My Hockey Sh!t List
My Hockey Sh!t List Anyone who knows me knows that I’m one of those hockey junkies that needs it to live, like blood, or oxygen. I have some great loves in hockey and some all-time favorites; Gretzky will always be my favorite player ever. The Detroit Red Wings will always be my favorite team. I’m totally immersed in the return and rebirth of our own Winnipeg Jets. But, as I have some great favorites, I have some things in hockey that I depise with as much passion as the things I really love …continue reading
GO JETS GO!
FINALLY…. I HAVE GONE BACK… TO AN NHL GAME! It’s been 16 years since I’ve last seen a live, regular season NHL game. Sure, I went to one of the exhibition games when the Phoenix Coyotes played the Edmonton Oilers here in town a few years ago, but that was exhibition. Not since October 15, 1995, when the Detroit Red Wings came to down and played to a 5-5 OT draw had I seen a regular season game. Tonight, November 17th, 2011, that all changed. The Winnipeg Jets made their return to the …continue reading
Changing My Tune
When it comes to sports, and especially hockey, I’ve always been pretty opinionated. I’ve followed the NHL as far back as I can possibly remember. I used to have hockey cards pinned up on the kitchen wall. I used to know the name of every player in the league, what team they played on, and their stats for the last several years. As a hockey fan, I’ve always been a Wayne Gretzky, Detroit Red Wings, and Edmonton Oilers fan. Maybe you’ve heard the buzz around Winnipeg lately, you might have figured …continue reading
Me? On iTunes? You Bet!
Alright everyone, I need to make an announcement. *stands up and addresses the crowd* My name is Jarret, and I’m a pro wrestling fan. I have been for an awful long time. I watch wrestling on television. I’ve participated in fantasy wrestling federations where we role-play as wrestling characters and developed our own wrestling tv shows. I’ve been to many live professional wrestling events, and for a while, I wanted to BE a pro wrestler, and even started training to do just that. <begin …continue reading
Life In The Center of The Universe
Or, “Our Quick Excursion to Toronto”. I used the phrase “Center of the Universe” to describe Toronto because that’s the way most of us in the West of this great country feel about Toronto; they get everything, the government caters to them, we’ve been assaulted with FAR too many Maple Leaf games on CBC… everything in this country seems to revolve around Toronto, or at least, that’s the way it feels sometimes. Didn’t feel like that when we traveled there, though. Stephanie and I went to …continue reading
Practice makes perfect…
Or in this case, a lot of practice makes you a bit better. Nah… just some fun video of my puppies (and Stephanie) navigating the agility course. Enjoy! …continue reading
Here We Go Around…
Run, run around, yeah… Ah, good old Van Halen. But that’s not what I’m talking about today. I use the “around” word literally here. For those of you that know our dog, Kira, you know that she likes to run around in circles when she gets excited. You know, like she’s herding something. We long thought Kira had herding instinct in here. When she was younger, she used to circle around Cola in the backyard and lie down in the grass, waiting for her moment to spring forward. Or, she’d …continue reading
Greatest Jerome Iginla Song EVAR
I was going to entitle this "The Greatest Thing Ever", but then I’d have to keep reusing that title as the next awesome thing I’d find on the internet would become the Greatest Thing Ever, and you, my faithful blog reader, deserve a little more variety in my post titles than that. Anyhoo… my buddy Ryan posted this on his Facebook, and this indeed rivals the Ukranian Katy Perry polka. I’m not the biggest Flames fan ever, but I DO like Jerome Iginla, which makes this video all the more …continue reading
Dinner With The Great One
What’s with me and misleading post titles lately? No, I didn’t have dinner with The Rock – although that would be incredibly freaking cool. Nor did I actually have dinner with Wayne Gretzky – I’d probably faint before I ever even touched my fork – but it sure felt like I did when I got to go to Wayne Gretzky’s restaurant (clicky) in Toronto last week while I was on course for work. All pictures can be clicked on for a bigger version. We roll up to the restuarant, and they have a tremendous sign …continue reading
Not In The Cards
Subtitled: Nice Guys Sometimes DO Finish FirstWell, I guess it just wasn’t meant to be. Our Oilers fell to the Hurricanes last night, and there went the Stanley Cup along with it.Buck up, boys. You were an 8th seeded team that took one of the best teams in the league to seven games. Come on back and do it all again next year.In my last post, I talked a little about traffic in Winnipeg. Today, let me talk about the assholes.So, I’m driving home yesterday, and I need to change lanes due to some heavy …continue reading