Show me that smile again….

Am I wrong in thinking that Danile Paille looks like the slighty slower, younger brother to former teen dream turned God Squader, Kirk Cameron?

Where's Boner??

I really hope Daniel doesn’t walk around the Garden informing his teammates that they’re going to hell for not accepting Jesus. That would be a little awkward for  someone…

Hunwick’s Fine Form

It’s that time of year again for Stuff Boston’s Bodies by Boston issue. Boston Bruin, Andrew Ference,  graced the pages two years ago and this year the honors is betowed onto Matt Hunwick.

Photo by Tim Gray

The Bruins defenseman talked to Stuff Boston about his season ending injury during the playoffs when he ruptured his spleen during the Bruins/Habs series. Hunwick’s photo features the war wound he received during the Bruins battle  for the Stanley Cup and it’s also more proof that scars are hot.

Nice hair, Dick!

Now, I know all about the comb over – but what’s it called when you brush your hair completely forward to cover up your receding hair-line?

Could you find a less appealing hairdo?

 Time and karma are harsh mistresses, son. If anything, he’s drawing more attention to it and looks worse. Just shave it. It worked for Steve Begin!

Bears Love Begin

Ristuccia Rink Report 1/11/10

Greetings from chilly Wilmington! I braved the cold today to watch the Bruins practice before they jet off for their West Coast series tomorrow morning.
Gone were the playful, light-hearted Bruins who usually take to the practice ice. This team was physical, determined, and showed more desperation than they have exhibited during the past few games. Practice consisted mostly of game-situation drills and short scrimmages; emphasizing puck possession, capitalizing on (and subsequently, recovering from) turnovers, and maintaining pressure into the corners. Their intensity was rather refreshing, after their lackluster efforts coming into today. As Blake Wheeler said earlier this week, “We have to quit treating this like it’s a privilege and a right of ours to come and play in front of 18,000 people every night. And start playing like it’s the most important thing to us. For whatever reason, I think we lost sight of that night in and night out.” Hopefully this attitude is shared with his teammates and they can start turning things around.

Byron Bitz was dressed and joined the team, without signs of injury or the back pain that has kept him out of the lineup as of late.

Most noticeable was the change in offensive lines. Today saw lines of Lucic, Bégin, Whitfield; Wheeler, Krejci, Ryder; Thornton, Paille, Sobotka; and Sturm, Recchi, Satan. Perhaps this shake-up is something that the Bruins need to regain their composure and recover from missing so many of their major play-makers. Let’s hope so.

Wheeler at bat

The serious air of purpose remained until the players began their cool-down. Thornton led the stretches, lightening the mood as he did so. Afterwards, some of the senior Bruins left the ice, and the young guns were left to goof off. Wheeler, Krejci and Sobotka were last to hit the showers, and entertained themselves by playing baseball while rounding up the pucks.

And of course, it wouldn’t be Wilmington without the fans. Today’s included a girl who shouted at the players that they were “cute,” made signs reinforcing this and held them to the glass. Honey, Shawn Thornton may have laughed when you held up your sign, but he was laughing at YOU and shaking his head. They’re at work; this is their job. If you thought a video store clerk was hot, would you shout at him and wave signs around while he shelved DVDs? On second thought, don’t answer that. Even the men were at it today, as one of them sniped Sobotka’s attempt to give me his stick (that’s what she said?). This was the same guy who loudly asked “Where’s Maaahk Savaahd?” and banged on the glass as if he were at the zoo. At least Sobotka broke his stick before handing it to the guy, and gave me an apologetic shrug.  It’s ok Vlado, we’re still BFFs.

Until next time,
xoxox Caroline

“Just found the GREATEST PICTURE of Andrew Ference EVER.”

Thanks to Nothing2Doubt on Twitter for this gem….

Baby Ryder Goes Bad

COMING SOON!! Cops : Newfoundland!

Daniel Ryder, lil’brother of Boston Bruin, Micheal Ryder, was arrested yesterday for robbing a convenience store. According to reports, Ryder will be “…charged with armed robbery, using a disguise with intent to commit an indictable offence, using a firearm in the commission of an offence, and theft under $5,000.”

Daniel Ryder was released from the Providence Bruins (Hmmm…I wonder why?)  at the end of last season after signing a 25 game tryout contract with them in February of 2009. He was originally drafted by the Calgary Flames in 2005 and won the 2006 Wayne Gretzky 99 MVP during the ‘06 Ontario Hockey League Playoffs. Wayne must be proud.

Thanks to Kukla’s Korner for the tip!

Bruins Practice January 6, 2010 – No one REALLY likes Wideman!

Iron Men On Ice!

Bruins practice was suppose to start at 11:30, but somewhere between last night’s win and this morning, practice became optional. I didn’t know this, and arrived at Ristuccia at 10:30, and saw Patrice Bergeron arrive, with laptop. (Maybe he had some e-mails to catch up on?) Bitz and Julian arrived shortly after. When my friend Colleen arrived, we headed into the Ice Box.

As we waited (And waited) for the Bruins to take the ice; Wheeler, Morris, Boychuk and Savard all came in together through a side door. I yelled out “HI Blake Wheeler!” and got nothing in return. Whatever, Wheels!  Denis Wideman arrived, alone, and quickly went into the locker room.

The waiting continued and Colleen and I debated whether or not the Bruins were going to hit the ice, or if they were doing off ice training. Finally we decided to brave the weather and stand outside to see the players arrive (leave?). Outside were about 7 – 10 autograph hounds, with their stuff to sell on E-Bay. These people amaze me! For the most part, none of them know one player from the next and constantly ask “Who’s that?” then scramble to find something for that player to sign.

We saw Thornton and Bitz leave, each with their own Winter Classic jersey. Neither said why they had them. Wheeler came out, no jersey in his hand, and walk right by me. Again, I said “Hi Wheels!” and NOTHING!! Now, I know I’m short, but he’s not deaf! Blake Wheeler, you are dead to me!

Wideman came out then and no one….NO ONE stopped him for an autograph. I actually felt bad. So bad, that when Wideman said hi to me, I said hi back. But I didn’t like doing it.

Now I could hear noise coming from inside the rink and went in to see who was there. Milan Lucic, Mark Stuart (yay!)  Adam McQuaid and Patrice Bergeron were on the ice, with Tuukka Rask in net. Bergeron was working with John Whitesides, on one side of the rink; while the others trained with Doug Houda. Bergy did mostly skating and shooting drills, while the others did a timed shooting drill that turned into a skating drill. After Looch and Stuey failed to score on Rask; each had to skate back and forth, on the short part of the rink, four times. However, when Looch did score on Rask, Tuukka had to do the same, resulting in an over excited Tuukka slamming into the boards and sliding into the net. Needless to say, everyone had a good laugh. I thought Stuart looked great out there and was keeping up easily with Lucic. It will be a race between him and Bergeron on who will return, to the line-up, first.

Chara made an appearance, inside the rink. He spoke with a few people and said hello to the four fans, myself included, sitting in the stands. (See Wheeler! Chara said HI to me!).

By now it was 2pm, and everyone was finishing up. I had to leave to pick up my little guy from school, plus my feet were so cold, they were starting to hurt.

– @ComicGirl8

You can find Kathi’s pictures from today’s practice here….

Don’t Fuck With The Stars & Bars, Son!

Team USA came back and beat Team Canada 6-5, last night during the gold medal round of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.  Last night’s victory was only the second time the USA has won the Gold and the sixth time Team USA has received a medal in the 30+ year old tournament. Team Canada had been at the top for the last 5 years, but failed to strike gold(GET IT!) again this year.

Team USA also featured a few players with roots in Mass. David Warsofsky is from Marshfield and plays for Boston University. Boxford’s Chris Kreider plays for Boston College and Ryan Bourque of Boxford, who comes hockey family some of you might be familiar with….

Damn The Man! Save The Sandbox!

SO if you haven’t heard already, WFNX is going thru some changes and decided to let go two members of their successful morning show, The Sandbox. After a revolving door of morning shows over the years, ‘FNX had finally found one that clicked with its audience and they decided to fuck up a great thing they had going. The new morning show will consist of FNX Program Director, Keith Dankin, FNX Living Legend & Super’Fro owner, Henry Santoro and Fletcher from The Sandbox. No offense to Mr. Dankin & Harvey Firestein voice, but it’s not the same.

The new lineup, which will start Tuesday morning(1/6/2010), was announced on FMBQ and have caused quite an uproar with the fans of the show. The fans voiced their outrage via twitter & emails to the station and few have already started a movement to get Charlie & Special Ed’s jobs back . Some have also called for a boycott of FNX. *flips on my XM radio*

Personally, I was shocked this morning when I heard the news and really upset by the decision of management. If it wasn’t for The Sandbox we wouldn’t know about the Kraken(and how it doesn’t seem to like ESPN’s Chris Forsberg), we wouldn’t know the importance of 45 or how to prevent a fatty liver or why they call Boston Bruin, Andrew Firefly Ference, ‘The Package’. The Sandbox clicked with the fans, they were loyal to the fans and the fans appreciated that the most.

Shit, do you know how much free advertising they gave my ass? Do you know how many people tell me they found out about me because of The Sandbox? If it wasn’t for The Sandbox, I wouldn’t have my title – ‘Super Blogger, Cameron Frye’(Thanks, Charlie!) and I’d just be some obnoxious,mouthy broad who blogs about hockey & tweets about pedos. Thanks for everything, boys. I mean it.

If you’re interested in following what’s going on,you can add the Sandboxers Unite! Bring Back The Sandbox page on Facebook or follow SaveTheSandbox on Twitter. I’ll keep you updated and Save The Sandbox!

Bruins Introduction For The Boston Herald

Dear Boston Herald,

This is Blake Wheeler. He’s 23 years old, he scored 21 goals last season(7 this year – he’s pacing himself!), he’s from Minnesota, went to the University of Minnesota with stupid, Phil Kessel and signed as a free agent with the Bruins in 2008. He’s # 26.

This is Daniel Paille. He’s 25 and from Ontario, Canada. The Bruins picked him up from the Buffalo Sabres this year and has so far scored 4 goals, 6 assists during the 33 games he’s played for Boston. He’s # 20, if you’re keeping track.

This is not Blake Wheeler.

Any questions? Oh wait, I do have one…. is it that hard to check these things? I know I’ve fucked up in the past, but seriously?