Thoughts before Mexico

It's been a weird week at the WinTwins household. I've been off my game, to say the least. Lots of stuff on my mind. My Mexico trip up in the air. Odd news coming my way.

First of all, my thoughts and prayers go out to Casey Borer, who's out for the season with a broken neck. OUCH! Reading accounts of the bus crash, it seems amazing that no one was killed and that none of the injuries are considered "career threatening" (though a broken neck is probably not GREAT for a pro hockey player). The rest of the River Rats are in my thoughts as well. Poor guys!

I'm GOING TO MEXICO! Thank goodness! I'm leaving this morning, which is why I'm up at this ungodly hour. I'll have more to say when I get back -- Hockey playoffs and Spring Training. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year!!

My Huskies have an off week this week, which drives me nuts. It's just a weekend to watch other teams pass you up! UGH! With that said, I only have two words left...

GO TECH!!

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Pitchers and catchers reported to Spring Training today. WHOO HOO! I love this time of the year. The first game of the spring will be in 10 days!! :) I can't wait. It's still up in the air whether I'll be able to make it down there for a few games, but I hope I can! We'll see!!

Oh, and my Huskies swept the other Huskies. And I'm leaving for Mexico in 6 days.

All in all, if I didn't feel like DEATH, life would be just about perfect right now!!

Lasch with the Hatty!

Seriously, LRL is on FIRE! :)

A PP goal per period. Garrett Raboin assists on all three with Roe on two and LaBlah on one. I didn't watch/listen to the game since I'm working this weekend, but I did txt Amy and suggest that either UAA needs to leave the WCHA or change time zones! :)

Good game boys!

Player of the month...

Congrats Ryan!

Am I psychic? Or just damn intuitive?

HAHA! Amy and I were talking earlier this week about what would make this weekend AWESOME! We came up with a short list of (seemingly unattainable) ideas...

* My Huskies would kick some Sioux ass, Jase would goaltend like the rockstar he CAN BE, and Little Ryan Lasch wouldn't get killed by one of the (many) Sioux goons.

* Amy's Mavs would kick some Goof ass, Zach would start and have a GREAT game, and neither Amy nor I would end up in jail for laying the smack down on any obnoxious Goof fans.

* Nin's Badgers would kick some Bulldog ass ... just cuz.

* Trevor Bruess of the Mavs would either pull his head out of his ass and play like we know he can play, or he'd sit a game.

Well, it turns out, all of these (seemingly unattainable) thoughts came to fruition! How do you like that? NICE! Yes, the last one is only going to happen because he didn't pull his head out of his ass and elbowed some dude in the face, but we didn't really specify HOW these things should happen, only that they would! :) So, I'm happy this morning.

Who knew that the Huskies could beat the Great Goal Scoring Machine that is the Sioux? All week, I've been reading how the Huskies would be swept this weekend, because the Sioux have scored like 30 goals in their last 5 games! I'm sure this is news to everyone, it's a closely guarded secret! HA! Right! The Sioux fans take the prize for saying the past doesn't matter ... for every other team ... but they sure do bandy it about when it's in their favor. Alas, in this instance, it didn't really work out that way. Jase was a wall and the "D" picked up the rest for him.

So, I'm a happy fan today. We shall see how tonight goes. I'll be at Mariucci tonight for the Mavs/Goofs recap. The Mavs will be without Trevor Bruess (good) and Channing Boe (bad), who was smacked around by Brian Schack last night, has a broken leg, and will be out for the rest of the season. To quote my FAVE hockey saying -- THAT'S CLASSY!! Schack deserves whatever punishment he gets for his outrageous behavior last night and I'll lose a lot of respect for Lucia if he lets this one slide. His behavior was unacceptable in college hockey and in life, in general. So, all I have to say is this...

Brian Schack,

you're a hack,

please go away

and don't come back!!

I seriously should have been a poet, huh?? :) Anywhoo, that's all! Have a good day!!

(photo courtesy of the St. Cloud Times, in other words, I stole it from KA's article!).

OMG!

Our very own little Drew LaBlanc!!

(Yes, it's pronounced LaBlah and we LIKE it, so there! :)

WCHA Offensive Player of the Week • Drew LeBlanc, Fr., F, St. Cloud State
St. Cloud State University center Drew LeBlanc, who notched his first collegiate hat trick and factored in on both a game-tying and game-winning goal as the Huskies took three of four points on the road against defending MacNaughton Cup champion Colorado College last weekend, has been named the Red Baron® WCHA Offensive Player of the Week for Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2009.

A 6-0, 185-pound rookie from Hermantown, Minn., LeBlanc had a breakout weekend against the host Tigers on Jan. 23-24. In a 4-4 overtime tie last Friday night at Colorado Springs World Arena, LeBlanc assisted on teammate Garrett Roe's game-tying power-play goal at 9:45 of the third period as St. Cloud State rallied from a two-goal deficit in the final 15:02 to gain the tie. Then last Saturday evening, LeBlanc produced his first three-goal hat trick and also added one assist for a four-point game as the Huskies skated to a 6-1 victory over CC. His assist came on the eventual game-winning goal by teammate Sam Zabkowicz. In addition to his five points, LeBlanc also fired seven shots on goal in the series.

So far this season, LeBlanc has five goals, five assists and 10 points.

*** Courtesy of the WCHA website

So, I know I've been remiss in my blogging, but I really don't care that much about it lately. I had kind of decided to put a hold on the blog till baseball started, but this made me so happy, I had to break my self-imposed silence. Hope all is well with everyone....

I've got nothing...

There's not much to say about this weekend, except that I celebrated my birthday on Saturday night and gallons of vodka and cranberry juice dulled the pain of this weekends' sucky hockey games...

That's all for now.