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Bye Bye Conklin!!

{ July 26, 2007 @ 2:28 pm } · { Pittsburgh Penguins, Ty Conklin }
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I did one of these for Boucher so I couldn’t not do one for Ty Conklin. Ty signed with Pittsburgh. Aside from being our third string last year, Mr Conklin had a soft place in my heart. Steph and I are kind of sad about it because we won’t get to see him like ever since he is in the Eastern Conference but we are glad he signed somewhere haha. So, the ONLY time I will be cheering for the Penguins will be when Conklin is in net.

Bethany misses Conklin

{ May 17, 2007 @ 4:02 am } · { Ty Conklin }
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The boys I cheer for…

{ March 3, 2007 @ 3:29 am } · { Alexander Ovechkin, Chris Chelios, Dany Heatley, Dion Phaneuf, Dustin Penner, Ilya Bryzgalov, Joffrey Lupul, Martin Brodeur, Phil Kessel, Roberto Luongo, Ryan Suter, Shane O'Brien, Ty Conklin }
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This was for hlog but I decided to put it up here also…
I have a ton of players that I like and would cheer for them even when they are playing against my Jackets.

1. Martin Brodeur…I just love him. He is so impressive to me not only the way he plays but also he is such a leader on that team. He just amazes me everytime I watch him play.

2. My Cincinnati Ducks boys…Joffrey Lupul, Dustin Penner, Kurtis Foster, Shane O’Brien, Stanislav Chistov, and Ilya Bryzgalov…these guys in the 04-05 season were unbelievable…and a lot of people in CIncinnati had their hearts broken when they left to Portland…we found out during the playoffs and it was so sad. But, I still love these guys…and probably always will.

3. Phil Kessel…wow. How can you not like him? He has gone through so much his first year playing in the NHL. And, he is still going strong. It makes me feel good everytime he is out on the ice.

4. Dion Phaneuf…I’m a huge fan of his. I love watching him…he is everything you could ever want in a dman.

5. Chris Chelios…the oldest man in the NHL…and he is still going strong. He just continues to impress me…and he is pretty darn good at what he does.

6. Roberto Luongo continues to impress me. He is such an amazing goalie and so determined and I am so happy that he is going to make the playoffs this year so we can see what he is capable of there.

7. Dany Heatley oh my gosh his play this year is just amazing. When Spezza was out he continued doing well and proved he can play with anyone.

8. Alexander Ovechkin…I can’t say enough about him. He impresses me on and off the ice. He has been so wonderful with the Caps. I mean at the draft announcing their pick? Come on…that’s adorable. He is also doing a lot for the community there and seems like a genuinely great guy.

9. Ryan Suter this one is for sure a secret, because, I hate the Preds but he comes from one of those hockey elite families. I can’t help but not cheer for him when he does well.

10. Ty Conklin yeah Edmonton disowned him last year for one bad play. BUT, he is a good goalie. I don’t know why I like him so much but I found myself so excited everytime he was in the net for Columbus…and I liked him better than Leclaire.

TRADE DEADLINE DAY!!

{ February 27, 2007 @ 5:44 pm } · { Bill Guerin, Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers, Gary Roberts, Georges Laraque, Martin Biron, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Ryan Smyth, San Jose Sharks, Ty Conklin }
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Ok everyone I know I said I would do all of this when I got home tonight but I figure why not start now?
* DOMINIC MOORE went to the Minnesota WILD for a third round pick.
* BILL GUERIN was sent to the San Jose SHARKS for a first round pick and future considerations
* GEORGES LARAQUE was sent to the Pittsburgh PENGUINS for DAN CARCILLO and an eigth round pick
* TY CONKLIN went to the SABRES…still waitin on what CBJ got for him
* MARTIN BIRON went to the FLYERS for a draft pick
* GARY ROBERTS went to the PENGUINS for NOAH WELCH
I will be writing more about these trades just trying to get them up for now. No worries…I know everyone is probably blogging these right now…but I just don’t have the time today.

*****Just a note…the Edmonton Oilers still have not signed Ryan Smyth*****

So close yet so far..

{ February 26, 2007 @ 1:41 am } · { Adam Foote, Columbus Blue Jackets, Hockey, Jordin Tootoo, Nashville Predators, NHL, Rick Nash, Ty Conklin }
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So Ken Hitchcock coached his 800th NHL game tonight. I just can’t even express how happy I am to have this man as the Blue Jackets coach. Next year is our year I’m just sure of it. The first period Adam Foote and Jordin Tootoo had a bit of a tussle. But, Foote being a very large and strong man was able to simply pin Tootoo against the boards. Nashville ended up getting a goal on the power play. Paul Kariya scored on the power play. Ty Conklin is in net for the Jackets. Everyone is pretty aware that I love Ty Conklin. He is a good goal tender and I think he deserves to stay up. Anyway, Foote took another penalty a roughing penalty…but I’m pretty sure that Erat just kind of fell and Foote didn’t do anything. I like what Adam Foote said during the intermission interview…he said Nashville likes to win games in the first 10 minutes of a game, that’s totally true. I have seen these guys play I can’t even tell you how many times and they like making an impression. But then Foote said, “We played better than they did in the first period, and they had more power play opportunities.” I’m so happy he’s our captain…what would I do without him. Marc Methot is playing his first NHL game. He seems to be doing a pretty good job…and he’s a cute little guy. I am hoping the reason he is up is because Berard will be out.

Going into the second period we were down 1-0. But entering the second we were on a power play. We ended up scoring a power play goal to make it 1-1. Modin got the goal. Dumont got the go ahead goal about a minute after we scored the tiebreaker. Let’s hope that Columbus gets things back on track. Well Fiddler just made it 3-1. I think Johnson is having a bad night because both of these goals can be blamed on him…well I don’t want to say blamed but he could have cleared the zone. Nash really is becoming a great two-way player. Last night he got his first short-handed goal, which is pretty impressive. Dan Fritsche got hurt he has a lacerated wrist they didn’t announce the severity of it but he won’t be back for the rest of the game.

Going into this period we are 3-1…lets hope the Jackets can get something going. And we got a goal from an unlikely source. Shelley got his first goal of the season!! I’m so proud. Our rough and tough guy got it. Lets just hope we can get another one. Tootoo just hit the crap out of Zherdev. I hate Tootoo he pisses me off every single time he steps out on the ice. He is such a dirty player and he claims he’s not. I would love to know where he heard that one. Let’s hope the Jackets can get this going and beat the Preds because it’s something we have yet to do. And Hainsey ties it up it’s now 3 all. It’s starting to look up for the Jackets. We really are a good hockey team. I love these guys…I know our playoff hopes are shot but we still are playing pretty well. I just hope that we can get a regulation win against these Preds. Brule had a great shot on goal heading down right at the net. Raced down even got tripped up a bit and took a shot when he was mid air.

And we are heading into over time. We do pretty well on 4-4 I think. So let’s see how we do. Well we out played them pretty much the entire game and that didn’t change during over time. It was still tied so we’re going into a shootout. I hate shootouts…they make me so nervous. I hope Conks stays with it. Well we lost in a shootout and I am sad. We deserved the win…and I’m not just saying that. Oh and random fact Tootoo took a number at the end of the game. How funny is that?! What a punk.

Fredrik Norrena > Pascal Leclaire

{ February 23, 2007 @ 3:26 am } · { Columbus Blue Jackets, Edmonton Oilers, Fredrik Norrena, Hockey, Montreal Canadiens, Nashville Predators, NHL, Pascal Leclaire, Peter Forsberg, Stanley Cup, Ty Conklin }
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If I see that Leclaire is injured one more time this season…I am going to freak out. I have never seen the kid play an entire game…and well frankly I don’t know that I want to. Norrena has proven to be a more than confident goalie for us (yes I realize we lost 4-0 tonight…but I will get to that later) he just struggles on one on one situations…which he CAN improve on…BUT at least he’s not injured for the entire season! I seriously hate this. UGH!! Send Leclaire down and let’s keep Conklin up…maybe he can play more than 30 games for us.

Alright, I apologize for that but man I am so sick of hearing Leclaire is injured. Anyway, so I missed the game tonight due to the fact that I was at work doing nothing basically but had to stay anyway. But, when I got home I saw that my boys had been shut out AGAIN. Just for the record that’s the 13th time this season. Alright so when I got home I turned on the tv and our little announcer guys are there talking about the refs…so I simply shut off the tv and grabbed my computer and hopped on NHL.com to check out the score sheet…and well what I saw were a lot of penalties for my Jackets…a total of 14 to be exact and let me break these down for ya…there were 5 roughing calls…3 hooking calls…2 fighting majors…and a 10 minute misconduct along with a few other ones. We gave up 2 power play goals…and 2 even strength goals. Norrena stopped 24 of the 28 shots he faced. But, I don’t blame him for this loss at all because to put it quite frankly…you don’t win hockey games if you don’t get the puck to the net. I am not sure how of the quality of chances we got…but I’m sure we made Roloson look a heck of a lot better than he actually is. Anyway, since I didn’t watch the game I can’t really talk too much about it…but I found it really interesting the penalties we took tonight…we’re not one of these rough and tumble teams.

On a happier note…the Preds lost tonight…and Forsberg still has yet to record a point down there…he even got a chance to shoot in the shootout and he was stopped…for some reason this makes me happy. And, it’s not because I don’t like Forsberg…because I agree with everyone he is a great player…I have seen all his highlight videos on youtube haha and I am impressed however I hate the Preds so much and do not want them to win the Cup this year…so whenever they struggle I am happy. That’s all for the night!

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