The NHL All Star Game happened this weekend. Did you watch any of it? No? Well, I watched some stuff to see Brad be an All Star, Tuukka, too.
The Skills Competition was, well, BORING AS ALL HELL, NHL! I saw no slapshot dunk tanks! No tent building using only broken sticks and ugly composite Sabres/ Canucks jerseys.
I saw no Goalie Stick Breaking skills!
And no Dog Hockey either.
What I did see was the new boring Four Line Challenge which took the place of fun Breakaway Challenge. The only notable thing that happened during this competition was that Mike Smith scored a goal from 200 feet away.
Mike Smith: Best sniper in the Pacific Division. pic.twitter.com/AmGO0IAZFx
— #LAKings (@LAKings) January 29, 2017
As for the games themselves, I didn’t see them.
Anyway, we have another night off from hockey. Enjoy the rest of the break.
Just in case you missed it: Intentionally Widenberg wrote up a piece on the NHL Top 100 Players celebration from Friday night.
I picked up a new kayak this weekend, to just make the whole thing sweeter. It’s not new. I think I’m the third owner. I traded Jo’s old playboat for a Wavesport Project 62
and I’m trying to post a picture of one like it
You’ve successfully posted a picture that looks like it. It looks like a big shoe.
Seriously, you could wear it as a hat!
It worked!!!!! Mines more of a royal blue and a little less wear and tear. I’m already working on customizing the outfitting. Can’t wait to get it in the pool Friday night!!!
Here’s a picture of something I won’t be doing in it (at least, not on purpose!).
I would hope you don’t do that. His posture looks awful.
Sweet!
I watched the Metro-Atlantic showdown. I enjoyed it.
Holy fuck I am tired. I need to start going to bed earlier–even on the weekend.
I have a chance to get some ice time cheap with friends! Basically be $15 a session for 90 minutes. The downside? It’s at 5:30am on Fridays. Yay or ney? (I’ve gone to bed at 5:30 more than I have gotten up at 5:30)
The only way I could ever do those early morning skates was to stay up all night! Conversations were like “Are you hungover?” “No, I’m still drinking”
Please paint flames on it. Also paint it with red metalflake paint.
Flames and water aren’t a traditional mix
I like to be non traditional!!!!
Is that why Calgary is so bad?
Doesn’t matter. I think it’ll look cool.
I am tempted to just do it. The rink is right next to where I work. I could play hockey, shower there, go to work early–meaning I would get to leave early!
Definitely an emphatic yay.
Good morning everyone.
That vertigo attack sounds nasty – is that something you’re prone to?
Good Morning!!!
Demolition weekend was fun!!!!
There were surprises. Opened a ceiling and said “Oh wow! Cathedral ceiling covered up. Cool”. Opened some walls and said “Oh shit!”. There are a few structural issues. Nothing I can’t deal with. We weren’t sure we wanted to take all the sheet rock, plaster, what have you down, but now I’m glad we did/ are doing it. And, I came away from the weekend optimistic. It could have gone the other way!
Coffee!! Hockey, please.
Awesome about the ceiling!
Yes, ditto that!
I almost had a fun demolition weekend. One of the heating elements in our oven is broken. We ordered new elements and I opened the thing up, but could not do what the helpful youtube video told me to. (There was a ‘knock-out’ panel that wasn’t actually partially cut out). So I figured I could work around it by completly disassembling the mother effer. Unfortunately it just isn’t possible to remove the necessary panel without destroying it.
This is when I considered throwing it off a balcony.
I’m only 80% sure that I reassembled it correctly.
I managed to set off the smoke alarm replacing a thermostat once. And the furnace wasn’t even on!
I’ve also threatened many a printer with a free flight out the nearest window.
Why would someone cover that up? It’s like people who used to put linoleum over hardwood floors.
We found that, as well.
Love me some hard wood
Related: I would really enjoy a slapshot dunk tank.
Good morning!
#31
#14
Monday.
Zero All Star coverage – check
Congrats on your self control (you have to know when to punch, when not to punch to be effective!).
I need to be eating oatmeal this time of year!
I’d love to do the personal trainer thing – just lack the do re mi.
Awwww!
Me too, I figure I’m doing the free month just to get a handle on what kind of routine I should be doing.
That’s a great opportunity. I feel like if you have a trainer, you do the stuff. It’s hard to motivate without a trainer or a buddy.
amen to that
There are these classes at the “Y” I go to labeled as “Boot Camp” which is basically a cardio/strength hybrid class. It works as a great way to keep motivated because you have someone handing you a routine and others than to keep you motivated.
Depending on the instructor, you also sometimes get a thorough ass kicking and hurt for 2 days.
I only caught second half of PAC-CEN game and first half of MET-ATL game. Was disappointed I wasn’t going to see Rask in net or Marchand do anything. Turns out it was a good thing.
Did have to laugh at the Central getting shelled like they were (and PK’s bad math skills). You’d think a team that had 1/3 of it’s roster in the NHL TOP 100 would fare better than that…
fart
Mondays. Yuck. Is it nap time yet?
Ugh how I wish it was nap time. Had a horrible time falling asleep last night thanks to a monster headache.
ASW was so disappointing as a Bruins fan.
Tuukka & Marchand won the shootout competition for the Atlantic, giving them the chance to choose their opponent, so team captain Carey Price chooses the hardest opponent at the less desirable time. The coach was Therrien. Tuukka & Marchand weren’t effective in the actual game. And most of the Atlantic skaters played like crap in the defensive end. I wanted Nielsen shot out of a cannon by halfway through the 2nd period. I know it’s a stupid exhibition game, but could you please try to make it fun to watch?
This is why I don’t bother with anything other than the skills competition… which I didn’t bother with this year.
I watched the skills competition and it was very very very very very boring. Only think that kept me from falling asleep was the Twitter conversation with the B2B crew. YOU FAILED NHL BRING BACK THE FUN SHOOTOUT BECAUSE AT LEAST THAT PART IS ENTERTAINING!
Seriously, like
#12
ASW = not watchable for actual hockey fan.
Hello folks,
Didn’t see a lot of the All-Star weekend except the highlights the league put on social media, which to be fair to them they did a pretty good job of. Although, it’s getting hard to go on Twitter without seeing something that destroys your confidence in humanity…
It was also the Slovakian Extraliga all-star weekend – Team Bondra v Team Satan. I didn’t see any of that either.
Have there been any updates on Carlo? I haven’t seen anything.
Off to a local pub tonight for a game of darts. Someone put a post on the village Facebook group asking for players and I went along last week. Was worried I wasn’t making myself very popular when I won my first five games, but it was much more even after that and good fun.
On Thursday I’m going for a blast round a go-kart track, so it’s a week of quasi-sports action for me!
Hope everyone is bearing up.
What is Twitter?
It’s where fun conversations happen that include me wanting to have a pretend baby with PK Subban.
(Other than that, Twitter is a festering cesspool which makes you give up on humanity.)
I love hate twitter
Yeah, that was fun. Also, arguing over which kind of bag of dicks Patrick Kane is was entertaining. To think it all came from my saying, “Do not break Zdeno Chara’s record.” No one did, nor came close, so it worked.
And it being insulting to a bag of dicks. Only we could get from “Don’t break Chara’s record” to dicks to pretend babies.
Well, yeah. If you were a bag of dicks and then you were compared to Patrick Kane, wouldn’t you be insulted?
Also, it was stunning how we could do that.
Still getting a laugh out of this one:
Yeah, I forgot that that was my new greeting:
“Alo! My Milkcrayes bring all the boys/ goats to the yard!”
This is dependent upon which beer you are drinking.
I haven’t heard anything on Carlo either. I’m guessing no news is good news?
like, legit karting or the slow ones for kids & tourists?
Twin-engine four-stroke hobby, about 60mph. At Rye House, where Lewis Hamilton started!