Words. There are none.
It makes me sad that the Jersey Shore cast have become the unofficial television representatives of the great state of New Jersey, but these are strange times we live in. There are of course many obvious jokes to be made here along the lines of “The Jersey Shore cast has had more shots since the opening faceoff than the Devils,” but that just feels too easy.
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That face.
When David Clarkson scored in tonight’s game two affair against the Philadelphia Flyers, he decided to do something that is generally considered a no-no in sports. He celebrated with props.
This is frowned upon.
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Suave and hip, with a dash of retro: I'm crazy about your hair, Stammer.
It’s all playoff beard, all the time* this time of year. A subject so near and dear to people’s hockey hearts, I only dare to tread around the edges of it.
*except for the other 90% of the time when it’s all hits to the head and Shanabanning.
Hockey hair, on the other hand, is a year round thing. And even though the mullet has effectively been mocked out of existence, the follicles of NHLers all around the league still bless us with the occasional case of obsession-worthy flow.
Let’s start broad and work our way down my list of hockey hair that has stuck with me this season like a bad habit.
My wife once had a bird named Spike, whom she loved endlessly. She has reminded me about this, oh, 30,000 times, as she’d like to get another bird. I’ve fought her tooth and nail on this, because….birds?
But if I could grab a bird like this…I’d be tempted (even though it’s a Canucks fan).
Via the @passittobulis twitter feed, meet Moko. Go Canucks go. Apparently.
Every sports fan loves a good haircut. I challenge you to defy that logic. Football fans enjoy Troy Polamalu’s mane flowing out the back of his helmet, basketball fans enjoy Ben Wallace’s potentially explosive ‘fro, baseball fans get a kick out of Tim Lincecum’s whatever that is, I love Steven Stamkos’ flow. It is, to borrow a phrase, dirty.
Tonight, while gazing upon Erik Karlsson’s domed shag, it occurred to me that I have seen this shape before. To that end, I consulted the twitterverse: Read the rest of this entry »
Super. Duper. Creepy.
If you thought I was kidding about that whole “hockey as a religious experience” thing, consider this: The Hockey Holy Season begins today, on Easter, which just happens to be a bunny-centric holiday.
I’m on to something there, right? I’ll take your silence as agreement.
To celebrate, I thought I’d give myself a little challenge. Being goalie-obsessed on top of being hockey-obsessed, sometimes the love doesn’t get spread around enough to the other 5 guys on the ice.
So, today I bring you 5 Sexy Things about Hockey, Unrelated to Goalies (was supposed to be 10, if I’m being honest, but I wrote too much about the top 5):
Yeah... that's definitely not in.
It has been one of those years for the Carolina Hurricanes. Just 12 months after coming oh, so close to the playoffs last season, they thought with a couple tweaks here and there and their elite goaltender they could slide right into the postseason and try and make their first run since 2009. Absolutely nothing has gone to plan since day one of this season.
History was definitely on their side as the ‘Canes seem to make a run every three seasons for the last decade or so. Seriously.
They lost in the Cup Finals in 2002, they won a Cup in 2006 (three seasons later, remember the lockout) and they lost in the conference final in 2009. All things being equal, this team should have made a deep run into the postseason on the basis of habit alone.
As things stand, the only teams less likely than Carolina to make the playoffs in the East are Montreal and the New York Islanders. Let’s not forget they’ve also set some less than stellar marks along the way which have come up, and it looks as though we may have to wait another year for our occasional dash of Carolina late in the playoffs.
Tim Brent pretty much summed up the Hurricanes’ season with this breakaway goal-er-celebration, after a glorious chance. Read the rest of this entry »
Jo Innes, Ryan Lambert, Daniel Wagner, Cam Charron, Ellen Etchingham, Jake Goldsbie, Darren Kritzer
