You know, even before watching this video, that Sean Avery and Steve Ott are going to be in there, but who else? Anyone want to make any guesses before they watch this? Throw them in the comments, then watch and brag about how right you are!

Alternatively, you can just watch it first, and then beef about this guy or that guy not being there, or some guy that you didn’t think was that bad being included if you’re unhappy.

Let’s hear it!

Randy from The Trailer Park Boys just called me with a complaint about the food being served up in NHL arenas. Apparently, The Dirty Burger, run out of Philadelphia Collin’s old motor home, is far cleaner than the dumps that serve food in our NHL arenas. Apparently Randy and Phil were hired to travel around to all the NHL arenas last season, to sample the food, and rate them all on cleanliness/disgustingness, and these are the results:

Worst NHL arena in Canada for food safety: Rexall Place, Edmonton, AB, with 25% of vendors being in critical violation. Notes: vendors handling dirty dishes and then clean dishes without washing hands. That doesn’t seem so bad when compared to the next one…

Worst NHL arena in the USA for food safety: Verizon Center, Washinton, DC, with 100% of vendors being in critical violation. Notes: mice droppings were found at at least 10 vendors. Gonna make you look twice at your salsa hey?

Whatever, I don’t really care either way, because I’m going to eat the food regardless. How about you guys? You avoid the stuff like the plague, or don’t give a flying one like me?

The Carolina Hurricanes have unveiled their logo for the 2011 All-Star Game, and I like it. It’s not a bunch of shooting stars, or any other lame stuff, but instead it’s a clean crisp logo that looks great. Yeah, it kinda has the toilet bowl swirl, similar to the Hurricanes logo, but I still likey. What do you think?

Here are the highlights from the first game, Oilers at Bruins, being shown from the 1990 Stanley Cup Final:

Mother Pucker finally got a face lift! No, not one to fix that hideous broken nose, but one to the layout of the website. Gone are all the useless images and colors that were getting in the way, and coming in is a clean layout that emphasizes the content.

Um, content? I guess I’ll have to start writing at a higher level now? Or maybe there will be some help? Yeah, stay tuned over the off season for more additions to the site that I’m sure you’ll hate even more than Pierre Mcguire.

For more details check out Puck Daddy and Mike Chen‘s reactions. No this isn’t me being lazy, this is me passing on some quick info before rushing out to to golf course… you know, thats what we hockey people do in the summer.

So why are Kovalchuk and Ovechkin great players? They put up the points, they lead their teams in scoring, and are all around all-stars. Why are Crosby and Kane champions? Because they’ve both won it all at the NHL level, and Crosby also at the international level.

So lets look at salaries now. Crosby, Ovechkin, and Kovalchuk all make an absolute shitload, while Kane is still at a $3.725 million bargain. Would you rather have two of those top three, or one of them and Kaner? I’d go with option b. Why? Because Kane has proven that he can win, not just be a great player. What have Ovechkin and Kovalchuk done? Internationally a few years ago I guess, but where they get paid? Nothing.

I basically kept my mouth shut about the Kovalchuk sweepstakes, because I thought the whole thing was a joke. The guy isn’t a proven winner, yet he seems to think he can command billions of millions of dollars? Come on! When are owners going to get realistic and realize that it’s not these guys making trillions that are winning them the cups, it’s the true champions instead.

So anyway, I’m glad that Kovalchuk stayed in NJ so we won’t have to hear about him with yet another team, that he is supposedly going to lead all the way.

Hat tip to Fine Art America for the illustration of Kovalchuk.

What a beauty!

I just heard that the Old Spice Man is creating personal videos for random people online, and I shot him the following tweet:

Hey @OldSpice have you ever played hockey? any good? would you fight a giraffe? can you grow your own food? and how kick ass are you?

I don’t know how he (they?) chose who gets a video made for them, but my fingers are crossed that I get to be one of the lucky ones.