after Cam Ward scored his first NHL goal. He's an adorable human being.
- Shea Weber was cleared to land and we couldn't have been happier. He made his first game back against the Dallas Stars.
- We love when stars from other sports love hockey.
Especially when they're good looking and have a nice bromance with some of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
- Sports Illustrated had the Top 15 Underrated Hockey Players. We agree with most of these except for Pavel Datsyuk because seriously, who doesn't know that this guy exists and what he brings to a team?
- Jarome Iginla finally got his 500th goal. Good cause we couldn't take much more of NHL Tonight mentioning it after every damn game the Flames played.
- And lastly, congratulations to Shane Doan's first NHL hat trick after sixteen seasons. Seriously, we were actually cheering for this when we saw the highlights last night. What a human and what a reaction.
We apologize for this post but we're frustrated and have been for a while. It's our way to vent.
Let us know what's bothering you. Vent away and we shall reply in the comments section.
- Let's just get this out of the way: best episode of this series and the previous one. Seriously. The pacing and additions were perfect. Everything about this was perfect.
- Ilya Bryzgalov's honestly is refreshing even if it is scary in some ways.
- Of course a huge deal is made of Talbot and Jagr returning to Pittsburgh. Whatever, we don't really care that they didn't sign with us. It happens and we wish that the media would just LET IT GO.
- Brandon Prust's funny is totally underrated. "I think you have very pretty eyes. I don't know why you don't show them off." Sean Avery does not approve.
- The Rangers video session. John Tortorella reminds us of that one teacher in high school who was a tough SOB but everyone respected him. But we don't think that teacher would have an almost meltdown when the video didn't work. That was a scary moment for everyone. We thought Tortorella was going to bite someone's head off.
- The concussion brothers are back for the Flyers. Does anyone else think Sean Couturier's missing front teeth are so endearing?
- "Fucking spear there. Right in my fucking penis." Really, Max? What a quote.
- The Penguins/Flyers game was depressing and re-living it in the series isn't any better. It sucks when our team loses to a division rival.
- We're gonna miss seeing John Tortorella in the locker room. He has probably the best speeches and motivational words of any coach.
- LOL at the audio at the end of the Rangers/Panthers game. So many f-bombs.
- Also, the bromance between Brandon Prust and Brian Boyle is so adorable.
- Ryan Callahan's prank on Marc Staal was just cruel. But oh so funny. It looks like he's the butt of all of their jokes. The Ginger Staal has no friends.
- Wayne Simmonds: suck it up, you are a hockey player. That being said, if it was us we would be freaking out but we're girls, not hockey players.
- The Rangers family celebrations in their hotel were awesome to see. Especially Dubinsky's grandfather, duh. So cute.
- Flyers and Rangers practices. Lovely.
- MARC STAAL YESSSSSSSSSS. HE'S GONNA PLAY! YES!
- Liam Traynor sighting!!!
- The actual game was filmed beautifully. The different viewpoints were perfect and we liked the mic'd up portion. Especially the referees.
- Giroux asking Henrik to give him one was hysterical. We were actually cracking up when we heard that.
- Also, Giroux was intense with the chirping. Intense. He was a little SOB the whole game.
- To Brayden Schenn: "Hey we're not in the fucking World Juniors here, jumping in the glass." LOL.
- About the Rupp salute: "He says if he scores, he does the Anisimov. Shoot the goalie?"
- But when Giroux actually said "Second goal in his fucking career" about Mike Rupp we were stunned. Do you not know that Rupp scored the New Jersey Devils cup-clinching goal in 2003?
We were actually stunned when he said that.
- But it's okay because Rupp answers with the game-tying goal.
- The obscenities after Callahan and Timonen were called for penalties, LMFAO. So crazy.
- The penalty shot: HOLY DRAMA. Also filmed beautifully with the perfect music.
- Does anybody know who told the Flyers or who said for them to get off the ice? We couldn't tell and were wondering.
- Sergei Bobrovsky looked like he was on the edge of a cliff. Poor kid.
After almost four years of Date Night Friday, we felt like we were running out of ideas and players that were suitable to date.
We tried re-inventing it but it wasn't as successful. But we're going to try it again, this time as a favorite game of ours when we were younger.
Mystery Date.
If you've never played Mystery Date, well the rules were basic. There was a Door and you had to spin the handle so many times and it would open to a date. Hopefully it would be date you wanted and not some schlub.
Well, we decided that we could do this with Date Night Friday. We can recycle players we've already used for the original Date Night Friday and put them in different date situations this time around.
The rules are simple.
Every Friday you will be presented with two dates, two completely different scenarios and then have to decide which date you would rather go on.
We can't tell if you cheat but if you do, just remember, baby Jesus doesn't like cheaters.
After you have read both dates and decided on which one, there will be a section after the dates that will have the selection.
We have a practice scenario here so let us know what you think...
Mystery Date #1
This date will revolve around going outside and making a snowman and having an impromptu snowball fight. After playing in the snow and making snow angels for a few hours, the two of you go back inside and he makes you hot chocolate with tiny marshmallows in it.
Mystery Date #2
This date involves going to the bowling alley with a case of beer. You both try to chirp the other about how good you are before bowling so he makes up new rules. The new rules involve bowling with only your non-dominant hand and see how many points the two of you can rack up while also drinking the beers.
As you should know, the results are in. And Senators fans come out with a vengeance. It's their hometown team and we can see why they were so about this.
Results are here. But we separated the starters from the rest of the chaff.
The top three forwards were:
1. Daniel Alfredsson
2. Jason Spezza
3. Milan Michalek
Top 2 defensemen were:
1. Erik Karlsson
2. Dion Phaneuf
Top goaltender was:
1. Tim Thomas
Honestly, we're disappointed in Senators fans for not making all five from the Senators. We thought you could do better, kids.
We're joking. But it's cool to see a town completely embrace their home team and vote them in like this.
Also, Karlsson was the top vote-getter. Yes, Erik Karlsson who no one even heard of except Senators fans and Swedes. Until this season as he is leading all defensemen in points.
Goes to show you how powerful a pretty (Swedish) face is.
It should be interesting to see who the NHL picks as the players to complement this lineup of Senators stars.
Who do you think should be the captains and who should be chosen as participants in this affair?
