Off-the-Ice Alter-Egos

I normally wouldn't actually try to write something like this the way I did here, but it was helpful for me to express my surprisingly rational feelings about Tim Thomas' greatness on the ice and poor discretion off of it. I think the following reflects the final stage in the grieving process - acceptance.

Ever since the White House "incident" last season and his Facebook posting about it, I have gone back and forth between thinking Tim Thomas is an obnoxious idiot for saying that shit on Facebook and thinking everyone who judges him for it is an obnoxious idiot. The bottom line is that I love Tim Thomas for what he has done for the Bruins and that will never change. But why must he continue to progress into a more and more unlikable person off the ice? While I will always love and appreciate Thomas, I am not so sure that him possibly never returning to the Bruins is a bad thing.

35 Favorite Friends Episodes

Below is the list of my top 35 episodes of Friends. The number is 35 because that is the smallest number I could realistically reduce the list to. I have a hard time narrowing things down, and there are so many great Friends episodes. I tried to pick the same amount from each season. They are listed in chronological order, not in order of favorites. It is listed as Season, Episode, Title, and original air date. Then below that I list each episode in a bit more detail, since the title doesn't always do a good job of indicating all the story lines of the episodes!

Stanley Cup-Winning Goal Scorers 1990-2011(2012)

here’s the list of the goals you’re seeing (listed by year: player (game #, time, period), winning team over losing team, final series game count).

• 1990: Craig Simpson (g5 9:21 2nd), Edmonton Oilers over Boston Bruins 4-1
• 1991: Ulf Samuelsson (ugh) (g6 2:00 1st), Pittsburgh Penguins over Minnesota North Stars 4-2
• 1992: Ron Francis (g4 7:50 3rd), Pittsburgh Penguins over Chicago Blackhawks 4-0
• 1993: Kirk Muller (g5 3:51 2nd), Montreal Canadiens over Los Angeles Kings 4-1
• 1994: Mark Messier (g7 13:29 2nd), New York Rangers over Vancouver Canucks 4-3
• 1995: Neal Broten (g4 7:56 2nd), New Jersey Devils over Detroit Red Wings 4-0
• 1996: Uwe Krupp (g4 4:31 3OT), Colorado Avalanche over Florida Panthers 4-0
• 1997: Darren McCarty (g4 13:02 2nd), Detroit Red Wings over Philadelphia Flyers 4-0
• 1998: Martin Lapointe (g4 2:26 2nd), Detroit Red Wings over Washington Capitals 4-0
• 1999: Brett Hull (g6 14:51 3OT), Dallas Stars over Buffalo Sabres 4-2
• 2000: Jaosn Arnott (g6 8:20 2OT), New Jersey Devils over Dallas Stars 4-2
• 2001: Alex Tanguay (g7 4:57 2nd), Colorado Avalanche over New Jersey Devils 4-3
• 2002: Brendan Shanahan (g5 14:04 2nd), Detroit Red Wings over Carolina Hurricanes 4-1
• 2003: Michael Rupp (g7 2:22 2nd), New Jersey Devils over Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 4-3
• 2004: Ruslan Fedotenko (g7 14:38 2nd), Tampa Bay Lightning over Calgary Flames 4-3
• 2005: none 
• 2006: Frantisek Kaberle (g7 4:18 2nd), Carolina Hurriances over Edmonton Oilers 4-3
• 2007: Trave Moen (g5, 15:44 2nd), Anaheim Ducks over Ottawa Senators 4-1
• 2008: Henrik Zetterberg (g6 7:36 3rd), Detroit Red Wings over Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2
• 2009: Maxime Talbot (g7 10:07 2nd), Pittsburgh Penguins over Detroit Red Wings 4-3
• 2010: Patrick Kane (g6 4:06 OT), Chicago Blackhawks over Philadelphia Flyers 4-2
• 2011: Patrice Bergeron (g7 14:37 1st), Boston Bruins over Vancouver Canucks 4-3
• Not featured in video: 2012: Jeff Carter (g6 12:45 1st), Los Angeles Kings over New Jersey Devils 4-2

I personally remember all of these starting with 1996. Consequently, 1996 is one of my favorites. My favorite is obviously is the Boston Bruins Cup championship, even though that goal was very anti-climactic but still awesome. My favorites are all overtime winners, except for Chicago's, because of how exciting it is and how closely I followed those series - especially 1999 and 2000. Those are 2 of my favorite all-time games, period. I was rooting for the team that ended up winning in both cases. Awesomely, my favorite player in 2000 scored the Cup winning goal, as did my favorite player in 2011!

My least favorites are 1991 because I hate Ulf Samuelsson, and 2007 because I just feel so bad for that player who scored on his own goaltender, and I feel very bad for the goaltender, because I always feel bad for goaltenders for some reason (even Luongo and Hasek).

Some interesting tidbits (all info is from 1990 and on, so exclusively the last 22 years, NOT all time):

Movie Posters and Whatnot

Massive picture post of many minimalist and other varieties of movie posters and a few other random things...

From Warriors to Monarchs

Click read more to view many pictures interspersed with lengthy talk about my memories of my siblings hockey careers as I was growing up. But most importantly, the Lady Monarchs Jersey Quest (photographed) was fulfilled.

Rich Peverley Goals

I also miss Rich Peverley very much. A while ago I compiled pretty much all the videos of him I could find on youtube. It's short but beautiful.

LOTS of Bruins 11-12 Highlights

As the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals loom just 2 days away, us Bruins fans are struggling to cope with the reality that the Bruins are not part of it this year. Every aspect of the playoffs taking place leading up to the beginning of the Devils/Kings finals series on Wednesday reminds me that the Bruins were there last year, and it makes me so sad (sadder than I already am) that they aren't there anymore - and even more so, that what seems like yesterday when they were there, was actually a year ago. To try to cope with this sadness, I will post some of my favorite videos from the 2011-2012 Bruins regular season, which offered some amazing moments in and of itself.

These are in no particular order, and are only a dozen of the endless amount of videos I wanted to post, and perhaps plan on posting this summer.

I have to admit, looking through these season's highlights, I realized how unbelievably fortunate I was as a Bruins fan this year to experience a dozen home games that were all (except for 1 or 2) absolutely fantastic! I have so many wonderful Bruins memories over the years, starting with my first game in 1997. I miss them so much, and look forward to the wonderful memories they are going to give me the opportunity to be apart of in the years to come.