Working On A Moose Thang

This upcoming weekend the Vancouver Canucks farm team, the Manitoba Moose make a return to Ontario. Woodpeck plans on attending the Saturday night affair at Copps in Hamilton vs. the Montreal farm team, the Bulldogs. Sunday aft, its a showdown the Toronto Marlies the Maple Leafs affiliate. Reports pre and post to follow!

Ladies, Start your Engines!

We’re off to the Autoshow today.  What will be there?  Never been and with the industry in a nosedive…who knows?  But we’ll report back here later 2nite. Congrats to Kenseth for the Daytona win!  Now we start our Fantasy Nascar season from the back row! Whoops!  Speaking of Nascar, we predict this is the last season for the COT.

Canucks win! Burrows shines!  Brilliant!

Michel Therrien fired!  Just like we predicted in October:

Also, we predict the Penguins will fire their coach Michel Therrien by the end of the season.  We’re still at a loss as to why this guy got an extension after failing miserably in the cup finals last season.

About freakin’ time! What was the final straw… a loss to the Maple Laffs? More news at 11.

You Don’t Want to Give up a Soft Goal Here

We watched a listless Leafs in the first period last night against the Pittsburgh Penguins.  It was horrid hockey to watch.  Not much until the final minute of play from the Leafs meant we bailed to watch chick flicks the rest of the night. It was V day so the trade off was valid.  Lo’ and behold, we see the Leafs pulled out a 6-2 win!  Looks like they exploded in the 3rd in a big way!  Vesa got booed coming off in the first after allowing 2 goals quickly.  He shut the door from there on which is his usual forte.  “Allow a couple of easy ones then decide to show up.”  Just recently he hadn’t even been doing that.  Perhaps a return to form then?  Well, at least for one night…

Moving on, we’ve been watching Jockey’s.  Tis an enjoyable horse racing show on Animal Planet.  4 episodes in and we’ve learned a lot about the inner workings of being a jockey.  Breaking into the scene in Southern Cali is the main theme we are hearing and its been particularly tough on the the newbies who’ve come there having already been successful at home and then having to start again from scratch.  They are constantly weighing the pros and cons of staying or returning to their former place of glory. We found it particularly odd that they showed one male newbie getting his first win and being “initiated” afterwards but then when the female Aussie won her first race there was no “initiation” shown.  Old boys club?  hmmmm?  Did they ignore her first win or did they do something that couldn’t be shown?  Who knows?  Just very odd that it wasn’t even addressed.  By ignoring it, the producers have left it open to speculation so away we go!  Next week, Chantel the Canuck races against her boyfriend… which could and should be interesting.

Today, the Canucks face the Habs.  Les Canadiens are struggling betweeen the pipes and team confidence is at an all time low.  Guy’s time at the helm may be coming to a close as it would appear the team is tuning him out.  That’s just a theory though.  But judging by his mannerisms the last few games and his recent interviews, he seems like a man defeated.  The Canucks have to take advantage of the situation cuz its not going to get any easier this coming week on the road.  Since they seem to historically let the foot off the pedal against weaker opponents, this would be a key time to do the opposite.  Key to victory = get the puck on net.  Shoot often ‘Nucks!

Finally a Hills shout out to our first sponsor!  Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company!  Delicious!!!  OH YEAH!

Hittin’ the Weekend Links

Here’s a wrap on what we found of interest on the net this week:

• Super Bowl Porn on the US Airwaves
• Ivan Gazidis, the new Arsenal chief executive, is offering his first impressions of life in the Barclays Premier League
• America could make strong World Cup bid
• Toronto papers VS. Bettman reaches new heights
• Adam Loewen trying to restart his career as a hitter

Looking fwd to Canucks vs. Hawks and Habs vs. Laffs 2nite!  Yes, in that order. Keep your stick on the ice, Mats!

When you put the Puck on the Net, Good Things are Going to Happen

Breakfast is being served, here’s what’s on the proverbial table:

• The Toronto Classic Table Hockey Championship is celebrating its 10th anniversary in March 2009 and we’re happy to be involved with the promotion of the event!  Mark Saturday March 21st 2009 down on your calendars for a puck-tacular time!  We’ll be competing for the 4th straight year so we’ll hope to see you there.  Its a great time no matter your skill level or experience.  Trust us, we’re no pros either!  More on that in the weeks ahead!
• Rumours ran rampant this past weekend that we’ve now joined a running group that will see us competing at various GTA running events starting in December.  The catch is the communication and organizing of the group is not up to us.  We’ll see if those who took that ball will pick it up and run with it or not.  More news as it comes available!
• As HUGE CANUCKS fans, we are efforting to take a road trip with the team as they embark on a long awaited central Canada road trip in February 2009.  Over 6 days, they take on Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.  We are working out the finer details but it looks as though this is a done deal and of course, we’ll blog the entire adventure.  Can’t wait!