Two years ago I think people would have selected Sidney Crosby over Alexander Ovechkin. Now? Not even close. The passion with which Ovechkin plays hockey is infectious. And I think the people of Washington are beginning to realize how special of a player they have within there midst. This guy is going to be so awesome to watch during next year's Olympics.
Tonight's goal that he scored is AMAZING. I think I watched it about ten times. I defy you not to be amazed.
http://espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=290218023
The fact that I had to blog about it right now, gives you an idea how good it has to be.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The Mount Rushmore of Canucks
Matt Beimers left an interesting comment to my last post yesterday:
"We are streaking all the way to the playoffs. How about "10 Things I Love About Being a Canucks Fan" or your 10 Favorite Canucks or your 10 Favorite Canucks moments. The more Canucks-stuff, the better.
P.S. We told a story last week in the staff room about you sending a kid to the art room after an art teacher ranted about not sending kids to the art room. That was brilliant."
First, let's address the art room story. I felt really bad about that. But you know how there are times when you just are so tempted by something? I could not resist. I totally forgot about this incident. I purposely sent a student from my class to ask to borrow some paper from the art teacher after this teacher addressed the staff NOT to do so. So childish of me and the teacher was certainly not happy with me (nor the student). Again, I could not resist, but I definitely knew that I was going to get in trouble. Please do not follow suit in your own workplace.
As for talking about Canucks all the time? I cannot do that, because then I would feel like I am living in Team 1040 land permanently. If you mosey over to Matt Beimers' blog and look at the right side bar you will notice his top 5 Canucks of all time. His choices got me thinking.
The popular game out there right now is coming up with the Mount Rushmore of your favourite team. One of my favourite hockey writers, John Buccigross of ESPN, attempted to do this for all of the NHL teams. He came up with Pavel Bure, Trevor Linden, Stan Smyl, and Markus Naslund.
I would like to present to you my personal Canucks Mount Rushmore... remember that these are my choices and my Canucks attachment only goes back to the mid-80s (I vaguely remember the Stanley Cup run in 1982, because I was only 6 years old).
1) Trevor Linden: If you read my previous post about my favourite Canuck, then this needs no further explanation.
2) Pavel Bure: Up until he betrayed us, there was not a more exciting and breath-taking hockey player out there. Ovechkin matches the speed and excitement that Bure brought to the ice. What a goal scorer. I still remember how excited I was seeing him playing tennis at UBC.
3) Stan Smyl: I think you would be remiss not to include Steamer in the Mt. Rushmore pantheon, even though he wasn't my favourite player.
4) This last spot probably goes towards Kirk McLean. I can't decide between him or Markus Naslund, but that 1994 Cup run was the most memorable time for me as a Canuck fan, and his sliding save in overtime off Robert Reichel in Game 7 against Calgary has to be one of the defining plays of the Canucks franchise. Here's hoping that Luongo keeps playing well for many, many years with us, thus getting his face chiselled on Canucks Mt. Rushmore.
Hope that will satiate your Canucks appetite for now Beimers.
I would love to hear your Canucks Mt. Rushmore lineup.
"We are streaking all the way to the playoffs. How about "10 Things I Love About Being a Canucks Fan" or your 10 Favorite Canucks or your 10 Favorite Canucks moments. The more Canucks-stuff, the better.
P.S. We told a story last week in the staff room about you sending a kid to the art room after an art teacher ranted about not sending kids to the art room. That was brilliant."
First, let's address the art room story. I felt really bad about that. But you know how there are times when you just are so tempted by something? I could not resist. I totally forgot about this incident. I purposely sent a student from my class to ask to borrow some paper from the art teacher after this teacher addressed the staff NOT to do so. So childish of me and the teacher was certainly not happy with me (nor the student). Again, I could not resist, but I definitely knew that I was going to get in trouble. Please do not follow suit in your own workplace.
As for talking about Canucks all the time? I cannot do that, because then I would feel like I am living in Team 1040 land permanently. If you mosey over to Matt Beimers' blog and look at the right side bar you will notice his top 5 Canucks of all time. His choices got me thinking.
The popular game out there right now is coming up with the Mount Rushmore of your favourite team. One of my favourite hockey writers, John Buccigross of ESPN, attempted to do this for all of the NHL teams. He came up with Pavel Bure, Trevor Linden, Stan Smyl, and Markus Naslund.
I would like to present to you my personal Canucks Mount Rushmore... remember that these are my choices and my Canucks attachment only goes back to the mid-80s (I vaguely remember the Stanley Cup run in 1982, because I was only 6 years old).
1) Trevor Linden: If you read my previous post about my favourite Canuck, then this needs no further explanation.
2) Pavel Bure: Up until he betrayed us, there was not a more exciting and breath-taking hockey player out there. Ovechkin matches the speed and excitement that Bure brought to the ice. What a goal scorer. I still remember how excited I was seeing him playing tennis at UBC.
3) Stan Smyl: I think you would be remiss not to include Steamer in the Mt. Rushmore pantheon, even though he wasn't my favourite player.
4) This last spot probably goes towards Kirk McLean. I can't decide between him or Markus Naslund, but that 1994 Cup run was the most memorable time for me as a Canuck fan, and his sliding save in overtime off Robert Reichel in Game 7 against Calgary has to be one of the defining plays of the Canucks franchise. Here's hoping that Luongo keeps playing well for many, many years with us, thus getting his face chiselled on Canucks Mt. Rushmore.
Hope that will satiate your Canucks appetite for now Beimers.
I would love to hear your Canucks Mt. Rushmore lineup.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Random Things That I Like That You May Not
1) Manuka Honey
My mother who has always been cognizant of her children's health, always sends us some sort of new trend. Usually I am skeptical, but her latest gift was a jar of Manuka honey. This stuff is expensive for honey, but I guess because it supposedly has tons of benefits and it is from New Zealand. I often think these sort of health items contribute a placebo effect, like when I take tons of echinacea when I start feeling sick. So, you can click on the link above and read slanted advertisement espousing all of the benefits of Manuka honey, or you can just go by my personal testimony of this honey.
a) It tastes so fricking good that Winnie the Pooh would be crashing through your windows to get his grubby paws on your honey jar.
b) Twice this winter, I started getting sick with a sore throat and a cocktail of Manuka honey, Vitamin C pills, and echinacea meant I never got a full-blown sickness, unlike my dear wife.
Of course, all of my immunity could be attributed to the fact that I got a flu vaccine this year and she didn't. But hey I still love this honey.
2) Kreations Bakery
My friend, Bryan, tells me about all the good places to eat in Vancouver. He recommended this dessert bakery on Cambie Street (around 18th Street). They make cakes, but also sell small individual sizes. As part of Valentine's, I picked up a cheesecake and raspberry ganache. They are about $5 each and I must say, the cheesecake is divine. If you live in the neighbourhood, do not past go, do not collect $200 and go straight to Kreations.
Click the link above and I dare you not to drool all over your keyboard.
My mother who has always been cognizant of her children's health, always sends us some sort of new trend. Usually I am skeptical, but her latest gift was a jar of Manuka honey. This stuff is expensive for honey, but I guess because it supposedly has tons of benefits and it is from New Zealand. I often think these sort of health items contribute a placebo effect, like when I take tons of echinacea when I start feeling sick. So, you can click on the link above and read slanted advertisement espousing all of the benefits of Manuka honey, or you can just go by my personal testimony of this honey.
a) It tastes so fricking good that Winnie the Pooh would be crashing through your windows to get his grubby paws on your honey jar.
b) Twice this winter, I started getting sick with a sore throat and a cocktail of Manuka honey, Vitamin C pills, and echinacea meant I never got a full-blown sickness, unlike my dear wife.
Of course, all of my immunity could be attributed to the fact that I got a flu vaccine this year and she didn't. But hey I still love this honey.
2) Kreations Bakery
My friend, Bryan, tells me about all the good places to eat in Vancouver. He recommended this dessert bakery on Cambie Street (around 18th Street). They make cakes, but also sell small individual sizes. As part of Valentine's, I picked up a cheesecake and raspberry ganache. They are about $5 each and I must say, the cheesecake is divine. If you live in the neighbourhood, do not past go, do not collect $200 and go straight to Kreations.
Click the link above and I dare you not to drool all over your keyboard.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Random Things That I Like That You May Not
I thought I would share some random quick hit thoughts in order to try to blog more. I am still writing a post about my fav 2009 movies, but at the rate I am going, I may have to start to write about 2010 movies.
1) House of Dosa: This Indian Restaurant makes these crepe-like wraps filled with what you want (ie lamb vindaloo). It is on the corner of Kingsway and Knight? (1391 Kingsway). Not the most amazing food, but something different to try out and on Monday nights everything is half-price.
2) For some reason I get annoyed by slamming cupboards. I bought a couple of these Blumotion hinges from Home Depot for about $8 each. Once installed, it acts as an air buffer that makes the cupboards close slowly. I find it utterly fascinating and unnecessary. I think I try to slam my cupboards over and over every day to watch the cupboards somehow not slam every time. Beautiful.
OK, how was that for some randomness?
Go Canucks go! Who would have thought that Alex Burrows would be the perfect fit for the twins? I went to the Montreal game and it was the best regular season game I have seen in years.
1) House of Dosa: This Indian Restaurant makes these crepe-like wraps filled with what you want (ie lamb vindaloo). It is on the corner of Kingsway and Knight? (1391 Kingsway). Not the most amazing food, but something different to try out and on Monday nights everything is half-price.
2) For some reason I get annoyed by slamming cupboards. I bought a couple of these Blumotion hinges from Home Depot for about $8 each. Once installed, it acts as an air buffer that makes the cupboards close slowly. I find it utterly fascinating and unnecessary. I think I try to slam my cupboards over and over every day to watch the cupboards somehow not slam every time. Beautiful.
OK, how was that for some randomness?
Go Canucks go! Who would have thought that Alex Burrows would be the perfect fit for the twins? I went to the Montreal game and it was the best regular season game I have seen in years.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Time flies... let's try something new.
I think in order to maintain a blog, I need to have no job. I find that real life constantly interferes with my hopes of writing nonsensical things on this blog. This blog laziness makes me almost feel guilty, except that allowing for reality to be a higher priority than this blog is an OK thing.
Which explains my total lack of continuing my 2008 year in review. It is now February 2009.
Bravo.
So, I hope to post something monthly that will share something new or something that I like.
So the Twitter thing has been gaining lots of momentum over the last year and when I first read about it, I was reluctant. But I thought I might as well try it out. If you want a way to communicate to a social network that is better than text-messaging and even instant messaging, open up your account here. It is one of those useless but kinda cool technology things. If you have an iphone, it makes for even more fun.
So gather a group of your friends, sign up on Twitter and start sending the tweets to each other. See how it works for you.
My twitter for this blog will be: icecreamspinach
Bye. Come back in a year to read my next post.
Which explains my total lack of continuing my 2008 year in review. It is now February 2009.
Bravo.
So, I hope to post something monthly that will share something new or something that I like.
So the Twitter thing has been gaining lots of momentum over the last year and when I first read about it, I was reluctant. But I thought I might as well try it out. If you want a way to communicate to a social network that is better than text-messaging and even instant messaging, open up your account here. It is one of those useless but kinda cool technology things. If you have an iphone, it makes for even more fun.
So gather a group of your friends, sign up on Twitter and start sending the tweets to each other. See how it works for you.
My twitter for this blog will be: icecreamspinach
Bye. Come back in a year to read my next post.
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