HNIC!!!

If you are reading this blog and you don’t know what those letters stand for, either you aren’t Canadian, or you should turn in your Canadian Citizenship card.

Hockey Season has begun and the Canucks are off to a luke-warm 2-1-1 record. While they are 2nd in the Northwest division, they are lagging behind Minnesota. This season promises to be a very different one for our Canucks as Todd Bertuzzi, Alex Auld, Bryan Allen, Anson Carter, Jarko Ruutu, Dan Cloutier, Ed Jovanovski, Richard Park, and Coach Marc Crawford are gone. The top line has been nicknamed the Ikea Line with Naslund and the Sedins. Line 2 includes Morrison, Bulis, and Cooke. A far cry from last season’s promising team that fizzled into a big bomb.

Hopefully this season will be different especially with “Bingo, Bango, Bongo, his name is Luongo” in net. Yes, you heard that correctly. It came out of Tom Larscheid’s mouth during the Canucks’ 3-2 win against Columbus this past Friday night.

What makes this season more special for me is the fact that I am participating in my first ever hockey pool courtesy the hockey fans in the Vancouver SEACOR office who decided to make it up. My players are listed below and so far have earned me 70 points.

Marc Savard --- Boston
Maxim Afinogenov --- Buffalo
Jarome Iginla --- Calgary
Alex Tanguay --- Calgary
Erik Cole --- Carolina
Eric Staal --- Carolina
Martin Havlat --- Chicago
Brenden Morrow --- Dallas
Nicklas Lidstrom --- Detroit
Shawn Horcoff --- Edmonton
Saku Koivu --- Montreal
Steve Sullivan --- Nashville
Jaromir Jagr --- NY Rangers
Brendan Shanahan --- NY Rangers
Daniel Alfredsson --- Ottawa
Simon Gagne --- Philadelphia
Mike Knuble --- Philadelphia
Shane Doan --- Phoenix
Sergei Gonchar --- Pittsburgh
Mark Bell --- San Jose
Joe Thornton --- San Jose
Markus Naslund --- Vancouver
Daniel Sedin --- Vancouver
Henrik Sedin --- Vancouver

Yeah, I know I’ve got the top Canucks line on there, but I have a feeling that they are going to do really well. Seriously though, it is hard to pick players for a pool, especially when you are limited to 2 per group and each group has 4 players you would definitely want to pick. Too bad I can’t travel into the future and see where the points are after game 75… oh well, we’ll have to wait and see.