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.

:)