Wednesday, April 19, 2006
This is a sports post, so if you don't care about sports DALE, you can skip this entry.

At San's urging, I actually checked the final results of my work hockey pool. The last time I checked (about a week ago) I was in 5th and had kind of given up. But I actually came in 2nd, which I think might get me my entry $40 back, at least. So that's cool.

Speaking of the NHL, man oh man what a year for rookies. Of course there was Ovechkin - 50 goals!? - and Crosby. But what about freaking Dion Phaneuf? Hell, he had 20 goals, which is TONS for a D-man, let alone a rookie. 16 of them were power-play goals, and 7 were game-winners. And it was the 2nd most goals scored by any defenseman, only 1 behind Detroit's Mathieu Schneider. He was also 3rd on the Flames in scoring.

It's a hard choice between those three. But there were tons of other good rookies this year. It just shows how talented the freshman pool was when you consider that Marek Svatos, with 32 goals in only 62 games, wasn't even really in the running.

Speaking further of the NHL, the playoffs is almost upon us, which means PUCK YOU is back in operation! Technically it's been in operation this entire season, but no one really used it. Unfortunately since Nick's Canucks are out, he'll probably refuse to write anything out of bitterness. And also unfortunately, stupid BC TV stations will probably show like two Flames games the entire playoffs.


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