"So I tell Carkner, Oh yeah?
Well you don't even know
the basic principle behind
quantum mechanics!"
Only 56 days until the season opener, but who's counting? Probably not the players listed below, because they're too preoccupied catching up on those books they've been wanting to read. Here's the reading list for some of your favorite NHL players and teams from this summer...
Martin St. Louis - The Little Engine that Could
Kyle Wellwood - The Hunger Games, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Who Moved My Cheese?
Brad Richards - Great Expectations
Nikolai Zherdev - The Giving Tree
Vancouver Canucks - A Series of Unfortunate Events
Well it's August, quite possibly the most boring time of the year for hockey fans. I've run out of comedic material so I'm just going to compile a list of the top clean hits from the 2010-2011 NHL season (although I guess some of these could be considered comedic anyways). Let me know if you agree with the rankings / if you disagree with the rankings / if you think I'm missing any big ones / if you enjoy long walks on the beach ... in the comments section below:
11. Marc Staalon Wellwood (Honorable Mention) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc4K_gl5ICU#t=00m03s
This hit is impressive when you consider the fact that Wellwood has at least an 100-pound advantage on Staal.
9. Ovechkin on Subban http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fp_Hg9z2rc
Would've been ranked higher, but it wasn't really a hit as much as it was Subban trying to play leap frog.
8. Ballard on Miller (Vancouver Hipcheck #3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqPLIhykXA
At first glance there doesn't appear to be much here, but then you realize it's an open ice hip check. Miller can clearly see Ballard, the boards aren't there to use as leverage, and Ballard still up-ends him.
7. Hamhuis on Murray (Vancouver Hipcheck #2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q599OC7UM-4&feature=related
Douglas Murray is listed as 6'3", 240 lbs. Just sayin'. It should be noted now that this wasn't even Vancouver's best hipcheck of the year.
4. Ballard on McGinn (Vancouver Hipcheck #1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhrtvlVlVJQ
Topping the Vancouver hipcheck rankings. From the crowd's reaction you'd think the game was in Vancouver.
Still not sure what I am...
Whale? Lizard? Pedofile?
Welcome to the Pucky the Whale Wolf (PTW) blog. Just a quick notice: although the header says this is a New York Rangers blog, I'll try to cover hockey-related news in general.
For those of you familiar wtih the Down Goes Brown blog, his website inspired me to do this. Of course PTW will never come close to reaching the same caliber of writing, but I'll try my best (If anyone is actually reading this, is a hockey a fan, and has never heard of Down Goes Brown: first - slap yourself in the face, and then go visit his blog in the link above).
For any NYR fans: you may be familiar with the Rangers Report. They will also probably influence my writing style. It's run by two very knowledgeable hockey writers, who take a humorous approach to reporting Rangers updates (they replace swear words with phrases like "What a piece of Carcillo" or "What the Byfuglien was he thinking?" - so expect something similar, because as my closest friends will tell you, I don't like to swear. Or lie. And I'm also never sarcastic.)
Well, that just about wraps up this quick little introduction. I'm eager to see what happens with the rest of the offseason. As of now Slats hasn't signed Cally, Boyle, Sauer, Ani, and Super Mario (Dubi - I'll explain this one in a later post). Still unsure about how the Richards signing will pay off, shocker I know, but for some reason I feel blindly optimistic that it will work out perfectly. It's not like the Rangers highly-paid free agent signings have ALL gone terribly in the past. Oh...
