Jenny

I wouldn't go. Put that money towards a flight in to Detroit Metro and Wings tickets!

Jimmy or Ozzie? Yes.  

Study or sleep?

College textbook prices. Except that's not a little thing, it's a large thing. $160 for a "book" that's not a book at all-- it's all the contents of the book printed on loose paper and wrapped in plastic, which I have to put in a binder if I don't want it all to get lost. $160 and they can't even give me a freakin' binder to put it in. Then for my other class I have the choice of getting the physical book for $135 used or $180 new, or renting the e-book version for $81, meaning I can only print a very limited amount of it and I won't be able to access it after the end of the semester.

College textbooks are SUCH A SCAM!

I would really like to see Ozzie and Howard getting a more equal number of starts and competing for the number one spot. They're buddies, they can take it. It really doesn't make much sense to me to keep pushing and pushing Howard.

OZZIE!  

Boy, did he ever earn that one!

Oh for....

I thought he would be fine, since he went back out after the initial puck hit. Damn.

Insert standard commentary about the team overcoming adversity and guys needing to step up here. Meanwhile, I'll be over in the corner trying to devise a ritual to appease the hockey gods before they decide to poke someone else.

It's not quite fast enough, but here's a rough attempt:

If I ever again come up with a plan which involves making 6 pies in one day, please stop me.

http://www.freep.com...ORTS05/12210416

Jordan Cole will finally get his wish to skate with Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg on Wednesday.

The invitation to skate with the Red Wings' two best two-way players was extended to Cole last season through the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan.

Cole, who grew up playing hockey in Fraser and Berkley, was diagnosed four years ago with cystic fibrosis. He broke his right ankle playing hockey last January and had to have microfracture surgery in March -- the day before he was originally scheduled to skate with the Wings.


They'd already sent him a personalized hockey jersey and told him they'd grant his wish after he got back on his skates.

Cole, now a 19-year-old freshman at Macomb Community College and rookie forward on an adult rec hockey team, will get to skate with Datsyuk and Zetterberg after the morning practice at Joe Louis Arena. Then Cole and nine family members and friends will return to watch the Wings play against the Canucks.

Patrick Eaves is mildly amused:

He'll be fine, even if the game is a loss.  The entire team is usually the cause of a loss, not just the goalie and Ozzie knows this.

Yeah, of all the goalies out there, Ozzie seems to be one of the ones most able to roll with the punches and not internalize losses badly. I know sometimes that is frustrating to fans, when there's a bad loss and he's just shaking it off, but that's got to be better for a goalie's mental longevity than a long rant about self-blame.

Oh, and also: OZZIE! OZZIE! OZZIE! OZZIE!  

The Wii Fit is pretty good. The hula hoop game and the rhythm boxing are decent for cardio, and the yoga stretches are nice. The strength training is not so great, I've found. For strength it might be better to get a couple of small dumbbells and do a basic routine like this one: Building Muscle and Bone—At Home, On Your Own. When I'm really focused I can do that in about 15 minutes, but I leave out the step ups, because that's so similar to running on the elliptical.

Another option for working out at home-- if your cable/satellite has On Demand, it should have a section of Free On Demand shows, which contain a channel called Exercise TV with a whole bunch of workouts to choose from. The catch is that the descriptions don't really say how advanced each workout is or if it needs any special equipment, so you might have to try a few before you find a good one. I accidentally picked one this morning that was way more advanced than I was ready for. Yow! I could only do about half of it before my legs felt too wobbly to do any more.     They seem to have all levels of workout, though, if you can find the right one!

Babcocks hair would hop off his head and pimp slap all 3 of those guys.  

And then the McGill tie would strangle all three of them. At the same time. Coach wouldn't even have to tell it to do so-- it would just know.

but much respect for him stepping up to back up Dats

It was also good to see Ericsson right there after Abby got pushed into the net, glaring at the Oilers like he was daring them to try to hurt Abby while he was down. The big lug may learn to use his size after all.  

i like the last pic on that page. babcock standing there is pretty funny.

I was kind of thinking it must be a cardboard cutout of Babs, because why would he be up in the stands during warmups?

But then, this leads to the question of why on earth someone would make or obtain a lifesize cardboard cutout of Mike Babcock and bring it to a game.