Ha-GAIN!

Thrashers top Pheelay 3-1 in Pheelay on the hind end of the beast with two fronts. With the win the Thrashers gained a little limelight for themselves by being but one single point out of the playoff picture.

I've eaten on game day for both of the last 2 wins. I think we have a trend going here.... I'm about to run out, so if we lose Tuesday I'll have to run down to Georgia and get me some bbq for every game to do my part to appease the hockey gods. I'm very much ok with that.

Because I can't think of a witty title: Thrashers beat Flyers

With a jeweled shillelagh!! Still somewhat worrisome was letting a 2-goal lead shrink to a 1-goal lead twice, but the Thrashers eventually pulled ahead by 2 for good and then scored a 3rd goal at a time when the Flyers should've been scoring to close the gap at the end of the game. I like that.

"Your 2009-2010 Atlanta Thrashers!!" (explained)

The city streets are the regular season and the race for the playoffs, and the Thrashers are the nerd. Or maybe they're more like the dude-dressed-up-as-a-woman-and-pretending-to-be-ready-to-grant-some-other-dude-working-the-vid-his-wildest-fantasy because they historically seem to allow teams on the playoff bubble some points to help them along, with last season's finish as the notable exception. It's entirely subjective, which is why I posted the first video (the song's music video) alone as a metaphor with neither explanation nor elaboration.

Your 2009-2010 Atlanta Thrashers!!

Thrashers lose to Coyotes in SO

Missed the game tonight, but I've read in several places and several quotes that the Thrashers rang 5 shots off the posts tonight.













It's kinda like gettin hit in the face with a fryin pan aint it? That analogy could probably be expanded too...

Thrashers' playoff "hopes" taking a westbound train

Even if the Thrashers don't make the playoffs, I think this season would be a success if Chris Chelios opens a Cheli's Chilli in Atlanta. Yeah.

Sheet, wee looooossse ha-gain!

Everything seems rosier when your team is the victor, but I've gotta hand it to the Canes, they really wanted it more.

A win would've been great, but I still had a great time at the game, I really did. The folks working the upper levels were all first-rate. Everyone was pretty good to stop for a minute and talk and nobody made me feel like Jethro Clampett the entire evening even though I'm sure I reminded some of his character.

And after the game I had the privilege of meeting both Dan Kamal and Darren Eliot at the post-game show. Great guys, class all the way. Both gentlemen stopped during the commercial breaks to speak to me and both were very gracious about their time. Not once did either of them make me feel like I was taking up their time. Quite the opposite actually: they both made me feel like it was I who was in the position of host and they who were in the position of guest. Like I said, great guys. I raise a cool, refreshing beverage to both of them. Cheers, gents!

Oh, Atlanta

Making the trip to 'Lanter today to take in the Thrashers-Hurricanes game. I'd be lying if I said I don't care about the outcome, so I'm hoping for a win. But most importantly, I just wanna see the Thrashers play a good game and have the fans be into it and energetic. Either way, I'm pretty damn excited. I haven't been to a game since Alexei Zhitnik won it in OT vs. Tampa two years ago.

This season the Thrashers are undefeated when I wear my jersey during the game. Ok, so it's only a 1-0-0 record, but still, that's undefeated. Anyway, here's to hoping that trend continues.

Good luck boyas!

Antero Nittymaki

Damnit. All I got to say is the Thrashers better damn well beat the guy before Kari Lehtonen does.

That is all.

Glacier appears to bleed

On my morning rounds of headlines and links, I came across this and stared at the picture. I won't post the picture because I like to let the guy or gal to whose post or article I link get their traffic (even though I'd only be stealing maybe five or ten-ish people; I'm not delusional about how many read this), but let's just say the picture is a must see. In my somewhat limited grasp of biology I was wrong as to the cause of the glacial nosebleed: I had thought it might be something like a red tide. But I wasnt too far off. Here's the link.

And speaking of blood, one of my all-time favorite books, which if I remember correctly I gave to my biology lab instructor at the the end of the semester during which I did a report on the book (damnit. Oh well, he can use it more than I can and I can always get another copy), is Their Blood Runs Cold by Whit Gibbons. I'd thought it'd be boring as hell since it's about herpetology (it's the atudy of reptiles and amphibians, NOT a venereal disease) and the biologists' stories of encounters with said things that make (some) women go eek. But it was actually a hilarious read and not as dry as I was afraid it'd be. It's the guy's collection of anecdotes from his years on the job with quite a lot of info thrown in. It was a book that I found myself reading more for entertainment than for the report, and only after it was over and I was working on the report did I realize how much information was in there and how much I'd learned about the subject. I'm still no herpetologist, but I do have a much greater appreciation for them after that book.

Yeah, don't bother; I didn't write anything down.

It's trade deadline day, and I'll be focusing on the following three things:

Number Three.

Number Two.

Number One.


Also, when talking with my dad about the Thrashers' chances of making moves, we were discussing how the Thrashers would have to "mortgage the future" (trade deadline bingo anyone?) so it would be at least somewhat unlikely, and he joked: "Why mortgage the future when you haven't had a past?"

A little too close to home...