Thank You

Thank you San Jose Sharks for restoring my faith in the sport of hockey.

My god I needed that..and to do it against the Boston Bruins..? I'm getting so excited for their little roadtrip to Montreal and Ottawa. Thursday the 26th I head to Ottawa for the Sens/Sharks game for FREE thanks to Athena who's the biggest sweetheart in the world. I've always wanted to go into another teams arena while sporting the rivals jersey. I mean the Sharks aren't REALLY a big rival of any Eastern team but I know I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb and I'm beyond excited. The only weird thing is going to be standing up when they score..I'm used to doing it alongside 21,273 deliriously crazy fans. Everyone says it's not possible to have two favorite teams. I can argue that.

It's about time

There's going to be some big changes made in my life when I come home from Cuba.

Mainly two.

2 For 10

Maybe it's because I'm not much of a team player. Maybe it's because I've never in my life played on a sports team. It just baffles me that a group of people can come together and all suddenly decide that they're going to stop caring at the exact same time. It makes me so sad to admit that there's no one on my hockey team who shows any heart..ever. Where are the guys that are supposed to be stepping it up? Where the hell is the Kovalev of 2007-2008? How is it physically possible for someone to be such a bi-polar player!?! For someone who claims that he wants to bring the cup to Montreal because he loves it here so much he's doing shit all to help out the team.

Last year it broke my heart thinking of trading anyone on the Habs but this year I'm ready to ship a good chunk of them off for a player with some heart who will make a difference during a slump. I wish we had an Ovechkin on our team. Someone who played for the love of the game and stepped out onto the ice every night with the goal of winning on their mind. If his team is having a shit game he steps up and motivates the team vocally and through his play. Where is our guy like that? Why does NOBODY stand up and make a difference? It disgusts me that we're allowing 5 goals in almost all of our games.

I'm not a bandwagoner fan. I've never been that way and I will NEVER be that way. The Habs are my team no matter what but there comes a point when even the die hards fans step back and go "Okay a loss is a loss but to not even try?". Why should I spend hundreds of dollars cheering in the stands if my team doesn't even show up? I might as well just be watching center ice for 2 1/2 hours. I guess it's always a positive that I still have the Sharks who hopefully CREAM the Bruins tomorrow or else I'll be incredibly depressed.

That was my rant of the night & I absolutely had to get it off my chest. The habs & I are not on good terms right now. I'm a hockey fan before I'm a Habs fan but it would be fantastic if my favorite team would..gee...I dunno..TRY?

Mike Boone:"No life on the bench. No life on the ice. They've packed it in"

New Year. New Me.

I'm on Day Two of my eat healthy diet. I'd noticed over the past few weeks that I'd been eating horribly and I started to feel really gross because of it. Cuba has been a huge motivational factor for me because I don't want to look heavy and out of shape in a bathing suit. I decided to start eating purely healthy food, with one junky item every three days. It's funny because I've already felt a difference. I've tried to avoid starch altogether, aside from rice. I've also started up an 8 minute ab & leg work out and I've started walking 20 minutes each day. I think I can do it. For some reason this time I'm really trying and I really want to see results. A little over a month until Cuba.....!!!

Higs

I love this man.

It's almost impossible to name someone in the game of hockey who plays with so much heart and who works his ass off every single time his skate hits the ice.

This year is starting to look good...

January:
31st: Habs vs Kings @ Bell Center

February:
20th: The New Cities @ Underworld
22nd: The Hot Streak @ Club Soda
26th: Sens vs Sharks @ Scotiabank
28th: Sharks vs Habs @ Bell Center

March:
6th-13th: Cuba with the gang

May:
6th: Fall Out Boy tour

It's been awhile..

Having finally snapped back to reality I thought it was time to update my blog. I'm slowly adjusting to the frigid winter air and I'm starting to remember that I can't just leave my home in a bathing suit anymore.
Cabo was amazing. For the two weeks I spent in Mexico I completely forgot about what cold felt like. I spent hours upon hours lying by the pool or on a towel by the ocean, soaking in the sun and enjoying the serenity. The experience was made even better because I got to spend it with one of my absolute best friends. I had never traveled down South before so it was shocking to see what an incredibly different culture it was. On the first day I saw people living in cardboard box homes and traveling in the back of pickup trucks. The people in Mexico were very gracious and they allowed us to become incredibly comfortable. I'm a real homebody so by the end of the trip I was really missing Montreal. I'm excited to go back with 5 of my closest friends in a years time. It's far off but I've already started planning it in my mind.
Returning home to Montreal was perfectly fine with me for one reason, The All Star Game. Being a massive hockey this was the perfect opportunity for me to see some of my favorite players from other teams come together to forget about rivalries and just have a good time. The city was alive with fans from all across the country. On Saturday morning I woke up at 6am to line up for the NHL All Star Practice at the Bell Center which was general admission. After being rudely reminded about how cold it was outside we were let in at 7:30 and we sat down in the second row behind the goalies net. Our row was incredibly diverse. We were all sporting jerseys from different teams(I made sure to put my Nabokov one on) and we were up on the big screen on several occasions. I was ecstatic to see Marleau, Thornton, Parise & Lecavalier all under one roof. In my opinion it was worth it to spend 17$ to watch them practice for 4 hours. It was a lot better then spending 500 for two tickets to the game. We checked out the Jamboree after where I was asked by an Ottawa Sun photographer to pose near the Sharks jersey outside.
It was so much fun to see so many people in different jerseys. There was some friendly booing for Boston fans but it was all in good fun. A lot of people criticize the game but I think it's an amazing chance for everyone who loves hockey to come together and just enjoy themselves. No one was booing or trying to pick a fight with anyone. After that we headed down to Crescent to see the All Star concert.We almost froze our asses off, literally. It got to the point where I was walking funny because my feet were so cold. It was worth it in the end though. The New Cities put on one of the best shows I've seen to date. I'm not going to lie, I'm ridiculously proud of them and how far they've gotten. If anyone deserves success it's these guys. They have to be one of the nicest groups of people I've ever met and they know how to put on a hell of a show. This next year should be a lot of fun thanks to them. After their set we handed out some of their promo stickers and met some super interesting people. While I'm kind of sad to be away from the sun, I'm happy to be back in Montreal.