Big Intentions
I intended to leave the Rose Garden last night and drive the 4 hours home before the snow hit (which I did).
I intended to get back to blogging today after a week of dial-up and inaccessible computer...that has yet to be seen. Because when I arrived home at like 2 a.m. after a wonderful week with my family and friends for the holidays, I came home to discover that some person(s) who should die a slow, miserable death broke into my house while I was gone. So yeah, the desire to blog about hockey seems so...unimportant.
But I'll give it a shot.
Last night's game was great. Ams came out of the gate ready to go, from the top of the lineup to the bottom. Notch another goal for Lil Mess and David Conrad. Both of them were sweet goals, David's was right in front of me, just picked up the rebound out in the slot and made no mistake about it. Spencer Humphries had a great shot from the point for his first WHL goal. It was pretty sick. All told, the Americans peppered Mac Carruth with 52 shots.
The Winterhawks fans in front of us were saying the score was indicative of them not having several of their top guys (at World Juniors) which yes, that's going to have a big impact, but they looked slow and disinterested for most of the game. Even if you're down guys, you gotta put in some effort. Allowing 52 shots to get through? Meh, whatever, worked out for me and my team.
The same two teams face off tonight at Toyota Center, should be a good one.
Meanwhile, from the Americans' Facebook page:
Bittersweet emotions for Americans' goaltender, Chris Driedger. Driedger got the start in Team West's exhibition game vs. Team USA at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge, playing 29:41 and stopping all 21 shots he faced. However, Team USA downed Team West 4-0. Tournament starts tomorrow with Team West taking on Team Pacific.
The real tournament play starts today, Driedger is hoping good exhibition play will carry over:
Driedger got the start in goal for the West and was perfect. He stopped all 21 shots he faced in a period and a half of play.
“I felt pretty good in there,” he said. “I was pretty pumped, the adrenalin was going and I just felt good between the pipes.”
“I think our team fell apart in the second half,” Driedger said. “I’m not sure why. We just lost a bit of heart.”
Driedger plans on carrying his strong play into from the exhibition game into the tournament.
“I think I can build on it and get better every game,” he said. I definitely want to carry my play from this game to the next and hopefully play well throughout the tournament.” (Winnipeg Sun)
4 comments:
I believe in Chris Driedger!
And god I hope they catch the asshats that burgled you!
"I don't see how you can come to a conclusion other than that some of the players on this team are massively overrated."
Quote from the OregonLive Hawks blog. The whole post here:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/winterhawks/2010/12/americans_at_winterhawks_12-28.html
And then from today's entry, "Of course, you wouldn't know that reading the Tri-City point of view of the two games. We can talk about what it says about the players who were here, but there's no doubt it's the first thing you have to talk about when talking about these two games. This guy makes no mention of it, implying to his readers that Tri-City beat a full-strength Portland team. Hilarious." (http://blog.oregonlive.com/winterhawks/2010/12/winterhawks_at_americans_12-29.html)
Uuuuhhh... contradictory much?
Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you.
The Messier sibling rivalry is adorable. Really, how could it be anything else? Jordan and Marcus Messier = silly adorableness.
Seriously though, having each other on the team seems to push them both to be better. And. It's. Awesome.
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