Stray thoughts

1) What's up with all the sticks breaking?

2) Nice going Bettman, you fuck. The caps/pens have to play back to back games with travel in between? Really solid stuff you moron. You can probably barely muster the energy to WATCH back to back games. Really, please just kill yourself.

3) Eddie Olcyk, I think, is a moron. An actual quote from last night's game:

Emrick: What's your read on Washington?

Olcyk: Well, they need to score on this power play. They've gone dry on the power play so far tonight and they're a team that really relies on it, almost as a laxative for their overall offense.

LAXATIVE?? Here's the really funny thing -- this is the SECOND time I've heard him say that.

4) Commercials on Versus

I like the NHL commercial of the guy going through the dressing room before the game. Unfortunately, no casual fans would recognize half the players without their uniforms on.

I also really like the Honda commercial of taking the kids to hockey practice at ungodly hours. It is probably the "American Beauty" piano soundtrack in the back, but there is something about that commercial that resonates.

But then there's Miller taking a page out of the George Bush playbook, by touting the taste and quality of Miller lite. Their new commercial touts their "triple hops brewing." They apparently add the hops THREE DIFFERENT TIMES during the brewing process. Which leads to the question of why I can't taste it then? I mean if I normally put a tsp of sugar in my coffee, and then decide to put 1/2 tsp in twice, does my coffee taste any different?

"When you're enjoying the great pilsner taste of a Miller Lite, do you ever think about the way that it's triple-hops-brewed?"

NO, I WONDER WHO THE FUCK BROUGHT THIS SHITTY BEER OVER.

And why oh why is the most interesting man in the world running around in the middle of the night in an overloaded 15 foot skiff filled with models in the middle of the sea? I would think the most interesting man in the world could afford a proper boat.