Hello out there, we're on the air, it's hockey night tonight--

[leahbobet]

Oh yes. Fear and tremble, all ye nations, for it is hockey season again and I am no longer working nights. :D

Halfway through the second period right now, Leafs and Panthers scoreless although wow, lots of shots. Things I have noted through the first half of this game so far:

-- This requires not more, not less, but different concentration when it's on CBC and I can watch even though I have no cable.
-- The AM 640 sportscasters need to make sure they're not nattering on about their junior hockey careers and are keeping me updated on where the nice puck is.
-- Further, I need to familiarize myself more with the new kids on the roster. Or not so new. I sort of missed last season due to Mines. It's distressing when they say X passes to Y and I don't know which team they're on. :/ Also, I should pay more attention to the trades and stuff so I'm not "hey wait they're not even in that conference..."
-- It's still Aucoin (oh-cwan), not (oh-coon). A coon is a small woodland animal and/or a type of cat.
-- I wonder if people will ever stop booing Bertuzzi. They booed him first time he got the puck tonight.
-- What precisely do beer advertisers mean by "easy drinking taste"? This phrase seems to be in every beer commercial ever. Are there beers that taste so one could think they are harder to drink? Would this not perhaps be a more masculine, flannel-shirt, hockey fan kind of beer to drink if it exists?
-- Somehow the Leafs got very good at nudging their opponents into taking penalties.

More scintillating commentary in the third. *g*

ETA: ...okay, I muted it to crit a story for matociquala between periods and how did I just miss two goals?

ETA II: Either the radio broadcast is waaay behind or the NHL site is psychic, because that second goal just got scored and the NHL site is saying the game's in overtime.

I feel like I'm in a pocket universe of some sort.

ETA III: Woo! Finally win a shootout!

Comments

Hockey and Heart Rate

[docdad2.livejournal.com]

I suspect that hockey in the background while trying to do ANYTHING (well almost anything) will cause that something else to take on a zing and fizz that would otherwise be lost/absent.
More Hockey in the background!!
Beer?

Re: Hockey and Heart Rate

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee. The anything just doesn't get done is what. The hockey gets done. *g*

[kafkonia.livejournal.com]

If it's Adrian Aucoin, I've always heard it as Au-coin (as in Loonie.) I have the same problems with trades and new players on the Sens, especially in the beginning of the season -- it's even worse when they're playing against the team that they made the trade with!

And if you want true pocket universe feelings, put the radio on and mute the tv next time it's on CBC. You feel like you have a window into the future!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but not Au-coon, right? That's just incorrect there.

I would be tempted to make wooshing future-machine noises were I to do this thing. Also, I hate the radio commentators and, like radiation, try to limit my exposure to them.