SASKATOON BLADES: OCTOBER 2012

october started off quite shaky...and stayed that way. not much to say about this month, but penalties, horrible pk and pp, not getting the puck out of our end....all factors in the shitty month. there were five home games, and six away. and we won three of those. the worst loss obviously came from the october 5th game vs swift current... best part of the month was of course the trip to edmonton. ya we lost but hey i love going to road games. also, the darcy tucker/sami kapanen hit reenactment was pretty great as well vs red deer. a lot of our losses were real close, but, that also doesnt hide the blowouts. we have won one (regular season) home game so far, which was in overtime. probably wont see too many more home game wins until december since there is only three home games in november (eight away games). ALSO ANOTHER SHITTY THING, we traded stockl :( he was front running the chance (???) to be my new favourite player...

whatever. better luck in november. 

fuck you

GERRY DEE IN SASKATOON

so on the 26th, i went and seen gerry dee (comedian) preform in the city. i love his show and all his interviews he does with the score with athlete so i was super excited when i found out he was coming to saskatoon. i sat front row, where you had no room to cross your legs and was maybe a little too close for comfort. his opening act was from saskatchewan (i cant remember who) but he was super hilarious. his topics included: the riders, black people, saskatchewan, and rednecks. pretty much summed up most of the crowd. he lasted a good 30ish minutes. gerry dee is pretty friggin great live. never really expected that many fucks out of him. also, his relationship with the crowd is awesome. one of my favourite skits was defiantly (however you spell it) the points one... "hey gerry wanna go to vegas?" "i dont have enough points for vegas. i can go on a bike ride though". it was a great show and i cant wait till he is back again. also, season two of mr d airs in january!!

 

#gofacoff

 

EDMONTON TRIP 2012

soooo i took a "quick" trip to edmonton on saturday to watch the blades play the oil kings. i left early in the morning and 6ish hours later, i was there. i decided to get my shopping done early so i went before the game..first up was holt renfrew to get a new louis bag. had to go threw the ghetto part of edmonton and chinatown to get there, but hey it was worth it. 900 bucks later i was off to the mall. i didnt go to west ed which was fine by me, because the mall i wanted to go to anyways had all the stores i needed. seriously considering moving there. it was a 20 minute drive to my hotel, so once i got there, i got ready for the game right away. anddddd off to the game. i saw maybe 10 other blades fans there at the most. a few of them i "knew" (three of them went to medicine hat with us) and most of the others were family i am guessing. i know  matt revel's family was there, and i saw a guy in a lernout jersey, but he is from manitoba so who knows. thankfully i didnt get razzed too much, other than awkward stares by people and two guys clearly talking about me when i was walking infront of them. the first period was awesome. so much pressure and effort by both teams, but no goals. i guess the guys there at rexall forgot to change their penalties section on the jumbotron because it still said "raiders". the second period wasnt so good... WE SUCK ON THE PP AND PK. some goals were tough for makarov to get but hey, they still went in. the third was better... but not good enough. dietz scored and that was all the cheering i did that night. sucks cause i was reeeeally looking forward to being an asshole of a blades fan that night, in hopes that we would win by a pretty big margin. there was a guy at the bottom of my section that flattened an empty beer case and wrote "swift current 10, blades 1" on it. props to the blades fan who game him the finger. 

all in all, i had a amazing time. the outcome of the game sucked, but the game itself was great. a couple fights, a stick and puck that flew into the crowd almost knocked out a guy a few rows down from me.... next game vs edmomton is in january (kill me, its so far away), and back in edmonton in march. really wanna go. see ya in prince albert on november 2nd, oil kings.

"break records at louis. ate breakfast at gucci"