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The first week of Free Agency is done and the landscape for next year’s NHL is starting to have a little more shape. I’m getting more and more excited about the 2009-10 campaign and Stanley Cup hopes for my beloved San Jose Sharks. To add to that excitement EA sports has posted their Game-play demo of NHL 2010. It looks like the programmers over at EA have stepped it up again. Great new features like:
-Board Control (keep that puck next to the board until your teammates can come help)
-First Person Fighting (need I say more on this? ouch! just make sure you don’t punch your TV)
-More realistic blocking of pucks with skaters hands, goalie saves and such
-More realistic crowds with booing, towel waving and more
and my personal favorite
-After the Whistle activities including white washing and roughing players up around the goalies

Watch the video and make sure to pick up your copy up for your favorite game system.

After hearing Lady Gaga sing accoustic a couple months back I really took a liking to the song. Now the question is who does it better? Chris Daughtry or Lady Gaga?
Chris:

Lady Gaga:

It’s become a pregame ritual for many of the members of Chicago Blackhawks to enjoy a pregame meal at Sushi Wabi in Chicago’s West Loop. Unfortunately, tragedy struck Saturday’s meal as all four left wingers for Chicago were injured in what some are calling the most gruesome chopstick accident of all time. Details are still being ironed out at this time, but it is believed that Ben Eager, Andrew Ladd, Patrick Sharp, and Kris Versteeg were all injured when one of the players chopsticks suddenly splintered injuring all around the epicenter of the accident. [Note: Earlier reports of Kris Versteeg singing with the chopstick just prior to the incident seem to be fabricated by witnesses.]

The events of the day would have been even more tragic had it not been for Coach Quenneville, Rocky Wirtz, and Dale Tallon’s quick thinking. With the teams entire offensive left side out for the vital Game 5 against Calgary they were in need of a miracle. The three headmen contacted Bobby Hull who was in the house expecting to be a spectator that evening. After a few minutes of contract disputes, the Blackhawks were able to agree on a one day contract with the Hall of Fame Left Winger.

No one could have expected what came next. The legendary winger stepped on the ice to become the oldest player in NHL history at a youthful 70 years of age. Riding the emotion and miraculous performance by The Golden Jet the Blackhawks were able to stand victorious 4-2 and take a 3-2 series lead. With only 17 seconds left Hull netted his second goal of the night in the Calagary net which had been vacated by Kiprusoff for an extra attacker only seconds before. Hull’s box score was as follows: 53 mins, 2G, 2A, 1- 5 minute fighting penalty, and 1 TKO.

The highlight of the night may have come when he circled off against the Flames’ Cammalleri who had garnered Hull’s attention with a cheap shot on Chicago’s Martin Havlat in Game 1 of the series. Jockeying for position at first the two ended up trading blow for blow until Cammalleri ducked into Hull’s Right Uppercut knocking Cammalleri unconsious. Cammalleri missed the remainder of the 3rd period and his status is unknown for the rest of the series.

When asked why he didn’t play for 1 minute in the first period and one in the second, Hull responded, “I was Tweeting updates to @NHLBlackhawks. If Oprah can do this whole twitter thing so can I.”

During the post game interview with Sarah Spain of Mouthpiece Sports all Bobby could say is “Are you still f@#%ing Steve Bartman?”

During this wondrous night for the first time since it’s construction the United Center’s rafters shuttered like the old Chicago Stadium. The crowd stood for the entire game not letting up even during intermissions and breaks. The once boisterous horn was but a quaint whisper on this night under the deafening roar as Chicago celebrated each goal. The whole night was that of biblical proportions and I’m sure all who were there to witness such greatness will continue to tell the story of the Golden Jet’s return for generations to come.

Staying consistent with team policies, specifics of the injuries are not being discussed with the media; however, all 4 players are expected to be available for Game 6 in Calgary on Tuesday.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Make sure to check out the artist at blublu.org

This is on my top 3 viral videos all time:

This is a personal favorite and a Classic way to start off a blog. Ironic, maybe…but most likely because I’m not feeling overly ispired right now. Sit back and enjoy