Sidney VS Bogi

If you've been a long time reader to my blog, bless your heart and thank you, you know that I love my thrashers and Zach Bogosian. You also know that I like Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins. This a problem because tonight I'll be watching the pens take on my thrashers the problem is who do I cheer for?? Well I'm looking at  talent, attitude and how the treat fans. That's just during or before the game but after I can be happy for whoever wins but let's look what I'm looking at before and during the game. Let's start with talent, I haven't watched a whole lot of games for Sidney but I have watched a lot of thrasher hockey. I think by the numbers Sid out shoots bogi by a long shot. So in talent they're equal but in shooting sid wins. Attitude on the other hand bogi wins! Zach is much less of the crying/complaining type and Sid hits hard then cries when he gets hard! makes no sense!! But sid is really good with fans and his team mates but so is bogi. So in all reality it's a tie!! so I have son clue who I'll root for I think I'll just be happy to watch the game!

That goal!

Well while Alex Burmistrov was off scoring his 2nd goal I was still amazed by his 1st goal! I watched it so many times and I think I know it inside and out!! I'm so proud of this young man and I wish so bad I was there to see it in person! I will come home for thanksgiving and I'll be able to see that sweet smile. That's another thing that makes these goals by all these youngsters so sweet is that their smiles say it all they tell the whole truth and their expressions are honest and are so precious and joyful. The expressions are worth their weight in pure gold and are worth all the hard work these kids put into their game. I love Alex's little smile and hope to see it more often

Don't let the jersey number fool you he's number one in my heart

Now Matt Ryan is the starting quarterback for the Falcons and wears #2 but even though I hadn't really watched the games this season he's the #1 quarterback in my heart! Matty seems like such a sweet guy from day one I liked his attitude better than Michael Vick's even though Michael is very talented. Matt is the baby faced 6 foot 4 224 pound quarterback who was born on May 17, 1985 in Exton, Pennsylvania. Before Boston college he
attended the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was a three-year starter for coach Brian McCloskey, earned All-East honors from Larunt Lemming Prep Football Report and captured All-Southeastern Pennsylvania accolades as a senior quarterback in addition to receiving All-City first-team honors in 2002 and second-team recognition in 2001.  A three-time All-League selection, he threw for more than 1,300 yards with 9 touchdowns as a senior, finishing his career by completing more than 52 percent of his pass attempts during all three seasons at the helm.He also played basketball and baseball while in high school and was named captain of all three teams his senior year. He was quarterback of the football team in 2002, played small forward on the basketball team, and was a pitcher and a shortstop on the baseball team.He was Boston College's starter from 2005 to 2007, leading them to three bowl victories and a 25-7 record in 32 starts.He  is fifth all-time in school history in passing yards and in pass completions.He also earned MVP honors at the 2005 MPC Computers Bowl and in 2007, Matty led his team to an ACC Atlantic Division championship and was named ACC Player of the Year. But in the 2004 season he  was named backup due to an injury to Quinton Porter and saw his first action on October 2, 2004 against the UMass Minutemen. Matt was also a good student, being  awarded the 2004 Freshman Male Scholar-Athlete award that same year.
For college stats please visit http://collegefootball.rivals.com/cviewplayer.asp?Player=1102  Matt was drafted third overall by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2008 NFL Draft and he was the second first-round pick of the draft to sign when he agreed to a six-year contract on May 20. The contract had an overall value of $72 million and contained $34.75 million in guaranteed money.The contract made him the 4th highest paid quarterback in the NFL behind Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, and Carson Palmer, despite never having played a professional game.Matt also signed endorsement deals with Nike and AirTran. He entered the 2008 season competing against former starter Chris Redman for the Falcons' starting quarterback position.On August 24, Ryan was named the starting quarterback for the September 7 regular season opener against the Detroit Lions becoming the first rookie quarterback to start a season for the Falcons since Steve Bartkowski in 1975. On October 30, Ryan was honored as the NFC Rookie of the Month for October following an impressive string of games in which he led the Falcons to a 2–1 record. Ryan became the first player in Atlanta Falcons franchise history to be awarded this honor. In week 8 against the Oakland Raiders, Ryan finished with the highest completion percentage of his career (77.3).In his rookie season Matt lead the Falcons to their first playoff berth since 2004. On December 31, Matt was named the AP NFL Rookie of the Year and was voted by his teammates as Offensive Captain alongside Todd McClure at the end of the 2008 Season. He was first on the depth chart and was the Falcons starting quarterback for the second consecutive season.For professional up to the date stats please visit   http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?playerId=11237     Matt created an activity named "Folleyball" for NFL Play 60 at NFL Rush.com and is also an avid golfer and has participated in such tournaments as the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, including Augusta National Golf Club. Matty  is also part of the Falcons online reading program “Read with a Falcon”. Best of luck Matty

Retro bio:buzz schneider

Buzz had the unique honor 20 years after the miracle on ice to be played by his son Billy in the Disney film Miracle. But this blog is not about Buzz's son it's about the man and his story that his son protrayed 20 years later. Finding pictures of this guy was harder than finding info on him. It's kinda weird but what is important is what brought Buzz to that moment? What has he done after that day? Well William "Buzz" Schneider was born on September 14, 1954 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota but grew up in  Babbitt, Minnesota. He played hockey, baseball and football. He went to the University of Minnesota where he played for Herb Brooks and won the1974 NCAA hockey championship. He later was drafted

98th overall in the 1974 NHL Entry Draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins and no. 73 overall in the 1974 WHA draft by the Minnesota Fighting Saints. Buzz played for the United States National Team in 1974-76 as well as being a member of the US team at the 1974, 1975 and 1976 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments as well as the 1976 Olympic team. He turned pro after the 1974-76 National team. He played in a variety of minor leagues before playing four games for the Birmingham Bulls of the WHA during the 1976-77 season. After the end of the WHA season, he returned to play for the US national team at the 1977 Ice Hockey World Championship tournament in Vienna. Schneider returned to the minor leagues in 1977-78. He played two seasons in the International Hockey League before regaining his amateur status to play in the 1980 Olympics.During the 1979-80 season, the left wing played 62 games for the National team scoring 27 goals. During the  run in the Olympics, he scored five goals and  three assists in seven games going for that miracle and the gold medal. Schneider played on the Olympic team's top-scoring Iron Rangers or Conehead line with John Harrington and Mark Pavelich.After the Olympics he played in Bern, Switzerland until 1983. Schneider returned to the US national hockey team for the 1982 Ice Hockey World Championship tournament in Helsinki. He retired from hockey in 1983 and went back to Minneapolis  where he worked as a sales executive for a semi-trailer company.  In 2001 he quit his job to gain a commercial real estate license.Buzz was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2003 as member of the 1980 Olympic team.He is now the coordinator of the Turkey men's national ice hockey team. In the 1981 TV movie about the 1980 U.S. hockey team called Miracle on Ice, Schneider is played by Jonathan Sagall. Buzz's son Billy portrayed him in the 2004 Disney movie Miracle.On the DVD of the 2004 film the director said he asked Billy if he was related to Buzz after he saw Billy's last name and billy just said "Yeah he's my dad" like it was no big deal. I wish Buzz good luck with everything and I hope and look for Billy's movie return.

Aww so sweet

The russian Factor

Reason 1 to hate Matt Cooke

Sidney, funny

Star Player: Lubos Bartecko

 Lubos doesn't play in America any more but he deserves to be honored and it was something that I was made aware of only recently even though the reason I'm honoring happened at the Olympics in Vancouver earlier this year. Lubos was playing for Slovakia in the Olympics when Ole Kristian Tollefsen from Norway knocked Lubos to the ice. The situation was made worse when his helmet exposed more of his head (probably caused by a second hit). Lubos ended up getting a concussion and bleeding from the back of the head. But as I learned this past hockey season Slovakian hockey players are tough as nails and hard headed so Lubos was fine and I think went back to play over seas in a Swedish League. So good luck Lubos

Please God bring him back to me

Boris has been put on reentry waivers so he may come back to me and soon so things are looking up for us and I'm very happy!!Vráť sa silná som chýbaš! I'll let y'all know when I know more!!