Ducks Gameday -- Lessons in Perserverence
by Earl Sleek on Oct 17, 2010 3:00 PM PDT
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Five For Howling and Anaheim Calling -- somebody must have time to blog today.
It's been a busy weekend -- I have one brother in from New York and another one in from Chicago -- so today's post will be short and relatively pointless. Recently my mom has been telling me (or rather, I've been bugging her) about a feel-good story coming out of South Korea. Apparently an older woman, presumably illiterate, had been trying for years to get her drivers license, but could not pass the written portion of the exam. But she persisted!
A Korean woman, Cha Sa-soon, finally passed her driving test after the 960th try. The 69-year-old had to go through a 50-minute, 40-question test in order to pass. She had taken this test once a day since April 2005, but failed every time, until now.
When local news outlets got the story, it grabbed the attention of Hyundai-Kia. As a sort of graduation present, Kia gave the woman a brand-new Kia Soul. Persistence does pay off in the end.
According to my mom's version, it took her 5 years to pass the written test, then 3 extra tries to pass the actual behind-the-wheel test. But in finally succeeding, the woman has become somewhat of a national icon -- free car, multiple TV appearances -- that's the sort of can-do, never-quit, fuck-my-illiteracy attitude that Koreans can rally behind!
Prediction: Despite suffering from the on-ice version of illiteracy, Ducks persist and succeed Korean-style! Goals by Teemu, San Andreas, and Cha Sa-soon. I should be around for most of today's game comments, though I do have to make an airport run sometime late in the 2nd period.
Go Ducks.
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If you want to go the game tonight and sit next to Bleys in 215 Row G
Bleys posted in AC (and will probably post here soon) looking for takers. Right behind the visiting goalie. Sounds Suh-weet.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Oct 17, 2010 3:05 PM PDT reply actions
Damn airport run! I’m the Cam Fowler of my family.
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by Earl Sleek on Oct 17, 2010 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Haha it turns out my friend is good to go so not today, but watch for it. Till my dad is healed up to go, I might need a partner in crime.
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by Bleys on Oct 17, 2010 3:14 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
fuck i would have gone if i didnt live in BFE
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope it’s like the Countrytime Buffet episode of South Park, where he just runs it into a building and takes out fifty people.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Oct 17, 2010 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
ill be in the comments tonite…ill holla at Cha Sa-soon
i discovered im horrible at beer pong last nite..1 for 6 or somthing like that…damn i still feel drunk
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 3:36 PM PDT reply actions
It’s probably different in S. Korea, but over here don’t you get like 3 written tests for $20? That’d be over $6,000 for 960 tests…
Since a state rape isn’t at stake (that seems to be my focus now every game), my interest in this game is diminished. So… go Ducks?
"Hey, Luongo: YOU SUCK!"
Courtesy of some guys in 331.
Yeah, it’s not included in the link I had, but she did spend a shitload on administrative fees.
I was telling my mom the Korean DMV had probably adjust its budget next year — that’s a cash cow that’s now milked out.
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Lilja and Lydman are in — no Mikkelson.
3 D LILJA, ANDREAS
8 R SELANNE, TEEMU
9 R RYAN, BOBBY
10 R PERRY, COREY
11 C KOIVU, SAKU
15 C GETZLAF, RYAN
16 R PARROS, GEORGE
17 D VISNOVSKY, LUBOMIR
20 C CARTER, RYAN
21 D BROOKBANK, SHELDON
22 C MARCHANT, TODD
23 D MARA, PAUL
28 C CHIPCHURA, KYLE
32 D LYDMAN, TONI
33 L BLAKE, JASON
39 L BELESKEY, MATT
42 R SEXTON, DAN
54 D FOWLER, CAM
1 G HILLER, JONAS
31 G MCELHINNEY, CURTIS
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that also has to mean fowler is here to stay…no getting sbisa-d
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh yeah, plus Ryan Carter’s debut — Sex Offender riding with the Finns.
Some things to watch today.
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be intresting to see if it works…so far looks shaky
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
good try by stone hands almost made somthing happen
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions
dude when is tabasco sauce gonna make a start?
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
gorilla head quickly changing lines and d pairings…i think its slowing us down
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 5:22 PM PDT reply actions
Ryan – Getzlaf – Perry
Sexton – Koivu – Selanne
Blake – Carter – Beleskey
Chipchura – Marchant – Parros
Visnovsky – Lydman
Fowler – Mara
Lilja – Brookbank
Just so I can reference it — I kind of like the look of this. And heck, shots are 5-2.
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its intruiging….lilja made a nice tight pass…out of the dzone
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
damn the ducks just cannot control the puck..fuck
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 5:25 PM PDT reply actions
i want dave karpa to teach my son to play hockey..what school did he say?
good to see rooch and guy
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 5:32 PM PDT reply actions
i was thinking that too…he was really gassed..as u could tell after the whistle blew…
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions
fowler said..oh i like this goal scoring thang….
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 6:07 PM PDT reply actions
Word out of the locker room: Fowler is out of the game. Being evaluated. Get well soon, little duck!
Seriously — it sounded bad on the radio.
On the other hand, I still have yet to see a Lydman goal. But they sound great!
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Damn, that was a fast airport trip! What’d you do, push your sibs out of the moving car and peel out?
It was a pick-up. That few minutes when I was stuck under the departure area with no radio was murder.
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I feel a little bad — I think my sister told me a story on the way home, and I hardly heard a word. :)
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that little bit of white huh?
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin
and belesky gets another minus
fuck fuck…arg…shiiiiiiiiiiiiit
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 7:21 PM PDT reply actions
I’m starting to lose track of all these nicknames, can we get a cheat-sheet or something?
San Jose Sharks: Welcome to the Failoffs
My list isn’t too extensive.
Registered Sex Offender = Dan Sexton
San Andreas = Andreas Lilja
B-Ry = Bobby Ryan
Hound of Beleskeyville = Matt Beleskey
Moustache = George Parros
Baldy = Ryan Getzlaf
Douchey = Corey Perry
MiracElhinney = Curtis McElhinney
Stone Hands / Leprechaun = Todd Marchant
Hitler = Jonas Hiller
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spades list:
Sex monster= Dan Sexton
San Andreas = Andreas Lilja
Bob-o = Bobby Ryan
Hound of Beleskeyville = Matt Beleskey
stache = George Parros
Baldy/el capiton = Ryan Getzlaf
Douche = Corey Perry
Tabasco = Curtis McElhinney
Stone Hands / Leprechaun = Todd Marchant
Ghost faced Hilla= Jonas Hiller
The rat = Jason Blake
Chupacabra= Kyle Chipchura
Bear Bottom = Paul Mara
Vish = Vishnosky
Brookbank Mountain = Brookbank
4 eyes = toni Lydman (thats on a trial version)
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
4 eyes = toni Lydman (thats on a trial version)
I like that one a LOT!
Forgot Brookbank Mountain and The Rat. :)
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Not that Fowler needs one, but
I’d like to propose: Cam Shaft
I like it because, for the first few games, he was keeping the D running (when not being rammed into the boards by Doan). And because you can say things like “that guy just got Cam-shafted”, and “the Cam-shaft is running at high RPM” among endless internal combustion engine puns.
there’s my 2 cents.
thats also gorilla heads name for him….ill give it a try..i also like savior or jesus…but im drifting from that
i wonder if camshaft will get a new number when he gets past 10 games..he would look good in a number seven or 4
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 6:42 AM PDT up reply actions
I didn't realize I wasn't being original.
Has Gorilla Head really been calling him that? funny. I miss a lot of the coverage out here in Chicago. Center ice free preview was how I got to watch last night.
check the OC register blogs..u get a lot of inside info…like that little nugget..he said he called him that cuz fowler didnt know what a camshaft was lol
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 7:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, the fact that it’s Carlyle-inspired may be a drawback, but I haven’t ruled it out yet.
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we could use nose job also..but i dont like that either..
just hope to see him suit up for the chaquetas azules game on wed.
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 7:51 AM PDT up reply actions
how bout neidefowler…ehh no i dont like that either
cam neidemeyer?
im sure the nickname will present itself eventually
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 8:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I really hadn’t heard RC call him that, Camshaft is fairly obvious. I’ll bet that every jerk 6-year-old was calling him that on the playground.
All that to say that if Carlyle-inspired is all that’s holding you back, neither he or I were very original in coming up with it to begin with. Of course that may be enough to come up with something different.
2 goals in 2 games?…hes on pace for seventy somthing!! hahaha
goooooo 4 eyes lol
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 7:44 PM PDT up reply actions
i need a smaller version of this so i can post when we get episodes like this
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
awesome thanx..i need to update though take out sbisa and mikkelson…i might add hound of belesky and vish not sure though im open for suggestions
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 7:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, you may want to wait a bit — we may be cycling through guys a bit before we can settle.
It works fine so long any of them are in.
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well as long as brookbank mountain is in there it works..hes gotta be our worst defensmen at the moment
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 7:42 PM PDT up reply actions
how dare u joke about the savior!! lol
fuck man i hope hes ok…has to be a concussion..it was brutal looking he looked a little dazed
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 17, 2010 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah — maybe Sbisa’s back before we know it. That’s why I wouldn’t get so hasty on adjusting the poster just yet.
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Though I haven’t even seen that hit yet — that happened during the airport drive. All I’ve seen is the Doan hit on Sexton — do you think there’s a suspension case like Hayward keeps droning on about?
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Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler suffered a cut on his nose but is believed to be OK after a dangerous-looking hit Sunday, according to the Ducks.
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thank gawd…did u see his moves before he got decked?…smooth..almost scored a 2nd…he also missed wide on a similar spot like his first goal….freakin kid is gonna be special no doubt
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 5:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Did you see Carter miss the wide open net? It was just sitting on the goal line, I couldn’t believe it.
yea that was crazy..niether team had any idea the puck was there for like a good 10 sec it was weird
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 8:17 AM PDT up reply actions
woohoo..make it a compitetion…too bad your not interviewing the players..u could bring that up..get the competitive juices going..although maybe getzlaf stops passing to selanne lol
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Finland’s going to be in this tough if anybody else ends their goal slump, though — I did laugh pretty hard when in the postgame interviews they went up to Lydman and explained how this was his first goal-scoring streak in his 10-year career, then immediately followed it up with, “So, can you keep this pace up?”
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haha
yea i hope its a sign hes quickly got our system and feels comfortable..hes not as big as i thought he was..i thought he was more like a mara type build..curious to see how his season plays out
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions
i think u swap out mikkelsson for brookbank mountain and with a healthy new nose fowler and you got at least an average D….i think some potential here..im cautiously optomistic
and am i the only one who like our new look power play?..this new coach seems to move our players around a lot more…a lot of moving parts instead of the staionary PP’s of the last 2 years…if they could cut down on the cuteness it could really be somthing
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 5:28 AM PDT reply actions
i thought so too, moving the puck well, but often one or two passes more than necessary. someone needs to let them klnow that cute goals and ugly goals count the same in the scoreboard
someone needs to let them klnow that cute goals and ugly goals count the same in the scoreboard
amen brother
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 6:40 AM PDT up reply actions
see i dont think point shots work for this unit becuase its full of slow playmakers/snipers..if u you start shooting like crazy from the points..none of these slow asses will get to rebounds before the pk units (selanne isnt slow but doesnt have the tenacity to fight for a rebound)..what i would change is eleminating the 4th or 5th unecessary pass they always seem to make..also getzlaf trusting his shot a little more
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 8:23 AM PDT up reply actions
and maybe mix in a goalie screen..
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 8:23 AM PDT up reply actions
im speaking of our top unit…with ryan and vish on the points…the 2nd unit by all means should be more conventinal shoot from the point-screen-bury rebounds…i think rememeber belesky and koivu at forwards…cant remember who the 3rd was….maybe blake..the kinda guys who can get to those rebounds..
yea im all for cam shooting
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Mara supposedly has a pretty solid shot, if you believe the radio guys — haven’t seen much of it myself, but he could be an option.
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bear bottom plus 1..hes been a pleasant surprise..i think i saw him shoot once..and it was on goal…no whiz 12 ft wide kinda shot
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, no complaints about Mara — he’s been a good babysitter for Fowler and the one time he fought he was able to explain it as pre-empting Getzlaf from doing something stupider — good head for the game, in other words.
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im just hoping he grows the beard…could turn into another marketing tool for the ducks plus it helps my nickname
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 9:12 AM PDT up reply actions
u could buy a parros stache and bear bottom beard…and totally go rob a bank!!..its brillant!!..soon after u can get the baldy cap and fowler broken nose…you’d look like some 20’s boxer…
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions
thats why belesky worked well on the top line..he would fetch the getz..perry rebounds..do the dirty work
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 8:26 AM PDT up reply actions
lilja interview (sorta)
It was really fun to be back and in the first two periods it also felt quite, says the 35-year-old from Skåne.
- Then I had leg cramps in the third and had to take a very short shifts. But that’s normal. I haven’t played for two and a half weeks and this was furthermore the first real match of the season.
The fact he suddenly is teammate with players which during the Detroit-time were enemies see Andrew only as pleasant.
- I have of course got a lot of questions about the rivalry between the Wings and Ducks, and I replied that I loved to hate these players, he chuckles.
- You always knew you would get run over, but also that you get to drive over someone too. Now I’ve got to change sides and it is really fun. So far they been nice to me too …
Besides, “Lills” believes that his new team is better than what the season start indicates.
- This team is better than it gets credit for. I think it will be really successful in the future, he states.
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
Remember kids it's down the road not across the street
by sleza on Oct 18, 2010 9:21 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Thanks, that’s awesome — nice to know the hatred exists, and that it can work for him.
I liked his debut a lot last night — lots of little plays with the puck that ended up on forwards’ sticks.
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agreed this is awesome insight…i wish they would have asked him if he talked to teemu about it
haha get run over..i miss those douche days
andreas fault did look winded towards the end..(remember the end of the 2nd?)…to be expected
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
ANA puts Brendan Mikkelson on waivers.
I guess I should worry about this, but who gets taken off waivers these days? It’s just a regular pretend threat.
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I dont like this…like i mentioned i think hell end up being better than brookbank…aparently rc doesnt agree..
sutton takes brookbanks spot though right? whenever he gets back?
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Ohh, infamy! Jen from AC tweeted this last night, but here’s a screen capture of the 3:00 mark of this video.
Clockwise: Douchey, Me, Jen, Arthur, and random nonpatriotic Kings fan
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your not looking at the flag you son of a bitch go back to korea!!!
nice hairdo jen..
arthur looks smarter than me….but at least now i can draw him instead of making him a duck
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, at that point in the anthem I usually am trying to figure out who’s scratched. Guilty.
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perhaps you were searching for the kiss cam
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Way to go Sleek!
I hope this wasn’t a Ducks-Kings game… I was lucky. I sat in the last row. This guy would’ve gotten hell for wearing that down close (although he looks like he may have deserved it)
"Hey, Luongo: YOU SUCK!"
Courtesy of some guys in 331.
Yeah Cha!
De ha ming Ho! I have no idea what that means but woo! lolll
hey, doan got suspended
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
Remember kids it's down the road not across the street
3 games? Nice!
Maybe it’s selective memory, but I can’t really remember the last time the Ducks drew a suspension.
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yay more potiental for a pacific divison rival!!! yay!!
up yours yotes..
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 18, 2010 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions
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