redfiona99 | Entries tagged with fantasy hockey

1) Why, despite Tzipi Livni also being a native Hebrew speaker, does she seem to sound so much more uncertain in it than Binyamin Netanyahu, at least to my entirely non-Hebrew understanding ears?

2) Why is Thomas (?) Vanek not on the injured reserve given that he's out for a month probably?

3) Yorkshire rat population explodes - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7883418.stm?lss The article blames the mild winter and the floods. It also goes on to mention the increasing in fly-tipping and bins that are easy for rats to get into. At no point does it mention the fact that it's starting to be a major task to convince the binmen to take your bins.

4) This makes me sad - 'Bang' sculpture to be taken down - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7883496.stm?lss because I was quite fond of mentioned sculpture, even if it was a death trap that threatened to rain metal spikes down on people at random intervals.

5) The horse 'angel of the South' thing - typical Southern bollocks, take a Northern idea (the actual Angel of the North which is a fantastic bit of figurative sculpture - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_the_north), make it cuter (horses beat out a rusted steel angel) and bigger (same size as Nelson's Column) and then probably end up claiming its better and that they thought of it first. It's not even like the horse is original, Glasgow already have one that looks a lot more effective (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7881154.stm). I know that the White Horse is Kent's symbol, but what they're planning looks so bland and pointless.

So I have Markus Naslund and Erik Cole on my team, which one of them should I drop for Alexander Semin?

Hockey peeps, I need you help.

1) Has David Aebischer actually been playing badly enough to be waivered?
2) Are the rumours of said waivering true?

Wrestling Society X - I've only seen the first match (Jack Evans v Matt Sydal) and ( Spoilers )

I so plan on watching the rest of the matches that I can get hold of.

Amusing thing from the Monday pub quiz - one of the questions was name 5 out of the 6 counties of Northern Island. I got two right off the bat (Antrim and Derry), Andy gets Armagh and I am reduced to humming 'Star of the County Down' (which was our fourth) to try and get the name of one of the other two. Amazingly said trick worked. Who said folk songs teach you nothing.

Cycling - dear UCI and Pro-Tour, plus the idiots in charge of the Vuelta and Le Tour - if you do not give Astuna a place, we will all know it's because you're prejudiced idiots, because they've had no more positives than anyone else.

PS: Dear Ivan Basso, may you fail miserably at Discovery.

Ice Hockey - question for the hockey loving peeps on my f-list, who is more likely to get better first, Jarret Stoll or Mikael Samuelsson?

So I either put Joe Corvo who's just back from injury back into my team or keep him out temporarily. The problem is, his stats already beat that of one of the defenders I have in there but I don't know if that's just a quirk.

This leads to one question - which has the better defence, Ottowa or Anaheim?

Current Mood: confused

What does this mean - "The Boston Bruins placed McEachern on waivers, and the 13-year veteran has cleared them. McEachern signed a two-year deal with Boston in August, paving the way for the Massachusetts native to play in his home state, but now he's likely to be assigned to Boston's AHL affiliate in Providence."

Does that mean he won't be playing for the Bruins no more. I ask only because he's on one of my fantasy hockey teams.

Being weak I have, of course, signed up for the Yahoo!Sports fantasy hockey thing this season. One, or three, small problems with my head to head team - the problems being the following players:

Nick Boynton
Owen Nolan
Roman Cechmanek

They've all got NA next to their names, and while Boynton just seems to be sticking it out for more money and Nolan seems to be in dispute with his team, I can find no information of Cechmanek.

Would anyone who knows care to tell me what the chances are of any of them playing at the start of the season?

(kicks Yahoo for lack of information)

So I read this column in the hope, the vain hope, that it will get my rotiserrie numbers up (in the head to head league I'm like 3rd somehow)

>>Penalty Shots: Picking a winner for this week's Mario Lemieux Award was tough. I could have gone with Pavol Demitra, who had the award named after him last season, since he is missing the next couple games due to the chicken pox, and I could have also chosen Jochen Hecht because of him having part of his ear sliced off by a slap shot, but I went with a man who is as fragile as Nicklas Lidstrom is durable.

Pavel Bure gets the award for excellence at getting injured this week. The jury is still out on whether he tore the ACL in his left knee, although he seems to have sprained or ripped every other cartilage, ligament or meniscus in it, so it is likely the ACL is damaged in one way or another. <<

The ML award is the award for most injured player. And lets just say that it's just my luck that Demitra and Hecht are both on my team. But it's on my head to head team oddly enough.

On the football (soccer) one I'm doing incredibly badly, but my favourite player (on my team anyway) has now returned which is yay.

Will be back soon with pictures of him and various others, if and when I can find them.

Finally got first place in the Yahoo Fantasy Hockey League I'm in. All though it's in the Penalties In Minutes section.

I didn't choose violent players, and I'm not like that at all. (Hides the Rangers' quiz result that gave her Kasparitas)

As far as quiz results I don't mind posting goes, this is cool. :)

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Someone care to explain to me how the minute I turn my back, various ice hockey players get injured.

(Fights back urge to say anything innuendo laden about Richard Zednik's groin.)

Reminds me about a quote about Liverpool football club, 'Far too many men are far too interested about Steven Gerrard's groin'.

I had to get myself another team, since the one I have is a rotissere one. I am an idiot.

Anyway, other than having one player with the surname Satan, which shall amuse me greatly for a long time, I've noticed that if you combine the two teams I do seem to have more Czech players than the Czech national team does. Which again amuses me greatly. I only noticed since I ended up with Jaromir Jagr, I knew I shouldn't have put him so high on my picks list.

BTW, what is high sticking? Sorry, ought to explain myself, I can guess what high sticking is, just how do you get a one match ban for doing it.

Yup, along with Satan and Jagr, I got he of the concusions.

I realise it will be short-lived, but at the moment I have some how snuck onto the top the league I'm in in the fantasy ice hockey.

It's 'cause I got lucky and ended up with 2 LA Kings players, so the've got some points already. Then again, my goalie plays for Phoenix so not all is good.

The two LW that I have are John LeClair and Scott Thornton, and I have to replace one of them. Any suggestions as to which one?

Could anyone name me a good Ice Hockey left wing? The two that I got drafted to me on the Yahoo Sport! thing have both got injured, poor boys, and therefore I need a replacement.

And how good was the Relic Hunter end of season episode. They some how managed to make a hissable villain into a decent human being without making him a wimp.

What on earth are pre-season games, and do they count for anything? Sorry if it's a very stupid question, but I'm new to sport.

How typical is it that in the very first match, the quarterback I got drafted to my team breaks him little finger. Arrgh. And of course, I daren't trade him since it's Kurt Warner. Ack.

I've already traded one player out, Curtis Martin, but that was because he's got an injured ankle and even his coach has said it's not going to get better for ages.

I've also got someone injured on the Hockey team (checks to see who it is) John LeClair. Who was in the benched places when drafted so it's not that bad. The only problem is I'm trying to notice the difference between people who I wouldn't know from Adam.

I need to put a different name there though, I've got a very distinctive friend called Adam so I can tell them apart from him, but what can you do, it's classic phrase.