The NHL trade deadline looms just under a week away, the 28th of February. This time of year brings some excitement and some fears for fans as they wonder what their team will do, who they will bring in and who they will let go of ... but that only pales in comparison to what the players must feel especially if they are rumored to be potential trade bait. It's not just who will they be playing for, but where they will have to move to or move their families to and sometimes that is even temporary.
The Random thoughts of an Avalanche fan in Nebraska...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Yes, I'm a Ge... er, Gamer
Most people that know me already know that I'm a gamer. Granted hockey, work, real life ... they have all taken away from this and in fact over the last several years I've gotten away from not only table top gaming but online gaming as well. I still play some games, Facebook games such as Frontierville, Zuma Blitz, and others of the sort ... but those aren't truly the games I'm referring to. Neither are card games.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Anderson for ... Elliot???
So today the Avalanche organization confused everyone again by trading last year's hero Craig Anderson for Brian Elliot of the Senators. I'll admit that Anderson has looked horrible, but Elliot doesn't bring much to the team either so I have to ask "what gives?".
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Injury Has Taken a Warrior From Us
A couple of days ago was quite possibly the worst day in Avalanche history. The day ended with the Avalanche record eighth straight loss further pushing them from playoff territory, and to make that worse Duchene was injured in the second period and the game itself showed an Avalanche team that played a game that wouldn't challenge a beer league team ... and since this was the NHL they lost 9-1 and it really wasn't even that close. The day began though with the unexpected and sad news that Peter Forsberg's attempted comeback to the NHL was done at two games and that he was retiring from hockey. Despite looking like one of the best players on the ice for the Avs his foot just wasn't working and he couldn't continue, so he decided and announced that he would no longer be playing hockey any longer.
Date Night/Inception
First off let me state that I will have spoilers scattered in my reviews from now on, much like I already have, because I have found that doing these blog posts without spoilers isn't as easy or enjoyable when I'm watching what I say. Thus, spoilers can be found at any time ... just a warning.
Now on to the reviews. This past weekend we got in a couple of movies amongst the housework and wedding planning, those movies being "Date Night" and "Inception". For the first time in a while both movies that I got from the beloved Redbox I really enjoyed.
Now on to the reviews. This past weekend we got in a couple of movies amongst the housework and wedding planning, those movies being "Date Night" and "Inception". For the first time in a while both movies that I got from the beloved Redbox I really enjoyed.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Avalanche Freefall - Forsberg to the Rescue?
Yesterday I was prepared to write about how the Avalanche are in a free fall right now, and then the news about Forsberg signing hit today. Yes the Avs are still in trouble. They have lost their last five of their last six games and have gone from in the playoffs to 12th place in the conference. They are still in striking distance but every loss makes it that much more unlikely they'll claw their way back up.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Eat, Pray, Zzzz...
This past weekend we rented "Eat, Pray, Love" from the local RedBox. I knew going into it that it was a "chick flick" but that's ok, I don't mind those types of movies at times. I had also seen some reviews on Facebook where people had said that they had liked it.
They must have been suffering from insomnia and they are thankful the movie gave them some sleep. Ok, it might not have been quite that bad but it wasn't good either.
Again, as has turned into a bit of the norm, "spoilers" start right away...
The story is about a woman who found herself in a marriage that she didn't want to be in. She then left her husband and found herself in a relationship with a younger man. As is with the character, she finds that she isn't happy in that relationship before long as well. Having been in and out of relationships she decides that instead she is going to remain unattached and travel to Rome, India, and Bali (or somewhere equally unimportant to the whole story). In Rome she finds some friends and becomes "happy" again so she moves on to India where she lives at a temple/religious location. There she finds herself very unhappy and another American there gives her grief until he reveals that he is there because of past things he has done as well. He leaves and shortly after she "forgives herself" and leaves as well for the beach. There she "interns" under some religious guy she met on a previous trip there, gets run off the road by a guy who ... surprise, surprise ... becomes her love interest, and then after fighting to not get too attached at the end (but only at the end) finally gives in to him ... though you still don't know how it all turns out down the road.
The movie wasn't horrible, but it wasn't anything better than just ok either. In fact as a chick flick my fiancee found herself losing interest quite a bit and looking around the room or doing whatever caught her attention until she realized she wasn't watching the movie. I think that is the best proof I can offer to my views on the movie.
The plot is just slow and plugs along, never really rising or falling and thus is just kinda flat. Adding to that the movie was fairly long and felt even longer than it was. The transitions from place to place weren't well done either. There weren't any real surprises either, with a pretty predictable storyline from the start to the end, and that also added to the 'meh' factor of the movie.
The characters weren't all that interesting either, and granted the only one that was in more than a third of it was the main character but there was no real connection to any of them nor were they developed well.
Overall despite being not bad but ok the movie really isn't worth seeing in my opinion. They say the book is better than the movie but I'll likely not find out. I have plenty of things to read already with not enough time to read them all and this just doesn't fit in with the things that I like to read in the first place.
They must have been suffering from insomnia and they are thankful the movie gave them some sleep. Ok, it might not have been quite that bad but it wasn't good either.
Again, as has turned into a bit of the norm, "spoilers" start right away...
The story is about a woman who found herself in a marriage that she didn't want to be in. She then left her husband and found herself in a relationship with a younger man. As is with the character, she finds that she isn't happy in that relationship before long as well. Having been in and out of relationships she decides that instead she is going to remain unattached and travel to Rome, India, and Bali (or somewhere equally unimportant to the whole story). In Rome she finds some friends and becomes "happy" again so she moves on to India where she lives at a temple/religious location. There she finds herself very unhappy and another American there gives her grief until he reveals that he is there because of past things he has done as well. He leaves and shortly after she "forgives herself" and leaves as well for the beach. There she "interns" under some religious guy she met on a previous trip there, gets run off the road by a guy who ... surprise, surprise ... becomes her love interest, and then after fighting to not get too attached at the end (but only at the end) finally gives in to him ... though you still don't know how it all turns out down the road.
The movie wasn't horrible, but it wasn't anything better than just ok either. In fact as a chick flick my fiancee found herself losing interest quite a bit and looking around the room or doing whatever caught her attention until she realized she wasn't watching the movie. I think that is the best proof I can offer to my views on the movie.
The plot is just slow and plugs along, never really rising or falling and thus is just kinda flat. Adding to that the movie was fairly long and felt even longer than it was. The transitions from place to place weren't well done either. There weren't any real surprises either, with a pretty predictable storyline from the start to the end, and that also added to the 'meh' factor of the movie.
The characters weren't all that interesting either, and granted the only one that was in more than a third of it was the main character but there was no real connection to any of them nor were they developed well.
Overall despite being not bad but ok the movie really isn't worth seeing in my opinion. They say the book is better than the movie but I'll likely not find out. I have plenty of things to read already with not enough time to read them all and this just doesn't fit in with the things that I like to read in the first place.
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