Joyride

For once, no negative stuff, like leading 3 times and blowing it everytime.

• Caps won!!
• Semin scored the winning goal in overtime!!
• No too many on ice or puck over glass penalties!!!
• Chara scored his 100th goal!!
• Selänne scored his 20th goal of the season and is getting closer to whiny boy!!!
  
• This is so freaking fun!
• Liverpool lost!!!

Trade a little player or two

This is the only time you'll ever see Go Sens Go! on this site

The trade deadline is getting closer but there haven't yet been any huge trades, like the Hossa trade last year. Though, there also haven't been top player desperate to get the hell out of a black hole of hockey so that might explains why it's been so quiet. It might also have something to do with Mr. Gaborik's groin but I'm gonna talk about that later. You know, since it's such an interesting subject near to my heart. No, it really is. Shut up.




Anyway, here's some of the trades already made:

• Pens send defenseman Ryan Whitney to sunny Anaheim for Chris Kunitz and Eric Tangradi (both left wings, you know, Sid need a winger...)
• Mike Comrie (C) and Chris Campoli (D) travelled to Ottawa while Dean McAmmond (LW) got a ticket to Long Island with draft pick. Must've been lonely flight...
• Dallas defenseman Doug Janik made his way to much better parties when he was traded to Montreal for Steve Begin.

Now, that was pretty boring, wasn't it? Let's make things a bit more interesting or at least make the trade market look less like a coma patient and more like something that can stay alive without respirator.

• Dany Heatley (with no car) back to Atlanta for a bag of pink tutus for Alfie. But seriously, this would be sweet because of the reunite of Heatley/Kovalchuk.
  
• Sidney Crosby to Flyers for Danny Briere since the Pens' bench is too soff
• Kovalev to Penguins for Free Candy. C'mon, they need fire power... And I'm sure Habitants can appreciate free candy
  
• The Kostitsyn's with mafia boss to Los Angeles for Anze Kopitar, who then will be traded to Washington for FBI files on Habs' trip to Mexico
  
• Lundqvist to Tampa. Oren Koules approves his hair.
  
• Nylander to whatever team is willing to offer something that actually shoot the puck.
• All the Staal's to the same team. Doesn't really matter which team, as long as it's not a team I like.
• Filatov to Washington. I wish... Sigh
  
• Marian Gaborik to Penguins, where his groin is working perfectly (special masage, you don't wanna know more) and he'll help the team to playoffs and then sign with Red Wings in the summer because have better chances to win the Stanley Cup. Since this is the second time a Slovak called Marian does this, Sid will finally lose his mind and attack someone without a reason. Oh wait, he has already done that
  

There's probably lots of better option and I'll add them when I get my new brain. They're coming. I bought them from Ebay.

Hit the road ESPN

ESPN America fails at life.
Why? Well, because of THIS!

That is their today's TV schedule and as you can see there's lot of freaking college basketball and very little hockey. But really, who wouldn't want to watch some basketball instead of, I don't know... Capitals vs. Bruins NHL game? They're just like the two best fucking team in the league.

Oh, I almost missed it, I can watch Sharks destroy Canadiens and the bedtime story known as Wild vs. Oilers. Thank you so much, ESPN. I'm truly touched by this. Now, go away. Yeah, you heard me you little hockey hatin' useless piece of crap. You have no place in this world.

And don't you come back no more.

Hockey drinking games of the night

The European Edition

Atlanta vs. Washington

Here's the recipe for Kir Royal

• Cassis (1-2 tablespoons)
• Champagne (about 6 ounces)
  

Now, you can either mix one coctail at time or mix 1-2 bottles of champagne (yes, you can use sparkling wine if you must) with some amount of Cassis in a big punchbowl.
Ready?


Okey, the rulez. Drink if...

• the Capitals take a stupid penalty, like hooking, tripping, too many men on ice or puck over glass. Drink twice if it's Semin.
• Crosby and the freud with Ovechkin is mentioned. Drink twice if you hear Don Cherry in your head "good Canadian kid"
• Kovalchuk makes a move/pass/goal that makes you wish on your team. Drink twice if you're a Thrashers fan and hope you had at least 3 of him in the team.
• you see two Kozlov on the ice at the same time. Drink twice if you see them in a similar jersey.
• Nylander actually shoot the puck
  
• Kovalchuk gets a hatrick
• the Russians have combined more than ten points. Extra drink for every point over 10.
• you live in Europe and therefor not able to watch the game. Drink the whole bowl if you live in Finland.
  
• Capitals once again lose to a team they should win
• you have a hangover

Toronto vs. Islanders

Drink if...

• you're Leafs fan and not sure whether you want your team to lose so you can get Tavares or not
• everytime Toskala makes a save
  
• you hate Daniel Alfredsson
  
• you're an Islanders fan

Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting

No rocking the red yesterday so plenty of time for other things. Like hallucinating Swedish reporters. My all time favourite subject.

In Toronto vs. NY Rangers game Markus Näslund and Ian White put a sad excuse of a fight club and surprisingly Näslund didn't have a chance. Obviously that's really not a good reason for not to write sentence like "He (Tortorella) got to see Markus Näslund fight." Oh wait, it is.

First of all, it wasn't a fight. It was White making Näslund cry while he just tried to stay alive. There's video evidence of this.

Now, if you're telling me that what Näslund did is fighting, I'm a freaking Kung Fu Panda. Shut up, I'm not fat, I just have a thick fur.

White dropped the mitts and, as you'll see, Naslund responded with an aggressive counterattack of hanging on for dear life.

- Puck Daddy

That pretty much sum it up.
Not. A. Fight.

But seriously:

"John Tortorella didn't get to see a win in his debut as a coach for NY Rangers last night. But he got to see something unusual. He got to see Markus Näslund fight."

Yeah, that probably made good the fact that they LOST. But hey, Näslund "fought" first time since 1993, it gotta mean something. Right?? I think I need some "snow"....

The Vesa interview

Because I'm bored and have nothing better to do

"Gin makes people happy"

Last night's Caps game however didn't make me happy.

Flyers 4 - Capitals 2

This so does not help my master plan to get Timonen to the Worlds. Losing was bad enough but seriously, ruining the Worlds is totally unacceptable.
And by the way, blowing 2 goal lead is so last week. As is getting the "puck over glass" penalty. Carson Kressley do not approve this.

Greetings from AA meeting

Now, some much more happier thingys. Like you know, winning...

• Arsenal kicked Roma's ass with 1-0 victory. Sadly, Arshavin wasn't able to play
  
• Beating Colorado, so easy even Thrashers can do that. Capitals however can't...
• Selänne scored his 19th goals when Ducks got 2 points from Buffalo. By the end of the season, Selänne will have more goals than Mr. Crosby (22, at the moment).

• Also, Freddie Ljungberg is training!

How to bluff Finnish hockey player?

By telling him it's dinner time.

From the department of where are they now, may I present two former Finnish hockey players, Jari Kurri and Timo Jutila.


Dont let the sumo wrestle like look bluff, those two gentlemen truly used to athletes about 30 kilos ago. Athletes who definitely haven't missed dinner times, but nevertheless.

They're currently in USA to find some help to the Worlds and therefor probably wish every team with at least one semi useful Finn to lose rest of the games and miss the playoffs.

At this moment, Finland would possibly get players like Niklas Hagman, Vesa Toskala (yippee), The Ruutu brothers, Olli Jokinen and this dude called Teemu Selänne. I've heard he might be decent.

Teemu "Selani" Selänne


Teemu "Selani" Selänne part deux: Coolest goal celebration ever

F. U. R. B.

See I don't know why you cryin like a bitch
Talkin shit like a snitch

Has anyone ever counted how many times Crosby uses word "fuck" during the games?

Penguins 2 - Capitals 5

Capitals obviously learnt something from the Colorado game and showed up from the beginning of the game. The first goal was scored after less than 10 minutes ofthe first by Ovechkin. The lot bashed power play worked for once and Bäckström and Fedorov got assists.

After the goal Semin took a penalty because he had realized that Pens are less dangerous when on power play. Unfortunately Pens responded to this by sending Staal to the box for tripping and scored 4 on 4. Surprisingly Crosby didn't get the secondary assist.

Max Talbot decided to celebrate his goal by taking a boarding penalty. Semin then celebrated Talbot's penalty by making Fleury's day even worse and sent the puck in to the net. I think my knees melted a bit. Nice set up by Bäckström and Green.

Caps started the second with goal a la Fedorov, assisted by Semin. Unfortunately Caps took the traditional too many men penalty and Gonchar continued the march of Russians by stunning Theodore.

After this unfortunate event Capitals scored two goals in 25 seconds (Morrisonn and Laich) and the only interesting thing was to see whether Ovechkin destroys Crosby or not. Very sadly this didn't happen. Sigh.

• Russians do it better. Get used to it. Three stars: Fedorov, Ovechkin, Semin.
  
• I wish Satan would play better. Not against the Capitals though.
  
• Malkin played 26.24 minutes. Sick
• Is Crosby getting paid for all the whining? Srsly, if he spent half as much time to scoring than yapping, he might had more than 23 goals. Semin has 22 and he has played like 19 games less with smaller ice time.
• Bäckström is getting more physical and send Malkin to ice
  

Classssyyyyy

The really sad thing is that i have nothing against Penguins, I like Malkin and Satan has been my favourite for decade. But Crosby really really really annoys me.

You made me do this...

From Sweden with luv...

No Capitals yesterday.
Booo.
But they will face Penguins today. The good thing is that Pens have shown lately some signs of life and it is the Penguins so maybe Caps actually bother to play.
I'm not holding my breath.

Elsewhere in the Bettman land

Vancouver 3 - Toronto 2 (SO)

Mats Sundin sunk the team I wished to win? What a fucking surprise. Espicially since the team played in blue and white. That has like so never happened before... Sigh.
During the last few days I've read about what Mr. Swedish bald head meant to Leafs' fans and how they feel about him. This nearly caused me overdose of Sundin love but I really didn't have anything better to do. The amount of respect (for the years he played in Toronto, not for the leave) really surprised me since he really isn't the most popular player here.
Anyways, I've spent most of my life by hating him for what he has done for "Leijonat", but I was kinda forced to consider the option the he in fact is not some evil creature whose mission is to make my life miserable.



Mission or not, he has done that pretty well though.
But despite all those nightmares and tears he has caused during the years, I couldn't help myself feeling strange mixture of feelings when the crowd aplaued him. Shut up, I'm an emotional person.


I admit that for the years in Toronto you deserve respect, but I do not want to see Canucks to win the Cup. And if you ever again play in Tre Kronors, may Jarkko Ruutu destroy your soul.

I'm done with this now, moving on.

Coyotes 6 - Kings 3

Olli Jokinen scored a hat trick? I actually nearly felt my chair when I read that.
Un-freaking-believable. Please play that way in the Worlds? Pretty please??

Wild 5 - Red Wings 2

Niklas Bäckström showed why he's my favourite goalie and said no to Red Wings allowing only 2 goals for Motown. The other goal was scored by Ville Leino.

Sabres 4 - Rangers 2

Muahahahahaha!!! No, I'm not evil, I just like Sabres...

Penguins 5 - Flyers 4

I just wish Crosby hadn't score so many points but the main thing is that Flyers lost.

The Swedish athlete with no hair of my choice...


(Picture from hockeyexpressen.se)

This is not how we party

If you watch carefully, you can see Capitals players getting run over by an avalanche.

I'm not quite sure what is this thank you for sucking part 5 or something else, since there has been so much sucking around here this year.

Colorado 4 - Washington 1

I have only one thing to say about this.
WTF??

Seriously, Colorado is 14th in West. They not good. If Capitals keep sucking against "weaker" teams, Russia will have killer team in the Worlds since all the Russians in Washington are able to take a part after losing to Montreal/Florida in the first round.
Fan-fucking-tastic.

Elsewhere in the league

Sundin will make his comeback to Toronto as a Canuck and is not quite sure what to expect. There's lots of stories about this hirtoric moment in Swedish sites, but since I'm pissed off by Caps' play I don't feel like translating.

Mr. Second "N", please feel free to call me

And just to make my day perfect, Arshavin is making his debut in England but it's not on TV here.

(Pictures from Sandpointwinterriders and Sportbladet)

Just like a pill

Instead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me ill

I'm not sure if all the doping athletes have become ill because of the stuff they've been enjoying, but I'm seriously sick and tired of reading doping related news everyday. Even if no one has actually got cought, there's people blaming each others and being whiny bitches.
If you don't have any evidences, shut up. If you do, please feel free to share them instead of just whining that life is not fair, they're cheating and blah blah blah. I'm serious.

There has been some major doping issues among variety of sports, such as American football, baseball and cycling, but since I don't follow those, I will use biathlon as an example.

Before the biathlon World Championships started four Russians were cought doping. That's sad, but there are facts to prove this and they will get punishment. In my mind, that should've been the end of that story. But no, Sweden's coach Wolfgang Pichler just had to write that Russians use systematically doping, meaning those ones who didn't get caught and have never been cought anything illegal. And as far as I know, he didn't give any deeper information or analysis about this statement, so I'm going to assume he has no evidences. And this happened in the middle of the Worlds.

The lack of reasonable examples leads us to my main point here. If one has reasons to suspect someone for doping, they should tell about those suspections. I think it's their duty to do that. But. If there isn't anything concrete, it's not fair nor sportmanlike to the person/persons who have to answers questions about the possibility that they're doping instead of concentrating on the competition while their opponents can focus on their own doings without distractions when there's no good reason to doubt them. If you can't win without sabotazing your opponent, quit.

Winning...

... you're doin' it wrong!

Two points are always nice but it's totally unnecessary to give charity point to Montreal.
Sure, there were some highlight goals, but guess what?
It. Does. Not. Matter.




If you didn't get it by now, 4-3 shootout win over Habs ain't good enough. The constant sucking against team that haven't been able to win to save their lifes is something that they need to work.

Hossa time


Columbus at least got the good sense to kick Blues' collective ass 4-3 in regular. Rick Nash scored.


(Images from Yahoo Sport)

I wanna start a fight...

It seems to me that Swedish hockey is like undying source of entertaining hockey news.

This time Linköping forward Andreas Jämtin and Brynäs manager Michael Sundlöv put a fight club on a locker room hall before the game. I'm not 100% sure how things went, but what I've been able to catch, Sundlöv bashed Jämtin who then did what every man would've done and punch the bastard Sundlöv and knocked him over. After that Brynäs equipments staff member Mattias Pettersson attacked Jämtin to defend poor Sundlöv. Sundlöv later admitted that the "fight" was his fault.

Jämtin got game misconduct and one game suspension, Sundlöv 25 000 crowns fine and Pettersson has to pay 20 000 crowns.
And this happend last week by the way.

Why I'm bringing this up? Because Gävle's prosecuter Mikael Hammarstrand has decided to bring a charge against Sundlöv and Jämtin. Sundlöv for obstruction (?) and Jämtin for assault. What's interesting is the fact that if Jämtin is found guilty, he'll be playing in Swedish prison league.

Na, na, na, na...

(Picture from eurovision.tv)

Russian Roulette

Washington 4 - Florida 2

• Hat trick for Ovechkin
• Bäckström 0+2
  
• Good game by Theodore
• Some veeery stupid penalties (Puck over glass?? Why can't you just get hooking penalties?)

Atlanta 8 - Anaheim 4

• Me thinks goalies didn't get the memo and therefor didn't know it was an actual game...
• Kovalchuk 3+1. All the goals were nice but the third one was great exhibit why he is elite player
  
• Selänne 2+1
  

Other stuff

• It's au revoir for Penguins coach Michel Therrien who was fired yesterday. I'm kinda surprised that he got to keep his job this long because Penguins' season hasn't been good. Not even near to that.

Hasta la vista baby


Football

Paolo Maldini's last Milan derby didn't quite go the way Milan was planned and they lost to INter 2-1. Though, if the ref wasn't blind, it would've been 1-1 since Adriano's goal was handball. But really, why let small things like that ruin good goal?
The good thing is that even though I wished Milan to win, I love Jose Mourinho (Inter's coach) so I can sorta live their win. However, I'm not happy about Beckham's possible injury.

Work your magic

Combined points for Russian players* last night: 6+10, in 5 games.

* Anyone whose birthplace is USSR. I'm lazy.

Washington 5 - Tampa Bay 1

There were beautiful goals, great passes, some absolutely terrible passes and great saves by Neuvirth in his 1st NHL game.
The first goal was super sweet with all the passes. I would've said it was maybe too cute but hey, it was a goal.

• Semin 1+2
• Ovechkin 1+0
• Bäckström 0+2
• Green 1+0, NHL record for longest scoring streak for defenseman
• Tampa's goal was scored by ex-Penguin Ryan Mallone

Penguins 2 - Maple Leafs 6

I watched the firts period and part of the second and by the time I went to sleep, Toronto was losing 2-0. Toskala's first period wasn't too good but I assume he improved his game. Or then Pens just stopped caring.
Anyways I'm kinda sad that Satan didn't score. Or Malkin. Sigh. At least Antropov scored.

• Antropov 1+2
• Ponikarovsky 1+1
• Kulemin 0+1
• Stajan 1+2
• Malkin 0+1
• Toskala 25 saves

Otras cosas

• Chiefs detroyed Oil Kings 11-2
• HIFK won
  

Work your magic baby

The most über-cutest post ever

Srsl, this is as full of sweetness as human can handle.

(Warning, can cause overdose of cuteness. In that case, please consult with Lafee)

(There's some hockey stuff too)



Cute, right?
Also cute, Columbus winning! They didn't give much love for SC champion Red Wings and gently kicked their ass 3-2.



Guess who else won?
Buffalo! They were already on the right mood for the Valentine's day and gave some looove and a point for San Jose, 5-6 (SO) for Sabres.

Kittie time



Sugar drunk? Here's something tougher



There's nothing like Don Cherry... I won't even diss him in this post. That's how cute it is over here.



Washington plays tonight!

Aww... Just like the power play

Some activity suggestions for Lightnings since they're gonna have looong holiday



The Capitals play against Tampa, which is a little less cute since they're tend to suck against team they should win.

2 minutes for tripping...

No, I most certainly did not trip it!

Toronto will have a chance to get closer to get Tavares or Hedman when face Penguins tonight.



Happy Valentine's Day!


(Pictures from icanhascheezburger)

200 Km/h In The Wrong Lane

This day is like sooo full of fail... Actually the whole damn week has been.

NHL starting next season in Finland and Sweden

Oh cool, NHL games in Finland. What you said? We get Kitties and Flames? Bloody hell. And Sweden gets... Oh right, the Red Wings and some other team. I have no idea whether this is Bettman's fault or not but I'm gonna blame him anyway. Go to hell you Avery hating hockey killer.



Tampa Bay winning

Seriously, what the hell is going on? Besides that Toskalol couldn't make a save to safe his life...



Men in pink tutus

You've all seen the Alfie photo. And if you haven't, consider yourself as a lucky bastard.



More than one day without Capitals hockey

Soooo fail. And sad.

Hedman countdown

Viktor Hedman a la footballexpressen

I think I might have to change the blog name to Kväll huligan... Anyway, while searching info about Forsberg I saw an article about Swedish top prospect Viktor Hedman and Toronto Maple Leafs.

Hockeykanalen.se had a chat with Maple Leafs' European scout Thommie Bergman (that doesn't sound like a Swedish name at all...), who said that Hedman, 18 year old Modo player is (tremendously) complete defenseman with unique combination of being big and being able to skate.

Bergman is in Örnsköldsvik to see Hedman but also to check David Rundblad and Tim Erixon. Both Rundbland and Erixon play in Skellefteå AIK and face Hedman, Forsberg and rest of the Modo tonight.

Back to Forsberg. So he played again. And scored the king of all goals. And no, I do not have video evidence on this. You just have to trust Hockeykanalen.
But here's a photo galleria.

NoLol day

Caps 4 - rangers 5 (SO)

(Sportbladet)

I think I'm getting spoiled with all the wins but losing does not feel good. I know, I know... everyone loses sometimes and know team is unbeatable. But losing to Rangers? Most importantly, losing to Rangers because goalie didn't know about some stupid rule? It sukcs. Sooo badly. Where's my Stoli?




Also losing

• Thrashers
• Miller, Bode
  
• Buffalo
• Finland

Muchas gracias por matar mi pais pobre, Cristiano. Muchas gracias.

At least Foppa is playing again... Sigh.

Because Per Gessle rules the world

Because blowing 3 goals lead is fun

Not as funny as cutting your finger with champagne bottle though.

Since Caps haven't play in few days and I'm bored, let's take a look at the biggest hockey/sport fails.

Blowing 2+ goals lead

This applies both hockey and soccer (also some other sports I'm not that into). It sucks. Giving false hope is not that nice. Finland national hockey team is specialized to that. Their latest master piece was blowing 4-0 lead in the third. The latest example is Maple Leafs, blowing 3 goals lead against Kitties and losing in overtime. It's a pumpy ride my friend.

Oddly enough, I only found picture of Toskalol making a save
Ridiculous injuries
Isn't that true Mr. I can use snowbowler? Yeah, that's what I thought.
There have been a lot of "laughable"injuries in the history of sport. "Laughable" because they sound funny, but some of those have ends career so they're not that funny. Like the soccer player who collapsed with small dog on the field and broke his knee. Couldn't play as a pro after that.

Hockey

• Joe Sakic and the evil snowblower. Everyone probably already knows the story but as a quick recap, he put his finger in the wrong place. Sooo wrong. I never thought hockey player would be new Einsteins but i didn't realize that hey're on the W's level either. You know what, I think that the players need a rise so they can afford to hire someone to do things like that for them.

• Eric Johnson and the evil golf cart. Once again everyone probably already knows the story so I have only one question. How on earth one can injure oneself while driving with a golf cart? Unless he was playing golf cart polo and golf drinking game (drink everytime you wish you would have something better to do) at the same time.

Soccer

• British goalie David Seaman broke a bone reaching for his TV remote. Maybe he forgot to do his warm-ups?
  

• Ok, this only lead to missing one game but Milan Rapaic from Croatia managed to stick his boarding pass in his eye in the airpor. It's really good he wasn't holding anything sharper...

• Darius Vassel as every man on this planet thought he can fix everything by himself and decided to remove a blood blister beneath the nail on his big toe with his Black & Decker. This surprisingly led to blood infection.

• Evil puppy took Darren Barnard out by soiling kitchen floor and therefor causing Darren to slip over and break his knee.

• There also was this Norwegian dude who collapsed with moose while jogging. Unfortunately, I didn't find whether the moose was injured too or not.
  

• Spanish goalkeeper Santiago Canizares missed 2002 World Cup after dropping a bottle of cologne on his foot and causing an injury.

He's injured at the moment, therefor relevant

If you have more, please feel free to share them

A goalie with man purse will trick you

Me thinks his hair not blond enough...

Maple Leafs goalie Vesa Toskala (or Toskalol) did an interview where the questions were asked in English but he gave the answers in Finnish (this was for Finnish TV, I think). The reporter obviously didn't understand Finnish at all and Mr. Toskala told lovely story about getting a driving licence while the reporter asked game related questions.

Q: You must be pretty pleased with tonight's performance?

A: Yeah, I think I was 18 years old when I got my driving licence... That's when my driving career started.

Q: How difficult was it for you... I mean.. (Couldn't catch what he said) period that wasn't going well?

A: I took my driving test with a truck and passed it in the first try.

Q: Are you bothered by the comments?

A: No.. My first car was a Mitsubishi.

Q: You said that your groin is good. Is that something that bothers you a little bit maybe?

A: Then I bought speakers to the car during the Juniors. I've got few speeding ticket but I try not to get any next summer

Here's the linky.

Cutest puppies ever!!! (The guys aren't bad either)


No, I probably won't stop posting Swedish music. Don't sue me.

Weekend's cool board

I do apologise, we have wasted your evening, there are no good goalies in Montreal

- Jeremy Clarkson*

Sub zero

• Capitals kicked Kitties' ass and won 3-1
• Another penalty-free game for Semin. Now, if you could start scoring again?
• The Stig... illegal in 17 U.S. states
  

Cool

• Columbus got two points from Sharks
• Luke Schenn first NHL goal
  

Uncool

• Czech lost to Sweden 6-4
• Buffalo lost to Ottawa

Seriously uncool

• Team Finland and the continuing suckfest. Bad, bad, baaaaad hockey

From Sweden


* Don't take this literally...

Killing me softly

Finland indeed is killing me, not so softly byt still. In a Euro Hockey Tour game against Russia, my beloved team, that I have to support "Jellonat" built a 4 goal lead in the second period after a totally horrible first period. Russia scored one in the end of the second but Finland still had nice3 goal lead, which would've been enough for normal team. But not for Finland, no. They just had to start to suck again and let Russia score 3 goals. First two of those was scored in 24 seconds.
Russia won 5-4 after shootout, Alexey Mihnov scored the only one.

The sadest part? The head coach said there were good things in that game. I'm not sure what game he was watching but there was nothing good in that 3 period suckfest. They screwed totally perfect scoring oppurtunities, like an empty net. Russia scored an empty netter cause the Finnish goalie was somewhere behind the net. It was not good. It was nowhere near to be good. It was like watching 2006 Olympic final with Swedish announcers while trying to cut your wrist with blunt knife.

And I wouldn't be this upset about this if Finland was the only one to suck. But Russia sucked too. They were totally out, there were some mini fight all the time, and Finland scored 4 goals, which shouldn't happen against Russia.

Jeremy Clarkson worst dressed??

Ok, this has nothing to do wih hockey, but is too shocking not to be posted. I was suffering through boring Saturday day spiced up with lovely headache and flicking through sky.com's Week's worst dressed list (btw Orlando Bloom, I think you left your sense of style in the Middle Earth) when I saw this:
Richard hammond on the left and Jeremy Clarkson on the right.
This is what Sky said about them:

If your outfits were cars Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson, we'd say the MOT has failed.

Here's the thing. No one messes with Jeremy. I mean no one. And Hammond... He's so cute. Like teddy bear. You can't mock him, it's like kicking a puppy. You like to kick puppies, Sky?

Sky.com, as useful as a snooze button on a smoke alarm.

The good, the bad, the ugly and the sexy

The good

• Semin scored and didn't take penalties. Too bad that they lost.
• Kopitar scored too. Twice. Too bad that they played against Capitals.
• Ovechkin scored his 200th goal. Still too bad that they lost.
  
• Finland won Czech after not so impressive start.
  
• Chara scored. Too bad that they almost lost.

The bad

• Capitals lost.
• Boston blew 2 goals lead against Ottawa. OK, they won the game anyway, but that's kinda sad.
• Russia and Sweden had a interesting game, which unfortunately ended to Sweden's win. I blame the refs.

The ugly

• "Alfie"
• Sundin
• Blind refs

The sexy

For the ladies

For the gentlemen out there

Euro style fight + nice goal

Not so good quality but since that applies to the blog itself it shouldn't be surprise



I know it's hard to tell from the clip, but the goal was pretty sweet

Forsberg's first game in MoDo jersey

No, not the first ever, but the first after he signed with MoDo. I couldn't find any clip from the game but here's a clip from MoDo's practice.



Anyway, the game was against KB 65 and I could've watched it live online but since I fail, I only saw the third. Well, part of it. I hate me.

Sadly, the goalies failed even more than me and the game ended 8-7 for KB 65. I think it was OT win. KB led 6-0 after first period but started the suckfest in the second and MoDo scored 5 goals. In the third MoDo scored two and KB one. And as you already know, KB scored in OT and won the crap.
The atmosphere sounded pretty good and Forsberg is still alive so it went pretty well.

They interviewed Foppa after the game but he spoke so damn fast I only catched few words. However, after the second he said that it didn't feel good, he had hoped it would be better and that maybe after little more training it feels better.
Because I looooove linkys.

Btw, if someone could explain me what game it was - because I believe KB 67 ain't Elitserien team - I would be sooo thankful. No, not that thankful.

Saints and Sinners

Capitals 5 - Devils 2

No stop signs, speed limit - nobody's gonna slow me down
Let the wheel go on spinin' - nobody's gonna mess me around
Hey, Satan, paid my dues - hey, I'm in a rockin' band
Hey, momma, look at me - I'm on my way to the Promised Land

There's no stop signs for Capitals who are speeding to the playoffs and making February/March a little less killing for the fans than last year. Their last victim was Devils who have done surprisingly well without Martin Brodeur.
The game itself? Well, Semin didn't take any penalties and gave a pass tres bien to Green for the first goal. Nylander scored two and Kozlov had to leave the game early, but it probably isn't anything super serious.

Thrashers 2 - Rangers 1 (SO)

I'm on the Highway to Hell
Highway to Hell
I'm on the Highway to Hell
Highway to Hell

Despite the win, Thrashers are still far, far away from the playoffs spot and after a great start the Rangers are trying to get themshelves out of the playoffs.
The stunning part is that Atlanta won without any points from the captain, Kovalchuk, who's supposed to be the best player in the team.
Lehtonen showed why he's in the NHL and helped his team to get 2 points.

Kings 1 - Senators 0

And I'm goin' down all the way

What the hell is wrong with Kopitar? Dude hasn't score like in years.
Also going down: Ottawa Senators. Changing the coach doesn't help if the team is hopeless and uninterested to play. Good luck to the lottery.

Drunken version...

Lovely goal by "Hägmän". Srsl, learn to pronounce it!

I know what Habs'll do when playoffs begin

NHL related news on finnish "news" site!!!

"Saku Koivu's wife TV star in Canada"

This is like soooo awsome. I do not know how I would've survived without this piece of information.Thank you mtv3.fi. Merci beaucoup. I feel like I found the missing piece of me and now I'm complete.

Apparently, she'll be part of the show where Maxim Lapierre's new house (La Maison de Maxim Lapierre) is decorated. I'm sure all the Habs will help with fixing the shelves to the walls and stuff when their holidays begin in April.

And guess what??!? The other host (hostess?) is also a hockey wife!!! I'm just so happy to see two unemployed to get a job with times like this. It really gives hope.

/ I do not have anything against the Koivus, I'm just generally pissed off

Disco Malaria cool board

What, there were hockey yesterday?
I'm stunned too, Jeremy...

It's a Roman orgy, a Hawaiian barbecue, a Viennese waltz, and a helicopter gunship attack on Las Vegas, all rolled into one... it's fantastic!

- Jeremy Clarkson on ice hockey*

Sub zero

• Top gear
• Someone screwed up with TV channels so I can watch all the channels free
  

Cool

• Selänne had two assists when Ducks destroyed... barely beat Sabres.

Uncool

• OK, more like too cool, but it's freaking ice age here. I wish I had a polar bear fur...

Seriously uncool

One of my favourite football players, Andrei Arshavin is "traded" to English team called Arsenal, which most certainly ain't one of my favourites. I kinda had to root for it when Ljungberg played there, but after he changed team I thought I would never have to do it again. How wrong I was...

There have been rumours about him moving to England since the European Championships, where he was crucial part of team Russia.

Disco Malaria!!

*Don't take this literally:)

Weekends's cool board

In fact, it has exactly the same top speed as Henry the Eighth.

-Jeremy Clarkson on Senators lines

Sub zero

• Semin's goal against Senators
• Ovechkin's hat trick
• Ville Leino's first NHL goal
• Rafael Nadal's Aussie Open victory
  

Cool

• Both Selänne and Koivu scored after returning from injury
• Buffalo won Phoenix
• Niklas Bäckström
  

Uncool

• Stupid penalties
• Blind refs

Seriously uncool

• Montreal Canadiens' pyjamas... ehrr, jerseys on Sunday. Amnesty may want to investigate the legality of them.
  

Gimme more

Ottawa 4 - Washington 7

We want ten... !

Yes, I'm a spoilt bitch. Deal with it.

There's only two types of people in the world
The ones that entertain, and the ones that observe
Well baby we're a put-on-a-show kinda team
Don't like the backseat, gotta be first

Yes, Capitals sure do wanna entertain. The game didn't start that well and Mr. Alfredsson from the Ottawa's pizza line wanted to remind people that he indeed is still alive and scored. But not to worry, Capitals decided that this time they won't suck against crappy team and buried 2 goals in the first. Both power play goals, and both scored so quickly I didn't see either on them.

In the second period Alfie scored his second goal of the night and I'm sure his wife/girlfriend/boyfriend wished he could that kind of performance at home every once in awhile. Too bad for Ottawa that Capitals scored 4 and led 2-6 after two period.

In the third Heatley rememberd he's supposed to be good player and scored, some other Senators scored too and Bäckström got an empty netter.

There's only two types of goalies out there,
Ones that can handle me, and ones that are scared
So baby I hope that came prepared
I run thight ship, so beware
I'm like a ringleader, I call the shots.
I'm like a fire cracker,
I make it hot when I put on a show.

Senators' goalies obviously couldn't handle Ovechkin and he scored a hat trick. Yes, you read right, goalies. Elliot got the start but was benched after 4 goals and Auld was the one to witness Ovechkin's third goal.

I feel the adrenaline moving through my veins
Spotlight on me and I'm ready to break
I'm like a performer, the hockeyrink is my stage
Better be ready, hope that ya feel the same


Semin showed why he should be considered as one the best hockey players with his game winning goal. I'm sure that there were nice moves and stuff after that but unfortunately that goal kinda like melt my brain off so I'm clueless.

All the eyes on me in the center of the ring
Just like a circus
When I crack that whip, everybody gonna trip
Just like a circus
Don't stand therewayching me, follow me
Show me what you can do

Sergei Fedorov got three assists and if I remember correct those were sweet, sweet passes.

WTF?

There were two penalties I don't quite understand. The first one was Ruutu's, not that I would complain, but I just don't know was it right call. The other weird call was Semin's tripping penalty. That really sucked. For me it looked like he was really trying to avoid taking stupid penalties and then the Senator just dived.

Daniel fucking Alfredsson the 3rd star! In what planet??

Sidney Crosby is the hockey god? And good looking?? Geri Hall, I don't know who the fuck you are but you need to stop drinking/smoking.

Oh, one last thing. What the hell is touchdown, and how exactly Capitals almost got it? If those question don't make sense, I would like to know what the announcer had been smoking.

Say goodbye London

14 times Olympic winner, one of the most unbeatable athletes in the world, Micheal Phelps has been seen with cannabis pipe. Judging by the picture these two know each others and really enjoy spend time together...

Here's the whole story.

In a short recap, he went to University of South Carolina to visit his girlfriend and ended up getting wasted in a house party. And apparently this happened more than once.

If he's punished, it might save the swimming.
Why?
Because it's really freaking annoying to watch competitions if you already know the winner. Unless the winner is your favourite.

And because Ryan Lochte is so much hotter. More pictures of him, less pictures of Mr. dumbo ear party boy.

Remember this is the same guy who got caught drunken-driving. Asshole.

Down Under

tennisblog.com

The "dream final" came true in the Australian Open when both Nadal and Federer fought their ways to it. Nadal more than Federer but anyway.

The final was a battle of two best tennis players in the world. Nadal # 1 and seeking his first victory in Australian open, Federer " 2 and seeking his 14th Grand Slam victory.

Federer had had a lovely break since his semifinal was before Nadal's, Nadal had also a lot harder semifinal, a 5 set match against fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco.

In the final, Nadal won the first set 7-5, Federev the second 3-6, the third was again Nadal's with 7-6 win. Federev improved his play in the 4th set and won it 3-6 but then crashed in the 5th losing it 6-2 by making several unforced errors.

The loss was obviously very tough for the Swiss, he was barely able to keep a short speech and thank the audience for support before the emotions took over and he had to take a break.

Nadal had also some sort of problems with his speech, partly due to his still improving English and partly because he at least looked pretty stunned, like he couldn't believe he has just won. In his speech he said that Federev is one of the great champion and that he'll get that 14th Grand Slam victory. I think that shows what a great person he is and that despite the though battles these two truly respect each others.

With this win, Nadal became the firts Spaniard ever to win Australian Open.

All pictures from Sports Yahoo