I'm assuming part of the job of an equipment manager is to understand how stuff like goalie knee pads work upon opening the package, because us players are too dumb to figure it out.
In which case, an equipment manager might have saved me 15 minutes of trying put my new knee pads on backwards. Now before you think I'm THAT stupid, no, I wasn't trying to put them on the backs of my knees.
They've got a garter belt they're attached to and I had that going front to back instead of back to front. It was clearly wrong but I was having a spatial meltdown trying to figure out what was right. In my defense, I'm terminally sleep-deprived until the Aeros season is over. Then I'm sleeping for 3 days straight. Do not call unless you have a paying hockey-writing gig for me.
Meanwhile, these bad boys have FOUR straps that go around the leg. It's too many once you add the knee lock from the pads to the scenario, so I've already rigged it so that there's only 3 and it seems pretty stable. Did a few drops in them on carpet and it seems pretty good. I'll probably need to take one of the knee stacks off my pads to deal with the bulk, but I'll try the whole bottom half on tomorrow at public skate and see what adjustments I need to make, then try them out for real at the stick and puck after (which I hope is lightly attended so I don't have to fuck with a scrimmage).
The hips/groin are still a bit tender doing certain things after Sunday's workout. I think it will feel good to get on the ice again and stretch that stuff out.
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For once, I'll spare T3I my slobbering, but this is too good to not re-post for the ladies in the house. Dane "Mr." Crowley talking about being on the Black Ace squad during playoffs and what his days are like as a perma-scratch. Sweet baby Jesus... what a hunk.
Totally ripping this from Schultzie. Sorry girl, but this blog has gotten so boring without Aeros coverage. Also, Mr. C has a bunch of friends over playing video games and I'm looking for ways to basically just avoid that whole scene.
One of them is singing You Oughta Know by Alanis Morrisette (they're playing Rock Band right now). Seriously, I may just have to leave the house.
1) What's (Who's?) your favorite team? Aeros and Wild
2) What's your least favorite team? Ducks, Habs, Rockford
3) Who's your favorite player? Cal Clutterbuck, Barry Brust
4) Who's your least favorite player? Darcy "Mother" Tucker, Chris Pronger "is a pussy"
5) Favorite American team? See #1
6) Favorite Canadian team? Calgary
7) Favorite International team? Canada
8) Who's your favorite goalie? Brusty, in the minors. Turco, Thomas, and Brodeur in the NHL.
9) Least favorite goalie? Kipper, but just because he fucked up my fantasy hockey this season. I really don't have it in me to dislike a goalie.
10) Favorite fighter? Who else but Mitch Love?
11) Least favorite fighter? Anybody beating up one of MY boys.
12) Favorite jersey/uniform/outfit/sweater? Love the Kings new third. Love the Wild red (but hate the uniform all together). Love seeing the Aeros in their darks.
13) Least favorite jersey/uniform/outfit/sweater?
Florida, Atlanta's and Sen's thirds
14) Do you like home, away, or "third" jerseys best? Tend to like the thirds just because they're different. Though only in the NHL. Alternate sweaters in the AHL are usually pretty fug.
15) Who do you want to win the Cup? Anybody but the Ducks
17) Which player would you most like to sit and have coffee with? Any goalie.
18) What about a beer? Chris Holt!
19) How about just watch the game with? I've enjoyed JBourne's bloggeration of the playoffs... I suspect he'd be pretty fun to watch a few frames with.
20) Have an in-depth hockey conversation with? Again, any goalie. Or really, any bum off the street. I just love to talk hockey, but if I can learn something, the more the better.
21) Do you collect hockey cards, memorabilia, etc? No. More to dust. Just my Legace stick and a few Aeros bobbles.
22) If so, what's your favorite card? N/a
23) Which is worth the most, and what's it worth? How much will you give me for the Curtis Murphy bobble I've got? It's a big one! But it's very dusty.
24) Do you live by any hockey players? Not as far as I know, unless you count Coach Stalin. Now, if I lived in Sugarland...
26) Do you play hockey? Absofuckinlutely.
27) What do you wear to hockey games? Gotta go biz-caz for my writing gig, so it's slacks, a nice t-shirt, and my light jacket with lots of pockets for my writerly things.
28) Do you have any "watching hockey rituals" or anything anyone might consider weird? Not really, no.
29) What's your favorite hockey memory (as a fan?) The Cal for Calder thing was pretty fun.
30) What's your favorite hockey commercial?
31) Who's the nicest player you've met? Haven't actually met too many. Hard to say.
32) Rudest/meanest/most annoying, etc? Same answer. Of course, there are guys I don't like but they're probably pretty nice off the ice.
33) Who's the best looking (AKA 'off ice favourite') Mikko Koivu. Dane Crowley. Both make me catch my breath a little. Okay, a lot.
34) Other off-handed/off-ice comments? None that I'm okay with putting here.
35) Why do you really like hockey? The grace and skill contrasted/combined with the speed and violence. There's just nothing else like it. That these guys who are so easy going off the ice are such warriors on it. It never gets old for me. My happy place is sitting up at the top of 108 watching the boys do their thing. I'd rather be there more than any other place.
But on the flip side, I'm equally amazed that *I* can play this game, in my own assbackward way, a couple of times a week and am ALMOST as happy as when I'm covering a game. I dunno. Hockey has been completely transformative for me. I owe it a lot.
Nice little article on Dane Crowley by the Everett, WA paper. He played for the Tips under Constantine and talks about what it's like to play for KC. Lots of screaming apparently, if you don't get the system. :)
Sounds like he's rocking along out west. Hey ladies! He can cook! Well... he can cook salmon. Hope you like salmon! Salmon salmon salmon!
In addition to Adams being assigned to Corpus, Valette being signed to a PTO, Kolanos going up, and Scott returning, Dane Crowley has been assigned to the Phoenix Roadrunners.
Apart from some youthful mistakes and a penchant for penalties, I kinda liked the kid. Scrappy, good looking, offensive-minded defenseman... what's not to like? But at his age, he needs to not just be sitting every game, so it's good they've sent him along where he can play. I hope he gets another shot because I never got a chance to use this video:
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