thinking about sports before the big game

thinking about sports before the big game

So here I am waiting for the Flames game to start, and the CBC is showing the world curling championships. Some thoughts:

1) Colleen Jones is pretty damn sexy. Come to think of it there are a lot of really good-looking women in curling. That Norwegian third Linn Githmark is downright gorgeous.

2) I don't watch much hockey, but this season the Flames have coalesced into a playoff-ready team. I've been watching more and more as the playoff race was underway in March, and now I am watching more and more, following the Flames on the net, and reading the sports pages. A little success and a lot of hard work go a long way.

3) Jarome Iginla entered the league in 1996, going right from Junior Hockey to the first round of the playoffs with the Flames. Those two games he played then were the last playoff games played by Calgary until this year. Iginla has been with the team the whole time, and he has really grown up with the team. He's the captain now, but that is just a formality: it has been his team for a while now. And he buys wholeheartedly into the Sutter hockey philosphy, that hard work trumps raw ability every time. The result? raw ability plus hard work. Iggy is probably the most dominant player in the game right now, and it looks good on him.

4) Calgary has a depth in goal that is the envy of the league. All three goalies were injured at various points in the season. Mikka Kiprusoff had a fantastic year, and he is standing on his head in these playoffs. Should he fall, Roman Turek is waiting and ready to go. And Jamie McClennan is ready to go. A hot goalie can bring a team the Stanley Cup, more than any other factor.