Intern Desk: Field Report

- Posted in Intern Jeff Skinner, Off-Season Projects, We Love

Intern Jeff Skinner here, reporting from the field.  Is there some kind of dictionary for girls?  I cannot understand a word said in the WUYS office since that Kris Letang video.  It’s like an Justin Bieber concert!  Sure, he makes carrying Pants’ purse look waaaaaaay too easy but I am an athlete too.  And I’ve been getting pretty buff this summer.

The BioSteel Sports Camp is on now, and since workout videos are all the rage I’m pretty happy with this one.  You don’t see Biz doing any lifts, do you?  Seguin’s not pumping any iron in these clips!

Of course they film Stamkos doing plate hauls while I’m doing dead lifts – dead lifts look so stupid!  Not that you would notice, because Gator fainted and had to be revived in time for the earthquake drill.

The BioSteel Camp is tough – and I can concentrate now that my phone battery melted.  I need an external hard drive to process all the texts I got:

Chuck: Incoherent punctuation-riddled messages about Tyler Seguin checking himself out in every reflective surface

Gator: Streaming video from Legally Blonde so I can cut Stammer’s hair, or at least get him to Bend & Snap

Pants: Why is no one paying attention to James Neal?!  Nealmobile! Followed by the word HONK about two hundred thousand times.

It’ll be so easy for me to change the water cooler bottle this season – the WUYS girls are going to love it.  Now you can watch the video if you promise to speak English again and stop squealing.  And pay my cell phone bill.

You guys are gonna DIE.

- Posted in Off-Season Projects

Four words every girl wants to hear:

Will you marry me? Kris Letang workout video.

OMGWHAT?!  No big deal, just Kris Letang doing chin-ups with an extra 120 lbs strapped to his hips.  I can’t even talk about the setup.  Dawn’s going to need some First Responder attention, stat.

Why use a weight? We volunteer to piggyback.

This video makes me want to do push-ups or run around the block or, frankly, faint.  Imagine how good we would look if we worked this hard?  We might look as good as Kris! (Okay, not possible.)  But seriously – I could not have more respect for how hard these guys train.  And how can he jump that high?   I thought Stamkos was impressive – sorry Steve-o, Kris has you beat.  We might need a category for jumping.

We love when you guys send us stuff to post!  Thanks to everyone who made sure we didn’t miss this – you’ve done your civic duty for the day.  Reward yourself with cookies and let Kris burn off the calories.  (His own calories.  Not work them off of you.  Get your minds out of the weight vest.)

Lunging the combined weight of the WUYS staff (including Intern Jeff Skinner)

Mikey Monday: High Five!

- Posted in Mikey Monday, Pants Loves

ONLY 5 MONDAYS until our first hockey game of the season!!   Gator, Mr. Pants and I bought tickets for the Blue Jackets @ Caps on Monday, Sept 26.  Tickets were $10.  DISCOUNT MONDAY!

We will get bananas excited over a half-empty pre-season game.  Deprivation and too much sugar will do that.  We’ll be playoff-style freaking out in September.  It’ll be like…

That time Mike wore a suit, while EStaal and Kes wore jeans and t-shirts.  No worries, Mike.  It’s like Vegas in here – you can’t be overdressed.

PS: I miss your hair.

Good Excuse to be a Bad Influence

- Posted in Off-Season Projects

The BioSteel sports camp is this week in Toronto and Biz Tweeted this photo of his lucky locker room assignment:

@BizNasty2point0 - The @BioSteelSports camp all this week in Toronto. Don't worry Lightning fans, Stamkos is in good hands.

We suggest you lock up your daughters bloggers.

If you’re wondering how Stammer’s off-season project of impersonating Nicky Backstrom is going, here’s an update on his hair and the upcoming season [video].

Happy Monday, kids!

 

Foxy Friday: Derek Roy

- Posted in Foxy Friday

It’s tough to be a tall girl. Chuck and I were discussing earlier that when a tall girl needs a date, there are only a plethora of short men around.  It’s like ten thousand spoons, you know?

Maybe it’s even tougher to be a short guy.  But it helps to have a professional-athlete level talent… and this face.

So Derek Roy is 5′ 9″.  Tell us you still care about that. 

I don’t think about Buffalo that much, except last Thanksgiving when I thought, “How are we not there yet?!” and “Why did we go past the exit for Canada?!”  Despite being 8 degrees out in November, I had a great time.  The Sabres arena is really nice and people were super friendly. Still unclear why they sang the Canadian anthem before 2 US teams played – but we just love to hear it.  They do the flag-passing thing that’s so Canadian and they have an awesome 50/50 raffle (that I’ll win next time).

Derek was the Sabres leading scorer through the start of 2010-2011, then suffered a torn quad tendon that sacked his season.  He returned for Game 7 of Round 1, which they lost to Philly.  He’ll be back on the ice in Buffalo this fall.   Roy has been called out in the past as a diver and a whiner (says the Crosby fan in the room), but showed improved maturity in his last full season.  He has 3 years left of a 6-year, $24 million contract.

My exhaustive Google search revealed that Sabre fans say Derek is a really nice guy.  He supports Juvenile Diabetes fundraising and apparently did some really dorky TV law firm commercials that I cannot find.  Oh hockey players and their (complete appalling lack of) acting skills.

This picture is for no reason other than to show he has a friend who likes the Sox.  Must be a good guy. 

Remote Control

- Posted in Newsies

The NHL TV schedules are out [link], and I’m going to have to get the NHL Network this season.  They have too many games I can’t miss.

NBC will air (potentially) seven Bruins games, six Penguins games, five Capitals and five Blachawks games, none before US Thanksgiving.  That’s not going to cut it for anyone without cable.  The good news is you can tune in to Versus on 10/10 to see Gator climb the glass after Stamkos when the Bolts play the Caps for my (and Mike Green’s) birthday.

What is the point of announcing the Winter Classic next week [link] if it’s on today’s TV schedule?  Not to mention that it’s on MONDAY, January 2 at 1 PM so as not to interfere with NFL schedules.  Or with my haircut appointment or the burning need to rearrange my spoons by how many swirls are on the handle.  Unless the NHL also announces they’ve gotten us all extra vacation days, I’ll be watching that on DVR.

Clearly not our husbands (we'd never marry Habs fans anyway).

Today just needs…

- Posted in We Love

Gator and I are not having a great week in DC, but I think we’d feel better if Nicky were here.  His hugs always work on Mike.

In fact, we nominate Nicky for Best Hugs in the WUYS High School Yearbook.  Ovi voting:

Up for discussion: trip to Vegas, leaving tomorrow.  Who wants in?

What-To-Do Wednesday

- Posted in Randomness

Today is officially the Longest Day Ever.  There is even a trophy.

To alleviate boredom, we suggest you follow the Nealmobile on Twitter – @jneal_18.  It’s really the only hope today has to become more exciting.

This picture is from the 2010 Dallas Stars calendar.  Someone clearly should have bought this for us.  It looks like one of those Dos Equis “Most Interesting Man in the World” commercials, in which we imagine Nealer flying a bush plane and playing polo before making us a gourmet dinner of hand-gathered root vegetables and frosty cold beer, followed by a midnight swim at a secret beach reachable only by Aston Martin convertible.  Best Wednesday Ever, that would be.

Caps for the Cup?

- Posted in Dawn Loves, Newsies

The Hockey News has predicted the Washington Capitals will win the 2011-12 Stanley Cup.  We feel Dawn’s hand in this.

Hi-res/readable version at washingtoncapitals.tumblr.com.

I admit this wouldn’t make me as sad as it used to.  Once clear of whatever round involves the Penguins, I would cheer for the Caps.  Dawn would visit, and make signs.  Gator and I would cut work for the parade, buy scooters and honk at everyone.  (Unless they faced the Blackhawks.  Then I’d get pelted with debris in the Verizon Center because my red #19 shirt doesn’t say “Backstrom.”  Sorry Nicky.)

What do you think?  Is this the future of the coming season?

Note: This article does not even mention Mike Green’s name.  I am offended.

Staal Wedding Weekend

- Posted in Off-Season Projects, Summer Lovin', We Love

We hacked the Bauer Hockey Facebook page today and posted nothing but pictures of the Staals.  Oh wait, that wasn’t us?  Someone else did this?  BRAVO.  And woah.

You can see all the photos here.  But you can’t handle it. (Oh wait, that’s us.)

Ginger Staal got married over the weekend, hence the festivities.  The Staal Bros are going fast, ladies. 

From TheDManProject

Someone should find us a larger version of this photo, because it is PERFECT.  Beautiful.  Doesn’t it make you wanna get married?  Congratulations to the lucky couple, even if he plays for the Rangers!

Totes Sad Pandas

- Posted in Epic Fail

rest in peace

This is just sad. Another hockey player gone way too soon. Rick Rypien was found dead on Monday by a family member. No official word yet about the cause and quite frankly it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that yet another young hockey player is gone.

we all need more of this!

He took an extended leave of absence from the NHL for personal reasons and had just signed on with the Winnipeg Jets on what some say was a career comeback.

Derek Boogaard died a few months back; a mixture of alcohol and prescription drugs found in his system.

While we all joke about fighters and fights – I’m just as guilty – I love a good fight(s), and the NY Islanders having a viewing party of their game against the Penguins, some players have a hard time leaving it on the ice when they leave the ice.

My heart and prayers go out to the Rypien family and to any hockey player out there having personal issues. Please go get help – talk to some one, any one. You are more important than the game. You matter to someone. You make a difference. There is a sparkly rainbow on the other side – trust me.

better to remember you by

That Just My Baby Daddy

- Posted in Off-Season Projects, Randomness

A year ago, former Disney star Hilary Duff, accoplished what so many aspire to…

She snagged a professional athlete.

And a hockey player to boot.

And yesterday, Hils and her Pittsburgh Penguin hubby, Mike Comrie, announced that they are expecting a little penguin of their own.

We’re totes happy for them and personally, we feel the timing couldn’t be more perfect.

With Mike out of the game for the foreseeable future as he rehabs his surgically repaired hip, he’ll have plenty of time to dote on his pregnant lady.

“Hey Baby. You know what I could really go for? A vat of applesauce and carton of Cheez-its”

Late night runs to Albertson’s for pickles and ice cream.

Saturdays at Babies R’ Us registering for Diaper Genies, binkies, and those adorable, impossibly small oneies with monkeys on them.

Lamaze classes.

So congrats Mr. and Mrs. Duff on your bundle of joy.  May he (or she) be as adorbs as this kid…

Mikey Monday: Not Awkward

- Posted in Mikey Monday, Pants Loves

Every week, you try to ignore Monday.  You pull up your socks but still it won’t go away.  Monday is just so obvious and frankly intimidating that you turn your back and find something fascinating across the room.  Because if you can’t see Monday, then Monday can’t see you.  Right?

I think Mike knows how you feel. 

 

Hot or Not?

- Posted in Chuck Loves, Pants Loves, Randomness

Chuck spent some quality time with Brent Burns this past weekend so I gotta ask, Hot or Not with his new tat? You make the call. Because I know if Pants wasn’t married already, this would be her DREAM BOY! Photo courtesy of Puck Daddy.

BTW – his comment when asked about the fresh ink, “Hogwarts looks fun!” Um …. Brent, I hate to break it to you but it ain’t a real place. The Easter Bunny isn’t either and  the Tooth Fairy, well, yes she is because hockey players made her real like the Velveteen Rabbit. So keep putting those teeth under your pillow at night, big boy. It pays the rent.

that's pretty much forever dude ...

Show Me Your Teeth!

- Posted in Chuck Loves, Randomness

Ok – anyone see “I Spit On Your Grave”? Nevermind … this photo just reminds me of a scene from it, in a very twisted way. A faux-Stanley cup for anyone who can name this tow-headed NHL all-star, grinning to winning!

hurry up and take the photo, I gotta go potty!

Swedish Summertime

- Posted in Dawn Loves, Summer Lovin'

If you’d like to spend your Friday watching Nicky B, you’re in luck.  Bonus if you speak Swedish or mumbling.  He has such nice eyes.

Interview Video 1 and Video 2.  Fair warning: There isn’t any smiling, as he obviously misses Mike.  It makes me wanna:

Our pal @raedanda found this on Twitter – MUCH better.  Someone tell me how this thing stays afloat as Nicky demonstrates the appropriate length and plaid in this season’s Swedish swim trunks.

Posted by Nicky's brother Krisstofer (@kbackstrom85)

Foxy Friday….ermmm…not so much

- Posted in Foxy Friday, Randomness

So any of our loyal readers out there know that this blog – and this feature, in particular – tend to focus on the more beautiful aspects of the game of hockey.

Namely, the oily bo-hunks that play this game we love so much.

Patrick Sharp.  

Sidney Crosby.

Jonathan Toews.

Patrice Bergeron.

Patrick Sharp.

Oh wait, already said him.  Doesn’t matter!  He’s so hot, I had to mention him twice.

No no no. Too Sexy.

But for today’s Foxy Friday feature (yay alliteration!), I’m going a little crazy.

I’m going to veer of this highway of “hotness”…

…down the off-ramp…

For this week, and this week ONLY- Foxy Friday is going to known as…

Fugly Friday

Yah, that’s right.

These guys might not gracing the cover of GQ anytime soon, but they still play a pretty sick game of hockey.

Ian Laperriere

Is he face made out of silly putty?

Mike Ricci

Alex Ovechkin

Sorry, Dawn.  He’s an amazing hockey player, but really…I don’t get it.

Daniel Carcillo

Gerry Cheevers

The comb-over. The Jason mask. Not a good look for anyone.

So, do you have a player that you think should be on this list?  One who reminds you more of Sloth from ‘The Goonies” than Ben Affleck from “The Town” (FACT: BA never looked hotter that he did in that movie.  And I will fight anyone who disagrees.)

These are not the Pants you're looking for.

- Posted in Dawn Loves, Well OBVIOUSLY.

The only thing Ovi loves more than a party?  Sweatpants.

He attended the birthday of Russian singer/actor Andrei Grigoriev-Apollo in his best duds.  No wonder Dawn loves him.

Things we love: If you Google “Ovechkin sweatpants,” this photo of Dawn’s rear end makes the top search results.

Let This One Slide

- Posted in Randomness

Can I just…

Are those moccasins on a scooter, Biz?  Is this a dig at Mike Green?  I doubt it, because you’re hilarious and we freaking love you. So you’d better not be making fun, since I know where your team stays and I don’t do Wolverine-haired emo slapfights.  I will take off my earrings and my Lee Press-On Nails and we will go.  (Mike Rupp, you are excused from this argument due to elf costume power.)

Sorry, I got all defensive.  Somebody has to stick up for him and it’s not gonna be Nicky!  Mike is probably thrilled to think he started a trend.  The Fourth Period has a big feature on Biz [link] being Biz: looking swag, chilling with a Playmate… damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

Move Closer to the Screen

- Posted in Fauxnadian, Pants Loves

Sportchek’s new Crosby commercials are out!  Can I please live in Canada?  I believe it’s a magical place where things like this really happen… starring Sid as himself and an 8-year old kid as me.  Here’s the link – it’s even in French. 😉

Here’s the second one [link].  We miss his adorkableness something awful.

And the new SC87 gear advert.  JUST TAKE ALL OUR MONEY.

Intern Jeff Skinner isn’t going to be happy spending all day entering us into this:

Here’s the contest link.  You have to be Canadian to enter (that’s racist!), but you win for 4 people.  So you’ll take us, right?  We’ll even get to the ‘Burgh on our own, you can sleep across our empty seats on the plane.