Doubt Sweater Ted will see the note.  Too busy reading all the comments readers have left on his blog entries.

Thanks Napolean. Ass.

“Sweater Ted?”

TGIF!  Thought I would share the joy of Friday with the “A 2 Y”, courtesy of KHAN!:

Wings general manager Ken Holland said this afternoon that forward Johan Franzen (concussion-like symptoms) won’t play in Game 5 against Dallas Saturday afternoon. Franzen has been cleared for light workouts but won’t practice with the team when it returns to the ice on Friday. He hasn’t skated in a week and needs a couple of practices before he can play. And that won’t happen until after his headaches go away.

“I saw him today, he’s still got headaches,’’ Holland said.

Holland said Franzen had another MRI Thursday, so doctors could compare the results of his previous MRI on Monday. No results were in yet.

I swear the Red Wings medical staff must be inept, it takes them forever to get results of tests—that, or maybe (and I hate to be the one to shine the light on the painfully obvious) Holland doesn’t feel compelled to share what he knows.

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Almost totally off the subject, but in good fun because it is Friday, and thanks to Gary there is no game *tonite*; how bout this line from “The Wrath of KHAN!; it almost perfectly describes the Digger’s lemming mentality:

Kirk: Khan, you bloodsucker. You’re gonna have to do your own dirty work now, do you hear me? Do you?

Oh man, now I regret looking for that.  Sweater Ted, and his link to Nation of Islam Sports Blog...Whomever said the web was full of porn was wrong.  It’s full of self-regarding po-mo smarmily detached irony.

Coupled with the Google ad that’s come up in the comments section ("Adult Hockey Camp Anaheim: For adult recreational players.  Guaranteed to elevate your game!  http://www.WeekendWarriorsHockey.com-- I don’t even want to THINK about what ‘Adult Hockey’ means, though I suspect it’s related to Butt Darts), I think I going to technicolor yodel at any moment…

Y’all do realize the game is tomorrow afternoon, right?

Oops! No coffee yet! Disregard.

Y’all do realize the game is tomorrow afternoon, right?

Can “Y’all” read Chantel?

From Iwo’s post:

Conference Finals hockey at 1:30 on a Saturday afternoon?

My apologies as well

You know the great thing about living out West is you get the same great playoff hockey at 10:30 AM! Cheerios and Hockey, it’s like it was meant to be....ASS

After reading Jenny Pooh’s blather on the KK page, I’m sure let down it’s not tonight. I won’t even get started on anything in that “column”....
But the afternoon game will provide me with a break from the fun of a few hours with a post hole dogger, mixing ceeeement & setting fence posts all day tomorrow.

1:30? Really? Wow, that is gay.
Hey Osrt, I sponsored Dan Cleary on hockey reference and quoted you, is that okay? http://www.hockey-reference.com/players/c/clearda01.html

Maybe he’s a Anthony Michael Hall fanboy and meant Farmer Ted.

That’s a good quote for Dan Cleary.

I got Lidstrom (my favorite) and Brian Engblom.  Anybody have any ideas for a line for Brian Engblom?  My effort was just to have something there as a place filler, but I’m open to suggestions. 

Yeah I know 1:30 in the afternoon is a crappy time for a game, but guess what? The Wings were dominant in weekend afternoon games all of last year’s playoffs (until that flukey Niedermayer goal which sent that awful Game 5 into OT), and they’ve won each afternoon game so far this year. So that’s one advantage for the Wings. But then again the Stars aren’t a West Coast team, so maybe the afternoon time slot won’t affect them as much…

Aaron, you mean Cheerios, Budwiser and Hockey don’t you?  Man these playoffs is killin’ me…

scheisskopf:

I don’t remember writing that at all, but of course it’s ok.

Baroque,

“Brain Engblom: Warrior, Poet, Mullet.”

Ah...sarcasm. It does a morning good.

In an unrelated note, I had a broadcast on location the other night so I asked the bar manager to turn on the Wings game for me. (Keep in mind, this is Atlanta, not exactly a bastion of hockey despite--or in spite of--the Thrashers) They turned it on for me, I mentioned it on the air, and in about 15 minutes I saw people with Wings jerseys coming through the door. They had heard my broadcast and that I had the game on and came to watch it. It was a damn good moment.

1:30 = 11:30 here.  Ack.  TOO EARLY!  I can’t drink vodka at 11:30 in the morning.  Well...then again....

Hockeychic,
Ah, can ya say bloody mary? LOL

No Canoe tomorrow, by the way.  He’s at the World Championships. 

Bill Patrick will work the studio with Milbury.

No Canoe tomorrow, by the way.  He’s at the World Championships. 

Bill Patrick will work the studio with Milbury.

No canoe? :( Break my <3 why don’t you.

oh man!  only $10!

http://www.hockey-reference.com/coaches/mcguipi99c.html

LOL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyaQ_sr1hI

Do it, Paul!  Do it!

They’re hockey people - I’m sure they will only use the money for good purposes.

It cracks me up seeing who has sponsored whom - Pension Plan Puppets (Toronto Maple Leafs) has ownership of Carey Price and Daniel Alfredsson, but they couldn’t get Jaroslav Halak before the Four Habs Fans grabbed him!

hey Chief, can I register the Douche as A2Y?  how about putting up a blog post asking people for ideas on what my sponsorship should say?

Ah, can ya say bloody mary? LOL

Chic, I used to be a mixologist, and I can say with all expertise: he’s right.  That or a Bloody Caessr.  Of course, if you want an unconventional vodka-based cocktail, give me an hour or two…

http://www.hockey-reference.com/players/p/prongch01.html

Baroque, did you change your name to Y! Sports Hockey Blog?

Come on, own up somebody…

Not me.  I think it was George Wyshinski - I read somewhere in the ether that he was looking for better suggestions for the line.

(If it was me, it would read something like: Chris Pronger, author of the national bestseller “Physics for Dummies: the Differential Height Effect.")

Apparently, stupidity in scheduling isn’t an exclusive talent of the NHL.  The Spurs-Hornets (that’s basketball, the sport with two hoops, a big round ball, and players intent on impregnating as many of your daughters as possible) played their game 6 last nite(sic), a Thursday.  The crucial, pivotal Game 7 is scheduled for...Monday.  Imagine if the Pens-Flyers had to wait until Monday for Game 5.

hey Chief, can I register the Douche as A2Y?  how about putting up a blog post asking people for ideas on what my sponsorship should say?

Paul, I trust you. Make it happen. I’ve followed this conversation a bit over email but honestly have no frigging clue what you guys are talking about. I haven’t been to that hockey reference site.

Apparently, stupidity in scheduling isn’t an exclusive talent of the NHL.  The Spurs-Hornets (that’s basketball, the sport with two hoops, a big round ball, and players intent on impregnating as many of your daughters as possible) played their game 6 last nite(sic), a Thursday.  The crucial, pivotal Game 7 is scheduled for...Monday.  Imagine if the Pens-Flyers had to wait until Monday for Game 5.
Posted by Matt from Chicago on 05/16 at 01:17 PM

Well, there is that incredibly long distance between San Antonio and New Orleans. Maybe the players are walking. 

Oops...Greg Wyshinski sponsors Chris Pronger.

Here’s his blog post: http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/nhl_experts/post/Reminder-The-Chris-Pronger-tribute-contest-cont?urn=nhl,82221

Chief - It’s a dastardly plan to get hockey fans to spend money.  For just a few bucks you can sponsor any available team or player page (more for HOF players, of course) and toss any line you want (within reason) on it and link to a blog, or just write something on it.

The Yzerman page is dedicated to a fan’s father, for example, and Ms. Hammond at Behind the Jersey has nabbed Zetterberg and Kronwall (of course).  I think she got Franzen, too.

Some of the pages are only $10 for a year’s sponsorship.

mike,
cheerios + beer.... beerios! I like it.

Yeah, Cleary was 10 bucks for the year. Osrt, you said that way back when he got his jaw knocked in - it stuck in my kopf

hockeychic - go for the vodka, like my baseball coach used to say “it’s 10 a.m. somewhere”

O-Joe LMAO, classic 16 candles.  Love those bad movies.  That dude and Molly Ringwold peaked early in their lives.  After Breakfast Club it was all over.

With all due respect to Dan Cleary (he’s been one of my favourite Wings for the past two years), right now I wouldn’t mind replacing him with a guy who scored 9 goals in a 4 game series with a concussion.

Most teams want to win a series as quickly as possible so they can get healthy.  But to do that now, the Wings need to extend this one.  I’m consoled by the fact that losing game 4--in large part because Franzen was out--means one more game in the finals that Franzen will/may be able to play.

Is the address of the league office more secret than Gary’s actual height?
Anybody got the address?

not sure if this is accurate…

http://www.hoovers.com/NHL/--ID__42179,target__headquarters--/free-co-samples-index.xhtml?cm_ven=PAID&cm_cat=GGL&cm_pla=CHQ&cm_ite=nhl_headquarters

Planning on lurking outside in the bushes so you can ambush the Commish with a swift kick to the nads?

Or planning on picketing/demonstrating?

same address listed here, along with the rest of the teams:

http://sjsharkie.dagnabit.org/addresses/nhl.html

paid my $10.  not sure if they’ll approve my message, though...as it (of course) includes the phrase “The Douche Canoe"…

Planning on lurking outside in the bushes so you can ambush the Commish with a swift kick to the nads?

The bushes of 6th avenue?  Picturing that cracks me up as it would look absurdly antisocial, A2Y style.

Sort of reminds me of Borat taking a dump midday in the exterior gardens of the Trump tower.

The Douche Canoe is out doing the international ice hockey tournament, I believe.  The contest extends to that tournament too, get the sign behind Douchey’s head and you win the tickets.

I’ll be at JLA, trying not to get kicked out by screaming too much.  All good, clean fun but I suppose the security guards at the Joe have not met that many Canadian hockey fanatics.

Listen for me on TV, I’ll be the one shouting all night.

‘Cause that’s how I roll, mofos.

getting kicked out for yelling at a hockey game? do they kick people out for wearing polo shirts at golf tournaments?

ps, someone needs to sponsor dan cloutier’s hockey reference page with a link to lidstrom’s goal!

Paul:

You can always just go with D.C.  We all know what it means. 

well, they rejected it based on profanity, so I toned it down a bit...we’ll see.

Try “Dou Che’ Kanoe’”. 

Toss in an umlaut to throw em off.

Tell them it’s foreign and they wouldn’t understand it.

Alright my insomnia has worn out, and I retire before the early road trip to Motown.  With a long weekend in Canuckland going on, we have to leave bright and early not to hit a border SNAFU.

Last time at JLA (Nashville game 1) I was recovering from pneumonia and lost my voice from shouting.  This time I feel perfectly fine and will lose my voice from shouting.

If we clinch my head will explode.  Cart me over to Windsor where I can get free health care if there is enough of me left to salvage.

Is the address of the league office more secret than Gary’s actual height?
Anybody got the address?

Excellent!  Come join me!

If you could bring that pizza that I keep being promised, that’d be even better.  Oh, and bring your own ammunition-- I, like the Wings, am making every bullet count.