It is the start of 2012. The new year is all soft and fresh. The time for resolutions. Promises to one’s self for the upcoming 12 months. I choose not to make resolutions because I know I will only fail in keeping them and then slip further into depression and angst towards myself. However, I will try to hold true to one.
Blogging.
Partly because I feel I should, and partly because my boss said I’ll need a meeting with HR if I don’t doing so with more regularity. So here we go.
- Russia 6 Canada 5. A heartbreaking loss, that kinda felt like a win if you try hard enough. Canada won’t play in the gold medal game and we’ll never know how crazy the Saddledome and the city would have gotten, but I think we got a quick glimpse. As Canada chipped away at the Russian lead, the emotions and electricity escalated. By the time the hosts made it a 6-5 game, it was bonkers. On one hand, it was fascinating to see the crowd celebrate and lose it’s collective composure. But, we lost. Yea, there is that. I’m disappointed to be unable to see what the gold medal atmosphere would have been like with Canada involved. I hope fans will still come out for the bronze medal game and cheer loudly. It won’t be the same, but it still matters.
It’s been a long time since hockey fans in Calgary have been able to lose themselves in celebration, but for about ten minutes it was like 2004 all over again. I was happy for fans to be able to go off. Kinda felt bad in a way that they haven’t had that kind of release since…well, basically 2004. Sports is fun. Winning, or the pursuit of it is fantastic. Hockey fans showed that they are ready to take to 17th Ave again. They just need the reason.
- I think Kevin Glenn is a great addition for the Stampeders. If the team is committed to giving the ball to Drew Tate and moving on from Henry Burris, which clearly they are it seems to me that Glenn would be a great guy to have on board. I was surprised to hear that he is only 32 years of age, based on the fact he’s played in the league for 12 years. He can still play if they need him. Tate looks poised to be the guy and never look back. But if he isn’t, the Stamps could do a lot worse than giving the ball to Glenn. Plus, it saves the Stampeders from the potentially awkward scenario of having to simply release Burris for nothing. Hamilton gets the guy they wanted, the Stamps get a useful piece, and it looks as good optically as it could for a club bidding adieu to it’s franchise player.
- Rene Bourque. What are you doing? I wasn’t sure you should have been suspended for the hit you laid on Brent Seabrook, but you got two games. Then against Washington you hang out your elbow and clock Nicklas Backstrom? Dumb. I know athletes make a lot of cash, but it’s likely going to be about 75 thousand dollars in lost wages in the last month.
- Thanks to HBO’s 24/7 I can’t get Mac Miller’s “Knock Knock” out of my head. Awesome.
- Watching Alexander Ovechkin find his game makes me long for Sidney Crosby. It didn’t get much better than when these two guys were on top of the scoring chase and trying to out do each other. I’m worried about Sid.
I think that’s a good start. Or at least a start.
