For your procrastinating pleasure, here are ten links that every hockey fan should have bookmarked. With finals coming up across the country (okay, just at schools like Santa Clara with nonsensical quarter systems), they should come in handy.
1. JLaxHockey (YouTube Channel)
I have no Idea who JLax is, nor do I care. What I do know, though, is that the man makes a damn fine hockey montage. Now, the last one, and consequently the one that is going to come up if you go to the link, is Corey Perry. I would like it to be perfectly clear that I do not endorse or approve of any thing Corey Perry related, but the channel is well worth while despite this recent contamination. If you like hockey, alt music, and awesome stuff in general, then check out JLax and you won't be disappointed.
2. NHLPA Twitter List
If you still think Twitter is a useless medium for dumb people to tell their friends that they are gettin lunch wit da homegirls lol #YUMMY!, and therefore refuse to take part, it is pretty much your loss at this point. Personally, I find it entirely worth my time to know that Devin Setoguchi is bored by the Oscars, or to read Logan Couture tweet Drake lyrics. Also, #hashtagjokesarethebest. Seriously, though. I have started to use them in texts. They are that entertaining.
3. Biz Nasty (Paul Bissonnette) on Twitter
Yes, he is a fourth line duster for a pacific division rival. Yes, he is included in the NHLPA list. But Biz Nasty is awesome. Also, he is awesome. Thirdly, he is awesome, and finally, he is awesome. So he deserves his own link here. And that is exactly what he is going to get. Follow him. Now. Do it. You won't regret it.
(Also, according to Google, the ultimate authority on everything, there are 6902682589 people in the world. According to Twitter, Biz has 49,332 followers. That means that there are 6902633257 people that don't follow him. Pathetic, world.)
4. Trade Trackers (ESPN, YAHOO, NHL)
This time of year (for the next day, anyways), it is critical to have a page that you can constantly hit refresh on hoping that maybe, just maybe, this will be the time that the Sharks traded Wallin and Nichol for Brad Richards, or Keith Yandle, Brayden Schenn, or a 3rd rounder, or a $50 Southwest Airlines voucher, or a used puck bag, or the right to not have Scott Nichol and Nick Wallin anymore.
5. Coach's Corner
Don Cherry is the very definition of a beaut. The guy has something interesting to say every week, and as crazy as he may be (or seem, at any rate) he is spot on more often than not. There isn't a guy in hockey, or any other sport for that matter, that does a better job of picking out nuances that will, at the very least, get you to think about the game, and start discussion as well.
That's all for now. Enjoy the chaos that will surely ensue with the deadline.
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Hitting the Links; 10/1/10
I haven’t done links in three weeks, having been hit pretty hard by something that I believe the scientific term for is clusterfuckshitstorm (previous word NSFW if you happen to be reading this aloud in the workplace, which you should be, although this little digression is more to call attention to the fact that I am once again swearing in my posts after almost three years of trying to keep it clean, because if you are reading out loud, which, once again, you should be, you already said clusterfuckshitstorm. And now you said it again) of stuff that I actually get paid for. Or graded on. Or gives me a place to live. Or else that I just care about more than this. Sorry. Anyways, since it turns out that doing homework is really, really boring, here are 10 that I enjoyed over the past (three) week(s).
Recently I was told that I was going to have the opportunity to become the next Mark Titus. I was ecstatic, and immediately started watching extensive game tape on Mark Madson, Brian Scalabrine and Titus himself. I practices the enthusiastic towel wave, the awkward white guy half hug, even the classic intense stare at the court with the towel around the shoulders. Truth be told, I have warn nothing but jogging pants and a windbreaker for the past week, because I took that comment to mean that I was being transferred from the Santa Clara Hockey team to the Santa Clara basketball team to be the token overenthusiastic white guy who never plays. Turns out they actually meant that they wanted me to do a player blog on the Santa Clara hockey website, so now I have a bunch of useless knowledge about 5 step handshakes and standing behind the starters during timeouts, and another writing obligation that I don’t get paid for. Oh well.
Even though none of that actually happened, I am doing the blog for www.SCUhockey.com, and while the subject matter will be different, I assure you it will be just as juvenile, irrelevant and hacky as this website, so please, check it out.
If you know me, and are my friend (the real kind, on facebook), then you probably saw this posted with the label ‘Read Deadspin today. Do it. Thank me later.’ Anyways, if you aren’t, or if you ignored me last week, read this now and, again, thank me later.
This is pertinent to almost nothing, except that I just finished reading Chuck Klosterman’s Eating the Dinosaur, in which he refers to this song (or at least mentions that it has been referred to) as ‘(Cobain’s) real suicide note). True or not, it certainly makes the song, which is good, but fairly boring, a little bit more interesting, and gives it another level.
4. Greg Giraldo
Funny dude, died yesterday…damn.
Here are quite possibly the two best High School football touchdowns that you will see all year. Neither of them counted, because the people running every level of amateur sports with the exception of junior hockey and maybe summer league baseball are idiots. And pansies. As is clear from the title above, I blame soccer.
The next best thing, now that FJM is gone. It is probably the easiest place to go for good, humorous sports writing that focuses mainly on making fun of stuff.
As I made clear last week, betting is awesome. Naturally, I don’t need anything to make me interested in the NHL season, but this doesn’t hurt, either.
For Sharks fans, mostly, Big Joe sat down with Greg Wyshynski this past week. He was pretty interesting, although much of that credit goes to Wyshynski for leading him on. Either way, a good read for Sharks fans.
I have nothing to add. Just look at the pictures.
Unfortunately, because the aforementioned storm of non-BS related activities, I am going to have to cut it short this week. I’m already a day late. Column coming tomorrow morning afternoon.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Hitting the Links; 9/2/10
Since the posting on here has been embarrassingly infrequent, I am going to try to start up a number of running features to get myself going with the blog. The first one I will try to make a weekly thing, and it couldn't be simpler. Here are 10 links I have enjoyed, found funny, found interesting, or just want to share. Let's do this every Thursday, no?
Did you know that Washington Nationals' centerfielder and noted crazy person Nyjer Morgan was actually a pretty good hockey player, who even played part of a season in major junior (proof here). That is the kind of information I'm here for.
This is topical, obviously, because Morgan added to that profile last night. Ironically, it was the second line brawl of his career, as the Skolney fight is listed as taking place at the same time as four others.
God. I. Love. Hulu.
With a pretty solid arsenal of classic games (although it could definitely afford to be expanded), and an outstanding lineup of games from the last few years, Hulu.com is actually a fairly underrated website for hockey fandom.
As for that particular game, New Yorkers will remember it fondly, but I love it for a couple of reasons. First of all, the early 90s/late80s might be my favorite era to watch, with the possible exception of the current one. The main reason for this, I think, is because I get to see guys I remember as old and a bit stiff, and see what they looked like. It is like seeing new players, except they are guys I know already. Messier from this game is a great example. He is flying, and was clearly a great player, except when I saw that I was surprised. I only knew him as the guy who was old and slow, playing for the Rangers in the 2000s. Turns out he was good, who knew?
The second reason this game is worth it is the pure level of talent here. Bure. Messier. Anderson. Leetch. There are HOFers everywhere. Brian Leetch, though, is the star. He is in every rush, but never gets beat in his own end. There is no one in the league like him now, and that is at a time when the young defensemen have rarely been better.
Probably only interesting to you if you play hockey, but hey, I play hockey, so it was interesting to me. That's all I got.
This KILLED me. The one in front is Dale Mitchell, in back is Andrew Engelange, both are Leafs prospects.
It is always hockey season in my mind, but today is really about the kickoff of College Football, so here are a few links to get you ready for that.
Speaking of having killed me, here is Deadspin writer/comedic genius Drew Magery's take on my home state, from the linked article:
"3. Boise State: America's Sweethearts, my ass. I'll be damned if I'm cheering from some dipshit team from the middle of Idaho. Let me ask you something: If everyone in Idaho died tomorrow, would you care? I mean, just DIED. A virus sweeps across the state and wipes out every last man, woman, and baby. Every Idahoan, dead in a puddle of their own shit and liquefied organs. Would you really give a crap? I say no. Oh, I'd turn on the news and say, "Oh, shit! All the Idaho people are dead. That sucks." Then I'd turn off the TV and eat a box of Teddy Grahams. I'd pretend to care in my mind, so that I wouldn't feel like the really shitty person that I am. But deep down? I wouldn't care. I wouldn't even care if I had relatives living there. If they were living in Idaho, they were probably relatives of mine that were all fucking weird and creepy and lived in a compound. Or they were insufferable outdoorsy assholes. Or they were rich fuckers who skied. Either way, Idaho is pointless."
As a''rich fucker who skis,' I agree. The whole thing is that funny.
More College Football from Deadspin, although this one is actually from Sports Illustrated, via Deadspin. It's a good read, and should get you ready for the CFB season.
My personal vote for the 'greatest game ever played. Bring it Hokies. (Also, could someone explain to me what the hell a Hokie is?)
In case that didn't get you fired up enough (yeah right), here are a few more to get you amped for Monday Night.
I had to include at least one BS Report in the inaugural links list, but none of this week's stuck out. This one is from about a month ago, but I really enjoyed it. Here is part 2.
Dear YouTube, please stop shutting down his accounts. I recommend any of the Heatley stuff (Joe the ventriloquist is good).
Again, Hulu...what can you say. This time, it is what has to be my favorite show at the moment (and not by a little bit either). Hulu's only got episodes through the 2008 season, but it holds up well enough to be entertaining.
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