So you think you can dance?!

Man, I am in love with the dancing of Danny Tidwell. This is a wonderful piece choreographed by Mia Michaels..

SYTYCD Opening Week 6
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Bachelor party ends in jail time for Staals

So the Staals from Thunder Bay, Ontario were down in Minnesota for a bachelor party for Eric Staal. The brothers, along with a few other friends who weren't fast enough to outrun the police, got to sit in jail for a night for some disorderly conduct. Further details are on the Toronto Sun. This last bit from that article made me laugh though:

When daylight came, the arrested men were no longer disorderly and in fact quiet and co-operative.
"Canadians are always polite," Ziller joked.

No news yet on Aquilini - Beedie, Gaglardi case

Last news was July 5, 2007 - that the Judge refused media access to a video-tape of Francesco Aquilini being groomed to talk to reporters after the team was sold. I wonder how many weeks this trial is for?
Aside: Here's a photo of Mattias Ohlund I found on a swedish web article recently.

Danny and Anya rock!

I love Danny Tidwell. He is such a beautiful dancer.. I really could watch him dance anything. And for Anya to dance through the pain... Why, it's just like Ohlund playing through the playoffs with his sports hernia.

Anya and Danny Week 5
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Ryan Shannon and Drew MacIntyre signed

Minor league goalie Drew MacIntyre and Anaheim Ex-Duck Centerman, Ryan Shannon, were signed by the Vancouver Canucks today.

I really REALLY miss hockey!

Woo hoo! Number 1 on Google!

A few days ago I noticed that ESPN dropped out of number 1 for a google search on "Mattias Ohlund" and the rest of my sites topped the search. Anyway, it only took me.. 18 months to do it but it's done! =D

Huh? What did you say?

You know when you're a loner and take refuge in music? Well, sometimes that's not a good thing. This generation is going to be known for higher cases of hearing loss and requisite therapy as a result of increased digital music listening and reality show rejection.

Did you know that you don't have to listen to really loud music in order to affect your hearing? Medium level decibels can still cause hearing damage with prolonged exposure. From Health Canada:

For example, sounds with levels of 85 dBA pose no known risk of hearing loss if you are exposed for no longer than 45 minutes per day. However, sound levels of 85 dBA or higher can pose a significant risk of permanent hearing loss, if you are exposed for eight hours per day. Pop music sound levels ranged from 86 to 102 dBA when researchers used the headphones that came packaged with the CD player. When researchers combined CD players with headphones purchased separately, the sound levels reached 114 dBA - test results also suggested that this was not necessarily the limit.

Bah, my hearing sucks now and I'm still young. And I never really pumped up the volume - I just listened to music for hours on end everyday. I've stopped. =(

Bieksa signed for 3 years

So explain to me how out of our defense core of Ohlund, Mitchell and Salo (all at $3.5 mill - with Mitchell and Salo as recent signings), it's Bieksa who ends up with a 3.75 million contract???!! ($11.25 for 3 years) Ok, sure in the overall scheme of defenceman signings, that's cheap but relatively speaking, he is not the most valuable defenceman on the team. I'm damn pissed and so should the rest of the Canucks defencemen.. and the rest of the team. That's the same deal that the Sedins have. He'd better not have a NTC.

Pap Article on Mattias Ohlund

Ohlund hush hush on injury

Thursday, July 05, 2007

CREDIT: Vancouver Sun/Mark Van Manen Canuck Mattias Ohlund.

VANCOUVER - In the often secretive world of sports injuries, Mattias Ohlund was a prince at keeping his ailment private.

The Vancouver Canucks defenceman, who had hernia surgery on May 28, played with the problem "off and on" for the last few seasons before finally going under the knife.

Even one of his most celebrated teammates didn't know Ohlund had a health issue.

"I was surprised to hear Ohlund got operated on after the season," Roberto Luongo said. "What was it? A sports hernia? I didn't even know he was hurt. That shows you how tough he is."

Ohlund, modest to a fault, explained Wednesday in an interview from Sweden that his condition wasn't a dire one and didn't require treatment on a regular basis.

The burly blue-liner appeared in 77 regular-season games and 12 more in the playoffs. He was one of the Canucks' more productive skaters in the post-season with seven points, tying for the team lead with Trevor Linden.

"The injury wasn't a big deal," Ohlund insisted. "It was bugging me at times, it was more of an achy feeling, but it didn't really bother me in games once I got warmed up. I could have probably gone on for another year, but we thought it was a good time now to get it done and get it over with."

After two post-op weeks of idleness, Ohlund began exercising again and Wednesday claimed to be capable of full workouts. The recovery period for this type of surgery - Matt Cooke and Brendan Morrison had similar procedures - is four-to-six weeks.

"The last couple of weeks I've been feeling fine and I'm definitely back to 100 per cent now," said Ohlund, Vancouver's first pick in the 1994 entry draft. "My surgery was five weeks ago on Monday and they told me by six weeks I should be back to normal again."

Like many others, Ohlund has been keenly following the free-agent frenzy on the Internet. He isn't surprised the Canucks haven't signed a marquee name and isn't sure they need one after the many moves of a year ago.

So far, the Canucks have added only backup goalie Curtis Sanford plus depth forwards Byron Ritchie and Brad Isbister to their NHL roster.

"We made a lot of changes last year so we're not going to see that again this summer," said Ohlund. "Obviously we have something good going and, hopefully, we can build on what we started last year and become an even better hockey team.

"We feel like we have players, including myself, who can still play better and improve."

Ohlund plans to return from Sweden in mid-August and begin skating at that time.

If you can't beat him, sign him

Hearing the news that we signed Curtis Sanford was kind of funny. Man, did he ever give us problems whenever we played St. Louis. Now that Dany Sabourin is back to Pittsburgh, Sanford filled the backup to Luongo slot that was open.

Adding to our lineup now are Byron Ritchie (gasp! a flame that turned) and Brad Isbister (Rangers). Bryan Smolinski waved bye bye to Vancouver and signed with the Habs. Brad May resigned with Anaheim and big Bertuzzi joined him. They're both there for 2 year contracts.

Still no word on Trevor though. Apparently talks will resume once he gets back from overseas.

Free Agency - July 1... Oh yeah, go Canada.

Hmm.. I guess we'll see what happens for tomorrow! Starting noon will be the free agent signing.

Since we haven't had one in awhile, here's a photo of a young Mattias Ohlund! The look: determined or pissed off.