Monday Morning Mehta 11/6/06
Edition # 183
November 6, 2006
The first 8 weeks of the Eagles season took so much out of me that even I need a bye week this week. But don't worry, I'm recharging my batteries for an Eagles playoff stretch run and of course the upcoming Drexel Dragons season!
In the meantime since most of you just scroll through my jibberish to get to Ed's stuff, here's the "NHL".
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NHL Week in Review By : Ed Wasser
- Here's a crazy theory put forward by the Versus Network's Bill Clement about why Pittsburgh Penguin goalie Marc-André Fluery is currently having his most successful season to date. I mean aside from the fact that this year the Penguins have a little thing that I like to call talent. Clement sited Fluery's bright yellow pads as a possible cause for problems opposing players might be having with the Penguins because the human eye is directed to the color yellow before any other color, that's the reason road signs are yellow, so when a player is taking a shot he is more inclined to shoot it right at Fluery's pads instead of at the back of the net. Huh? Well...I guess it makes about as much sense as anything else. I just figured Fluery was playing well because he's a good goalie and because he was facing a lot of crappy team, ya know, like the Flyers.
- One thing that the great minds of this world like Dr. Stephen Hawking, Dr. Robert Jarvic, and myself all have in common is that most of our spectacular ideas tend to come on Wednesday nights between 9 PM and 10 PM. That hour is of course that vacuous hour of TV in between the end of "Dancing With The Stars" and the beginning of "Laguna Beach". I know what you're thinking because Dr. Hawking and Dr. Jarvic said the same thing to me..."What about 'One Tree Hill?" That show jumped the shark as soon as the character of Nathan Scott, all 5'7" 165 lbs. of him, got a full ride scholarship to play power forward at Duke. Yeah OK. It honestly would have been more believable if Nathan got a scholarship to the North American Riding Academy in Lexington, KY and was going to study to be a jockey. But pound for pound "One Tree Hill" does have the hottest chicks on TV so it's still OK to watch the show on mute, as I'm doing now.
At any rate here's an idea I came up with last Wednesday. I'm going to go to NHL.com and look at every player in the league and find all the ex-Flyers that are currently having good seasons. The reason for this is to kill any last thoughts that still may be lingering by some people that Bobby Clarke was actually a good GM. These will be players that were either Flyers or in the Flyers system. It won't be guys like Mats Sundin who the Flyers could have had straight up for Eric Lindros. (That's a true story...guess which one will be a first ballot Hall of Famer?). Also I'm going to judge it by stats like goals, assists, goals against average, maybe a little plus/minus...you know, real stats. I'm not going to go into stats like shots per shift or other silly stats to try and make a case. Unlike the baseball Hall of Fame who lets in just about everyone, if there's a doubt in my mind whether a player should be on the list they're out.
Oh, and I won't be giving any awards to the ex-Flyer having the greatest year out of them all, Islander GM Garth Snow. Snow just replaced Paula Abdul judging vocalists on "American Idol" as the person least qualified on Earth to do their job. But I digress...
The ex-Flyer having the best career is Rod Brind'Amour. He lead the Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup, he is one of the best face off guys in the history of the league, and plays every significant minute of every game he plays whether it's on offense or defense. And he was traded for Keith Primeau, whose career went south faster then Lori Singer's career after "Footloose". Another ex-Flyer having a bang up year is Cane Justin Williams. He had 31 goals last year, he has 5 already this year, and he is still coming up on the prime of his career. Capital Dainius Zubrus has 9 goals this year and is on a line with Alexander Ovechkin which is probably the most exciting line in the league.
Mark Eaton is having a nice year. Eaton of course is a quick defenseman which the Flyers desperately need and a hometown kid so of course Clarke needed to unload him. Guess who else is having a great year? 56 year old Scott Mellanby. He's the captain of the Thrashers, he has 6 goals and 7 assists, and kills penalties. Even Mike Sillinger who was on the Flyers for like 20 minutes is having a good year with 5 goals and he's on the Islanders, the worst team in the league. Oh wait, make the Islanders the second worst team in the league, the worst team in the league is.....
The Flyers. They're not....ahhh....they're not, ummmm, well....actually they suck, they're terrible. They beat the Blackhawks on Monday 3 - 0 with goalie Robert Esche playing well but the Blackhawks stink too and at one point they took 4 penalties in a row. The Blackhawk goalie was Brian Boucher for crying out loud, an ex-Flyer that is NOT having a great career. Last Thursday the Flyers played the Lightning losing 5 - 2. Ever watch a game and a minute into it you think "man this team has no prayer". That was the Flyers/Lightning game. It was like the game started off 5 - 0. And then Saturday the Alexander Ovechkin show came to town and it didn't disappoint. Ovechkin had 2 goals in the first period alone. The game was 4 - 1 Capitals at the end of the first period. The Flyers lost that game 5 - 3 and that put them in dead last place in the entire league. Man, this team is tough to watch. Like I said before, it's not so much that they're losing, it's that they're getting destroyed. Oh well, at least the Sixers are winning.
November 6, 2006
The first 8 weeks of the Eagles season took so much out of me that even I need a bye week this week. But don't worry, I'm recharging my batteries for an Eagles playoff stretch run and of course the upcoming Drexel Dragons season!
In the meantime since most of you just scroll through my jibberish to get to Ed's stuff, here's the "NHL".
http://www.mondaymorningmehta.blogspot.com/
NHL Week in Review By : Ed Wasser
- Here's a crazy theory put forward by the Versus Network's Bill Clement about why Pittsburgh Penguin goalie Marc-André Fluery is currently having his most successful season to date. I mean aside from the fact that this year the Penguins have a little thing that I like to call talent. Clement sited Fluery's bright yellow pads as a possible cause for problems opposing players might be having with the Penguins because the human eye is directed to the color yellow before any other color, that's the reason road signs are yellow, so when a player is taking a shot he is more inclined to shoot it right at Fluery's pads instead of at the back of the net. Huh? Well...I guess it makes about as much sense as anything else. I just figured Fluery was playing well because he's a good goalie and because he was facing a lot of crappy team, ya know, like the Flyers.
- One thing that the great minds of this world like Dr. Stephen Hawking, Dr. Robert Jarvic, and myself all have in common is that most of our spectacular ideas tend to come on Wednesday nights between 9 PM and 10 PM. That hour is of course that vacuous hour of TV in between the end of "Dancing With The Stars" and the beginning of "Laguna Beach". I know what you're thinking because Dr. Hawking and Dr. Jarvic said the same thing to me..."What about 'One Tree Hill?" That show jumped the shark as soon as the character of Nathan Scott, all 5'7" 165 lbs. of him, got a full ride scholarship to play power forward at Duke. Yeah OK. It honestly would have been more believable if Nathan got a scholarship to the North American Riding Academy in Lexington, KY and was going to study to be a jockey. But pound for pound "One Tree Hill" does have the hottest chicks on TV so it's still OK to watch the show on mute, as I'm doing now.
At any rate here's an idea I came up with last Wednesday. I'm going to go to NHL.com and look at every player in the league and find all the ex-Flyers that are currently having good seasons. The reason for this is to kill any last thoughts that still may be lingering by some people that Bobby Clarke was actually a good GM. These will be players that were either Flyers or in the Flyers system. It won't be guys like Mats Sundin who the Flyers could have had straight up for Eric Lindros. (That's a true story...guess which one will be a first ballot Hall of Famer?). Also I'm going to judge it by stats like goals, assists, goals against average, maybe a little plus/minus...you know, real stats. I'm not going to go into stats like shots per shift or other silly stats to try and make a case. Unlike the baseball Hall of Fame who lets in just about everyone, if there's a doubt in my mind whether a player should be on the list they're out.
Oh, and I won't be giving any awards to the ex-Flyer having the greatest year out of them all, Islander GM Garth Snow. Snow just replaced Paula Abdul judging vocalists on "American Idol" as the person least qualified on Earth to do their job. But I digress...
The ex-Flyer having the best career is Rod Brind'Amour. He lead the Hurricanes to the Stanley Cup, he is one of the best face off guys in the history of the league, and plays every significant minute of every game he plays whether it's on offense or defense. And he was traded for Keith Primeau, whose career went south faster then Lori Singer's career after "Footloose". Another ex-Flyer having a bang up year is Cane Justin Williams. He had 31 goals last year, he has 5 already this year, and he is still coming up on the prime of his career. Capital Dainius Zubrus has 9 goals this year and is on a line with Alexander Ovechkin which is probably the most exciting line in the league.
Mark Eaton is having a nice year. Eaton of course is a quick defenseman which the Flyers desperately need and a hometown kid so of course Clarke needed to unload him. Guess who else is having a great year? 56 year old Scott Mellanby. He's the captain of the Thrashers, he has 6 goals and 7 assists, and kills penalties. Even Mike Sillinger who was on the Flyers for like 20 minutes is having a good year with 5 goals and he's on the Islanders, the worst team in the league. Oh wait, make the Islanders the second worst team in the league, the worst team in the league is.....
The Flyers. They're not....ahhh....they're not, ummmm, well....actually they suck, they're terrible. They beat the Blackhawks on Monday 3 - 0 with goalie Robert Esche playing well but the Blackhawks stink too and at one point they took 4 penalties in a row. The Blackhawk goalie was Brian Boucher for crying out loud, an ex-Flyer that is NOT having a great career. Last Thursday the Flyers played the Lightning losing 5 - 2. Ever watch a game and a minute into it you think "man this team has no prayer". That was the Flyers/Lightning game. It was like the game started off 5 - 0. And then Saturday the Alexander Ovechkin show came to town and it didn't disappoint. Ovechkin had 2 goals in the first period alone. The game was 4 - 1 Capitals at the end of the first period. The Flyers lost that game 5 - 3 and that put them in dead last place in the entire league. Man, this team is tough to watch. Like I said before, it's not so much that they're losing, it's that they're getting destroyed. Oh well, at least the Sixers are winning.
posted by Monday Morning Mehta at 9:37 AM
4 Comments:
Frank - Now that you're FINALLY a member of the HD world after talking about it for 3 years, you'll get to notice that the feed drops off sometimes.
And it's a shame but not every football game is in HD. I think CBS only has like 4 or 5 HD sets of cameras so a few of their games are always in SD.
Also - nothing beats the ESPN HD feeds. ESPN does it right.
And don't forget to watch Jeremiah Trotter on Sunday's edition of "Celebrity Paranormal Project" on VH-1.
E.W.
This could be the next Phillies 3rd baseman...
The Yakult Swallows of Japan officially posted third baseman Akinori Iwamura on Monday.
Frank, any relation to this guy? I know he's Japanese but Chinese, Japanese, what's the difference right? Cheng Hing, whatever...
Did someone mention Cheng Hing? They have great food there.
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