Tuesday, November 25, 2003
I KNOW I'VE BEEN SLOW, BUT...
Okay, I'm a little behind on the Sonics and Canucks, but basically, this happened...
The Sonics can't draw fans at home, and they blew two big 4th-quarter leads and nearly blew both games. The damn Grizzlies beat them at the key when White Chocolate (I hate that guy with a passion, even more so now that he's growing his hair back) starting nailin a bunch of threes with hands in his face. Luckily, they overcame their crappiness to beat the Wizards, a game in which they got the good version of Vlad Rad to show up.
The Canucks...they're not hot at all right now. They had two games on a home-and-home with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the good guys basically gave the Leafs a new lease on the season. Toronto was going through some massive turmoil with some people back in TO calling for Pat Quinn's head and saying that he's lost touch with some of the players, etc. The Leafs ended the Canucks' unbeaten-at-home start to the season; the Canucks are now 9-1-1-0 at the Garage. It became horribly apparent that the Leafs were ready to play Saturday when the Leafs got two quick goals within the first 4 minutes of the game to make it 2-0 off the bat. The game was later tied, but the Leafs appeared to finally play like they were capable of playing. And that was followed again on Monday at the ACC in TO, as the Leafs beat the 'Nucks 2-1, in a game where Leaf goalie Ed Belfour passed Glenn Hall for fourth on the all-time goalie wins list with his 408th win. Yes, this is the same Eddie Belfour that went nuts and ran out on his team in Dallas. Rightfully so, though, because Marty Turco is damned good.
Last Canuck note here...the Vancouver Province held a reader poll to grade each Canuck, and here's how it came out. Rave reviews for Jason King, and the opposite for Brent Sopel.
One final note here...my self-given birthday presents popped up in the mail today in the form of some material from comedian Dane Cook and some DVDs of my favorite quirky-as-hell and weird cartoon, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I shall be laughing very much in the very near future. And yet again, the package itself outran the Amazon.com USPS tracking.
The Sonics can't draw fans at home, and they blew two big 4th-quarter leads and nearly blew both games. The damn Grizzlies beat them at the key when White Chocolate (I hate that guy with a passion, even more so now that he's growing his hair back) starting nailin a bunch of threes with hands in his face. Luckily, they overcame their crappiness to beat the Wizards, a game in which they got the good version of Vlad Rad to show up.
The Canucks...they're not hot at all right now. They had two games on a home-and-home with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the good guys basically gave the Leafs a new lease on the season. Toronto was going through some massive turmoil with some people back in TO calling for Pat Quinn's head and saying that he's lost touch with some of the players, etc. The Leafs ended the Canucks' unbeaten-at-home start to the season; the Canucks are now 9-1-1-0 at the Garage. It became horribly apparent that the Leafs were ready to play Saturday when the Leafs got two quick goals within the first 4 minutes of the game to make it 2-0 off the bat. The game was later tied, but the Leafs appeared to finally play like they were capable of playing. And that was followed again on Monday at the ACC in TO, as the Leafs beat the 'Nucks 2-1, in a game where Leaf goalie Ed Belfour passed Glenn Hall for fourth on the all-time goalie wins list with his 408th win. Yes, this is the same Eddie Belfour that went nuts and ran out on his team in Dallas. Rightfully so, though, because Marty Turco is damned good.
Last Canuck note here...the Vancouver Province held a reader poll to grade each Canuck, and here's how it came out. Rave reviews for Jason King, and the opposite for Brent Sopel.
One final note here...my self-given birthday presents popped up in the mail today in the form of some material from comedian Dane Cook and some DVDs of my favorite quirky-as-hell and weird cartoon, the Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I shall be laughing very much in the very near future. And yet again, the package itself outran the Amazon.com USPS tracking.
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