To start the CFL is Canada Football League which is usually played in 8
cities across Canada but this season they put a game in Halifax which
makes 9 cities. While the NFL is The National Football Leauge which plays
in 32 cities in the United States of America with the exceptions being
nuteral site games( Toronto in Canada and London, England). Also in the
CFL teams plays in 26,000 to 40,000 seat stadiums with no blackout on TV
while NFL has a minimum of 63,000 seats in each stadium and if it is not
sold out than the people in the home city do not get to see the game on
tv.
The CFL has a 18 game (9 home games, 9 away games) season that starts on
Canada Day (July 1St) while the NFL has a 16 game (8 home games, 8 away
games) season which starts the sunday after schools back in from summer
break. The Cfl play their games on Friday, Sataurday, and Sunday along
with Mondays on Canadian holidays while the NFL plays Sunday and Monday
and both will play Thursday games during the season when they decide to.
In the CFL teams are in two division which are called the west division
and the east division and each team plays 2 games aganist each of the four
teams in the other division (home and away). They also play 10 games
aganist the 3 other teams in their own division so that they will play 2
teams 3 times and play the other team in their division 4 times to make up
the 18 game season and each division has a week off in the middle of the
season (one division one week and the other division the next week). While
the NFL has two conferences which are called the AFC (American Football
Conference) and the NFC (National Football Conference) and both
conferences have 4 divisions which are called North, East, South, and West
which all have 4 teams in them. In the NFL each teams schedule starts with
2 games aganist each of the other 3 teams in their division (home and
away) and then the division will play every team in another division in
their conference (2 home and 2 away) and they play each division every 3
seasons. Then each team in a division plays a division in the other
conference (2 home and 2 away) and they play each division every 4 seasons
and the last home and away game in the 16 game NFL regullar season are
decided by each team's record at the year end of last season. So where you
placed in your own division (first, second, third, fourth) you will play
the teams in the same position in the other 2 divisions in your conference
and teams have 1 bye taken somewhere between week 4 and 10.
In the CFL the playoffs work like this the first place team in each
division get a week off while the second place team in each division will
host a game called the semi-finals of their division. They will face
either the third best team in their division or the fourth best team in
the other division depending on who has the better record at the end of
the season and the two winners of the semi-finals will go the next week to
face the first place team of the conference in-which the second place team
is from. The winners of the finals will play each other in predetromed
city (1 of the 8 cities that have a team in the CFL) and they play for
what is called the Grey Cup and the winning team gets to hoast the Grey
Cup (98Th Grey Cup in Edmonton this November) and get a championship ring.
The NFL playoffs work like this the two divison winners with the best
records in both conferences get the week off (called byes) while the other
two division winners host a game aganist 1 of 2 teams that have the best
records but did not win their division (called wild cards). With the
division winner with better record hosting a game aganist the undivision
winner with the worth record while the other two teams will play each
other. Then the next week the two teams in each conference that had byes
host a game with the team with best record playing the team with the worst
record of the two winners of the week before and the other two teams in
each conference play each other. The next is the conference finals with
the last two teams in each conference playing each other with the team
with the better record hosting the game. Two weeks later in a predetermed
city (1 of the 32 cities that have a team in the NFL most likely a warm
place) the two conference winners play for what is called the Superbowl
(played in late January) and the winner gets to hoast the trophy and they
get a ring too.
So the CFL starts earlier in the year July instead of September while the
CFL also plays 2 more games and every team in the CFL gets to play each
other in a home and away series unlike the NFL. The playoff in the CFL are
different because a team in one divison can play aganist a team in the
other division before the campionship game unlike the NFL and finally the
CFL has only 1 bye in a division instead of 2 in a conference for the NFL.
The CFL also plays to smaller crowds and every game of the season is on TV
and the CFL plays regular season games are usually played on Friday,
Sataurdays, and Sundays unlike the NFL who only has Sataurday games the
last two weeks of the regular season.
Thanks for reading
tom mehegan
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
THE GOOD, The BAD, AND THE UGLY FOR THE WEEK OF OCT 25-29
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for the week of Oct 25-29Th
The Good - The Cowboys with their 146 million are 1-5 and KC Chiefs
and Tampa Bay Bucs with their total combined salaries of 188 millions and
they are 8-4. I like this because it is nice to see the high priced Dallas
Cowboys fall apart and the chiefs along with the bucs with their players
who are playing much better so watching the cowboys players as they play
individually and chiefs/bucs are playing like a team.
The Bad - Is Colton Orr's goal on Tuesday aganist the Florida
Panthers when he steamrolled Scott Clemmensen and then the puck goes off
the back of his skate as he is going through the crest. Orr asked after
the game about the goal he said "I guess a defenceman pushed me into the
goalie" and this is really silly because nobody was close to him on the
reply. The worest part of this is that the goal was allowed and there was
no pentalty on the play and both are the wrong call as it should not have
been a goal and there should have been a penalty on Orr.
The Ugly is Charle Sheen this week during a co-parenting trip with
ex-wife Denise Richards which started with him taking his pornstar escort,
who he paid $12,000 to dinner with his ex-wife. Charle and his escort go
back to his room where he does some cocaine and drunk while his escort is
scaried of him and hiding in the washroom.
Thanks for reading
Tom Mehegan
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for the week of Oct 25-29Th
The Good - The Cowboys with their 146 million are 1-5 and KC Chiefs
and Tampa Bay Bucs with their total combined salaries of 188 millions and
they are 8-4. I like this because it is nice to see the high priced Dallas
Cowboys fall apart and the chiefs along with the bucs with their players
who are playing much better so watching the cowboys players as they play
individually and chiefs/bucs are playing like a team.
The Bad - Is Colton Orr's goal on Tuesday aganist the Florida
Panthers when he steamrolled Scott Clemmensen and then the puck goes off
the back of his skate as he is going through the crest. Orr asked after
the game about the goal he said "I guess a defenceman pushed me into the
goalie" and this is really silly because nobody was close to him on the
reply. The worest part of this is that the goal was allowed and there was
no pentalty on the play and both are the wrong call as it should not have
been a goal and there should have been a penalty on Orr.
The Ugly is Charle Sheen this week during a co-parenting trip with
ex-wife Denise Richards which started with him taking his pornstar escort,
who he paid $12,000 to dinner with his ex-wife. Charle and his escort go
back to his room where he does some cocaine and drunk while his escort is
scaried of him and hiding in the washroom.
Thanks for reading
Tom Mehegan
Thursday, October 28, 2010
WEEK 4 RANKING OF THE CANADA TEAMS IN NHL
Welcome to my world
LW TW Week 4 of NHL for canada teams
2 1 Montreal Canadiens(6-2-1-13) are playing good defence and
Price is have a great start to the season and with a 3-game winning streak
and Andrei Kostitsyn and Tomas Plekanec leading the team in goals and
assists respectfully but i do not know how long it will last.
1 2 Toronto Maple Leafs(5-2-1-11) have a great defence this
season and the goaltending is doing well especially J.S. Giguere but right
now the Leafs need to get a help wanted ad for a supporting goal scorer or
two who can score a goal a week besides Kessel and MacArthur.
4 3 Calgary Flames(6-3-0-12) started poorly this season but behind
Kiprusoff in goal and Rene Bourque leading in goals with 6 and Brandon
Morrison in assists with 5. Also 4-1 in their first 5 home game is very
good while 2-2 on the road is OK.
3 4 Vancouver Canucks(4-3-2-10) it is simple to figure out the
canucks this season if they could play all their games at home they would
be amazing (4-0-1) but to bad for them they have to play games on the road
too (0-3-1). It would also help if the Sedins got some help from their
supporting casts and Luongo played a lot better having giving up 20 goals
in his 7 starts this season.
6 5 Ottawa Senators(3-5-1-7) won 2 games this week to get out of
the basement with Daniel Afredsson who scored 1000Th career point this
past week is leading the team in both goals(5) and assists(5).Really there
is nothing else happening right now for the Senators and if they do not
turn it around they will be hitting rock bottom this season.
5 6 Edmonton Oilers (2-4-1-5) are looking to the future so
eventhough they have lost their last 5 games(0-4-1) all they can only hope
that their young stars like Hall get their legs under them and start
finishing so they can have a chance at the playoffs in a couple of seasons.
Thanks for reading
Tom Mehegan
LW TW Week 4 of NHL for canada teams
2 1 Montreal Canadiens(6-2-1-13) are playing good defence and
Price is have a great start to the season and with a 3-game winning streak
and Andrei Kostitsyn and Tomas Plekanec leading the team in goals and
assists respectfully but i do not know how long it will last.
1 2 Toronto Maple Leafs(5-2-1-11) have a great defence this
season and the goaltending is doing well especially J.S. Giguere but right
now the Leafs need to get a help wanted ad for a supporting goal scorer or
two who can score a goal a week besides Kessel and MacArthur.
4 3 Calgary Flames(6-3-0-12) started poorly this season but behind
Kiprusoff in goal and Rene Bourque leading in goals with 6 and Brandon
Morrison in assists with 5. Also 4-1 in their first 5 home game is very
good while 2-2 on the road is OK.
3 4 Vancouver Canucks(4-3-2-10) it is simple to figure out the
canucks this season if they could play all their games at home they would
be amazing (4-0-1) but to bad for them they have to play games on the road
too (0-3-1). It would also help if the Sedins got some help from their
supporting casts and Luongo played a lot better having giving up 20 goals
in his 7 starts this season.
6 5 Ottawa Senators(3-5-1-7) won 2 games this week to get out of
the basement with Daniel Afredsson who scored 1000Th career point this
past week is leading the team in both goals(5) and assists(5).Really there
is nothing else happening right now for the Senators and if they do not
turn it around they will be hitting rock bottom this season.
5 6 Edmonton Oilers (2-4-1-5) are looking to the future so
eventhough they have lost their last 5 games(0-4-1) all they can only hope
that their young stars like Hall get their legs under them and start
finishing so they can have a chance at the playoffs in a couple of seasons.
Thanks for reading
Tom Mehegan
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Toronto sports arena/stadium
The most famous arena in Toronto history is Maple Leafs Gardens which was
the hallow ground that held sporting events from 1931 to 1999 especially
Toronto Maple Leafs hockey games and it only cost 1.5 million in 1931
while it only took 6-month to build. The new arena which is the Air Canada
Centre aka the acc which is a good looking arena and you can see the game
well in every seat and it cost 265 million and it took 23 month to build.
The Skydome has been the home of the Toronto Blue Jays since June 5 of
1989 and fans loved it a lot until 1994 and surprisingly the Jays were
close to the best if not the best until '94 when they fell back to earth
hard and the fans have never come back since. The fans loved the stadium
when the team was on top of the world and since it has been less than half
full now the fans constantly complain about the stadium's feel and look.
While it cost 600 million and the ontario government sold it for 300
million which means the government was left paying the other 300 million
and it took 33 month (2 3/4 years) to build. While they used to play at
the exhibition stadium that people filled the seats for almost all jays
games and even The Toronto Argos games got packed crowds(canadian football
league) and now they can only dream of selling tickets to the upper level
of the Skydome for a game.
In closing older stadiums/arenas are better because they have a lot more
history and people have more memories from the old stadiums/arenas and
that these new stadiums/arenas may not have because they may not be around
long enough to have people feel the same as they did for the old stadiums/
arenas. Also the biggest blunder of the stadiums/arenas is the Skydome
which the government put up the money for and the bill just kept getting
bigger and bigger so it is better when a person is in control of the
building budget because they would be a little smarter with the use of
money than the government would be.
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Tom Mehegan
the hallow ground that held sporting events from 1931 to 1999 especially
Toronto Maple Leafs hockey games and it only cost 1.5 million in 1931
while it only took 6-month to build. The new arena which is the Air Canada
Centre aka the acc which is a good looking arena and you can see the game
well in every seat and it cost 265 million and it took 23 month to build.
The Skydome has been the home of the Toronto Blue Jays since June 5 of
1989 and fans loved it a lot until 1994 and surprisingly the Jays were
close to the best if not the best until '94 when they fell back to earth
hard and the fans have never come back since. The fans loved the stadium
when the team was on top of the world and since it has been less than half
full now the fans constantly complain about the stadium's feel and look.
While it cost 600 million and the ontario government sold it for 300
million which means the government was left paying the other 300 million
and it took 33 month (2 3/4 years) to build. While they used to play at
the exhibition stadium that people filled the seats for almost all jays
games and even The Toronto Argos games got packed crowds(canadian football
league) and now they can only dream of selling tickets to the upper level
of the Skydome for a game.
In closing older stadiums/arenas are better because they have a lot more
history and people have more memories from the old stadiums/arenas and
that these new stadiums/arenas may not have because they may not be around
long enough to have people feel the same as they did for the old stadiums/
arenas. Also the biggest blunder of the stadiums/arenas is the Skydome
which the government put up the money for and the bill just kept getting
bigger and bigger so it is better when a person is in control of the
building budget because they would be a little smarter with the use of
money than the government would be.
If you like this look @ raptorblog-tommehegan.blogspot.com for a raptor recap after every game starting tonight after the game
Tom Mehegan
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
STEROID TALK PT. 2
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
This is the second part of my steroid talk segament and this week I am
going to talk about what has happened in the NBA. The people incharge of
the NBA are really more scaried of their players smoking marijana, using
recuational drugs, and their use of guns. Even with these others
circumstance there are still players in the NBA that are using steroid
because their muscles look much bigger than they normally should be along
with the idea of players going into the off-season and coming back with 15
pounds of muscle before the next season has started and this screaming to
me steroids. Players have been using steroids to balk up quickly so that
they are stronger in the paint which means on defence the players can be
tougher on the offencive players. When on offence the players can go
harder at the rim and can push the defensive players around with their
strength and players can use steroids also to make them faster if used
properly along with jumping higher to get a rebound or a block.
Thanks for reading
Tom Mehegan
remember starting tommorrow I will be posting a recap after every Toronto Raptors @ raptorsblog-tomieworld.blogspot.com and old posts are at tommehegan.blogspot.com
This is the second part of my steroid talk segament and this week I am
going to talk about what has happened in the NBA. The people incharge of
the NBA are really more scaried of their players smoking marijana, using
recuational drugs, and their use of guns. Even with these others
circumstance there are still players in the NBA that are using steroid
because their muscles look much bigger than they normally should be along
with the idea of players going into the off-season and coming back with 15
pounds of muscle before the next season has started and this screaming to
me steroids. Players have been using steroids to balk up quickly so that
they are stronger in the paint which means on defence the players can be
tougher on the offencive players. When on offence the players can go
harder at the rim and can push the defensive players around with their
strength and players can use steroids also to make them faster if used
properly along with jumping higher to get a rebound or a block.
Thanks for reading
Tom Mehegan
remember starting tommorrow I will be posting a recap after every Toronto Raptors @ raptorsblog-tomieworld.blogspot.com and old posts are at tommehegan.blogspot.com
Monday, October 25, 2010
Weekend headlines
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
- Flames broiled Sharks;
- Raiders humiliated rival Broncos;
- Browns buried Brees and the Saints with 4 ints;
- Patriots sneak past Chargers after giving up lots of points late;
- Steelers gets assistance to beat Dolphins;
- Ti-Cats destroy Als;
- Doc is not in the office until March;
- Texas Rangers heading to their first World Series appearance;
- Yankees waiting for Cliff Lee to arrive;
- Predators still undefeated in regulation;
- Leafs looking for a third goal scorer;
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Tom Mehegan
- Flames broiled Sharks;
- Raiders humiliated rival Broncos;
- Browns buried Brees and the Saints with 4 ints;
- Patriots sneak past Chargers after giving up lots of points late;
- Steelers gets assistance to beat Dolphins;
- Ti-Cats destroy Als;
- Doc is not in the office until March;
- Texas Rangers heading to their first World Series appearance;
- Yankees waiting for Cliff Lee to arrive;
- Predators still undefeated in regulation;
- Leafs looking for a third goal scorer;
Remember if you like this starting Wednesday after every Toronto Raptors game for a recap @ raptorsblog.blogspot.com
Tom Mehegan
Sunday, October 24, 2010
World Series Prediction
Welcome to my World
To start you have the National League Champs the San Franisco Giants who
are trying to win their first World Series Title since moving from New
York City and it is their fourth appearance in the World Series (1962,
1989, 2002, 2010). The Giants have a great 1 and 1a pitchering punch in
Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain and can put together enough hits and runs to
win games.
Then there is the American League Champs the Texas Rangers who are in
their first World Series appearance in their 50 seasons as a franchise
that started as the second version of the Washington Senators. The Rangers
are lead by their pitching ace Cliff Lee and lead by the bat of Josh
Hamilton.
The first game will be amazing having Cliff Lee Vs. Tim Lincecum in San
Franisco and the Giants are good at home and Rangers are 5-1 on the road
so San Franisco has the advantage in game 2 with Cain pitching. This
series will go 6 or 7 games and if Lee not pitching every game at home the
Rangers will have trouble winning games (Lee is pitching game 4 or 5) as
they have not been very great at home this post-season so I beleive that
the Giants will win the World Series this season.
Remmeber if you like this I will be putting a Toronto Raptors recap at the end of each game starting on wednesday @ Raptorsblog.blog.spot.com
Tom Mehegan
To start you have the National League Champs the San Franisco Giants who
are trying to win their first World Series Title since moving from New
York City and it is their fourth appearance in the World Series (1962,
1989, 2002, 2010). The Giants have a great 1 and 1a pitchering punch in
Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain and can put together enough hits and runs to
win games.
Then there is the American League Champs the Texas Rangers who are in
their first World Series appearance in their 50 seasons as a franchise
that started as the second version of the Washington Senators. The Rangers
are lead by their pitching ace Cliff Lee and lead by the bat of Josh
Hamilton.
The first game will be amazing having Cliff Lee Vs. Tim Lincecum in San
Franisco and the Giants are good at home and Rangers are 5-1 on the road
so San Franisco has the advantage in game 2 with Cain pitching. This
series will go 6 or 7 games and if Lee not pitching every game at home the
Rangers will have trouble winning games (Lee is pitching game 4 or 5) as
they have not been very great at home this post-season so I beleive that
the Giants will win the World Series this season.
Remmeber if you like this I will be putting a Toronto Raptors recap at the end of each game starting on wednesday @ Raptorsblog.blog.spot.com
Tom Mehegan
THE BEST/ THE WORST TRADES IN NORTH AMERICAN SPORTS HISTORY
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
Today I am going to look at 3 of the worest/ the best trades in North American sports history depending on which team someone likes.
NFL - The Herschel Walker Trade was horrible for the Minnesota
Vikings who felt that all they needed was a running back to win the
superbowl and they gave the Cowboys players and picks that helped them get
Emmit Smith, Alvin Harper, Russell Maryland, Darren Woodson, and others.
While the Vikings had Herschel for 2 1/2 seasons and they did not even win
a playoff game with him while not even having draft picks for years and
years while the Dallas Cowboys won 3 superbowls in 4 seasons with a lot of
help from the Vikings draft picks.
MLB - Most people would talk about Babe Ruth and the curse going
from Boston to the Yankees but instead I am going to talk about a trade
that helped destroy baseball in Montreal. I am talking about the trade
where they receive Mark Langston for a pitching prospect and bird killer
the 6'10 Lefty Randy Johnson who helps the Mariners be a force to be
recking with in the mid to late 90's as their ace of their rotation. While
Langston only pitched the remander of the 1989 season with the Expos as he
played the following season with the California Angels and did not make
the playoffs while Johnson went onto over 300 wins and 4000 stickouts in
his career.
NHL - I would first like to mention that the Wayne Gretzky trade
may have hurt the culture of the NHL helping to put teams in places that
do not deserve to be in the league. The Trade I would like to talk about
is the Tom Kurvers trade in 1989 where the Leafs sent their first round
pick in 1991 that turned into Scott Neidermayer who simply was the glue
for the New Jersey Devils during their cup runs. Then after the lock-out
season he went to Anaham Ducks and a year later helped them to win the cup
something the Leafs have not done since 1967 and Tom Kurvers lasted only a
season and a quarter. It is still a bad trade eventhough the Leafs wanted
Eric Lindros who was a disappointment but still Scott Neidermayer would
have looked good in blue and white.
If you like this starting Wednesday, October 27Th I will be doing Toronto Raptors recap blog @ raptorsblog-tommehegan.bloggspot.com
Today I am going to look at 3 of the worest/ the best trades in North American sports history depending on which team someone likes.
NFL - The Herschel Walker Trade was horrible for the Minnesota
Vikings who felt that all they needed was a running back to win the
superbowl and they gave the Cowboys players and picks that helped them get
Emmit Smith, Alvin Harper, Russell Maryland, Darren Woodson, and others.
While the Vikings had Herschel for 2 1/2 seasons and they did not even win
a playoff game with him while not even having draft picks for years and
years while the Dallas Cowboys won 3 superbowls in 4 seasons with a lot of
help from the Vikings draft picks.
MLB - Most people would talk about Babe Ruth and the curse going
from Boston to the Yankees but instead I am going to talk about a trade
that helped destroy baseball in Montreal. I am talking about the trade
where they receive Mark Langston for a pitching prospect and bird killer
the 6'10 Lefty Randy Johnson who helps the Mariners be a force to be
recking with in the mid to late 90's as their ace of their rotation. While
Langston only pitched the remander of the 1989 season with the Expos as he
played the following season with the California Angels and did not make
the playoffs while Johnson went onto over 300 wins and 4000 stickouts in
his career.
NHL - I would first like to mention that the Wayne Gretzky trade
may have hurt the culture of the NHL helping to put teams in places that
do not deserve to be in the league. The Trade I would like to talk about
is the Tom Kurvers trade in 1989 where the Leafs sent their first round
pick in 1991 that turned into Scott Neidermayer who simply was the glue
for the New Jersey Devils during their cup runs. Then after the lock-out
season he went to Anaham Ducks and a year later helped them to win the cup
something the Leafs have not done since 1967 and Tom Kurvers lasted only a
season and a quarter. It is still a bad trade eventhough the Leafs wanted
Eric Lindros who was a disappointment but still Scott Neidermayer would
have looked good in blue and white.
If you like this starting Wednesday, October 27Th I will be doing Toronto Raptors recap blog @ raptorsblog-tommehegan.bloggspot.com
Friday, October 22, 2010
THE GOOD, The BAD, AND THE UGLY FOR THE WEEK OF OCT 18-22
The Good, Bad, and the ugly
The Good is the Texas Rangers who are beating up on the highly paid Yankees and the Rangers have a great chance to go to their first ever World Series appearance. Also the NFL commishioner has thrown down the gauntlet to his players on the issue on head shots because players may be suspended for a head shot is weekend.
The Bad is the guy who sent Lebron James racisal comments on twitter and also Lebron James for re-tweeting the comments that caused the guy to shut down his twitter account because too many people sent him mad messages.
The Ugly is that NHL only suspended Rick Rypien 6 games for grabbing a fan in Minnesota during a Canuck/Wild game. To make it worst this season in Minnesota for the first time since coming back into the league the Wild has not sold out their arena so the NHL needed to put their foot down and they did not even come close.
Thank You for reading
Tom Mehegan
The Good is the Texas Rangers who are beating up on the highly paid Yankees and the Rangers have a great chance to go to their first ever World Series appearance. Also the NFL commishioner has thrown down the gauntlet to his players on the issue on head shots because players may be suspended for a head shot is weekend.
The Bad is the guy who sent Lebron James racisal comments on twitter and also Lebron James for re-tweeting the comments that caused the guy to shut down his twitter account because too many people sent him mad messages.
The Ugly is that NHL only suspended Rick Rypien 6 games for grabbing a fan in Minnesota during a Canuck/Wild game. To make it worst this season in Minnesota for the first time since coming back into the league the Wild has not sold out their arena so the NHL needed to put their foot down and they did not even come close.
Thank You for reading
Tom Mehegan
Thursday, October 21, 2010
week 3 rankings of the 6 Canadian NHL
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
WEEK 3 RANKINGS FOR THE 6 CANADIAN NHL
TW LW
1 1 The Toronto Maple Leafs(4-0-1-9) are having a great season so far with JS and Clarke MacArthur, Phil Kessel, and Luke Schenn having a great start to their season and are better then they have been before.
2 4 The Montreal Canadiens (3-1-1-7) Price is doing a good job and they have only scored a goal more than they have given up while Tomas Plekanec and Andrei Kostitsyn are leading the team.
3 3 The Vancouver Canucks (2-3-2-6) Sedin's twins are on fire to start the season and Roberto is hot and cold in the net but in the end they are horrible on the road so far this season and OK at home.
4 5 The Calgary Flames (3-2-0-6) need to put puck in the net because they have scored their goals in 3 games and they have 3 wins and Kiprusoff has a goals aganist average of just over 2 with a subpar game so he has had a good season so far.
5 2 The Edmonton Oilers(2-2-0-4) fell back down to earth this week with 2 loses including a very hard lose to provincial rivals Calgary after being up 3-2 going into the third period and giving up 2 quick ones and an empty netter to finish it off but Khabibulin is still doing well.
6 6 The Ottawa Senators (1-4-1-3) did finally win a game last week and they had a goalie not give up a goal but he only played 34 minutes in parts of 2 games while the offense has average 2 goals a game and that is not going to win you too many games especially behind shady goaltending.
Thanks for reading
Tom Mehegan
WEEK 3 RANKINGS FOR THE 6 CANADIAN NHL
TW LW
1 1 The Toronto Maple Leafs(4-0-1-9) are having a great season so far with JS and Clarke MacArthur, Phil Kessel, and Luke Schenn having a great start to their season and are better then they have been before.
2 4 The Montreal Canadiens (3-1-1-7) Price is doing a good job and they have only scored a goal more than they have given up while Tomas Plekanec and Andrei Kostitsyn are leading the team.
3 3 The Vancouver Canucks (2-3-2-6) Sedin's twins are on fire to start the season and Roberto is hot and cold in the net but in the end they are horrible on the road so far this season and OK at home.
4 5 The Calgary Flames (3-2-0-6) need to put puck in the net because they have scored their goals in 3 games and they have 3 wins and Kiprusoff has a goals aganist average of just over 2 with a subpar game so he has had a good season so far.
5 2 The Edmonton Oilers(2-2-0-4) fell back down to earth this week with 2 loses including a very hard lose to provincial rivals Calgary after being up 3-2 going into the third period and giving up 2 quick ones and an empty netter to finish it off but Khabibulin is still doing well.
6 6 The Ottawa Senators (1-4-1-3) did finally win a game last week and they had a goalie not give up a goal but he only played 34 minutes in parts of 2 games while the offense has average 2 goals a game and that is not going to win you too many games especially behind shady goaltending.
Thanks for reading
Tom Mehegan
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Role Model for people with physical challenges
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
I think that there are not enough people with physical challenges on TV if
not none at all and they should be on TV because it would be good for
other people with physical challenges to see because it would be a
confidence builder to do more with their abilities. Also with all these
shows with parents with lots of kids why not instead next time do a
reality show with people with physical challenges instead. It is awesome
that Glee has a wheelchair bound character and they do story lines about
what he can and can not do but he can walk and they could have put out an
audition call for a person with a disability who can sing and lots of
people would show up. Any TV show with a person with physical challenge
would draw lots of attention and I believe that it would be followed by
other people with physical challenge and it would be wonderful to have a
special documentary on these kind of people and it would be great to see
how they get around their limitations to encourage others to think beyond
their limitations. Like what if a person with a physical challenge
audition for idol and made the cut to see them on TV would break down some
stereotypes for some people and it would show people who have not been
around with a person with a physical challenge before a little bit of
similarity between able body people and people with a physical challenge.
I think that there are not enough people with physical challenges on TV if
not none at all and they should be on TV because it would be good for
other people with physical challenges to see because it would be a
confidence builder to do more with their abilities. Also with all these
shows with parents with lots of kids why not instead next time do a
reality show with people with physical challenges instead. It is awesome
that Glee has a wheelchair bound character and they do story lines about
what he can and can not do but he can walk and they could have put out an
audition call for a person with a disability who can sing and lots of
people would show up. Any TV show with a person with physical challenge
would draw lots of attention and I believe that it would be followed by
other people with physical challenge and it would be wonderful to have a
special documentary on these kind of people and it would be great to see
how they get around their limitations to encourage others to think beyond
their limitations. Like what if a person with a physical challenge
audition for idol and made the cut to see them on TV would break down some
stereotypes for some people and it would show people who have not been
around with a person with a physical challenge before a little bit of
similarity between able body people and people with a physical challenge.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
steroid talk pt.1
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
Steroids is a huge problem in sports still today and today I am going to
talk about steroids in the National Football League. If you look at the
trenches (offensive and defensive linemen) during a football game you will
see lots of guys using fat builders and maybe steroids because their very
mobile for their size. Running backs, wide receivers, and defensive
players have all become much faster because players used to have
4.5/seconds for a 40-yard and now they run it in like 4.3-4.4 seconds. The
bench press, vertical jump, and broad jump are getting more reps or
jumping higher and longer. I beleive that the NFL picks and choices who
they go after and just lose most of the results from the testing they do
and when they catch one of their players on steroids like Shane merriman
and they suspend him for 4 weeks and he played only played 12 games that
year and still won the defensive MVP. Maybe some of the quarterbacks are
using Human Growth hormones (HGH) to find better spots to put the ball for
their receivers to catch it as hgh gives people better eye sight.
Thank You for reading,
Tom Mehegan
Steroids is a huge problem in sports still today and today I am going to
talk about steroids in the National Football League. If you look at the
trenches (offensive and defensive linemen) during a football game you will
see lots of guys using fat builders and maybe steroids because their very
mobile for their size. Running backs, wide receivers, and defensive
players have all become much faster because players used to have
4.5/seconds for a 40-yard and now they run it in like 4.3-4.4 seconds. The
bench press, vertical jump, and broad jump are getting more reps or
jumping higher and longer. I beleive that the NFL picks and choices who
they go after and just lose most of the results from the testing they do
and when they catch one of their players on steroids like Shane merriman
and they suspend him for 4 weeks and he played only played 12 games that
year and still won the defensive MVP. Maybe some of the quarterbacks are
using Human Growth hormones (HGH) to find better spots to put the ball for
their receivers to catch it as hgh gives people better eye sight.
Thank You for reading,
Tom Mehegan
Monday, October 18, 2010
weekend rymthm
Things about the weekend in a rymthm hope their good
Packers are packed by Dolphins;
Police looking into a bieber innocident;
Rams bolt Chargers;
Leafs faleece the Rangers dangers in the Over time to make people beleavers;
The Rider need finders to stop the run before riders turn into gliders;
Roethlisberger Cheesebergers Browns into blues;
Boise to noise for San Jose State 48-0;
Western ownstern in York homestern;
49ers are finders against the Raiders;
Vikings likings the cowboys penalikings;
Yankees are flankees while Rangers are bangers;
Price dice Senators on home ice;
Crosby is Hopsby while shotsby in flyer’s fire;
Avery goes wavery;
Wally’s fally makes the kicker a sitter;
Lincecum gets the jumpecum on the Holiday umm…
Thank you for reading,
Tom Mehegan
Packers are packed by Dolphins;
Police looking into a bieber innocident;
Rams bolt Chargers;
Leafs faleece the Rangers dangers in the Over time to make people beleavers;
The Rider need finders to stop the run before riders turn into gliders;
Roethlisberger Cheesebergers Browns into blues;
Boise to noise for San Jose State 48-0;
Western ownstern in York homestern;
49ers are finders against the Raiders;
Vikings likings the cowboys penalikings;
Yankees are flankees while Rangers are bangers;
Price dice Senators on home ice;
Crosby is Hopsby while shotsby in flyer’s fire;
Avery goes wavery;
Wally’s fally makes the kicker a sitter;
Lincecum gets the jumpecum on the Holiday umm…
Thank you for reading,
Tom Mehegan
Saturday, October 16, 2010
THE BEST SPORTING EVENT I HAVE EVER BEEN TO !
It happened on November 7, 2009 at Mosiac Stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada and the game was between the Calgary Stampeders and the
Saskatchewan Roughriders. The game was to decide who would win the Western
division in the Canadian Football League and host the western final. To
start the game the crowd was going wild and they kept it up all game long
and when the Roughriders took the lead with a touchdown from Rob Getzlaf
it got even louder. It stayed that way with a touchdown from Rob Baggs to
give the roughriders a 18-8 lead at half-time. To start the second half
the Stampeders kicked 2 field goals to make it 18-14 and then Congi kicked
a field goal for the roughriders and then the Roughers ended the game with
a 2-point safety and Chris Szarka scored the final touchdown of the game
to win 30-14 to host their first western final since 1976. After the game
the players shock hands with the fans as they left the field and I feel
the best part about the game was that it was very loud but there was no
drunking rowdiness during the game. So tomorrow the two teams are going to
be playing again and the winner of the game will have the advantage to
host the western final this season with 3 regular season games left to be
played.
Thanks for reading
Tom mehegan
Canada and the game was between the Calgary Stampeders and the
Saskatchewan Roughriders. The game was to decide who would win the Western
division in the Canadian Football League and host the western final. To
start the game the crowd was going wild and they kept it up all game long
and when the Roughriders took the lead with a touchdown from Rob Getzlaf
it got even louder. It stayed that way with a touchdown from Rob Baggs to
give the roughriders a 18-8 lead at half-time. To start the second half
the Stampeders kicked 2 field goals to make it 18-14 and then Congi kicked
a field goal for the roughriders and then the Roughers ended the game with
a 2-point safety and Chris Szarka scored the final touchdown of the game
to win 30-14 to host their first western final since 1976. After the game
the players shock hands with the fans as they left the field and I feel
the best part about the game was that it was very loud but there was no
drunking rowdiness during the game. So tomorrow the two teams are going to
be playing again and the winner of the game will have the advantage to
host the western final this season with 3 regular season games left to be
played.
Thanks for reading
Tom mehegan
Friday, October 15, 2010
ALCS AND NLCS PREDICTIONS
ALCS: New York Yankees Vs. Texas Rangers
Cliff Lee is auditioning for the Yankees with his game 3 appearance with A.J. Burnett in game 4 and if it goes 7 Cliff pitches it so I think the Rangers have a chance to win the series eventhough the Yankees have a very talented lineup but their rotation is not the greatest besides Cece so I am going to go with Texas as they play small ball very well.
NLCS: San Franisco Giants Vs. Philadelphia Phillies
This series is going to be a pitcher's duel and the Phillies have a more talented lineup than the Giants and I think the most important thing is the home field advantage so I will go with Phillies but it is going to be a good one.
Tom Mehegan
Cliff Lee is auditioning for the Yankees with his game 3 appearance with A.J. Burnett in game 4 and if it goes 7 Cliff pitches it so I think the Rangers have a chance to win the series eventhough the Yankees have a very talented lineup but their rotation is not the greatest besides Cece so I am going to go with Texas as they play small ball very well.
NLCS: San Franisco Giants Vs. Philadelphia Phillies
This series is going to be a pitcher's duel and the Phillies have a more talented lineup than the Giants and I think the most important thing is the home field advantage so I will go with Phillies but it is going to be a good one.
Tom Mehegan
minnestoa Vikings
The Minnestoa Vikings in the 70's had 3 chances to win the superbowl but for some reason purple people eaters could not close the deal and another in'69 all with a fantastic defence. Then in 1998, they had one of the highest scoring team in NFL history and Gary Anderson coming his perfect season missed a 38-yard feild goal that would have taken the Vikings to their 5Th superbowl to take on the Denver Broncos but things did not fall in place for them. In 2010, started the season with a good chance to win their division and go to the playoffs and win the NFC with an amazing running back Adrian Peterson who is one of the top 3 running backs in the NFL but with the injuries their not as good as last year's team. Farve still does not know where Peterson is the field and continues to throw the ball around the field like he is the only option on the field and in reality the only thing the Vikings need is a quarterback that can move the chains and keep the defence to keep everybody out of the run box.They should be an amazing team with another chance at the superbowl but it does not look like it will happen again, sorry
Tom Mehegan
Tom Mehegan
Thursday, October 14, 2010
ranking of the 6 canadian nhl
1. The Toronto Maple(3-0-0) are having the best start in a decade with new guys like Clarke MacArthur and Tim Brent help out and Phil Kessel and his cast of character are better and JS and jonas are playing well to start the season.
2. The Edmonton Oilers(2-0-0) are playing well and the kids are alright right now but in the end Nikolai Khabibulin is doing well saving 63 of 65 shots and is the reason for their 2 wins.
3. The Vancouver Canucks(1-1-1) Luongo had a great first 2 games with a win and a overtime loss giving up only 2 goals while their first line had the only 2 goals for the team but the third game was a bad loss aganist the Ducks 4-3.
4. The Montreal Canadians(1-1-1) has been getting good goaltending from Carey Price to start the season with a solid all around offensive with a bad end to their third game that was an overtime loss.
5. Calgary Flames(1-1-0) where the offense is really bad and Kiprusoff has had one good game and one bad game so far this season.
6. Ottawa Senators (0-2-0) has had a bad offense and Pascal Leclaire has been giving up lots of goals so far and Elliot may need a chance to see if he can do better or find someone to stop the puck.
2. The Edmonton Oilers(2-0-0) are playing well and the kids are alright right now but in the end Nikolai Khabibulin is doing well saving 63 of 65 shots and is the reason for their 2 wins.
3. The Vancouver Canucks(1-1-1) Luongo had a great first 2 games with a win and a overtime loss giving up only 2 goals while their first line had the only 2 goals for the team but the third game was a bad loss aganist the Ducks 4-3.
4. The Montreal Canadians(1-1-1) has been getting good goaltending from Carey Price to start the season with a solid all around offensive with a bad end to their third game that was an overtime loss.
5. Calgary Flames(1-1-0) where the offense is really bad and Kiprusoff has had one good game and one bad game so far this season.
6. Ottawa Senators (0-2-0) has had a bad offense and Pascal Leclaire has been giving up lots of goals so far and Elliot may need a chance to see if he can do better or find someone to stop the puck.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
BEST ANNOUNCER IN BASEBALL HISTORY
Best announcer in baseball history is Tom Cheek, who was the Toronto Blue
Jays radio announcer from their first ever game in Blue Jays history
(April 7Th, 1977) until June 3Rd, 2004 without missing a game (4306
consecutive games) and he only missed his first game because he had a
brain tumor and he did do some more announcing after but not a lot. With
his final appearance opening day 2005 in Tampa Bay where he lived during
the off-season along with his final days with his wife and family and he
made his mark with signature calls like George Bell’s catch to win the AL
east in ’85 and his most famous call ever "touch em' all Joe!" that was so
good that it replaced the TV announcers to go with the video clip. One of
the saddest things is that he only lived just over a year longer after his
brain tumor and the Blue Jays announce team has never been the same since
he left the booth and his streak of games called is honored at the Roger
Center. Since then he has been a finalist for the Baseball hall of fame
and it has been voted on by the people and he is the run away vote getter
over the years including the votes (over 60% of all votes through
facebook) he got this year to give him a another chance to get into the
hall for next year but the committee who does the final vote for the
person to get into the hall has over looked him to this point. He was the
voice of the Blue Jays for 28 seasons and I really am sad that he is gone
and can not believe it has already been 5 years since he passed away and
this is time for the Toronto Blue Jays to have rep in the hall and the
right person to be the face of the Blue Jays is the voice of the Toronto
Blue Jays Tom Cheek, who is the best announcer I have ever heard.
Thanks for reading,
Tom Mehegan
Jays radio announcer from their first ever game in Blue Jays history
(April 7Th, 1977) until June 3Rd, 2004 without missing a game (4306
consecutive games) and he only missed his first game because he had a
brain tumor and he did do some more announcing after but not a lot. With
his final appearance opening day 2005 in Tampa Bay where he lived during
the off-season along with his final days with his wife and family and he
made his mark with signature calls like George Bell’s catch to win the AL
east in ’85 and his most famous call ever "touch em' all Joe!" that was so
good that it replaced the TV announcers to go with the video clip. One of
the saddest things is that he only lived just over a year longer after his
brain tumor and the Blue Jays announce team has never been the same since
he left the booth and his streak of games called is honored at the Roger
Center. Since then he has been a finalist for the Baseball hall of fame
and it has been voted on by the people and he is the run away vote getter
over the years including the votes (over 60% of all votes through
facebook) he got this year to give him a another chance to get into the
hall for next year but the committee who does the final vote for the
person to get into the hall has over looked him to this point. He was the
voice of the Blue Jays for 28 seasons and I really am sad that he is gone
and can not believe it has already been 5 years since he passed away and
this is time for the Toronto Blue Jays to have rep in the hall and the
right person to be the face of the Blue Jays is the voice of the Toronto
Blue Jays Tom Cheek, who is the best announcer I have ever heard.
Thanks for reading,
Tom Mehegan
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
overrated atheletes
First is Brett Favre he is overrated because after you get passed his 502
tds(no.1 overall)(5% of his throws) and his consecutive games played
streak he also holds the records with 324 ints(3.25% of his throws) and
52 fumbles in his career on 9942 pass attempts. In his 20 year career of
averaging 34 pass attempts a game which means he has never used a run
game and in his time in Minnesota he has not used Adrian Peterson , who
has proving that he is amazing before Favre showed up. His I'm
retiring/I'm coming back talk has hurt his likeability and finally Lenny
Wilkens used to be the guy who won the most game in the NBA history and
now he is only the guy with the most loses in NBA history and has a losing
record all-time so in the end if you are around long enough you can put up
big good # and big bad # at the same time.
The second is A.J. Barrett who has a strong fastball and lots of
strikeouts but he is a just an above 500 winning percentage besides one
great season with the Toronto Blue Jays with a record of 18-10 (which I
loved because it got Barrett out of Toronto and take him to the Yankees to
destroy their rotation). He has a 110-100 all-time record and he has also
not been a great role model because before he signed with the Blue Jays as
a free agent in '06 he was sent home by the Florida Marlins during a
pennant race and now he has been taken out of the Yankees rotation for the
playoffs.
Thanks for reading,
Tom Mehegan
tds(no.1 overall)(5% of his throws) and his consecutive games played
streak he also holds the records with 324 ints(3.25% of his throws) and
52 fumbles in his career on 9942 pass attempts. In his 20 year career of
averaging 34 pass attempts a game which means he has never used a run
game and in his time in Minnesota he has not used Adrian Peterson , who
has proving that he is amazing before Favre showed up. His I'm
retiring/I'm coming back talk has hurt his likeability and finally Lenny
Wilkens used to be the guy who won the most game in the NBA history and
now he is only the guy with the most loses in NBA history and has a losing
record all-time so in the end if you are around long enough you can put up
big good # and big bad # at the same time.
The second is A.J. Barrett who has a strong fastball and lots of
strikeouts but he is a just an above 500 winning percentage besides one
great season with the Toronto Blue Jays with a record of 18-10 (which I
loved because it got Barrett out of Toronto and take him to the Yankees to
destroy their rotation). He has a 110-100 all-time record and he has also
not been a great role model because before he signed with the Blue Jays as
a free agent in '06 he was sent home by the Florida Marlins during a
pennant race and now he has been taken out of the Yankees rotation for the
playoffs.
Thanks for reading,
Tom Mehegan
Monday, October 11, 2010
ten things i am thankful for
Ten things I am thankful for not in order
1. The freedom to be able to do what i feel like
2. The choice to believe religion or not to believe religion
3. To have a roof over my head
4. To go to a sporting event without having to be scared for my life (it has only happened once in my life)
5. To be able to walk the streets of Toronto and not worry about being shot or kidnapped
6. to be a person with a disability and have a great job that i love
7. being able to go to the movies and being able to choice the movie i want to see
8. being able to write about what I want and nobody is going to censored me
9. To have a great mother
10.To be able to have 3 wonderful cats who love me because i feed them
1. The freedom to be able to do what i feel like
2. The choice to believe religion or not to believe religion
3. To have a roof over my head
4. To go to a sporting event without having to be scared for my life (it has only happened once in my life)
5. To be able to walk the streets of Toronto and not worry about being shot or kidnapped
6. to be a person with a disability and have a great job that i love
7. being able to go to the movies and being able to choice the movie i want to see
8. being able to write about what I want and nobody is going to censored me
9. To have a great mother
10.To be able to have 3 wonderful cats who love me because i feed them
Saturday, October 9, 2010
my staurday afternoon
For the first time in 3 years I used colorful language this afternoon while I was yelling at the TV which I do quite often when I am watching my favorite teams which are The Toronto Rock of the NLL and my home province's team the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Cfl. This afternoon my province's team was hosting the Toronto Argos and for some reason (maybe it is because we have some of the best receivers in the league) the head coach of the team (Ken Miller) decides to throw the ball like 40+ times a game and only figures out he has a running back a handful of times (today it was 9 times) and he is an above average running back. So in the end the quarterback of my home province's team today throw the ball 34 times (completed 19 for just over 200 yards), was sacked 3 times and he maybe ran because nobody was open once and in the end the offence was not able to put up points when they started on their own half of the field. The points came from a fumble recovery on a kick-off, a interception that started the offence at the Argos’s 30 yard line, and finally a kick return into Argos side of the field for all the points the offence put up. Now rider fans need to hope that Montreal beats Calgary on Monday so that the winner of next week’s game between Saskatchewan and Calgary is to decide who has the advantage going into the final 3 games to win the division.
Tom Mehegan
Tom Mehegan
Friday, October 8, 2010
tomie'sworld: swimming with a disability
tomie'sworld: swimming with a disability: "To start lets clarify that a person with disability does not mean that they can not do something but that they might need some extra time to..."
swimming with a disability
To start lets clarify that a person with disability does not mean that they can not do something but that they might need some extra time to finish it.
swimming competitively with a disability starts by get classified by a group of judges who stretch the swimmer out to see how fixable they are and then they watch them swim to see how much of a disability a person has or has not and finally they judge swimmer and give them ranking according to their limitations between s1 thru s10. Also a person who is blind gets the same treatment and are judge between sb11 thru sb13 and then you look at rankings chart of times to make provincials, nationals, worlds, or the paralympics.
Swimming can be a very competitive sport and a person with a disability works as hard as a swimmer who is looking to get to the Olympics and can this sometimes drive a swimmer crazy, like me, with lots of frustration with their times and having to work on bettering their strokes constantly to try to get to their goals.
I think that all competitive swimmers are amazing and are working really hard to meet their goals and I think they should keep up the great work and for everybody else instead of thinking about what a person can not do please think about what they can do next time you see a person with a disability.
Tom mehegan
swimming competitively with a disability starts by get classified by a group of judges who stretch the swimmer out to see how fixable they are and then they watch them swim to see how much of a disability a person has or has not and finally they judge swimmer and give them ranking according to their limitations between s1 thru s10. Also a person who is blind gets the same treatment and are judge between sb11 thru sb13 and then you look at rankings chart of times to make provincials, nationals, worlds, or the paralympics.
Swimming can be a very competitive sport and a person with a disability works as hard as a swimmer who is looking to get to the Olympics and can this sometimes drive a swimmer crazy, like me, with lots of frustration with their times and having to work on bettering their strokes constantly to try to get to their goals.
I think that all competitive swimmers are amazing and are working really hard to meet their goals and I think they should keep up the great work and for everybody else instead of thinking about what a person can not do please think about what they can do next time you see a person with a disability.
Tom mehegan
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Halliday's no-hitter
Roy Halliday had his first post-season start and he struck out 8, walked 1, and gave up no hits in the game for the second playoff no-hitter in mlb history. He also went 1 for 3 with a run scored and the rbi and he will be a good post season pitcher and will have the next chance to win 300 wins.
Also Carey Price may be worried about what the Habs fans reaction to him during the game will be and he really put himself into a bad situation with his cocky additude when he arrived and he partied a little to much when he is away from the rink and he has a lot of pressure on him this season.
Tom Mehegan
Also Carey Price may be worried about what the Habs fans reaction to him during the game will be and he really put himself into a bad situation with his cocky additude when he arrived and he partied a little to much when he is away from the rink and he has a lot of pressure on him this season.
Tom Mehegan
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
tomie'sworld: Canada in the nhl
tomie'sworld: Canada in the nfl: "1. Vancouver Canucks with their forwards who are very talented that they will score lots of goals and if the defence comes together and work..."
Canada in the nfl
1. Vancouver Canucks with their forwards who are very talented that they will score lots of goals and if the defence comes together and works well which will make Luongo a better goalie and gives them the best chance to win the stanley cup.
2. Ottawa Senators with Sergei Gonchar addition to the defence will make the team better and the offense with Daniel Alfredsson, Jason spezza, and Mike fisher are going to put puck in the net. In the end it all comes down to if Brian Elliot or Pascal Leclaire can stop pucks from going into their own net that will determing if and how far they go into the playoffs.
3. Calgary Flames will go as far as Miikka Kiprusoff will take them with two top defenseman Robyn Regehr and Jay Bouwmeester and then really nothing else. The forward Jerome Iginla has not a lot of help because Alex Tanguay and Olli Jokinen are both being ask to turn back the clock and put up #'s like they have put up a couple of seasons ago along with hoping Craig Conroy, Brett Sutter, Brandon Morrison, and Rene Bourque need to put up some good #'s.
4. Toronto Maple Leafs need Kessel to put up huge #'s to give them a chance to challenge for a playoff spot this season and he will need some of his team-mates to help him. The defence did not work well together last season with Komisarek having an off season and Phaneuf needs to have a career season, which would be a lot better than last year. Tomas Kaberle is above average defensive defencemen but will he keep his mind on the ice or will he worry about where he will be next year and finally who is going to be in the net this season and will they be able to keep the puck out of their own net and it will be close.
5. Edmonton Oiler - Nikolai Khabibulin is a good goalie and will need to keep the team in the game and to steal wins which he will do it and the young players like Taylor Hall are going to be learning on the job and they may have groan pains.
6. Montreal Canadiens will live and die by how Carey Price will do and as he has never played like a #1 goalie even when he has been the #1 goalie in the past so the defence will need to block and intercept a lot of pucks and i do not know if they will be able to do it enough.
Tom Mehegan
2. Ottawa Senators with Sergei Gonchar addition to the defence will make the team better and the offense with Daniel Alfredsson, Jason spezza, and Mike fisher are going to put puck in the net. In the end it all comes down to if Brian Elliot or Pascal Leclaire can stop pucks from going into their own net that will determing if and how far they go into the playoffs.
3. Calgary Flames will go as far as Miikka Kiprusoff will take them with two top defenseman Robyn Regehr and Jay Bouwmeester and then really nothing else. The forward Jerome Iginla has not a lot of help because Alex Tanguay and Olli Jokinen are both being ask to turn back the clock and put up #'s like they have put up a couple of seasons ago along with hoping Craig Conroy, Brett Sutter, Brandon Morrison, and Rene Bourque need to put up some good #'s.
4. Toronto Maple Leafs need Kessel to put up huge #'s to give them a chance to challenge for a playoff spot this season and he will need some of his team-mates to help him. The defence did not work well together last season with Komisarek having an off season and Phaneuf needs to have a career season, which would be a lot better than last year. Tomas Kaberle is above average defensive defencemen but will he keep his mind on the ice or will he worry about where he will be next year and finally who is going to be in the net this season and will they be able to keep the puck out of their own net and it will be close.
5. Edmonton Oiler - Nikolai Khabibulin is a good goalie and will need to keep the team in the game and to steal wins which he will do it and the young players like Taylor Hall are going to be learning on the job and they may have groan pains.
6. Montreal Canadiens will live and die by how Carey Price will do and as he has never played like a #1 goalie even when he has been the #1 goalie in the past so the defence will need to block and intercept a lot of pucks and i do not know if they will be able to do it enough.
Tom Mehegan
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
what is happening on TV
Glee is a good show and the best part of the show is the music and it is interesting to hear other people singing popular songs which sounds different. Glee if programed right could be a long running show with new songs and new singers coming and going over the years coming up along with glee is better than idol and so you think you can dance. Jersey Shore is a train wreck and as a train wreck it will die a very fast death so that it will be done after next year or the year after that because the show has people watching to see the train wreck and this usually fades quickly.
Monday, October 4, 2010
tomie'sworld: baseball playoff
tomie'sworld: baseball playoff: "in AL the first series Yankees vs twins with the yankees lots talented players with a huge salaries aganist the twins a team organation team..."
baseball playoff
in AL the first series Yankees vs twins with the yankees lots talented players with a huge salaries aganist the twins a team organation team and i beleive the yankees will find a way to win the series because their too talented. In the other AL playoff series Rangers vs Rays between a team (Rangers) who is up and coming aganist a team (Rays) who is in their last chance to win the world series with Pena and Crawford leaving at the end of the season and i think tbay is going to win the series because they have lots more experience.
In the NL the first series Braves vs Giants with lots of great pitchers on both sides and it is the last playoffs for bob coxs as he is retiring at the end of the season and i beleive they will win the series for him. The second NL series is Reds vs Phillies with the NL MVP (Votto) vs NL CY (Halladay) and Phillies are the better players and will win the series and it should be a great first round of baseball.
Tom Mehegan
In the NL the first series Braves vs Giants with lots of great pitchers on both sides and it is the last playoffs for bob coxs as he is retiring at the end of the season and i beleive they will win the series for him. The second NL series is Reds vs Phillies with the NL MVP (Votto) vs NL CY (Halladay) and Phillies are the better players and will win the series and it should be a great first round of baseball.
Tom Mehegan
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