thursday musings

well i never seem to have a whole lot to say over here when the flames are stinkin' out various NHL arenas, and this week has been no exception. thankfully, the oil and wild have been doing pretty much the same and not gaining ground on our lowly boys in red.... too bad i can't say the same about colorado (and the 'nucks have been, unfortunately, patiently awaiting tomorrow night's tilt for what seems like a week already)....

word out of flames' practice is that the jokinen/iginla debacle might actually have come to an end... interestingly, sutter has placed iggy with conroy and glenX (a trio of old which did some damage last year mid-season, if i remember correctly), and dropped the wildcard to the "strom" line (now "jokistrom", i suppose) where the two defensively sound wingers will attempt to staunch the bleeding....

i will admit to being adamantly against an iginla/conroy matchup for eons, now (thinking connie's time on the first line is long over), but my latest revelation is that iggy might actually be in the same mental and physical place. additionally, leaving the langkow/bourque/dawes line intact, and against secondary competition, might end up looking like a genius move at game's end tomorrow night.

i don't imagine these few days will be enough to fully implement sutter's system, nor am i confident the flames will come out with a W, but i'm looking to see far less of a complete implosion than we did in either chicago or columbus....

in other news, i'm 162 pages into #14's book, "playing with fire." so far, i would highly recomment it to any longtime flames' fan, simply based on the chapter detailing fleury's call-up to the big club in january 1989 and the cup run.... i've envisioned the way it was written as follows: theo dictates a lifetime worth of information and stories onto some sort of audio recording device, and kirstie mclellan-day types and edits it into a chapter/story format. the "voice" of the book is undoubtedly theo: there's a lot of swearing, like "that fuckin' jimmy waite put on a clinic" or "i was such a stupid fuckin' beginner,"as well as terms like "johnny-on-the-spot" and "so lunched on valium."

also i love that he hands out a zillion compliments to his 89 teammates. not that there would ever be reason for him not to, but he calls lanny "mufasa" (the lion king) and hands out huge props to all of loob, al mcinnis, gary suter, jim peplinski and HUGE kudos to my main man, bearcat murray....

i credit kirstie mclellan-day for the flow of the book, the spelling, and mostly for properly accenting the european names (like håkan).

and finally, today, i've been wavering on this one but i thought it would be good to post because the interview's actually not too bad (it covers a lot of the same ground everyone else is covering these days buuuut still thoroughly watchable cause george gives good interview....). FURTHERMORE, most people know me as walkinvisible but revealing my real name is probably worth the kickass shout-out i get from my boy strombo just past the 30:50 mark. not even just because he mentions me, but because it's decidedly possible that theoren fleury saw it.... :)

happy thursday.