Westy drinking game and liveblog

It came up in Wednesday's liveblog that there should be a drinking game when listening to Craig West call the away games.  Or home games for those of you who can't make it to the Toyota Center.  When I mentioned it in yesterday's post, Craig West saw it and thankfully has a great sense of humor.  He even added in the comments section, a couple of lines to have involved in the game.  What a champ!  This is a guy who's been in the hockey and broadcasting business for a very long time kids, he knows what he's talking about.

Like all my most brilliant ideas, I have the thought, then sit down to write it and all the sudden can't remember a damn thing.  So thanks to Spokant, Amanda, Zack, and Westy himself to come up with the list of things to drink to.

Alright, here goes.  First off, from Craig West himself:

"In honor of my Late "Uncle Bob" Craig (passed away Nov. 2007), two drinks every time we break one of his old bottles on the top shelf. Drink an entire bottle when I say, 'the only way this ref makes the NHL is as a ticket taker or a vendor.' Since this is rare, enjoy the best bottle you have! :). One swig for every 'Rough ride' and same for 'fires it off the window'. Two ibuprofen for each time I say 'rims the puck in'."

("Uncle Bob's bourbon bottle" topped my list of things to drink to)

Ok, also drink if you hear:

• "no doubt about it"
• "___________________ says thank you" he says this on turnovers sometimes
• "Five-hole baby!"  and the "baby!" part is the important piece of that phrase
• "That was a stinky one" or "it's no Rembrandt/Picasso/other famous artist" or "it won't hang in the Louvre"
• "The league's going to have to look at that"
• "Paratroopers are leaving the building"  this is likely in tonight's game versus Edmonton
• "Rides him down"
• If you listen to the internet feed like I do, you get to hear him talk to the engineer back at the studio so any time Westie loses his connection/talks to someone on the side ("I'll call you back.").
• Take TWO swigs when he says "nervous time".  This is usually heard in the last half of the 3rd period so you may be passed out already.  If not, you might be quickly with this provision.

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If you weren't aware, I have an amazing design team/sister.  Obviously, owls needed to be used and what better way that to Save the Hooters.

Just like the "If you don't check 'em, I will" design, profits from the sale of "Save the Hooters" will be donated to the Tri-Cities Cancer Center Foundation.  And up through the Breast Cancer Awareness game on February 12th, proceeds from ALL shirt sales will go to the Foundation as well.

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From Drinnan this morning:

When Tri-City meets the Oil Kings in Edmonton on Friday, the Americans will be without their leading scorer. F Brendan Shinnimin, who has a team-high 64 points, has been suspended for one game for a game misconduct he incurred at the end of the Americans’ 4-3 shootout loss to the Rebels in Red Deer on Wednesday. The WHL’s online game sheet shows the penalty as a misconduct, but it apparently was a game misconduct, and WHL vice-president Richard Doerksen, who handles discipline, deemed the discretion worthy of a one-game sentence. . . . I am checking to see just what happened here, though, because Shinnimin did take part in the shootout.

Fantastic.  And by "fantastic" I mean Oh crap.

The Herald reports on the suspension, but doesn't say what the game misconduct was for:

Shinnimin's suspension won't likely affect Tri-City (36-12-0-2, 74 points) tonight. The Oil Kings (10-30-4-7, 31 points) are 0-11-0-3 in their last 14 games. They last won Dec. 18, a 3-1 victory over Red Deer.

Tri-City coach Jim Hiller will slide Sergei Drozd up into Shinnimin's spot on the top line with Johnny Lazo and Adam Hughesman.

"We played without Shinny once already, and we won that game (against Portland on Nov. 25)," Hiller said. "It's important that one guy doesn't drive the team."

Hiller is looking for a better performance tonight than his team had Wednesday when it squandered a 3-0 lead against the Rebels and lost 4-3 in a shootout.

"We were playing quite well to start the game and into the second," Hiller said. "Then we took a penalty, made a really poor read on the penalty kill, then they took the play away from us and we weren't able to re-establish ourselves." (Herald)

It'll be great opportunity for Sergei to be on that top line, that's for sure.  Liveblog after the jump, come on in and say hi, be ready to DRINK!