Islander rookie showing some skills. This isn’t his first highlight reel goal.
Islanders just drafted him 5th overall.
Let them do the marketing for you – that is the gist of viral marketing. Come up with a great idea and then let word of mouth and other media outlets take care of it from there.
Example 1A: Amstel Light sends out an open letter regarding the lone Amstel Light beer that was ordered as part of the now infamous Bruins’ Stanley Cup celebratory bar tab. Brilliant
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Example 1B would go to Air Canada for tossing it’s business partner, the NHL, under the bus after the ridiculous Montreal “protest” that was supposedly about head hits. For the sake of homerism and free headlines, it’s amazing that the executive team of a multi-national company actually took the time to have meetings about the state of hockey.
Good on Amstel Light for keeping it classy.
The Bruins post-Cup party has gone fully viral thanks to a $100,000 bottle of champagne. For those of you who still haven’t had a peak at it, voila.
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Word is it is 30 liters large. That is the biggest bottle that I have seen since the round, bowling ball, Carlo Rossi bottles I used to drink back in high school.
Somebody put together a handsome info-graphic of the evening. Somebody please start a site where one can submit their drink roster from the night before and it turns it in to an info-graphic.
What a ride. I was actually starting to believe that I would never see this day. It still really hasn’t sunk in for me yet. I’m not sure how interesting this will be for my readers that I don’t know personally, but it was something that I had to put up.
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Some of my highlights from the 2011 Bruins Cup Run:
A quick overview of what my Finals journey looked like. An expensive ride, but worth every penny. I’ve included the sections that I sat in and what I paid for them.
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Game 1 – Vancouver
Watched in my living room in Vancouver with my main man Scotty G, an Oilers fan brave enough to throw on the spoked B. Tough loss for the B’s in the dying seconds.
Game 2 – Vancouver
Second verse, same as the first. Burrows scored in the opening seconds of OT and it was slightly crushing. Scotty G allowed me to mourn for 5 minutes, and then cracked out the Vodskie and gave us the Edmonton pour – if you don’t wink, it ain’t a drink. Got trashed and headed downtown. May possibly have said lewd things about Burrows and small children.
Game 3 – Boston
Cross continent flight to Boston. Landed at 10am on game day. Brother-in-law Thor confirmed earlier that week that he was going to make the drive down to meet me. Section 302 – Row 4. $750 bones on Stubhub. Brother and sis-in-law made the hike down and joined the party at Hurrincane O’Reilly’s. Ended up grabbing scalpers for $200 a piece. Bruins destroy the Canucks 8-1. Garden was off the hook.
Love the Timmy Thomas quote as he is excepting the Conn Smyth trophy from Gary Bettman,
“Are they booing you are me?”
What a ride this has been. Still having trouble putting it in to words.
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Last night was a dream come true for this life long Bruins fan. This still hasn’t even sunk in for me. Totally physically and emotionally exhausted. I will start posting things over the next few days.
ps. I got to touch the Cup AND, got it on video. Will post soon.
The pic from the riots that everybody is talking about.
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As per PuckDaddy, the best quote that I’ve heard so far on this pic:
“At least someone from Vancouver can score on the road!”
Folks, Vancouver was ambushed last night. This was a planned event that went down, and we are going to be learning lots more about the groups that orchestrated it. Be careful not to get too caught up in the mainstream media’s version of this.
Shame on the regular Canuck fans that participated in last night’s activities however, hopefully we can track down the people who organized this. Continue to submit your pics and videos and please take the time to review the VPD’s sites to identify these people.
Ladies, if your husband is a hockey fan and he is pretending that he isn’t in love with Rachel McAdams right now, then he is lying to you.
Some pics:
It is starting to look like regardless of how the Finals pan out, that Timmy Thomas may end up with the Conn Smyth trophy. Kesler had a lock on it up until this round, but hasn’t been the stand out that he was in the first three rounds.
As for Thomas, it’s hard not to love his style of play. His entire life he has been told how sloppy his style of play is and many believed that the Bruins got hosed when they signed him to his last contract.
I’m thinking they don’t think that way now.
As for the Burrow’s vs. Thomas battle, we’ll give it Fight of the Week, even though we didn’t really have much in the way of landed shots. I just love when goalies get involved.
Lucic chumming it up with the Green Men. I can’t believe anybody actually wanted to have these guys banned. Their next trip to Boston is getting sponsored by a travel company.
The best part of being in the cities where the Cup is being played is seeing all of the T-shirts and signs that make the rounds.
I got a kick out of this one.
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One of my favorite Canuck signs that I saw in Boston.
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Well done brother.
If you ever get a chance to watch your team in the Stanley Cup Finals, drop everything and book the tickets.
There is nothing else like it.
I took a quick video of the Bruins introduction in Game 4 in Boston.
Will post some great fan photos soon.
Gotta love Andrew Ference’s post game quote about his softy goal in Game 3.
For the goal, skip ahead to the 1:20 mark:
When asked if the Bruins had ‘figured’ Luongo out:
“I close my eyes when I shoot. You’re asking the wrong guy.”
Henrik will get a laugh at this one when he watches the highlight reels. A little heavy on the theatrics?
This reminds me of the greatest goalie hit of all time by Billy Smith.
Pay attention folks.
This may be one of the most underused moves in hockey right now, especially since the introduction of the new interference rules.
You are going to start seeing a lot more of this next season. If the forward is coming with more speed, it makes no sense to try to lug the puck by a defenseman and expose yourself to being poke checked. The new rules dictate that defenders aren’t allowed to hold up the opposing player if they don’t have possession of the puck. Although they have started letting them get away with a touch of interference if it is immediately after the release of the puck, the incoming forward should still have enough speed to get around the D-man.
The new league disciplinarian Mike Murphy has decided that there will be no more ‘fingering’ going on in the Cup Finals and that anymore incidents will be rewarded with 2 and 10 minute misconducts.
In case you haven’t been following, Alex Burrows bit Patrice Bergeron in Game 1 and then Murphy decided to pass on the automatic suspension. Burrows then came back in Game 2 and won it in overtime. Ever since, the players have been jamming their fingers in each other’s mouths to try to draw the bite.
I personally think it’s hilarious and am loving every minute of it.
The NHL of course, will do whatever it can to kill anything that might cause some extra entertainment in the game. Sports broadcasts are loving every second of it and the NHL is even getting some good play on ESPN these days.
Interesting to hear people expressing “opinions” about how Chara shouldn’t be playing in front of the net on the power play.
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The reason for these opinions? Well, Craig Simpson and Glen Healy said it on CBC, so therefore it must be true. Welcome to the evolution of the mainstream “opinion”. Water cooler conversations everywhere consist of people pawning off “insights” like how Chara isn’t good at tipping the puck or at gathering rebounds, like they came up with them on their own (don’t forget to tune in to your local sports broadcast tonight folks so that you can have your new opinion for tomorrow morning’s coffee).
As for reasons of why Claude Julien had Chara playing the front of the net on the PP:
Note: Not actually a Bruins fan, but pretty damn funny skit.
“Ryan, do you want to bring 10 models dressed in tight rubber bavaria suits to Game 5?”
Yes. Yes I do.
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The pics:
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Eleven for fourteen. That is my record so far in this fine 2011 playoff season.
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Round 1: 7 for 8
Round 2: 2 for 4
Round 3: 2 for 2
As for the actuals vs. my predictions:
Any other name doesn’t make sense. It has to be the Winnipeg Jets and it has to be the retro jerseys.
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Lawyers working overtime to get this move from Atlanta to Winnipeg signed off, but still some more I’s to be dotted and T’s to be crossed. Be patient my Manitoban friends.
Bavaria Girls get kicked out of Canucks game in the third period. Security guards came over and said they had to go.
Maybe the Ben Eager penalty box situation has them a touch cautious now??
A couple of pics:
