How can there seriously only be 6 days left until the Granddaddy of them all, Wrestlemania 27? I don’t know about all of you, but I’m getting rather jazzed for the event. I don’t know if it’s the excitement of seeing the Rock back on stage, the intrigue of The Miz and Alberto Del Rio breaking through, or maybe just the sick pleasure in watching Snooki fight a match.
For my first of 4-5 posts on the event, I’m going to harken back to a post from a year ago when I listed my ultimate Dream Card.
…and now we’ve reached a critical mass of nerdiness.
After Troy and I did our nerdy hockey fantasy draft, I was a little intrigued. How did it stack up to the real one? Who took more Canadian (or American) players? Did either of us tend to go towards our favourite or least favourite teams?
So combining my two greatest loves: hockey and math we get the following breakdown.
Well 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…
With 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…
It’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.
This year is a mere 10 days old, but already a great deal has happened, from the Collapse of the Canadian Juniors, a Wild Wildcard Weekend, fears of an election in Canada, a referendum to change the map, and of course an assassination attempt.
What else will this year bring? Well allow me to check my Crystal Ball…
Artists Rendering
After the blast that was sepatakraw and field hockey, I knew that I needed more. The games were only around for two weeks, and when else would I get the chance? I mean, I don’t exactly have plans to move to London for 2012, or Rio for 2016. So I set out for more tickets, unavailability be damned!
After trips all over the metropolis, I decided to settle close to home. I knew that there was a football match at the Tianhe Sports Centre, a short walk away from my house. I had heard that most soccer tickets were pretty easy to get, unless China was playing of course. Just to prepare myself for the game, and to decide on a teach to cheer for, I checked out who was playing.
It was the Women’s Semi-final. Korea vs. Korea.
Asian Games: Coming to a Super Nova Near You!
Note: I know things have been quiet/boring on this front…my apologies as usual. Here is a post from Lost Laowai that I just made about my trip to the Guangzhou Asian Games…enjoy!!!!
The 16th Asiad is winding down here in Guangzhou. I’ll be honest, first I was excited about the event, then angry at all the construction, then angrier that I couldn’t get tickets, then excited again, then confused, then hungry, and finally back to excited. Now I find myself sad that they will be ending soon, and plotting my trip to Korea for the 2014 version of the event! I was lucky enough to take in six and a half events over the past two weeks,.
For all the issues they had planning, and running this event. I can say from my own experiences as a spectator, it was fantastic, and the city and country should be pretty darned proud.
What experiences you ask? Well just read on to find out!
The big news in the hockey world this week has most certainly been the changes made to the NHL All-Star game. They have done away with the old East vs. West format, or the failed North America vs. The World experiment, and instead gone to a much different idea.
Today, I’m going to look at this propsed change, but also a few other ideas that could work to make the mid-season shinny game a bit more exciting.
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