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4/19/2009 01:17:00 pm / The truth was spoken by Rich /



Today's "going on holiday tomorrow" of the week song is "Dreams' by Gabrielle. She may have tried hacking off an assailant's head once with a sword, but one can't deny she really can knock out a holiday tune.

This song reminds me of the height of my rascal years - 19 years old knocking about in Grand Canaria doing all sorts of things - stories I wouldn't tell my grandchildren about even if they sneakily tipped Brandy into my Horlicks while I was looking for my reading glasses.

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I happened to be watching the Detroit Redwings last night on Justin TV before the Blackhawks game which incidentally was won by my boys who now lead the series 2-0 and have come from behind (Ooooh matron) to win in both games so in your eye anyone who felt they lacked heart....anyway. So I'm watching the Redwings and these adverts keep popping up which is irrirating me, then I actually read one of them and it became clear why Detroit is the murder capital of North America.

Jonny Walker Nilsson Knives!

They have a wide selection to suit all your serial killing needs. Whether it's hacking up prostitutes in the back of your van or a more prolonged period of torture in your custom made dungeon requiring a delicate blade, Jonny has all your carving needs covered at discount prices.

Detroit won the game very easily and it's looking to me like a Hawks - Redwings Conference final. An original six match up and from a playing point of view a hockey version of Arsenal v Manchester United.

The comparisons between the two games, teams and seasons are quite amazing really if you're into this sort of thing. My teams are the young inexperienced but highly skilled up-starts while their opponents are utter cunts. It's uncanny really how they both compare.

Toews: great player eh?

At this point if you'd like to talk amongst yourselves I'd just like to give young Jonathon Toews a mention. He's been emailing in on a daily basis asking for a mention and he's earned his place in my blog after last night's performance.

Jonathon Toews (pronounced "Taves") is the captain of the Blackhawks. Like young Cesc Fabregas he's only wee - at least in terms of his age - 20 freakin' years old (21 next week). He looks a little bit like my cousin Philip as it goes. What a player though.

He's from Winnipeg, Alberta, and although he may sound like a simple farm boy with his adding of the suffix 'eh' to the end of all his sentences and perhaps not being the person you'd immediately think of texting if you were struggling with the Guardian cryptic crossword, he's got that special talent that separates the good players from the great players - just like little Cesc.

Leading a team with as much history as the Chicago Blackhawks is not sommat anyone can do, which is partly why they have won fuck all for so long, so for a simple 20 year old Canadian to almost single handedly instigate a renaissance is remarkable really and because of him the whole of Chicago has been reminded that it's not just the Bulls who play at the United Centre.

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Moving on now, in the East the Rangers won again, I might have mentioned that already though. They're 2-0 up now and heading back to the Gardens for game three. I really fancy them to make it to the Conference finals.

Almost certainly they will play Boston who will be heading to freak town Montreal with a 2-0 lead in their series. If my prognostications are correct that would be four original six teams in the conference finals for the first time since there were only 6 teams in the league.

See way back when, the NHL was comprised only of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Redwings, New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins. Known collectively as the original six, they wore sweaters and no pads (not even the goalies) and made Premiership footballers today look like homosexual weather men.

So anyway..yes. My wagers are looking good at the moment. Long way to go of course, but the one thing I do so love about Hockey and Baseball, is the play-off games are a series of games rather than one off efforts, which takes luck out of the equation for the most part - so the better teams really ought to progress. It's just a question of identifying the better teams and I believe my singing squirrels and I have done just that.

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1 comments:

Anonymous on 19 April 2009 at 22:10

Wings all the way cuz - not only that, the great mr Bowman to come on the ice after the wings beat the blackhawks and declare his back room job at chicago is 'mission accomplished' : )

have a good trip dude - shame the Silver City casino is not there anymore, I met my first wife there!!!

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