Cold Beer, Blind Luck and Various States of Undress [NHL Closer]
Deadspin —
Since tedious analysis is the stuff of "power rankings," each Monday NHL Closer writer Greg Wyshynski uses a form of universal expression: Success in terms of beer. Before we get to some Islanders Ice Girls inspiration, welcome to The Brewmeister Ratings...
Winner No. 1: San Jose Sharks. The Sharks have won five in a row, including three games last week at the dawn of the Brian Campbell Era. One of those was in Detroit, where they beat the Wings for the first time in seven regular season or playoff games. But the reason the Jabberjaws are the big winners this week is for exposing yet ...
Quack: Senators 1, Ducks 3
Scarlett Ice —
I don't have much to say on this game since this whole entire ridiculous 'time zones' thing prevented me from watching all of the game. The few moments that I did see, the Senators weren't as badly bitch-slapped as TSN might want you to believe. Apparently there were a bunch of questionable officiating calls including one that cost Bryan Murray to be tossed. I know it cost us dearly but um...a part of me is snickering. I'm very, very, very concerned about the state of our goaltending. I was before but now it's reached utterly hopeless level. I'm hearing from certain ...
All-time Vikings and Twins; plus striptease!
Randball —
The crime in us temporarily not being able to embed YouTube videos is being felt right now. Stensation has pointed us toward Eric Nystrom, who performed a Slap Shot-esque strip tease that was quite humorous a while back with minor league Quad Cities. It seems the Calgary Flames were impressed; he apparently was recalled to the NHL not too long after that!
Back to serious business: What are your all-time Vikings and all-time Twins rosters? Go.
Puttin' On the Foil - A Weekly NHL Recap 3/9
Sean Leahy's Going Five Hole —
MONOLOGUE Maurice Richard Trophy race Remember when Ilya Kovalchuk was the early front-runner? Now? Not so much Alex Ovechkin 54 goals Ilya Kovalchuk 45 goals Jarome Iginla 40 goals Evgeni Malkin 38 goals Daniel Alfredsson 37 goals Henrik Zetterberg 36 goals Rick Nash 35 goals Marian Gaborik 34 goals Eric Staal 33 goals Patrick Sharp 33 goals NEWS AND NOTES During a 10-2 rout of the Bruins, Alex Ovechkin hit the 50-goal mark for the second time in his young career. ...
Top Ten Hockey Bloopers, Plus A Strip Tease
Greatest Hockey Legends.com —
It's December. Christmas is almost here. So let's lighten things up a bit and look at some hockey bloopers! There are some long shots, some own goals and even a strip tease. #10. Ambulance attendants drop stretcher carrying Mike Modano #9. Nic Wallin scores on his own team #8. Toskala let's a bouncer in from 197 feet! #7. Martin Brodeur's worst goal against ever. #6. Patrick Roy's Statue of Liberty save, errr....goal! #5. Dennis Wideman's strange penalty shot #4. Dion Phaneuf loses his mittens #3. Steve Smith scores the most famous goal in Calgary history. #2. Patrik Stefan can not score on an empty net #1. Steve Sullivan's heckler learns ...
Celebrating the Festival of Lights, NHL-style
the red skate —
As you may have seen at the end of Pepper’s Dry Cut from last night, he is on vacation and has asked me to sit in with a post or two during his absence. If you come here for Pepper’s waxing poetic about women’s roller derby, and you need your fix during this holiday week, I will most definitely disappoint you. What I will do during ...
Sunday Morning Links: Cardiac Arrest Edition
St. Louis Game Time —
What a finish!
Of course, we really shouldn't be saying all these things about the Blues pulling one out at the wire (*cough* 2 goal lead *cough*) but it certainly beats losing at the wire.
Regardless, we've got an even better shot at notching a playoff spot today. First order of business is beating those bastard Jackets again.
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Blues News:
Blues win! Antacid sales increase 200%! The AP wrote about it. Norm Sanders (of the Belleville News Democrat) did, also. A look from Columbus's point of view. And the P-D write up.
Jeremy ...
More Humiliating Hockey Moments
TheScore.com Blog —
Yesterday I posted a seriously fantastic—if I do say so myself—attempt at streaking a hockey game by a charmingly piss-ass drunk fellow. Well, today, let’s nail a couple more embarrassing hockey moments. For starters, here’s one from With Leather—and no, this girl doesn’t just fuck up the Star Spangled Banner, you gotta wait for it. . . And secondly, here’s one they talked about on the After Hours portion of Hockey Night in Canada last weekend: Eric Nystrom, now of the Calgary Flames, but then of the Quad Cities Flames, doing a pretty seriously bang on homage ...
