Buf-Philly-Philly wins 4-2

Philly up 2-1 going into late minutes of 2nd

Official -Philly win it 4-2 take a 2 games to 1 lead in the series.

I have my eye on the habs games

Spring, The Nhl and Golf

Sports -

In the NHL

It is PLAYOFF TIME BABY - The Montreal Canadiens take on the Boston Bruins on thusday night - I am pumped. Can you TELL!!!! CAPS LOCKS

And to Boot, the NCAA MARRCH MADNESS just wrapped up. I have gone into sports excitement overload and I sharted my pants/ ok that is gross, I appologize about the potty humour I promise I am only excited and not drunk. I really didn't shart. Shart isn't even a word, but fart is.

Ok lets get the focus back. HOCKEY PLAYOFFS. But spring is also the best time of year. Winter is finally over. Best time of the year! Tomorrow I think i'll have the BBQ on and cook up a steak from the king st deli.

You may wonder, who do I think will win? Because I have come across a new stat. So hear me out.

I believe Vancouver will win the cup this year. Vancouver just hosted the olmpics and every time since 76 in Montreal when a Canadian city hosts the olympics their NHL team win's the Stanley cup the year after. Calgary won the cup in 89

Switch hit To the Masters: Golf

At the onset of the tourny I bet that KJ Choi would win the Masters. He didn't. Instead a south african by the name of ..... ?? Who was he. He came from nowhere I don't even know his name, won. I missed the final round with other work commitments (taxi) so I can't say how the last round looked. But Rory McIlroy what a performance thru 3 eounds, but he couldn't hold on, apparently he shot a 10 on a par 3 and he was out of it after that. He was leading for the most part and I have to say I feel bad that he couldn't pull it off the victory. It would of been nice to see Rory win it, he would of been the youngest to win the green jacket. Tiger Woods is the youngest to win the tournament winning it in 2001, he was 22 he won it again the next year and in 2005. Jack Nicklaus is the oldest to win it at the age of 46 in 1986, I was four years old and don't remember that of course. Nicklaus has won the tournament the most, 6 times, he first won the tournament in 1963. During that year there were civil rights fights, for blacks to be integrated into the school system.

NHL Playoffs

Sports -

Carolina Hurricanes need a win vs Atlanta to make the final playoff spot in the east. If they lose the Rangers will get the last spot. The Montreal Canadians are in the playoffs and will look to upset the Boston Bruins. Boston was my early call to win the East. It will be them and Philly who look like the teams to beat

In the West, Vancouver are the team to beat with the best season record and best goals for and against differential in the league. They will likely face-off vs the defending Stanley Cup Champs the Chicago Blackhawks. The Hawks no longer have their playoff monster Byfuglien who is now with Atlanta.

I believe a team from the East will win the cup this year. Looking forward to the playoffs.

Golf-The Master and Spring

The Masters tournament began today. My prediction: I believe K J Choi will win the Green Jacket this year. For me and many southern Ontari-ans, the Masters represents the beginning of spring and the near arrival of our golf season. I personally don't play as much golf as I'd like to and I wouldn't consider a membership, b/c I just don't have the time to golf. But I still get excited when the Masters are played the same when I was younger and played more, in my teen's. Still, the Masters is a sign of spring, and I get excited to play a game of golf. Good by winter and the melting snow, spring is finally here. I got new golf shoes, my roomate's dog ate my other shoes last year. I played one round in running shoes and hated it. I was used to golf shoes. I was only playing with my father and I played miserably and blamed my bad game for not having the proper traction with my feet. Now I have new shoes and no excuses for nect time with my father. I would still like to beat him one day but he has a much better game than I do. These days, I seem to only play with my relatives. My old golfin buddy moved to New Zealand. I'm sure he is slicing his way from fairway to fairway down there. "Old twinkle toes" we called him on the tee. His feet would shuffle east to west while he drove the ball. The club head would meet its target. Then the slice of the ball and cursing would ensue "Fuck!" . Another friend golfing with us coined the new name for golf, the new name was "Whack-fuck" whack was the sound of the club hitting the ball and the fuck was the first thing said directly after the shot and this happened on numerous occasions throughout the round. My mother wants to try and play golf. Her mother and my grandmother loved to golf. My sister got clubs for christmas last year. I am not sure how much she has golfed.

Habs Get Spanked

Video Blog Click Here - The Habs were in Boston to play the Bruins for the first time since the Chara on Pacioretty incident. The Habs were dominated on the ice tonight, loosing 7-0. We all know you can't win if you don't scrore and on a night the Habs couldn't even get a decent scroing chance they wanted revenge but they got into penalty trouble and they had life tonight. They looked flat and the Bruins looked tough. The Bruins could be a front runner for the stanley cup. Tim Thomas looks on his game and the bruins power play is very efficient. The habs took too many bad penalties. I couldn't watch much more of the game. So I decided to switch channels and watch Arizona upset the #1 seed Duke in the NCAA March Madness. Arizona will now play UCONN in the Elite 8. My bracket is a little out of whack with some of the recent upsets but I still got hope for Ohio to beat Kansas in the final.

How you doin'?

Good news Pacioretty is alive, but who knows when and if he will ever play again

Inconsistent or Insensitive, or is the NHL both?

Here's the story,

Biggest guy in the league, Zedeno Chara pulls a interference check on Max Pacioretty. Pacioretty ended up hitting his head of a station of glass, dividing the player benches. The glass divider looks like turnbuckle, like in the WWF - George the Animal steal used to take off the padding, eat the innards of the padding and then drill his opponent into to the bare turnbuckle. What a mess it was. But George was one of my favourite wrestlers, as were the Bushwakers and other zany goons.

Back to Chara

Chara is real. The NHL is real, George than Animal steel is fake. Max Pacioretty fractured the 4th vertebrae, luckilly, luckilly its not displaced or he could be paralyzed or even dead. He has suffered a severe concussion as well.

I don't know why Chara decided to finish his check like that. Did Chara not notice the stationment of glass in the middle of the ice, he was skating towards the boards, i'm sure he saw it. From the replay, we see Pacioretty dump the puck past Chara, and as Pacioretty tries to go around him and after the puck, Chara interfere's with him and finishes the check late, taking a major penalty sending Pacieortty head first into the bench post. I can't but think of the Georgian Luger Nodar Kumaritashvil who lost his life in the luge incident that took place in training the day before the Olympics started. The NHL will probably have to make the ice rink bigger. Players are too fast, too big and the ice surface is becoming to small. Players are getting hurt too often. Many times because players are just caught up in the same area and collide either by accident or on purpose. Hitting is part of the game, but its getting to a point with the size of players and the evolution of pro-atheletes who are much stronger and lets be serious there are steroid drugs and the equiptment has become like armour. Just ask Don Cherry, he has been talking about this for years.

The Chara-Pacioretty hit was hard to watch. No matter how many all replays the television shows I see a late hit and deserving of a suspension. I would of given two games. Pacioretty was skating with great speed and was trying to go inside on Chara. Chara with his 6'9" frame, is never easy to go around, but Chara went to far, instead of only holding the man up he finished a late check where he should of let up. Did Chara know where he was on the ice? I think so, he was able to turn around and skate up ice towards the becnh and I think he knew what he was doing. The NHL has issued no further penalty.

A player for the Islanders Gilles bumped a player from the side and into the boards last week and was given a 10 game suspension. Gilles hit was less dagerous and far less violent than that delivered by Chara. Gilles was sticking up for a teamate who was drilled on a bad angle into the boards.

You tube the videos.

Many NHL analysts are shocked there was no further suspension or fines issued by the league.

Bob Mackenzie spoke to Pacieortty who was on the phone from the hospital in Montreal. Pacieoretty couldn't believe there was no suspension.

and More NHL News... Matt Cooke is a PLUG

This Just In,

With his team ahead 2-1 and 31 seconds left int the game and Matt Cooke goes for the open net goal. Cooke who we can nickname "captain elbow" to the jaw, is an idiot. He shoots for the open net and Kaberle (who is now a Bruin) blocks the shot and the Bruins coral the puck and head back up the rink and into the Pittsburgh end. With only 10 seconds left on the clock the Bruins pull their goalie and tie the game 2-2 with the extra attacker. The game would go to overtime and the Penguins would eventually secure the win.

The Leafs lost to the Blackhawks. They have been on a winning streak as the league enters the final stretch before the playoffs. The Leafs are 4 points behind the Huricanes for the 8th spot in their conference standings. Listening to sports talk radio, all of Leafs Nations is split. With their recent win streak. Some fans want them to keep winning and hopefully make the playoffs. Other fans want them not to make the playoffs but also lose and and have a better draft position for next year. Either way you look at it,the average Ontarian and every fanatactic who says stuff like "we lost a tough one last night" at work and pretend they are on the team, those are the Leafs Nation. If the leafs won the stanley cup, Grant from my old job would be jalosimated -(look word up in the Dictionary,if you have no diction than Jalosoated: a noun; a feeling of supreme exultation) Jalosimated is not to be confused with jubilation also a noun describing great triumph....anyways, The Habs kicked ass in Tampa tonight - defeating the lightning 4-1 Check out this blog Habs inside out

Bee bid dee, that's all folks