I’m sending this one up: Alex Tanguay. Please, please do well. Alex Tanguay, as Phoebe from Friends would say, is my lobster. He was my favorite player for a long time – back before I had to preface it with “totally random” because he fell off the radar, the map and just about every roster […]
I just laughed so hard at my desk that my intern came in to see if I was crying. Mariah Carey? Mike Green, you are too much. Chuck had a brilliant idea: Mikey Mondays! I will see her blatant attempt to restrict my ramblings to one day a week and raise her with another edition […]
Training camps opened Friday and over the weekend a lot of people (who weren’t me) got to see some pre-season hockey. It looks like the Blackhawks had the most fun, as the Champs should, by hosting their annual Training Camp Festival including… wait for it… a rollerblading race! Mr. Pants is very jealous because he […]
Here at WUYS, we delight in carrying the banner for you. While wearing short pants and jaunty caps, perhaps with a choreographed dance routine (remixed to Lady Gaga?) From the Morning News Desk: T-minus 3 weeks until the season starts! 1) Penguin’s forward Jordan Staal will miss the start of the regular season after another […]
While Dawn Cherrie and I were on a double date last night with Mike Green and Ovie, the rest of the NHL’s top 20 stars partied with Graydon Carter and the fancypants folks at Vanity Fair. Well, fancy-ish. Guests included “actor” Tom Cavanaugh and Olympic ice skater Evan Lysacek. It kills me that we’re not […]
It’s NHL Media Tour day in NYC and there will certainly be tons of fun photos floating around by this afternoon (all over Twitter already!). They might as well give up now because I don’t see how they can top this: DAMMIT GENO! What are you doing? Evgeni Malki (ak.a. Alternate Captain Awkward Turtle) has […]
We at WUYS love fans. We love when they dress like excited freshmen – hat, shirt, pants, buttons, jacket, ID case all with the team/school logo. We love bumper stickers and license plates, flags on lawns, all of it. But tell me, is this too much? I would use this. I wouldn’t buy it, but […]
I’ve never been one for video games (as Mr. Pants sits across the room yelling at his StarCraft squadron). But if I were going to play, it would be NHL 11. Captain Howdoyoupronouncethat, Jonathan Toews and fan favorite Patrick Kane (who made my ultimate dream come true by bringing the Cup to a Jimmy Buffett […]
Every year, teams whore out their players to deliver season tickets for photo ops. I wonder – how strongly do they vet these lucky recipients first? Because I could totally act normal. Then if Sid or Max (or Kris or Flower…) rang my doorbell, we would have a hostage situation. Even in those shoes. Video […]
Happy 22nd birthday, Jordan Staal! So you didn’t grow up next to the Staal’s sod farm in Thunder Bay, Ontario? Neither did we – and they don’t make ‘boys next door’ like this in the US. Jordan’s done a lot in his 22 years: drafted 2nd overall, in his rookie year he was the youngest […]
Disclaimer: I can’t get enough of Mike Green. He’s hysterical. His birthday is the day after mine. That haircut. Between his website and Twitter… maybe I’m giving Mikey too much credit, assuming his hipster/tool personality is at least somewhat ironic. He could be serious, in which case I will delete this post at a later […]
Sidney Crosby continued his casual campaign for world dominance today by hitting a batting practice home run at PNC Park. Sid, who could get arrested for indecency while wearing shorts, went yard on his second round of pitches. Somebody get Theo on the phone – next time the Pens bow out in May, I expect […]
Oh Oh, I got a funny story about “sieve” too!! So at every Boston University home hockey, there is a banner hanging behind one of the goalie nets – it reads “GOALIE” when BU’s goalie is in that net, “SIEVE” when the opposing goalie is in that net. So, I’m at a game with Cousin […]
My real-life fiance (he’ll be guest blogging later), slightly resembles Sidney Crosby and is also a chef. As a sieve is a kitchen utensil, he is familiar with the idea. Except apparently chefs pronounce it “seeeeeve”, like Steve without the “t”. (Now I’m thinking about Steve Sullivan.) We debated the possibility that I, Chuck and […]
Favorite Team: Pittsburgh Penguins Home Team: San Jose Sharks (for now) Favorite Player: Crosby/Tanger/Talbot/Staalsy/Flower… who can decide? Hockey Boyfriend: See above. Almost embarrassed to admit I like: Mike Green – mohawk, Lamborghini, Geico caveman and all. Team I Hate: Detroit Player I Hate: Oooooh, Ovechkin. First Hockey Crush: Scott Niedermayer! Hilarious Hockey Memory: I asked […]
Max schooling a goalie…
Testing out a video post, as well as a post with more than a few lines of text. I’m watching A Knight’s Tale, but it’s past the choreographed dancing scene so I supposed I could go to sleep. After I try to de-bug this thing a little more…