TGIF!!
-Another Friday and not a day too late. What a week. Humid, finally some rain today.
-Conundrum mentions the Mark Messier Retirement announcement in a comment from yesterday. For those of you who don't follow hockey (and that's prob. plenty of you) Mark Messier was a player like none other that I have ever seen. He announced his retirement the other day despite needing to play only another 20 or so games to become the all time most active player. He bowed out at this time because it was the right time (he's 44) and he wanted Gordie Howe to retain that honor. (GH played into his mid 50's!) My favorite Mark Messier factoid is that while he played 5 seasons next to Wayne Gretzky (who, btw, is the only player in hockey history to have points than MM, their team (the Oilers) won 4 Stanley Cups. When Wayne was traded to LA, the OILERS won the Stanley Cup without him. It was then that people started thinking that maybe the real greatness and grit and leadership was coming from Messier and not Gretzky alone. I'll miss MM and I see that Ebay is selling tickets to his ceremony game (Jan. 12 vs the , you guessed it, the OILERS) are going for $2000 pair.
-Mets lost. Season over. Yanks won. Getting close to the Bosox now.
-Fof3 made a HSN purchase the other day and it arrived yesterday. A watch for Caitlin that has 6 changeable bands. She was thrilled and wore it on her wrist to drama. She was beaming after drama. She loves it so.
-Liam got perfect scores on all three tests from earlier in the week. <--Even more importantly, his teacher says he's a great kid. (We know that already)
-Noelle came home from school yesterday and took a nap. She woke up feeling great, went to bed on time and woke up in an adorable, bright-eyed way this am. <---They don't get enough sleep and this proves it.
-Still having trouble with that linking thing, Rachy. <--Maybe because I'm on a MAC?
-Soccer this weekend , then a football game at the Meadowlands. (Go Jets!) Mass in there somewhere this weekend. (uh, like Sunday)
-Fof3 listening to ELO right now. Purging the backmasked Satanic messages from the other day.
-Fof3 never been to New Orleans. Happy with what the President promised last night. I think it will be great again one day soon.
-Well, boss is coming in and he looks pi**ed. Gotta go! Fof3...OUT!!
posted by Father of 3 @ 9:18 AM
3 Comments:
I'll never forget Mark Messier's guaranteed win in game 7. The guy put all of the series & Ranger history pressure on himself then scored the winning goal! At the time, I thought that series would be the best hockey I'd ever live to see... (but that was before the Avalanche moved to town). I'll remember him more as a Ranger than an Oiler.
Mr. Miller...welcome. I wasn't going to get into that game 6 but I'm glad you've opened that door for me. If I remeber it correctly, the Rangers were down to the Devils 3 games to 2 inthe semis and it looked as if the Rangers season was going to end. Messier guarenteed a victory...much the same way as Joe Namath did. With the Rangers down 2-0, Messier scored twice to tie it. Then, someone else (too lazy to google) probably Brian Leetch scored the go ahead go. Messier "iced" it with a full length, line drive empty netter to complete his hat trick. The Rangers won game 7 on Staphane Mattaeu's OT goal...his second of the series. The Rangers then went on to beat the Canucks n the finals. The highlightof that series being the penalty shot that Mike Richter kicked away off of Pavel Bure. Fof3 has goose bumps just thinking about it all these years later. Awesome. I think you are not alone in considering MM a Ranger. Cool discussion.
I have to say it...decorum allows me to so here it goes:
"Matteau, Matteau, Matteau"...on behalf of the fans that sit in the cheap seats I thank you!!!!
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