Thursday, February 15, 2007

"Don't Let the Door Hit Your Ankle on the Way Out"


The Peter Forsberg saga has come to and end tonight. Peter skated with his now former teamates before the Flyers/Leafs game tonight. But, by the drop of the puck Forsberg was MIA. Rumor started right away that he was traded and heading out of town.

By the first intermission it was confirmed that only the NHL needed to sign the paper work and Peter would be on the next flight out of here. The Flyers captain has been traded to the Nashville Predators

Apperently the Flyers agreed to trade Peter Forsberg to the Nashville Predators for Scottie Upshall, Ryan Parent and two draft picks. The first pick is a 1st round pick for this year. The 2nd rumored to be a 3rd round pick that the Flyers will only get if Peter stays with Nashville in the off season.

That is right the saga and drama might be over for now, but Peter could sign back with Philly during the summer. But, he could also retire and leave the game behind. Forsberg will be on a really good team now and have a chance to bring another team the cup. It would be Nashville's first ever cup.

An emotional week for the players and fans coming on the rout of the Red Wings for Keith Primeau night, and having their one time savor of the team basically abandon his team. As talented as he was, he was a poor captain. Obessed with his skate problems, he would talk about nothing else but his ankle or his skate. He rarely seemed to offer advice or chew anyone out for their play. WHen the team got down he would just drop his head on the bench and look down at the floor, or perhaps his skates. Guess thats why Sakic was always the captain. I am not sure Peter ever felt comfortable with his role.

Rumors for the new CAptain or Mike Knuble and Sami Kapanen both who signed on for a few more years with the club.

I hope these prospects pan out for the Flyers, and I guess you can't argue that they had to get something for Forsberg. But at this point, I would not want to see him return. He left his team in trumoil and I don't see why anyone would want to accept him back as the captain.From what I hear some players have quietly said if he goes, he shouldn't bother coming back. Of course others, such as Gags would likely want him back. I wonder what he said when he left the ice for warm ups.
"Have fun sucking guys, I am going to go play in the playoffs and try to get another cup!"


The Flyers will really have a ton of free money under the cap now if they decide not to bring Peter back. I know I have to pick a 2nd team now that the FLyers wont be in the playoffs. It will likely be the Penguins, and I can assure you I will be rooting for Nashsville to go out in 4 games the first round.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

"Better Late Than Never"

So a few weeks ago I was lucky to get a wingbowl ticket at the last second. Yeah, I know its been almost two weeks, but I promised I would blog about it.

The night started around 2:30 am when I woke up to make it over to my friends place in Pitman. I arrived there around 3:30, and we made it to Philly at 4am.

Now I guess my mind wasn't all there at 3am when I left my house, but I didn't bother to take my gloves. It was about 24 degrees and snowing out. So, yeah that made my hands freeze, and it was hard to drink my beer in the parking lot. We stood in the parking lot for about 2 hours or so pre-gaming.

My friend's friend only have punching bag gloves for me. Despite the fact that they had the fingers cut out, it was better than nothing. Although, I clearly appeared to be looking for trouble all morning because they are punching gloves after all.

Our seats were behind the action, but we had to wait till about 7am to start drinking again, because of some stupid Philly law about not selling beer before 7am. Anyway, we were all pretty much feeling good.

Girls were flashing like crazy, but its illegal to show it on the big screen. So, you had to see them in the crowd or hope to god that a hot girl in your section was drunk enough and hated their father enough to show her bare chest to strangers.

Sadly though the girl in our section never showed us everything and was a bit of a skank. It was The best view I got were middle aged over weight women. So, yeah I guess our seats werent that great after all.

The thing that you must learn if you go to WingBowl is the the security guards will break up crowds and make the girl that is putting on the show sit down. So, just stay in your seat gentlemen. If you make a crowd, they make the girl stop and make you all sit down. Of course there wasn't much regard for rules or laws at Wing Bowl. From smoking in public places to, throwing objects onto the stage, and I would imagine under age drinking. Who cares, its Philly, its wing bowl.

The winner was one of the pros again this year, which prompted El Wingador to come out of retirement for next year. I just hope its not like when Jordan or Mario came back and were just a shell of their former self. I really hope El Wingador plays the way we remembered him when he left the sport of fat people eating wings.

The actual event was over in what seemed like a flash. It was hard to hear the people talk because the speakers in the WATCH OVER YOU center suck big time.

The after party was at Finnageans Wake in Philly. Yeah pretty much drinking all morning long. They had a buffet for like 6 bucks, and since they felt really sorry for my drunk friendthey let him eat for free.

Now he kept saying he wanted to go to strip club. I was pretty indifferent, but since my friend hooked my up with the ticket, I told him anywhere he wanted to go was fine with me. The other dude had a girlfriend and no real interest in going to a strip club and wasting his money. Eventually we talked down to one. However, my poor friend was flagged in the parking lot. I thought to myself I have never seen anyone ever flagged in a parking lot in my life. Not to mention the fact that I would only have been working for 3 hours normally.

So back to the bar we went. It got a lot crazier in there, contestants were t here and even former Eagle Hugh Douglas who was part of the Wing Bowl broadcast team. HUgh was giving free beer and t-shirts out. But at that point I was pretty much done. It was pretty much all dudes in there and I already at like two meals and was getting rid of my buzz.

So, my friend thought he caught his 2nd wind and fired us up to got to another strip club, this time he was going to "act sober" and everything was going to be "Cool". About 20 mins later he was sleeping in the car out could. At this point me and other dude kept trying to wake him up, and than we just started talking smack to see if he would wake up. Nothing. We pulled into the parking lot and considered waking him up. But he was out cold.


By 2pm I was napping with blurry memories of guys with wing sauce on their face, women flashing, and wondering how much longer I could have gone being outside without fingers falling off.


I was thankful to go again and every red blooded south jersey male should experience Wing Bowl once in their life. I plan on going for that hat trick myself.

"The Trilla in Phila"

If there is such a thing as playing a big win in the worst season in a team's history last night was just that for the Philadelphia Flyers.

Charged by the former Captain Keith Primeau who was honored last night in front of a sellout crowd the Flyers played their best game of the season. They held their own the entire game and exploded for 5 goals in the third period.

It was a loud sellout crowd and seemed like the days of old, which was bitter sweet when you realize how far down they are in the standings. It will be likely next season before we get to experience something like that again.

For the first time all season the players were smiling on the bench. Despite the good feeling of the night, the reality of the situation was clear with over ten scouts at the FLyers game all trying to check out Peter Forsberg. Many teams that will actually be in the playoffs were there to see if he still has it, and are many are interested in renting him for a cup run.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

"Tucker's World Soda Can Drive"

So Pepsi is promoting the Flyers with 10 cans honoring 10 Flyer greats. I would like to collect them all if possible. So, if you are drinking a soda can and you see a dude that looks like a Flyer on it. Please drink it and save it for me. I don't even drink some of the sodas that are listed on here that will have Flyers on it. Here is the list of who is on what. What will you get out of it? Well nothing at all, just the satifaction of holding on to and empty soda can untill the next time you see me, feel free to put a comment on here when you get a can for me. You know what? Because of the likelyhood of not getting all these cans by myself. Whoever brings in the most cans gets a free dinner at Starview diner on Tucker's World. Rob, if the winner is your mortal enemy I will let you know who he or she is.

"Orange and Black Saturday"

They needed over time, but Simon Gagne lifted the Flyers to their first win on home ice since Black Friday at the Watch Over You Center last night. The Flyers knocked off the equally pathetic Saint Louis Blues when they had 4 on 3 peco power play. It was Micheal Leightons's first start and action at all as a Flyers. Leighton cliamed off waivers a month ago is likely to slide into the #2 spot if the Flyers are able to find any takers for Robert Esche at the trade deadline. This plan hit a snag with Esche having hip problems right now. Leighton had been set down to the phantoms to get his game ready. He played alright I guess. Most the goals weren't really his fault, but at the same time he wasn't anything to write home about. At any rate I hope he still gets a start this week I would like to see him in action again in hopes that we found some sort of waiver steal. The win puts the Flyers 11 points out of 29th place (out of 30) and 26 points out of a playoff berth. This is as of Sunday morning.