Monday Madness with The Fight Club…
Well, we’ve reached the beginning of another scintillating start of the work week. You commute through traffic, pull into the parking lot, and rush to the elevator with your briefcase in one hand and your coffee in the other (all while trying not to spill a drop). You get to the elevator, press the button for the floor you need to get to. You endure other people’s bad breath, bad jokes, or that annoying elevator music now playing the songs you grew up with (“Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zepplin does not sound the same in “elevator music”). Then you get to your work station, and you are always greeted by “that guy”. You know, the one that always is “gung-ho” and says “Happy Monday.” Now, protocol and the sake of staying employed and out of jail prevents us from dropping things and finally asking this person “Do You Want to Go?”. Then again, the majority of us are not professional hockey players either.
That’s why I like to reflect on all things hockey on Mondays (especially after Football Season ends). Sharks Radio Color Commentator Jamie Baker noted in a recient “Bakers Dozen” article at Sharks.com that in hockey “There is no out of bounds…”, and “There is no place to hide.” Baker I feel nails it because there truly is no place to hide and if someone is feeling like taking a few extra liberties, there will be a price to be paid at some point. Most of the fights you’ll see in games usually are for one player protecting his team when extra liberties are taken. It’s an unwritten rule and code in the game. Hockey being as fast and furious as it is by it’s nature, fights will happen. Now what you are about to see we strongly suggest not trying it on that annoying co-worker or even boss who says “Happy Monday!” (You are free to imagine it, just don’t do it, “capiche?”)
In this first disagreement amongst co-workers…err, I mean opponents, Anaheim’s Sheldon Brookbank decided to “Go To Jared”, as in Jared Boll. In hindsight this may not have been the best idea as Boll hammered Brookbank. Despite the Ducks eventual 7-4 win, “It can only be Jared” meant something entirely different to Mr Brookbank by the evenings end…
Jared Boll was not the only Blue Jackets player with an axe to grind Sunday Night, it seems Derek Dorsett also had about as much of the Ducks’ Matt Beleskey as he could stand, and to paraphrase Popeye, “I can’t standz no more”…
Is it always Sunny in Philadelphia? As far as Zenon Konopka of the Ottawa Senators concerned, it may not by always sunny in Philly but it sure can get very hazy in Ottawa. Philadelphia Flyers Zac Rinaldo found out exactly how hazy…
Just a day earlier in Philly, the newest Ottawa Senator Kyle Turris was not feeling so sunny towards the Flyers Daniel Briere either…
This past weekend Boston and Vancouver met each other for the first time since last year’s Stanley Cup Final. Two teams that were almost mere strangers about a year ago at this time are now virtual arch rivals. Not to say that there were several fights in this game, but it’s safe to say that maybe this exemplifies why “Hallmark” commercials are not seen during hockey telecast (another reason I love hockey)…
Maxim Lapierre vs Gregory Campbell
Dale Weise vs Nathan Horton (with the undercard being the Canucks bench vs the Bruins Bench)
The good news is that Monday eventually draws to a close and you get to go home. You just have to go back down that elevator, fight the traffic and get to your home and your sanctuary…until Tuesday Morning when the whole mess starts over again…
**Coming Soon: The Petition to Outlaw Elevator Music…before we will all wanna go!!! 🙂
…and GO SHARKS TOO!!!
The King Shark
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