Eloquent
Evgeni Malkin is a man of eqloquence and many words, though how many of those are in English remains to be seen. We love to giggle about the “In Soviet Russia goal scores you” accent which Malkin boasts proudly. It turns out his ability to turn a phrase with the written word isn’t much different than his ability to carry out a conversation.
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Whimsical faces = fun
CAPTION CONTEST!
As many of you know, I’m a proprietor of fun around these parts and I encourage you all to be that way too. Naturally, when I saw a whimsical David Clarkson captured on film, I needed to run with it and I thought ‘What better way to explore his mind than running a caption contest for the brilliant minds of Backhand Shelf Nation?’
Here we are folks.
Tell us, what is David Clarkson’s perfect Sunday?
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There’s your obligatory meme, now for some hard hitting analysis of the faces in the crowd, because, you can really learn a lot about a group from a simple photo.
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Wave it, Alice
The above picture will surely do no favors to those who like to make retirement community cracks at the expense of Phoenix, Glendale and the Arizona population at-large. Even ME, the most understanding, compassionate person you’ve ever read made fun of Phoenix IN MY MIND when I saw this. What specifically?
“Wow, Phoenix, even your token celebrity hockey fans are retired.”
I’m sorry Arizona, I thought I was better than that. Guess not.
To make it up to everyone, I’ve compiled a list of Alice Cooper album and song titles which I think could be chapter names if we turned the 2012 playoffs into a book.
Love It to Death
Killer
Billion Dollar Babies
Welcome to My Nightmare
Raise Your Fist and Yell
Hey Stoopid
Brutally Live
No More Mr. Nice Guy
I’m Eighteen
I Never Cry
You Want It, You Got It
Talk Talk
If you were to put the 2012 playoffs to music, what song would you choose?
via theScore's tumblr
I’ve brought up the race for NHL 2013 coverboy before here and specifically Scott Hartnell’s campaign to be the man on the front of everyone’s shiny new toy come next season. In sum, I’m a big supporter of it, I think it would be great.
The Philadelphia Flyers have rolled out their campaign to get their man on the cover and it begins with the “Captain Canada” look above. Not too shabby, crew.
Having seen this, who’s your ultimate Captain per hockey country?
Russia, Finland, Sweden, Canada, the Czech Republic and the USA are the top six in the IIHF rankings, run with those.
Busted.
Doing my daily NHL photo search occasionally yields some gems. You’ve seen some of the best ones with our caption contests and now this one pops up. This is obviously not Jack Nicholson, but damn, the resemblance is uncanny, no?
The question which now burns in my mind is:
WHAT JACK NICHOLSON THING IS JACK NICHOLSON LOOK ALIKE SAYING TO MARTY BRODEUR?
Some items for your consideration…
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They will win the twitter war.
The L.A. Kings have been causing quite the riot on twitter these days, what with chirping their opponents and proclaiming their own awesomeness and whatnot. It’s really been quite a ride. I don’t know about you but I think it beats the team accounts that just tweet out their starting line up that day and RT their fanboys who just make stupid hashtags as a tribute to their favorite scrub player. Or, the teams that RT their fanboys who tweet how much they think their favorite team will win by at the end of March, three weeks after they were eliminated from the playoffs…
You know who you are.
At any rate, the Kings have been having a field day ahead of their game two match up against the St. Louis Blues, and decided to push their man in the NHL13 cover race, Anze Kopitar, on twitter. Conveniently, Kopitar is matched up against Blues star and super pest, David Perron. The Kings pumped up their man online and there was some predictable backlash.
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Jo Innes, Ryan Lambert, Daniel Wagner, Cam Charron, Ellen Etchingham, Jake Goldsbie, Darren Kritzer
