fleury comes clean & other things we already knew

the news leaked today that in theoren fleury's upcoming autobiography, he will finally admit to having been sexually abused by graham james while playing junior hockey with the moose jaw warriors.... james was convicted of abuse back in 1997 on the testimony of former nhl-er sheldon kennedy and an anonymous second victim (widley believed to be fleury). clearly it's gonna be a tough go in the next few weeks for our theo, but i think the "coming out" will be purely cathartic in the long run....

by this time next year, i bet #14 will be hanging in the rafters at the 'dome....
[aaand, by this time next month, i will have read this book.]
;)

the flambés squeaked out another win last night in the heart of enemy territory, much to the aggravation to those who wear the copper (*ahem* orange) and blue. in fairness, there is nothing fun about watching your team give up the tying goal with under two seconds remaining in regulation, and there's CERTAINLY nothing amusing about your team losing in a shootout on a goal that's specifically described as an exception in the fine print of the nhl rulebook:

"No goal can be scored on a rebound of any kind (an exception being the puck off the goal post, then the goalkeeper and then directly into the goal), and any time the puck crosses the goal line, the shot shall be considered complete."
--------rule 30a [under the heading penalty shots]

most of my greasers fan friends were AWFULLY quiet last night, as though they knew not to gloat until the final buzzer.... at which time i got a handful of text messages (my favorite of which read, "J**** F*** !". sorry, fellas. a loss is a loss....

as for the iginla-concussing-souray on a "dirty" hit from behind, well.... logically there's no effin' way that our captain meant to toss sheldon's grey matter like that. anyone who suggests it was intentional, like msconduct says over at her place, has on "oilers colored glasses."
rad...
also rad was the way both captains felt the need to fight, and the way iggy didn't take dirty punches when moreau fell to the ice....

moving on ---
i took a good, thorough scan of the flames' roster list on their website and discovered that adam pardy looks an awful lot like 08/09 matt pelech (who showed up to this year's camp with a buzzcut):


let's take note and see how long it'll take for this to get corrected (y'know, the way it still says brad MCRIMMON in the gallery at flames central, and has since they opened a few years back).

i'm also a HUGE fan of brandon prust's headshot ---not the one on the flames' site, but the one that appears in the calgary herald's "meet the flames" column. if you have the patience to ignore the realllllly annoying bubble motif around his head, you will be pleased to see the most amazing nhl yearbook photo smirk i've ever seen.... it seems to say that he knows some stuff about me that he shouldn't know, or that he's just played the most amazing practical joke and we're all about to find out:
love it.

uh, i guess that's about it. other than pointing out the fact that mark giordano played junior hockey for the OHL owen sound attack, and that håkan loob is still the only swede to have ever scored 50 goals in the nhl. and if this paragraph's random info makes no sense to you, then you're probably not the one i'm writing it for....

;)