I made my first edit on Wikipedia because of this thread. I was looking up Earl Campbell, the great running back of the Houston Oilers and University of Texas.

One asswipe actually put that his son Tyler currently plays hockey for the Detroit Red Wings. I was flabbergasted, gobsmacked, and amazed at this, (I mean, the greatest hero of Texas Football having a Texan son who would be great at hockey...I mean how did he get introduced to the sport ? How did Earl manage to get around the hockey arena on his crutches and wheelchair from the pounding he took as a running back ? Did his son use his powerful legs to win faceoffs and forecheck people through the boards ? etc.)

So I immediately went to verify this incredible fact by looking up the Detroit Red Wings, and there was no Tyler Campbell. Then I googled his name, and he's playing football at San Diego State University. Too bad, because that would've been a hell of a story.

Some conspiracy theorists are having a field day at the moment on the GSHC forum. Saturday, Sepp Blatter was there to watch the game with the owner of Zurich Lions (rich right-wing politician...) and during the game the ref caused some tensions with the GSHC coach. At the end of the game, McSorley went straight to the ref changing room where he found the ref supervisor, the Lions chairman, Sepp Blatter and a few assorted minions all having a nice chat. After telling the Lions chairman to fuck off (he also refused to allow the team back on the ice after the game), CMS had a ding-dong with the ref supervisor. Surprise, today apparently our main defender, captain Goran Bezina, is under scrutiny and risking a suspension.

Byzantine I tell thee...

If Jack Warner turns up at Game 5, then you know you're screwed.

Fantastic, another post gone missing and another automatic logging out. I didn't even write anything offensive about Erkki Rajamäki for heaven's sake. Let's try again...

We've just scraped past Blues, 1-2 in Espoo, in the second game of the final, to lead 2-0 in games. In all honesty and given Blues' dominance, we should've lost. Antti Ylönen won us the game in the second period of extra time with, I think, his first ever play off goal. For sure, he rarely scores. Least happy person about that goal must be Bernd Bruckler. An otherwise excellent game, he completely bungled a straightforward shot from the blue line -- first man in, clear sight of the puck the whole journey -- and could only turn round and watch as the puck rolled slowly over the line. Almost felt sorry for him, and there haven't been too many Blues players over the years I could write that about. The next game's in our shed on Wednesday.

Excellent news.

Try clicking the "remember me" box next to the login; the time out is set for 10 minutes (ridiculously short for OTF, but apparently hard to change), but it shouldn't happen if you have that box checked. Very much second best workaround is to draft long posts in Word (or something else) and then cut and paste.

The admins are working on the issue.

I thought the Espoo penalties were a bit fucking violent, tbh. Those high checks and the guy that got stretchered off (interesting to watch from a technical perspective, never seen it done on ice before) ensured I was rooting for Kärpät.

I love the way they just keep playing as well, another half got played tonight.

Thanks for the tip ursus, I hadn't realised there was a 10 minute limit.

I didn't see Heiskanen's taking out of Juho Jokinen (Jussi Jokinen's not so little little brother), but Kähkönen's flattening of Ilkka Mikkola was an absolute disgrace. Euphemistically termed "completing the check", it involved hitting the opponent from behind an age after he's passed the puck so that he smacks his head into the plexi.

It turns out to be Antti Ylönen's first ever league goal. He was the 7th defender last night and barely saw the ice until Mikkola's injury (which seems to be not too bad, fortunately) at the end of the first period of extra time. A certain amount of poetic justice there, and to make matters worse for Blues he was basically getting rid of the puck so we could change.

Just seen the stats for the game and couldn't believe as many as 10 minutes of the second period of extra time were used. I'd've put it at 3 or 4. Also of note is Tuomas Tarkki's figures: 55 saves represents a busy night.

Hah, and we actually won a game that Timo Favorin was reffing...

Gah...You lead during the whole game and you concede an equaliser less than one minute before the end then you lose on penalties...

Zurich leads 3-2 in the series, back on the ice on thursday, in Zurich to see them complete their turnaround and win the playoffs...

In the LNA/LNB playoffs, Bienne has won the series 4-0 against Basel and come back in the top division.

Hey 18CTRE, all you're saying is the pressure's on them. You got 'em right where you want 'em. Nothing's harder than closing out a series.

That's my view this morning JV, nothing to lose now, they'll be at home and they know if the screw up, it's back to our place. I listened to the game on radio and the rink was on fire, shame our boys did not capitalise on it...

Next season we need to work on realising our chances, we hit the woodwork three times yesterday, once straight after going 2-0 up and once in sudden death OT...

You're basically saying you need the Swiss Claude Lemieux.

Yeah, we do have an Arsenal syndrome, lovely approach play, intricate passing and when we pull it off, we score stunning goals but sometimes I just feel like shouting "SHHHHHHOOOOOT AT GOAL!"...

One interesting thing during the playoffs, in the semis our opponents had the son of Slava Bykov in their rank and our current opponents in the final have the son of THE Krutov (you know, KLM, Soviet Union, etc).

Kärpät 2-3 Blues, now it's 2-1 in games. What to say other than we got what we deserved. In the first two games we defended narrow leads, but today our negativeness caught up with us. Blues were all over us for the first 5 minutes so, naturally, Tommi Paakkalonvaara put us in the lead in our first proper attack. Jonas Andersson added an individual effort later in the period, but we frittered away the lead through sheer passiveness. Why the hell we're playing like this I've no idea. It's nothing like our normal game and it's boring me rigid. Janne Pesonen made the comment during a between periods interview that Blues weren't letting us play the game we wanted. Well yeah, I don't imagine they would do but it doesn't explain why we loaf around the half-way line while they bring the puck out at their leisure. Blues pulled a goal back at the start of the second period and then equalised on the power play in the third. By this time our game had reached such a state that I was actually willing the puck in the net. Extra time was so one-sided as to be close to a joke. We had 3 or 4 consecutive shifts who spent practically the whole time behind our own blue line. Almost the whole team needs a bloody good kicking up the arse.

Not the goalie though. Both had a really good game tonight, but Tuomas Tarkki was outstanding. He made any number of high quality saves, several times stopping an all alone attacker, one save he made with the back of his neck, and his stop from Ryan Keller 15 seconds from full time has to be seen to be believed.

So, a home defeat to the world record speeding fine's other hobby. It had better wake us up.

The Playoffs start TONIGHT!!!

Pens smoke Ottawa 4-0. I really wish the Caps could have drawn Ottawa.

The Flames are off to a great start in San Jose. Up 2-0 with just over 5 minutes gone in the first.

Rangers win at New Jersey, that's a big win for them.

Muuk, I don't if you followed my updates but your last comment has a rather uncanny similiarity to the ways things have panned out for us...