Cast of "A Particular Class of Women" closing night at the Presentation House in North Vancouver. Hello Beloved Hockey Fans! How is everyone? I know I have been MIA from the hockey world for the last month or so but I have a really really good excuse…… I had been cast as Marky in Janet Feindel's play "A Particular Class of Women" a production put on by Vancouver's up and coming ALL women theatre company Never You Mind Productions. It was one of the best experiences thus far in my life. For 6 weeks we packed theatres all over Metro Vancouver. Now that I have rested, I am back, but wow, pump. the. brakes…… a few weeks away from hockey and my my my how things have changed! I could write for days about NHL hockey but I thought the most efficient way to let you ladies (and men) know the important stuff, was if I did the old bullet point technique.
The 2014 GOLD medal winning Canadian Men's Hockey team posing post win in Sochi, Russia! 1) Canada WON GOLD at the 2014 Olympics! I had a show Saturday night and a matinee on the Sunday so I was in no place to stay up all night to watch the game. I was however woken up at about 7:00am pacific standard time to car horns, cow bells and cheering as Canada beat Sweden 3-0! Jonathan Toews, Sidney Crosby and Chris Kunitz all lit up the score board during the game while Carey Price made 24 saves. I heard a lot of my fellow Canadians talking about the game but possibly the best story about this game was a friend of mine who is currently living in Whistler. He is from Germany and came down to Vancouver for the weekend. His bus back to Whistler was 8:00am Sunday. As he made his way to the bus depot in downtown Vancouver early Sunday morning he said he could hear screaming, and all of a sudden cow bells and cheering all over the city, Canada had just won gold and my German friend got to experience what Canada's game is all about. Needless to say when he told me the story I got goosebumps.
The comeback kids….. the Canadian Women won GOLD again! With a beauty of an OT goal! 2) Shortly before the Canadian Men won gold the Women did. In what was arguably the best hockey game of the 2014 Sochi Olympics! For the 5th time in Olympic history (keep in mind this is the 5th time Women's hockey has been in the Olympics, it was only introduced in 1998) Team Canada and Team USA met up in the Gold medal game. For most of the game it looked like Team USA was going to win for the first time since 1998 with a 2 goal lead for most of the game. Canada mounted an epic comeback late in the 3rd period. With 3 and 1/2 minutes left in the 3rd Brianne Jenner scored to make it 2-1, then with less then a minute left and an empty Canadian net it was a tie game, with Marie-Philip Poulin netting the equalizing goal. Then Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin scored again, the winner in overtime and Canada got to cheer as loud as they could. For the next few days everybody and I mean everybody was talking about this game. Congrats Team Canada!
3) Before the NHL deadline came the Buffalo Sabres and St. Louis Blues made headlines when they swapped goalies! Ryan Miller, one of the most popular faces of the Buffalo organization, was traded to St. Louis for Jaroslav Halak. St. Louis also got gritty Steve Ott while Buffao got Chris Stewart and a few other players. But don't get to comfortable….. Halak had just enough time to enjoy a cup of coffee before he was sent to the Washington Capitals in exchange for Michael Neuvirth. Miller's record since joining the Blues is 7-2-1, while Halak is 4-2-1 in Washington.
4) Another BIG goalie trade was the wild, wacky, much talked about, supposed to happen last year, where is Schneider when you need him (oh right they traded him too) palm trees and sandy beaches trade of Roberto Luongo back to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Jacob Markstrom. This rumour of Lou going back to Florida was no secret but it looked like Vancouver would keep the goalie after they dealt Cory Schneider to the New Jersey Devils during the draft pick last year. Not the case, Lou was sent to Florida, Eddie Lack became Vancouver's new #1 and Tim Thomas had to deal with the fact he was being replaced by the goalie he beat in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. In 2011 Tim Thomas was the goalie for the Stanley Cup winning Boston Bruins but don't worry Thomas and Lou barely had a cup of coffee together let alone a practice before Thomas was sent to the Dallas Stars to back up Kari Lehtonen. Sometimes I feel like the wonderful world of NHL hockey has more back stories then the soap "Days of Our Lives" I can barely keep up.
5) Eye for an Eye? Good question. Another headliner during the NHL trade deadline was Tampa Bay Lightning Captain Martin St. Louis being traded to the New York Rangers in exchange for their Captain Ryan Callahan. With this trade Steven Stamkos became the new Captain for the Lightning and the Rangers have yet to pick a new Captain. They are listing Brad Richards, Dan Girardi and Marc Staal as Alternate Captains but nobody is wearing the "C".
This is probably all of the recap you need for now! Next post expect to hear about the NHL standings for the playoffs! With this new wild card division thing I myself need a recap! Enjoy!
4) Another BIG goalie trade was the wild, wacky, much talked about, supposed to happen last year, where is Schneider when you need him (oh right they traded him too) palm trees and sandy beaches trade of Roberto Luongo back to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Jacob Markstrom. This rumour of Lou going back to Florida was no secret but it looked like Vancouver would keep the goalie after they dealt Cory Schneider to the New Jersey Devils during the draft pick last year. Not the case, Lou was sent to Florida, Eddie Lack became Vancouver's new #1 and Tim Thomas had to deal with the fact he was being replaced by the goalie he beat in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. In 2011 Tim Thomas was the goalie for the Stanley Cup winning Boston Bruins but don't worry Thomas and Lou barely had a cup of coffee together let alone a practice before Thomas was sent to the Dallas Stars to back up Kari Lehtonen. Sometimes I feel like the wonderful world of NHL hockey has more back stories then the soap "Days of Our Lives" I can barely keep up.
5) Eye for an Eye? Good question. Another headliner during the NHL trade deadline was Tampa Bay Lightning Captain Martin St. Louis being traded to the New York Rangers in exchange for their Captain Ryan Callahan. With this trade Steven Stamkos became the new Captain for the Lightning and the Rangers have yet to pick a new Captain. They are listing Brad Richards, Dan Girardi and Marc Staal as Alternate Captains but nobody is wearing the "C".
This is probably all of the recap you need for now! Next post expect to hear about the NHL standings for the playoffs! With this new wild card division thing I myself need a recap! Enjoy!
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