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Today Canada plays the USA in the World Hockey Championship. The Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock is the coach for Team Canada. 3 of our players are on the the team- Rick Nash, Pazzy, and Jason Chimera (whom I just recently ran into at Pottery Barn of all places)
Guess who I am rooting for?
photo courtesy of the AP- Nash last year when he won MVP
Last game (Sunday) against Latvia Nash scored two goals and Pazzy had a shut-out.
Go Canada.
-Well the obvious good thing about today is that it is Friday.
-It’s warm. I bought flowers, a basil plant and a rosemary plant yesterday to plant and we slept with the windows open last night.
-Boys are going to the Scarlet and Gray game tomorrow, they are excited!
-Grandparents are coming up for the weekend. Cole has been counting down the “sleeps”
-Forgetting Sarah Marshall is now in theaters
-Yesterday I got an email from Mary that said-
I come from a heavy duty hockey family, so the hockey blogs were great. My husband is the goalie coach at the prep school where we live, and I forwarded him the article you linked about the generous player who donated seats, $$, etc to kids in need. He shared it with the kids and other coaches.
She is referencing the post I did a few months ago about Rick Nash. reading her email made me smile. Good=Good. I love how it spreads. And that is why we love the Nasher and always point him out as a roll model for our boys, regardless of what sport they decide is the sport for them.
-Rachel for emailing me this
Thanks again for all you do. I still hold you up on a pedestal! You ROCK!
-almost wrapping up my duties as the yearbook chairperson for the PTA. At least for this year.
-funny dogs
Shiloh has started hoarding balls. It was funny at first but now the boys are starting to get mad because she will take the lacrosse balls while they are trying to play. When she gets a ball she puts it on the trampoline, her new favorite hangout.
And every time I walk by and see this dog sleeping like a frog I always smile.
-starting to plan neighborhood cook-outs
-getting our pool pass
-bikes. I have been longing to get mine back out and hit the trail.
-no more indoor exercising. Yesterday Barley and I went for a long walk.
-The grape hyacinth that I picked from the yard is making the whole house smell good.
- Cole sitting next to me right now singing “fat bottom girls” by Queen. Not sure if that is better than American Idiot but at least he is starting to show some diversity.
-Blake teaching himself to play guitar because his mom keeps forgetting to sign him up for lessons. He played Brain Stew for me the other day. At least the first 6 cords anyway.
-Summer is on it’s way. Yay.
-starting my day with a big mug of coffee and my orders sheets. Today I will be working from the back porch-
the fine print- thinking I may need to increase my font size, or maybe I need glasses. Sometimes it all starts to run together…..
Have a great weekend!
a tough but decent season.
looking forward to next year but a little sad because we have gotten attached to a lot of these players and quite a few of them won’t be back after they clean house this summer.
Wordpress won’t let me embed the video from the last game yesterday so I will just link it.
Go Jackets, thanks for a great (relatively speaking) year.
Now i just have to find a team that actually made the play-offs to cheer for. Leaning towards the Sharks because I would like to see Jody Shelley win the cup.
We missed the game where they did the tribute to him but it can be seen here
that one makes me a little misty
looking forward to him coming back and being part of the organ-I-zation.
The Blue Jackets lost last night 2-0, but it was still a good game.
Nashville is quickly becoming a rival with their guys talking smack before the game.
Rick Nash on the ice before the Nashville guys piled on him
He looks like a little kid here being held down
And then of course after the Nashville player by the name of Tootoo roughed up a couple of our players the other night, everyone at Nationwide was ready to see him get some pay-back.
The last time we played Nashville our “enforcers’ aka fighters were out with injuries so Tootoo went after a couple of guys that don’t fight. After he tried to beat them up he skated around the ice with his fingers up in the air (two on each hand- 2-2). It was childish and Hitch called it a “clown show”.
But last nights game was different, Jared Boll was back and took him on.
Tootoo ended up here
and then they both got 5 for Fighting
Boll
Tootoo didn’t mess with anyone the rest of the game.
In fact their other guy that was doing a lot of talking pre-game, Darcy Hordichuk was thrown over the side onto our bench and onto Rick Nash’s lap by Jason Chimmera- the blue jackets player that was beaten up by Tootoo in the last game. I didn’t get my camera out fast enough for that one, too bad because it was right in front of us. Hordichuk was out for the rest of the game.
Boll, shortly after getting out of the penalty box- loved that he sat on the bench backwards and looked up into the crowd. The fans love him.
One more home game that I don’t think we are going to be able to attend because the boys have lacrosse games.
I’m sad we didn’t make the play-offs but excited for next year. Go jackets!
That’s the kind of score we like to see. Columbus beat Chicago last night.
GOAL
Another Goal- did he even notice?
A little scrum between Aaron Rome and Brent Seabrook
After the game we ran into Dan Fritsche (the only player that is an Ohio native)
He is hiding his broken hand behind Blake’s back- he is out the rest of the season.
AND
when we walked in Nationwide Arena Andy made us enter a drawing for a free jersey- guess who won? He did of course. Shortly into the game they announced his name on the big jumbo-tron thing and said if the jackets scored in the first 5 minutes he would also win tickets to the next game tomorrow night. Well they scored- with only 30 seconds left so he also won free tickets. We thought they would be upper bowl but they are actually good lower bowl seats. We already had tickets to the game- but only two so now the older boys get to go too- seriously the guy should play the lottery.
A couple hockey games, a soccer game, two losses, one win, two sleep-overs. What else? Not much.
I actually like when Monday rolls around and I can get back on track. Especially because I prepared for the week- I hit Dicks to pick up new cleats, mouth guards, socks- when lacrosse practice rolls around on Tuesday and then Wednesday- I will not be flying around the house trying to locate all the equipment that has been buried since last season. I HATE that. Fortunately Austin played indoor lacrosse this winter so his stuff is still in the front closet- Blake doesn’t play contact yet so he only needs his stick- that’s easy.
The hockey game Friday night was terrible. Yesterday against the Red Wings was better. The Red Wings had such amazing puck control where our guys were flopping it around and turning it over left and right. We some how pulled off a win, mostly due to amazing goalie work. It was an exciting game, probably the last one we attend this season.
I have had a fun 6 months of learning the game and all the players. Best places to sit in the Nat- we tend to stick to the lower bowl but we did do a couple games in the upper. There are good and bad things about each place.
Upper bowl annoyances are lots of kids, ice cream and popcorn everywhere, kids yelling in your ear- the seats are very close together. The siblings sitting next to me that started pummeling each other over a t-shirt that one of them caught…..
Lower bowl usually has the hot-heads. It never fails there is always someone inches away from a coronary sitting close by, red- faced and screaming. A few weeks ago a guy a few rows back yelled “Hainsey you SUCK!” every few minutes at the top of his lungs. I’m sure the players find that kind of stuff helpful.
Loved sitting in the suite for Andy’s work but it tends to be more socializing than game watching. Still… thinking Andy’s needs to negotiate that in somehow.
A few other things…
Ran into (literally) Tollefsen on the way out of the building yesterday. I didn’t realize it was him until he smiled at me and I saw his missing tooth.
The 1460 reporter always dresses like Dick Tracy, why???
The Pepsi girls get to do all the cool stuff, the Mountain Dew girls are just maids.
Getting there 30 minutes early to see warm-ups is so worth it. You get to go down to the ice and see the players up close. This is especially helpful if you have a kid that wants a blue jackets room- you can get great pictures. Many thanks to Matthew (aka Mr.Cooper) for the heads up on that one.
Gordon Biersch is my favorite place to grab dinner before the game. I get the hummus salad every time.
And finally
Monday means back to work. Which is a good thing. It also means a trip to the gym, which is also a good thing.
Happy Monday.
