olympic hockey thoughts
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note that i have a sinus cold and make no promises of lucidity. funnily enough that will just convince leah mclaren that she's right about bloggers [saturday's post]. man i'm pissed at her. so as i drink berry boost (yup bolthouse farms strikes again... this one has 500% of the vitamin C you need in a day) and eating lentil soup you guys get a post.
okay i know it's not saturday night so technically i'm not supposed to be talking about hockey but y'all are just going to have to suck it up.
i was really curious to see what would happen with the olympics because the leafs coach was coaching the canadian team and their captain was captaining the swedish team, for those of you that don't follow the nhl or at least the leafs a quick recap.
the leafs fucking suck this year and have been growing steadily suckier for a few years now. recently there has been talk that perhaps their captain Mats Sundin should be canned. i've also heard discussion of the goalie, eddie balfour, and his age and thus the requirement that he be canned as well or instead. as though age is all that matters or something.
i do not comprehend this at all.
regarding balfour? he's the reason the leafs are even IN contention for a playoff spot [not in a spot, in contention for...] what with their total lack of defence and habit of hanging the goalie out to dry. they could have a robot with lightning reflexes in goal and it would still be fucked if it didn't have any defence.
which it doesn't.
the real question has to do with the captain and the coach.
the captain has been part of the team a little longer than the coach but it's been eight years that they're both been there so i'm not thinking that it makes much difference. that said, i feel quite strongly that the leafs problems stem from the coach and not the players.
the majority of the team has swapped out since those two started but they've continuously swapped for veteran players. age and experience are wonderful but in hockey you need some youth and enthusiasm too.
anyway here's the part of the equation that i don't get. no one, and i mean no one is talking about pat quinn. they seem to have decided that he's a great coach and that regardless of his team's total failure to adapt to the new rules that everything falls in the lap of the captain.
so i was watching the olympics with some extreme curiousity because i figured that it was as good a time as any to determine who the problem actually was. and it could well have turned out to be both of them.
team canada was plagued in large part with a lot of the problems that the leafs have been struggling with for years. for some reason these folks seem to think that dump and chase is still a valid hockey strategy.
yeah not so much.
team canada also brought a pile of bruisers and left the scorers and the skaters at home. someone explain this to me please? my dad thinks that one can be set squarely at the feet of management but i don't imagine gretzky is foolish enough not to ask the coach's opinion? and if he is? damm gretz you're really bad at putting teams together.
of course that stupid gambling 'scandal' didn't help. seriously people care less about that than they cared about lewinskygate... it was just an excuse to drag a good man's name through the mud.
so pat quinn's team? didn't even get to play for a medal. didn't even make the semi finals. got knocked out by the team that came fourth. got their asses kicked.
i try not to think about it being canada because then i sulk about how the americans got ONE more medal than us. ONE! damm it would have been awesome to beat them at that for once.
that said i've had a love hate relationship with the canadian men's hockey team for a while. stop acting like you're ENTITLED to a medal and start playing for it. dammit.
anyway yeah, lack of teamwork, bad strategy, failure to get the puck anywhere near the net... heck i could be talking about the leafs. but i'm not.
i'm talking about the canadian national men's hockey team. the one with the leafs COACH coaching them.
okay well that's only half of the picture. then there's the question of the leafs captain. the guy who is apparently at fault for the leafs problems. the guy who passes the puck without looking and it hits the stick of the guy he passes it to.
the guy who regularly leads the league in game winning goals or scoring chances or whatever. the guy who passes so his teammate can score. the guy who led his team to a gold medal at the olympics. here they are partying:
yup that makes sense to me. clearly we should fire the captain. he is obviously old and incapable of playing. but that coach. yeah yeah! keep him... he's so awesome.
whatfucking ever.
note that i have a sinus cold and make no promises of lucidity. funnily enough that will just convince leah mclaren that she's right about bloggers [saturday's post]. man i'm pissed at her. so as i drink berry boost (yup bolthouse farms strikes again... this one has 500% of the vitamin C you need in a day) and eating lentil soup you guys get a post.
okay i know it's not saturday night so technically i'm not supposed to be talking about hockey but y'all are just going to have to suck it up.
i was really curious to see what would happen with the olympics because the leafs coach was coaching the canadian team and their captain was captaining the swedish team, for those of you that don't follow the nhl or at least the leafs a quick recap.
the leafs fucking suck this year and have been growing steadily suckier for a few years now. recently there has been talk that perhaps their captain Mats Sundin should be canned. i've also heard discussion of the goalie, eddie balfour, and his age and thus the requirement that he be canned as well or instead. as though age is all that matters or something.
i do not comprehend this at all.
regarding balfour? he's the reason the leafs are even IN contention for a playoff spot [not in a spot, in contention for...] what with their total lack of defence and habit of hanging the goalie out to dry. they could have a robot with lightning reflexes in goal and it would still be fucked if it didn't have any defence.
which it doesn't.
the real question has to do with the captain and the coach.
the captain has been part of the team a little longer than the coach but it's been eight years that they're both been there so i'm not thinking that it makes much difference. that said, i feel quite strongly that the leafs problems stem from the coach and not the players.
the majority of the team has swapped out since those two started but they've continuously swapped for veteran players. age and experience are wonderful but in hockey you need some youth and enthusiasm too.
anyway here's the part of the equation that i don't get. no one, and i mean no one is talking about pat quinn. they seem to have decided that he's a great coach and that regardless of his team's total failure to adapt to the new rules that everything falls in the lap of the captain.
so i was watching the olympics with some extreme curiousity because i figured that it was as good a time as any to determine who the problem actually was. and it could well have turned out to be both of them.
team canada was plagued in large part with a lot of the problems that the leafs have been struggling with for years. for some reason these folks seem to think that dump and chase is still a valid hockey strategy.
yeah not so much.
team canada also brought a pile of bruisers and left the scorers and the skaters at home. someone explain this to me please? my dad thinks that one can be set squarely at the feet of management but i don't imagine gretzky is foolish enough not to ask the coach's opinion? and if he is? damm gretz you're really bad at putting teams together.
of course that stupid gambling 'scandal' didn't help. seriously people care less about that than they cared about lewinskygate... it was just an excuse to drag a good man's name through the mud.
so pat quinn's team? didn't even get to play for a medal. didn't even make the semi finals. got knocked out by the team that came fourth. got their asses kicked.
i try not to think about it being canada because then i sulk about how the americans got ONE more medal than us. ONE! damm it would have been awesome to beat them at that for once.
that said i've had a love hate relationship with the canadian men's hockey team for a while. stop acting like you're ENTITLED to a medal and start playing for it. dammit.
anyway yeah, lack of teamwork, bad strategy, failure to get the puck anywhere near the net... heck i could be talking about the leafs. but i'm not.
i'm talking about the canadian national men's hockey team. the one with the leafs COACH coaching them.
okay well that's only half of the picture. then there's the question of the leafs captain. the guy who is apparently at fault for the leafs problems. the guy who passes the puck without looking and it hits the stick of the guy he passes it to.
the guy who regularly leads the league in game winning goals or scoring chances or whatever. the guy who passes so his teammate can score. the guy who led his team to a gold medal at the olympics. here they are partying:
yup that makes sense to me. clearly we should fire the captain. he is obviously old and incapable of playing. but that coach. yeah yeah! keep him... he's so awesome.
whatfucking ever.
posted by sassinak | 1:01 PM
21 Comments:
hey scorp:
i didn't used to drink bolthouse farms, i am a recent convert in fact. before i drank water or apple juice. berry boost is better. i haven't tried the c-boost myself, what's it taste like?
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm lentils or ramen noodles sounds awesome really. hey i'm sorta hungry, that's a good sign!
oh dude i'm not down on canada at ALL. i am ONLY down on the canadian men's hockey team because they have a sense of entitlement about medals. or at least that's how it seems. and anyone with a sense of entitlement deserves to get a smackdown. even if it's my own countrymen and i love most of them as players.
that said, damm your guy is embarassing. i mean at least ours just got sulky and came home.
oh it was so much fun watching how much fun the italians were having with everything it really was. i wanted to be tehre a lot.
and cindy and clara on saturday hugging and laughing and singing oh canada with their medals around their necks? awesome!
i don't know about on the planet but those west coasters are a darned cool lot.
you should google the lyrics, it's a really beautiful song.
dude i'm totally proud of my country, it's ONLY the hockey boys i'm sorta meh about. and man the clothes! I want ALL of the hats.
nat: it wasn't actually me. LSD introduced me to the stuff and ever since i can't stop talking about it, introducing people to it, or drinking it.
:)
isn't it fantastic? you can just tell your body is loving it.
that's what i do. i drink it when i know i won't have fruit or enough protein or whatever. i use it as vitamins/supplements :)
*huggs* thanks!
berry boost!
perfect protein!
:)
-waves at Sass- hi it's meeee!
I don't know anything about hockey but I like their purple-and-yellow outfits. -s-
Yeah man our Olympic men's hockey team sucked throbbing rhino dick, not only because they were cocky, but because Pat Quinn needs a demotion far more than a promotion to international coaching. The Leafs are embarrassing in their suckitude.
On the other hand, we should pause and rejoice over the solid ass-kicking the women's hockey team delivered to any other team unfortunate enough to cross their path. Although I'm pissed at the men, I'm thrilled that the sisters showed the big boys how it was done and they weren't whiny pussies about it, like the American men. And they were gracious enough to impart some women's hockey wisdom to their heaviest competition. Now that's the true spirit of the Olympics.
Still wish we had beat the Americans in the medal standings, though. But then again, the Shrub may view it as an act of terrorism and unleash on the ACC, so maybe we're better off.
--PV
JMai: hey JM where ya been lately?
hee should i mention they're royal blue? nah... cause i think they're cute too :)
PV: okay let me tell you how much i'm enjoying the mental image of 'sucked throbbing rhino dick' because yeah, a LOT.
i cannot comprehend the pat quinn love in the nhl, like i just do not get it. every team he coaches slowly falls into the shitter and somehow it's the fault of the goalie or the captain? whatfuckingever.
buddy sucks...
i did appreciate how well the sisters played though, they smoked everyone else and did it with class and style and never once dissed their opponents. hell they looked embarassed to be over scoring because of the stupid total goals rule.
how did they impart wisdom? i missed that?
but yeah our ladies for hockey? stellar.
wouldn't it have been nice to get that one more medal? still a lot of folks finished in the top ten and should do better next time
scorp: well, never ever apologise for linking the bolthouse farms. i've been pushing the stuff for weeks and weeks and weeks and linking it all over the place. always promote what you love, it keeps it around.
yay scorp is coming to visit!
i've been doing the berry boost and the strawberry banana. berry boost is BETTER.
dear bush administration: please don't make scorp quail hunt with cheney, he's kinda cute in his profile pic and we wouldn't want to mess with that.
also? *lmao*
will do dude. though with the speed it's appearing on shelves here i'm almost not worried...
:)
how did they impart wisdom? i missed that?
I understand (and I could be wrong, the commentator said this but I was bombed) that the Canadian women's hockey team hosts Sweden/Finland in Canada and trains with them, they lend out coaches, and they help out with fundraising strategies, etc. Apparently they're all friends and all that other oogy stuff that is sadly missing from competitive sport.
--PV
i have to disagree..i think the purple and yellow outfits are pretttyyyyyy fuckin.....ghey :) TEEHEE!!!
deb: i'm a lot more into the summer olympics but i still love the winter ones. there's a few sports that are so super boring it isn't funny but otherwise it's pretty cool. i just found the time difference tough this time.
commonwealths are awesome yeah.
did you know y'all got a gold medal? well you did. :) what moment was that i don't remember?
cast: exactly. the women play for the love of the game and the men play for the money. this makes a huge difference to the fun of watching it.
most of the men's teams are full of nhl players though dude, even sweden/finland whatever...
it's that the american men's hockey team repeatedly demonstrates a lack of class when they're eliminated. makes you sorta happy when it happens.
hee diaper rash stuff :)
that's the thing i noticed this year, a lot of the us team showed up like they expected their medals to be handed to them... but not all.
don't forget the us speed skater (joey cheek) who donated his medal bonuses to right to play and when people heard they matched him to the tune of 300k. and then clara hughes (the canadian woman who was hugging cindy while they sang oh canada) cleared her personal bank account and donated ten grand.
so not all of your athletes embarassed you cast. http://www.righttoplay.com/site/PageServer
that's the only person you missed i can think of. and damm cindy can go you're so right :) (the other woman was clara hughes and i cried while i watched them)
yeah i have it as 'wine' all the time now. i'm really glad to have been introduced to it. it costs the same here for the big bottle, y'all are getting a smidge ripped off.
PV: no i think you're right and that is really cool. i also really appreciated how happy the american women were to collect their bronzes. none of them looked embarassed and it was great. so with all the american dissing here i would like to stress that not ALL the us athletes are whiny children... just some of them.
i used to sit and chat with the women i was racing before the race. i didn't try any less hard to beat them though :)
elle: hee :)
i like blue and yellow but that's just me :)
the canadian women had the hottest hockey uniforms at the games i thought. all black and scary looking.
dzer i love your new avatar btw.
well i think it's a little cool actually since they were so cocky going in :)
cheney cute? oh man
barf gag sick up in mouth
wash your mouth out with soap!
hey wait your turn i'm busy gargling with indusctrial strength mouthwash to get the cheney barf out!
you know scorp it's sorta amazing how out of date that picture is. in fact it's SO out of date that my hair is almost that long again :)
and yes, i meant you.
we always welcome americans fleeing the land of the brave to move to the place that is free. expensive as hell in taxes but at least we believe in live and let live. i'm kind of a pro at rescuing lost americans now (right hubris?) :)
you know you're right, almost all the us bashing in this comments section came from americans. that's kinda funny. of course being canadian i then have to defend them as underdogs *snerk*
dude that speed skater? he deserves every ounce of props anyone can muster.
cleveland rocks? that's a SONG?? good christ. oh canada is at least pretty.
damm i'm trying to imagine cleveland rocking. it's not working!
all the little chick with the crimson lips go "cleveland rocks, cleveland rock"
earthworm: uh what?
scorp: well you're the one who implied that cheney was cute. i mean it seems only fair that you have to suffer for that a smidgen more than i do? and i did say industrial strength listerine and that crap is almost as bad as soap.
that's an actual line from the song? oh god that's tragic. i'll have to get speakers and add it to my download list.
i didn't know they said that about cleveland but between you and elle i'm getting less and less enthused about going there... except to meet you guys AND try these sushi rolls that elle was talking about a while back.
pops... yeah that's it *snicker*
celine dion? in french? or in english? or both? she's sorta awful but every now and then she sings something well.
nah scorp that would imply that she gave a shit what her readers thought of what she said about them. so i'm thinking you're safe :)
[nope, no reply to my letter yet and i'm not holding my breath]
scorp: oh man i've lived in places like that and it sucks. you're just trying to live your little life and all they want to do is judge it. you'd think they had better things to do with their lives.
well i keep threatening to visit elle and y'all are seriously not very far away so i might just do it. knowing me it won't be until september though since i'm farking poor right now.
oh man i can totally see how that kind of town would kill elle... especially being from nyc.
bitch on asshole! *snerk*
johnny: yeah how were your trips?
dude our team sucked total ass. my client told me a joke today (she loves the leafs too btw... it's the client who gave me the tickets...)
pat quinn can take ninety five million dollars worth of the best hockey players in canada, the most respected and wonderful players we have and in two days? turn them into the toronto maple leafs.
and sundin looked so happy playing with sweden. gah it's sad.
dude it's pat quinn i'm telling you!
i don't like the strawberry banana as much as the berry boost but it is awesome too...
and yeah, i have that fucking cold too :(
i loved her columm dude but now i just feel personally disrespected by her. moreso because neither she nor her paper have even bothered to reply. i'm disappointed in them.
advil cold and sinus, i broke down and took drugs.
Just stopping by before going to the classroom to send more get well vibes your way.
-N
thanks honey
this cold is lingering for ages... i'm on day 5 (7 if you count the two days where i thought i might be getting sick!)
i'd hug you but it's germy :)
What do you mean "huh"? Those are the words from the song Cleveland Rocks (well some of the words).
The song was the opening for the Drew Carey show.
It's time for someone to write a song abooot Toronto. In fact I think will. It will suck, but I'll record it on my computer and make you all listen.
You will cry, and not because I write sad songs.
ew: i meant huh. and then scorp explained that taht was the words to that song. which? scary.
i clearly didn't watch it enough :)
what about that you belong here song from the commercial after all that sars crap?
om man i'm already crying because of my sinuses!
i had a shower yesterday and i've been sleeping like mad... and i'll shower tomorrow.
i have really fucking dry skin and moisturizer issues...
i love that movie. love.it.
that sounds so vile that i'm almost tempted to make it. just to see how bad it would be.
hey do you guys have the different versions of berry boost where some are like 50% of your vitamin c and some are 500% or is that a special canadian less good version?
it's weird the same thing happens with green goodness. there's one with 100% potassium and one with nine and no dragon fruit or blue/green algae... i do not get it :)
murphy that's the thing that's so friggin weird, here in toronto no one EVER talks about firing pat quinn. i mean didn't the canucks suck ass with him as their coach too? i'm trying to remember if that was when they had that cup run or not...
oh our defense sucks ass as defence but as a five man offence? fuck those boys kick ass. problem is they're still hanging the goalie.
i had a great time watching the 'golden children' getting their butts kicked around the ice. i love when the underdogs win.
you're right, at least i get to watch the first round or two of the playoffs with my team before their lame puck handling lands them on the golf course. your team is even more painful to watch.
you have to blame leafs management too though, they're the ones who keep quinn around and keep hiring veterans right?
yeah i just do not get the free pass the coaches seem to get. dudes your team sucks, why is it one player's fault (almost always the captain or the goalie too... like no one else was there)
oh yeah dude the swedes kicked some beautiful ass.
yeah i wish olympic hockey happened more often :)
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