It's Hockey Day in Canada!

I was helping out a friend at work on Friday (she's from Toronto) and some other friend (he's from around here) was sending her constant IMs about how the Canucks were going to beat the Maple Leafs. Ahh, the joys of inter-regional rivalries (played out with ash wood and rubber -- or ashes, willow and grass, for that matter -- rather than with bullets, bars and stone). But tonight we see which of the six Canadian teams has got it and which ones not. If you have access to a CBC feed and you're an expatriate Canadian, today is a day to get an overdose. At 19h00 GMT it's Ottawa and Montreal. At 0h00, it's Vancouver at Toronto and for the finale, the ever-popular Battle of Alberta is continued at 03h30.

Oh, and by the way, Shanta? With the amount of snow we usually get out here (not this year!), Vancouver players know how to rake up leaves. (The question in my mind is, are they going to do it tonight?)

Well, well, well...

Now that Google has assimilated blogger, e-mailing to my blog is much more responsive than it used to be!

One of the biggest things I enjoy but know they're not that important is sports.
And being Canadian, one of the biggest sports things that amuse me is hockey.
And being from Vancouver, that means Canucks and Giants, ultimately.

Not to mention World-Under-20 gold for Canada... w00t! w00t We are the champions, my friend.... blah blah blah! The thing that struck me on the portions of televised games that I saw was how full the stands were when Canada was playing, and how empty they were otherwise.

But I think the Giants are happy to have Franson and McKardell back from their "cap"-matches (to mix sporting custom metaphors and all that) -- beating the Red Deer Rebels last night at the Rink on Renfrew.

While in the other rink (the "Garage")... I pegged the Canucks to be basement-dwellers this season after their extensive mix-and-match retooling over the summer. And two post-game-nights in a row now, they've been able to go to sleep knowing that tomorrow at least, nobody can take over the lead in the Northwest Divison -- easily the tightest division in the whole NHL -- over Christmas there were five points separating the top and bottom team.

But now, with 7 wins in a row (and two of those very diSTINKt ones) maybe I was wrong. Luongo keeps letting in the odd soft goal, but it'll be fun to watch (while folding laundry) these guys go through to the end of the season.

Still, it can't really compare to important things like drinking water...

I tend toward too much seriousness sometimes

So... I'll keep on writing sanity checks at the end of posts I put here

But mostly, if anything really trivial catches my eye, or delights me somehow, I'll post it here.

I'm afraid, since I really enjoy any sport well played, a lot of this might become noise about sports. But look for other more important elbow-shots at the end.