Maybe Hockey Isn’t That Bad After All

NHL.com recently interviewed Kristen Bell, star of “Heroes,” about many trivial, hockey related themes including which hockey player she’d most like to hook up with (or something like that). However, you’ll be shocked to find out that it wasn’t Mike Ricci:

After drooling over rich athletes, the conversation actually turned interesting when Kristen was asked what she would do with the Stanley Cup if it graced her presence for a day, much like it does for each member of the Stanley Cup-winning team.

“I would start by eating an entire box of Fruity Pebbles out of it. Then I’d take an afternoon sponge bath in it. Then I’d retro fit it with handles and make it into a Stanley Cup handbag.”

Whoa, back things up a minute. Sponge bath. The NHL might have something here.

If the NHL can promise me at least one blood-drawing fight per period and a Kristen Bell-and-Stanley Cup sponge bath during 2nd Intermission, I can promise I’ll be the state of Kentucky’s biggest hockey fan. I can also promise to try to keep my pants on during the sponge bath.

♣ Linkage:

Yahoo!.com

People.com

Lafleur Faces Arrest, That Pesky Globo Gym

Former dodgeball hockey star Peter Guy Lefleur has found himself in some hot water after having an arrest warrant issued in his name in Montreal for giving some faulty evidence…ah shit, who am I kidding? None of you care about this story. Quite frankly I don’t even know who Guy Lefleur is and neither do you, it was just a solid opportunity for a sweet Dodgeball reference.

We’re all so glad Average Joe’s took down the Purple Cobras, and face it…we all love Christine Taylor:

Yeap, I sequed from hockey to the hot chick that played Marcia Brady. I’m just that damn good.

♣ Linkage (if anybody cares): ESPN.com

Is Nashville And Hockey A Good Fit?

For many years, both Memphis and Nashville fought tooth and nail to lure major professional teams to Tennessee.

Memphis tried to bring pro football, only to be left with teams from the CFL, the XFL, and the Arena League while Nashville tried to lure the New Jersey Devils and the Sacramento Kings.

In the end, however, after years and years of trying, Tennessee’s capital city would draw first blood in the race for major professional sports in the state, luring the Oilers to Tennessee in 1997 and the Predators a year later to the Sommet Center, forcing Memphis to wait three years until they too would get a chance to have major professional sports in the city.

But while the Oilers/Titans have found solid footing financially, as well as a rabid fan base, since arriving in Tennessee over a decade ago, the Predators have been the complete opposite – although they’ve made the playoffs three straight times and play in one of the great showplaces for hockey in the Southeast.

Last week, Davidson County and Predators officials came together to agree on changing the current lease at the Sommet Center therefore keeping the team under local ownership and quelling the intentions of the franchise being moved to some Canadian outpost.

Despite the fact that the team will, for all intents and purposes, remain in Middle Tennessee for at least four to five years, the only way that the Predators can pull out of Nashville is if they have a continued run of operating losses of two to three years.

And if you look at the attendance so far at the Sommet Center, the odds of the Predators staying in Nashville are almost similar to the same odds I have of winning the Powerball drawing on Wednesday night.

Bajillion-to-one.