On the Eighth Day of Christmas

On The

Alex Ovechkin

Day of Christmas, the Hockey Gods gave to me...

Gagner's 8 Point Game

Sam Gagner

Seven American Treasures

 Jonathan Quick, Timmy Thomas, Dustin Brown, Ryan "Light of my Life" Miller, David Backes, Brooks Orpik, Bobby Ryan

'06 Number One Draft Pick

 

 Erik Johnson

My Five Favorite Hawks!

 Brent Seabrook, Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, Patrick Sharp, Patrick Kane

Four Avs #4's

Uwe Krupp

 Rob Blake


 John Michael Liles

Nolan Pratt

Three Oilers/Barons

Jordan Eberle, Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Two Former Sioux

Jonathan Toews and TJ Oshie

and

My favorite Russian Goalie

Semyon Varlamov

Kisses!

~Saucer

On the Seventh Day of Christmas

On The

Brent Seabrook

 

Day of Christmas, the Hockey Gods gave to me...

Seven American Treasures

 Jonathan Quick, Timmy Thomas, Dustin Brown, Ryan "Light of my Life" Miller, David Backes, Brooks Orpik, Bobby Ryan

'06 Number One Draft Pick

 

 Erik Johnson

My Five Favorite Hawks!

 Brent Seabrook, Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, Patrick Sharp, Patrick Kane

Four Avs #4's

Uwe Krupp

 Rob Blake


 John Michael Liles

Nolan Pratt

Three Oilers/Barons

Jordan Eberle, Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Two Former Sioux

Jonathan Toews and TJ Oshie

and

My favorite Russian Goalie

Semyon Varlamov

Kisses!

~Saucer

On the Sixth Day of Christmas

On The

Ryan Whitney

Day of Christmas, the Hockey Gods gave to me...

'06 Number One Draft Pick

 

 Erik Johnson

My Five Favorite Hawks!

 Brent Seabrook, Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, Patrick Sharp, Patrick Kane

Four Avs #4's

Uwe Krupp

 Rob Blake


 John Michael Liles

Nolan Pratt

Three Oilers/Barons

Jordan Eberle, Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Two Former Sioux

Jonathan Toews and TJ Oshie

and

My favorite Russian Goalie

Semyon Varlamov

Kisses!

~Saucer

Still Whining...

Sorry everybody, I’ve been too depressed to write about hockey lately. I’m ONE profile shy of completing Round 1 (it’s going to be Logan Couture) but I just am too sad to write. OK, maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit because I've actually been watching quite a bit of hockey. I'm catching the Sioux on TV - thank God for Fox Sports Central. Wait, did I actually thank God for a Fox network? What is happening to me? Anyway, lots of Sioux on TV and I've been catching AHL and Junior games live as often as possible.

But I really do need to stop following the news on the CBA negotiations. There will be promising news and I get my hopes way up, even though I know I shouldn’t, only to have them stomped on soon after. It’s sad, it’s depressing, and I really, really miss the NHL.

You know what doesn’t help? Pictures like this:

UGH, I don’t want them to have fun together. I want them miserable, sad, crying, and wanting to be back playing in the US!

On the other hand, you know what does help (a little)?

What is the point of these? Who cares, they are freakin hilarious! I hope like hell their NHL teammates are already printing color copies of these to plaster all over their lockers EVERY DAY once the NHL is back.

Other upsetting news, although my BFF @0kollberg promised me he would take good care of Landy, he hurt his head! He needed stitches! He is having headaches! Sweden, listen up here: TAKE CARE OF MY CAPTAIN!

Yesterday was Veteran’s Day, Beddee is off work today which is so unfair, and one of my very favorite players, Erik Johnson, pledged to donate for each time this was RT’d before midnight:

So guess what? He donated $36,000 last night. With politics and CBS negotiations polluting my timeline with negativity Erik Johnson was a bright, shining, happy star. Erik, you inspire us. Thank you for reminding us that there are way more important things in the world than an NHL lockout.

Kisses!

~Saucer

Jack Johnson - Columbus Blue Jackets

In preparation for the upcoming season I am going to feature one player from every team in the NHL. Goalies are excluded because they’re interesting enough to garner a feature of their own so look forward to that as round 2.

#7 Jack Johnson – Columbus Blue Jackets – Defense

The Past

Jack Johnson is another one of my Team USA boys. He was born in Indianapolis and went to Shattuck-Saint Mary’s in Minnesota, as did light-of-my-life Jonathan Toews. He then played for the University of Michigan and set a bunch of records before entering the NHL right after Michigan lost to my beloved Fighting Sioux in the NCAA Western Regional Semi-finals in 2007. Side note about that game: it was in Denver and there were so many of us in Sioux gear it was insane. But I saw some of the best TV shirts ever during that game – “Ann Arbor is a Whore” was a favorite as was “Sioux is a Girl’s Name”. See, I can recognize good humor, even when it’s against my team. Although I admit if that kid with the Sioux shirt had been sitting closer to me I probably would have thrown my drink at his stupid, fat head.

Sorry, back on track. Johnson was drafted 3^rd overall in 2005 by the Hurricanes but he was traded to the Kings before he ever played a game.

Aw, draft pictures are so adorable. I hate that Sidney Crosby is ruining this picture, but Jack and Bobby Ryan look just precious!

Johnson played for the Kings until February 2012 when he was traded to the Blue Jackets. While I was thrilled for Richie and Carts to be back together I felt like Johnson really got shafted with this trade. The Kings went on to win the Cup just a few months later and poor Jack is stuck in Columbus. I hate to see bad things happen to good Americans so I’m really hoping Howson figures out what he is doing and they somehow turn the Blue Jackets around soon or Jack gets traded to a better team.

The Love

There are few delights in life as great as an American defenseman. I wish he played for the Flyers though since it looks like the Flyers have, well hardly anybody on defense for next season. I would guess Johnson jerseys sell out in Columbus this year because he was a freakin beast in the few months he played there. He was a +5 with Columbus and although I have issues with the whole +/- system in general it still says a lot about him as a player.

I’ve liked Johnson since the 2010 Olympics but I really fell in love with him when he was traded to Columbus. I didn’t hear a single negative word from him. He went with a positive attitude, unlike Carts who pouted and cried basically the entire time he was there (still love you Cheeto). I hope the fans in Columbus show Jack a lot of love and I promise to cheer loudly for him every time I see him play this year.

The Hate

The only thing I hate about Jack Johnson is that he has such a common name that it is sometimes difficult to find pictures of him. Seriously, that is the only thing because he’s a great player, nice guy, and has a funny twitter account.

Let’s Get Scrappy

Johnson doesn’t fight a lot but when he does he usually wins.

Although Johnson beats the ass of my beautiful Landy in the video below it was his first fight as a Blue Jacket so I have to show it.

Yikes, check out the video below where Jack Johnson beats the shit out of Sam Ganger. Damn Johnson, that is hot.

Feed the Inner Fangirl/Fanboy 

Jack is relatively new to twitter but he tweets a lot, which I love. He is also really good about interacting with fans and by interacting I mean more than just throwing down a bunch of RTs. I laughed my ass off one night when he got into a little twitter war with James Wisniewski and became completely overwhelmed with people demanding a retweet or reply. He was such a good sport about it and responded to a ton of people – see he’s just a good guy.

So follow him – he’s American, he’s a cutie, and he’s one of my favorite defensemen in the league -- @JackJohnson3

Kisses!
~Saucer