This weekend was the NHL All Star break. Saturday was the Skills competition (My favorite part of the All Star Weekend) and Young Star game. Last night was the All Star game, which unfortunately ended with the East winning 8-7. Eric Staal won the MVP, despite Nash's record setting hat trick (He scored the first goal only 12 seconds after the puck drop). It was a great game, no fights, no unnecessary hits, no biased refs - just fast paced, skilled hockey.
While it would have been amazing to be at the game, I think watching it on TV was more fun. During the game they had the goalies on a headset during the game. The announcers were joking and talking to the various goalies during play. Mannie Legace was a crack up. He would joke with the announcers even when the puck was right in front of him (and still did well I might add). It's really too bad normal hockey isn't like this, the players were obviously having fun. At one point Legace made a lucky save and laid on his back in relief - leaving the net wide open for another shot. Fortunately the shooter (can't remember who) hit him in the side instead of the net. You could see smiles and jokes all over the ice. All examples of the fun they were having, which made it entertaining for the fans too.
So I'm sad to see the All Star game over, but also glad to be back to the regular season, Go Avs!
Oh, and Coach Q, can you please put Budaj in occasionally?
Monday, January 28, 2008
Get Your Game on - Go play!
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Here was my favorite moment from the all star game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsJ19sy3JI
You're the first bad man!
I thought it would be better to show you than to tell you what that was.
Isn't it silly that not only did someone come up with doing that, enough people did it that there is a term for it. The internet is still sometimes fun.
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