Philadelphia Flyers (20-10-7, 5th in east) at Anaheim Ducks (19-15-4, 6th in west)
2009: According to my calendar, it is Year of the Duck.

Rather than write up anything meaningful today, I thought I'd take a look back over some of the posts I wrote / pictures I drew over the past calendar year. Think of it as a bit of a retrospective on some of the 2008 blog-silliness of Earl Sleek. For any of the images, feel free to click back and read what events inspired such blessed idiocy. I've included one picture per month, plus three bonus pictures from a pretty image-happy summer.

Click below to see fifteen of my yesteryear favorites.

January 2008: Finnish Flashback

February 2008: A day that will live in infamy...

March 2008: What to do about Stompy?

April 2008: Ducks Gameday—Stage Six: Survival

May 2008: A moment of silence, please

June 2008: Is the writing on the wall for Schneider-man?

July 2008: Burke vs. Lowe, now in desktop wallpaper format!

July 2008: Sleek gets ImMirtle-ized. Go Pigs!

July 2008: Sleek forgets to include heroism in Bettman art

August 2008: More Bad Puns: the Pensblog submissions

August 2008: Bad Puns III: The Sanford Mask Contest

September 2008: Explaining the finer points of hockey to a new generation of fans

October 2008: BoC Gameday—What Scares Me About Your Team

November 2008: Brian Burke Week Part 1: Sleek defends three "bad" moves

December 2008:SUPER BIG NEWS (Let's call it SBN for short)

So that's my list. Feel free to comment on whichever one was your personal favorite, even if it's an image that I neglected to include.

Prediction: Ducks 3, Flyers 2. Goals by Perry, Pahlsson, and Kunitz.

Go Ducks.