This Way Lies Pladness

[dlgood]

Are you a Hockey fan? Do you find uniform design interesting? Well then, check out the story on very special Plaid Uniforms worn by the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League. (Affiliation - Nashville Predators) -- My icon shows the regular jersey designs...






I think I kind of want one of these. It's mesmerizing. You could skate at ludicrous speed. How could any goalie defend against someone dressed like that? It's just not possible.

Olympics Note - Sasha Cohen fell on her tuchus and got Silver. Very sad for her. People will remember Michelle Kwan as the skater who kept getting beat. They'll remember Sasha as the skater who choked.

Both the US and Canada hockey teams have been bounced. It's only mildly disappointing for the US, because our team is old and slow. Which, really, is a sorry indicator on the quality of under-30 US Hockey players. It's crusing for the Canadians. They've got young players, they've got great players, how can they not even score against Switzerland? My expectation is either Finland or Russia for gold. I like Alex Ovechkin, but I have a longstanding practice of rooting for the Finns the minute the US is eliminated, for no reason other than I think Finnish names sound awesome.

Comments

[ladystarlightsj.livejournal.com]

My totally non-sports knowing, cranky Canadian (even though I hate hockey) theory on the men's team is "Maybe now we'll dump the professional players and have an Olympic team that actually practices together for more than a week before the Games."

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Heh. They can't dump the pros. You could take a team of amateurs and make them play together for awhile, and they'd get crushed way worse than how the Canadian pros did. Team Canada did fine in 1998 and 2002. (The US did well in 2002) The difference was... the US has the same players from '98 whereas Canada has had an infusion of young players. Where the US was old and crappy, Canada's guys just laid an egg...

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Heh, the Canadian men didn't just lay an egg, they sucked one. I agree with LadyS, I think the game would be more exciting if the men played like the womens teams. The Canadian women were awesome. Gold covered awesome.
One of the papers had a cartoon showing the men's coach telling the players Play like girls!!