Thursday, January 27, 2011

i was wrong, and other tidbits of uselessness

i met a dude last night who works for the org and couldn't say enough about how much he loves olli jokinen. and he's actually met him. presumeably multiple times.... so i guess when i said "nobody" likes the joker (in the previous post) i actually meant "nobody except for this one guy." he went on to tell me that olli had a strangely hilarious sense of humour and was so weird he was awesome. i dunno. it's amazing how much more i like #13 when the team is winning than when they're losing....



in other news, i've long referred to coach sutter as nosferatu ---so much so that when my boss saw this piece by local artist and musician, rodney guitarsplat, she immediately acquired it for me as an xmas gift. the truly amazing part of this scenario is that my boss knows eff all about hockey, or what brent looks like when he's mad (or happy, for that matter). all she knows is that i talk about stupid player/personnel character-related stuff all the time and some of it obviously sinks in (i'm so proud !)... the thing she loves best about the 'chell (i'm starting to like this term, azevedo) is that people used to mis-pronounce her name all the time, but since a young player/captain with the same insanely-spelled surname came into the general consciousness, i'm guessing about 70% of folks now say it correctly....

what else ?

in HUGELY overdue news, john armstrong grew some kickass facial hair in november:


...and since i'm posting random pix, i guess i should hit this one up too... i screengrabbed this one from the team's "mic'd up" piece... impossible to imagine gio laughing harder:


and one final snapshot that i've been meaning to post for eons ---how much fuggin INK does jose theodore have ?!?! full sleeves ?! who'da thunk it....


that's it from me. happy allstar weekend, everyone. i'm not planning to take my computator to nashville with me so it'll be up to duncan, mikeH, and kingjafi to post (or not post, as they see fit) in the meantime.

:)

10 comments:

Nuuuuugs said...

Wow, Brent Sutter is Nosferatu. Or should I say Nosferatu is Brent Sutter.

Is it possible for Nosy to look happier than Brent in that picture? Despite the fact that he has flippers for hands.

Colin Stuart said...

Have fun in Nashtown!

KingJafi said...

Shocked, to say the least, that Jose is tatted up like that.

Sarah said...

Odds say there had to be at least one person on the organization who likes Olli, you just happened to find him :)

Travel safely, have fun. Wear the Gio jersey for a photo with Gnash!

Justin Azevedo said...

Have fun with the kiddos.

walkinvisible said...

sarah: check your fb mail.
azevedo: how could i NOT ???

Sarah said...

Greatest FB message of all time, no competition :)

walkinvisible said...

greatest, most surprising and 100% true. ;)

ps: i'm taking the comp to smashville. i'm an addict...

mikeH said...

Joker friend count stands at two. Joker does have a family, and apparently his wife is a big supporter. Note her comments at the bottom of this post:

Puck Daddy - Jokinen Dissent

Kent W. said...

I think Joker probably is hilarious in person. No doubt having a beer with him would be a good time.

I just wish he wasn't on this hockey team is all.