Your Mid-Day YouTube Compulsory: Gretztky’s Final Game on FOX (and CBC)

Some Random Observations From a Night of Center Ice and VERSUS

We randomly flip to the designated Center Ice channels on our Verizon cable system, just to see if maybe we got lucky and this week’s a free preview week.  Turns out: This week is it!  Yay!  So we decided to give you 5 random things we’ve learned from watching Center Ice from 7PM till 1AM:

Following Up: Pierre McGuire’s Canadian Olympic Team

 

TSN/NBC Analyst Pierre McGuire

Quite a bit of Olympic-related stuff the past couple days.  This comes to us from TSN.ca:

Goaltenders
Brodeur
Luongo
Price

Defence Pairings
Bouwmeester – Niedermayer
Phaneuf – Weber
Burns – Green
Boyle

Forward Lines
Crosby – Lecavalier – Iginla
Heatley – Getzlaf – Nash
Carter – Thornton – Gagne
Morrow – Richards – Doan
Savard

What do you think of Pierre’s Olympic Team?  What are your picks for the US team?  Let us know.

Announcers and Open Thread For Tonight’s Rangers-Blues Game on VERSUS

Every Monday & Tuesday night, VERSUS gives you a chance to snark away at the jokesters at VERSUS with this open post/thread.  Feel free to post opinions on the game, humorous anecdotes, and anything just plain stupid the announcers might happen to say.  Enjoy.

New York Rangers vs. St. Louis Blues, 7PM
Play by Play: Joe Beninati
Color: Eddie Olczyk
Reporter: Bob Harwood 

Pierre McGuire to Announce His Canadian Olympic Team Tonight

From TSN.ca:

TSN Hockey Analyst Pierre McGuire will announce his picks for the 2010 Canadian Olympic men’s Hockey Team tonight. He will answer selected viewer questions about the team during the first intermission of the Senators/Predators game on TSN.

We may rag on Pierre from time to time, but ask anyone around the league, the man knows what he is talking about.  Check out Sens/Preds if you’re in Canada tonight.

NBC’s Olympic Site Running, Your Official Timeslot Schedule for the Olympic Hockey Tournamnets

With Norway, Latvia and Germany all qualifying, the Olympic tournament for next February is completely set.  NBC’s Olympic site is up and running, and it has some features on players and highlights of the ’06 Sweden/Finland classic Gold Medal game.  It also has the dates and times that competition will be taking place.  We’ll do our best to match it up with the schedules we posted earlier this year.  It’s gonna be 11 hours straight of hockey some days, so get ready to salivate!

Your Mid-Day YouTube Compulsory: This is Probably What You’re Missing When You Don’t Understand Our Love For Chico Resch

It’s a Weak West Coast Presence That Hurts Hockey, Not a Weak Southern One

NHL games on NBC this season will feature teams from the following states:

• Michigan
• Illinois
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Massachusets
• Minnesota
• New Jersey
• Washington D.C

A real cross-section of America, eh folks?  Now I know it’s apples/oranges, but here are the states that will be featured in ABC’s NBA coverage this season:

• Texas
• Massachusets
• California
• Ohio
• Michigan
• Arizona
• Louisiana

Okay, so maybe that didn’t prove our point as well as we thought it would upon the initial conception of the idea.  The point is, the NBA is able to draw upon a broad base of viewers from coast-to-coast.  Whereas, the NHL can only draw from pockets of the northeast.  The NHL needs a tentpole team out west.  

NHL On NBC, Week 3: Mike and Pierre Hand Out Valentines, We Go to Sharks-Devils Game Like the Rest of You Wanted To

We watched about half a period, plus the first intermission of NBC’s broadcast of the Rangers-Flyers disaster from Madison Square Garden.  Luckily for us, it was with the sound turned off.  See, we were in Newark, NJ at the Brick City Bar & Grill, a lovely, Devils-friendly bar – wouldn’t you know it – right across the street from the Prudential Center’s box office.  We love seeing entire restaurants filled with Devils fans rooting against the Rangers.

Jealous much?  We went to the Devils-Sharks game and pretty much skipped out on the New York-Philadelphia “high profile matchup”.  What a shame.  We missed a 5-2 rout for the Flyers.  We instead got to see two of the best teams in the league duke it out to a 6-5 final, in favor of New Jersey.  That’s the point we’re trying to make here, that NBC would’ve done the league a favor airing Devils-Sharks.

Shopping with Wrap: It’s in the Bag Edition.

chavtastic.

Hey, you know the price for that gauuuuudy monstrosity? 324 dollars (roughly 4.32 pairs of Ugg boots from Nordstrom Rack). That is not a joke. Oh and you can buy now and not pay for 90 days! That’s an amazing idea in this economy…Those are not diamonds. They are crystal diamond posers glued to two license plates. Oh but it is lined in VELVET. You know I am totally a whore for fashion, but even then I can’t bring myself to spend more than 50 bucks on a purse. I am an amazing sale shopper.

Things that fit in this purse;

-iPhone OR jewel encrusted Sidekick 3

-prescription for Valtrex.

-overpriced lipgloss

-a mirror and one razor blade

-card for tanning minutes

-singles and a gstring

-one compact Tampax Pearl

-condoms

-a spare belly ring

-Miley Cyrus perfume

-ASHTON’S COOLPIX!

-A game ticket maybe…

Other cool shit I could buy with 324 dollars.

-Uhhhhhh. Uhmmmmm. How about a REAL hockey jersey?

-I could buy a fuckton of Dunkaroos.

-Rent a bouncy castle, cotton candy machine and a dunk tank for like a 3 day carnival weekend. [Bonus, can charge neighborhood children and make money back.]

-A nameplate ring. With my Wu Tang Clan name.

-A Bose sound system?

-Snuggies. For me and all my friends.

-SlapChops. ShamWow Vince is fighting Scientology!

-Buy nearly an entire season of hockey with my boys.

-Some fly new kicks.

-A rad tiny dog I could carry in my purse even though I would never do such a thing.

-Pay Coyote Shivers to sing Sugar High. See below.

sans Zellweger. Duh.