And so it ends…
In 30 short minutes the puck will drop in Vancouver, and what is surely to be a finals for the ages will begin. I’m simply too excited to write any sort of an introduction, let’s get this started!!!
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Stanley Cup Finals Predictions
Wednesday, June 1st, 20112nd Round Playoff Predictions
Thursday, April 28th, 2011After one of the most memorable and interesting 1st rounds in recent memory, we are now ready to move on. In many ways the first round was a bit of a Bizzaro World for the hockey world. The Best Team in the League goes out to a 3-0 series lead, and somehow becomes the underdog, Nashville makes the second round, Boston beats Montreal, and the two most clutch teams are San Jose and Washington. Really, Detroit beating Phoenix and Philly having goaltending troubles are the only things that seem “right”.
In the past two years the 2nd Round have featured the Crosby-Ovechkin showdown, and the Greatest Collapse in Sporting History. Hopefully this year can live up to that kind of billing.
First Round Playoffs Thoughts
Thursday, April 14th, 2011It’s that time of a year again, the super exciting beginning of the NHL Playoffs. My two friends and I are going to try and make a stab and predicting these mess…
Glen and Troy’s All-Star Draft – Part III
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Well a solid two weeks after the real draft, here we are again with the finale of our fantasy draft. After 22 picks our teams looked like this:
Troy:
F – Crosby, D. Sedin, E. Staal, Perry, Duchene, Sharp
D – Lidstrom, Green, Weber
G- Price, Ward
Glen:
F – Stamkos, Ovechkin, H. Sedin, St. Louis, B. Richards, Kesler
D – Byfuglien, Letang, Enstrom, Boyle,
G – Thomas
Apologies for the delay, but I was in holidays in Bali and Troy was moving to Afghanistan. Yeah you read that right.
…and with Pick number 23 Troy takes…
Glen and Troy’s All-Star Draft – Part II
Friday, January 28th, 2011With the real draft coming in a few hours it’s time for Troy and I to continue our All-Star Fantasy Draft. For the record, we are sticking with the original rosters, and not taking any of the injury replacements into account.
Where we left off last time the teams looked like this:
Troy:
F – Crosby, D. Sedin, E. Staal
D – Lidstrom
G- Price
Glen:
F – Stamkos, Ovechkin, H. Sedin
D – Byfuglien
G – Thomas
And now stepping up to the podium for Pick #11 is Troy…
Glen And Troy’s All-Star Draft – Part I
Thursday, January 20th, 2011It’s January, so that must mean that it’s time for another Hockey Draft between me and my hetero-life-mate Troy. With the change in the format for the All-Star Game, we thought we would have a little fun and make some picks, since you know everyone else is doing it.
Our format will be similar to the one done on TSN. It is independent of the captains and alternates that will be named before the draft takes place. As a result, we will need to have the goalies drafted by Round 13 (Pick 26) as opposed to Round 10, and D-men taken by Round 18 (Pick 36) as opposed to Round 15. This will be posted in installments, and well here are the first ten picks…
Since I’m such a gracious host on the internet, I’ve given the first pick to Troy, and if you need to wonder who it will be you should probably buy this book.
Nerdy Little Secrets
Friday, July 16th, 2010While this blog has been dedicated to The Nerdy Things in Life, I feel that I haven’t really used this space to honestly and truly geek out. That changes here and now.
A little while ago I touched base with an old friend, Brian. He recently started a blog called The City State of Balic (which you can see a link from to you right if you look for it) which is primarily dedicated to the nerdiest of nerdy endeavors, Dungeons & Dragons. He sent me an e-mail a little over a week ago with an idea. He and I would join together and make a D&D setting, each taking part time responsibility for things. So far it has been really fun reconnected with that nerdy side of my life, and an old friend. While we are still in the draft stages, the setting got off to a good start. We both included some “creative” sections to lay a bit of the land for our planet which I’ll include here…
Stanley Cup Final Predictions
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Welcome back to our Predictacular! The third round seems to have ended as quickly as it begins, lasting only one game longer than the minimum. Now we are faced with a very intriguing Stanley Cup final between the two teams that finished near the bottom of the league just three short seasons ago. Oddly for two traditional hockey cities, this is only the second time that they have faced in the playoffs, with the Hawks getting a sweep back in 1971. Will history repeat itself a mere 39 years after the fact? Here’s what our supposed experts have to say.
