History almost repeated itself last night in the Hawks’ 4-1 victory over the Wild when Dustin Byfuglien scored two and was looking for a third. But remember in 2007 when he scored this beauty of a hat trick all in the first period??? (And check out the hilarious mic’d up comments from Brent Seabrook who said, “Hat trick! Booya!”…LOL).
What’s with Hawks’ winger Craig Adams lately? First a fight with Flyers’ Josh Gratton (the only one of the two fights herein mentioned which has made it to YouTube as of this writing), and then yesterday with one of the Minnesota Wild. Well, whatever is up with Adams, hopefully it continues. It’s good when some of the “old timers” show the younguns (or young guns) how it’s done every once in a while, and it makes me miss Adam Burish a little less.
All kidding aside, why wasn’t Sharpie considered for the All-Star ballot??
In jest, Pat Tomasulo steals the number 9 from Bobby Hull and Len Kasper calls Hull an “old timer.” What a good sport Bobby Hull is!….LOL….
Adam Burish has his own blog at the Sun-Times called Dropping the Gloves which has just been oodles of fun so far (most notably for his raucous appearance as an “enforcer” of sorts on the Jerry Springer show). In a three-part series he artfully explains why hockey players fight and the rules of enforcement. Bur notes that the biggest reason they fight in hockey is “to stick up for a teammate or to prove a point to the other team. Let’s say Jonathan Toews is flying around the ice, stick-handling around the other team. He’s already scored two goals and one of the opposing team’s tough guys wants to try and intimidate him with a big hit or slash in an attempt to slow him down.” (more…)
If singing was somehow a hidden clause in my contract, I think I’d be on the phone with my agent!
Clearly the players ham it up a bit more when they’re mic’d up. Like when a Nashville Predators opponent asked Adam Burish during the October 13 game, “Got the mic on tonight?” implying Burish was being a bit more dramatic than usual, and Bur says “Is the dinosaur talkin’? Let the kids play dinosaur.” Too hilarious. (more…)
Don’t know about all of you, but I have been quite impressed with Jonathan Toews as Captain this year. Watching interviews with him it’s easy to understand how he came to be called Mr. Serious. So, despite some concern from outsiders, his maturity level was never an issue, though he is the third youngest captain ever.
What I didn’t expect, however, was for Toews to become something of a scrapper. (more…)
By now everyone knows Kris Versteeg was suspended a game and Quenneville fined $10,000 because Versteeg supposedly instigated a fight in the dwindling seconds of Sunday night’s game against the Coyotes. My question is, when did Wayne Gretzky become such a wuss? (more…)
Perhaps I’m old school, but I can’t help being offended by a trend I am consistently seeing in games all over Chicagoland, from Wrigley to Soldier Field and the United Center. Since when is it ok to boo your own team? (more…)