Friday, June 29, 2012

Friday Links

I have to admit, I almost forgot all about serving you a heaping helping or links today. Thankfully, I remembered.

- An unexpected benefit to the Kelly Cup win is the amount of Blades jerseys for sale on eBay. The prices are a little higher than they've been throughout the last few seasons, but they're still reasonable. Not reasonable is this shirt. This is obviously signed by players between 04-07 (those years being the time Chris Lee was an Everblade). None of them were on the Kelly Cup Champion team. I'm guessing the NHL player is Matt Hendricks. Though it could be Justin Peters, Mike Angelidis or Drew Larman. they all played in that time period. I still don't see this being worth $90 though.

- While I approve of finding new uses for old gear, I'm not sure I approve of this.

- Cardiac Cane posted this great interview with David Rutherford. I particularly love the amazing photos that she used.

- How amazing is this cake?

H79 Octopus Cake for Red Wings

- Your Wikipedia hockey page- "Lisa on Ice"

- I can't tell you how much I love this sign. I really can't tell you.

- The Tweet of the Week will be on hiatus until the season starts. I know it makes you want to cry, but hang in there, it'll be soon.

- Did you hear the Lightning and Panthers are playing a preseason game at Germain? Because they are and I'll never be able to stop reminding you how awesome this is going to be.

- I'm sure you guys missed your weekly kitty? Who wouldn't?

funny cat pictures - Lolcats: I'm holding a grudge
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

News and Notes

Why don't we just jump into it, eh?

-  The team announced their protected list. As usual, it takes four or five reads through to figure out the rules behind these things.

- The Lee County Board of Commissioners recognized the Everblades at a recent meeting.

- The Everblades renewed their affiliation with the Tampa Bay Lightning. We will have a new AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch, due to the Bolts choosing not to continue their affiliation with the Norfolk Admirals.

- We had our first player sign overseas. Mike Ratchuck is off to play in the Austrian hockey league with the Slovenian team Olimpija Ljubljana.

- The ECHL gave the Blades an award for ticket department of the year. Yay!

- On top of the Bolt's vs. Canes preseason game in Orlando, the Panthers and Bolts will be playing a preseason game... at Germain! I'm ridiculously excited about this.

Hopefully, the team starts announcing signing soon. Things are going to get a little boring around here if they don't.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

YouTube Tuesday

While my little blogging vacation was nice while it lasted, there's been a little too much going on in Everblades land to sit around watching insane amounts of Hulu.

Tomorrow, I'll try to sum it all up in one big, fat, re-cap post. Until then, lets sit back and reminisce about what happened about a month ago...



it still feels good doesn't it?

Friday, June 1, 2012

Friday Links

I still can't believe the Blades season is over guys. While you're waiting for October, why not check out this fresh batch of links?

- I grabbed a few pictures at the fan party:



- In an awesome move (on either the league or teams part, I'm not sure who), the players will get to spend a day with the Kelly Cup over the summer. This is either going to be a wonderful experience for the player or end in the Blades having to pay for extensive repairs. Or both. Probably both.

- Which reminds me, your Wikipedia hockey page for today- "Kelly Cup"

- The ECHL released the 12-13 schedule and I'm rather uninspired by it. It really is going to be boring home game-wise, but I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to making Solar Bears fans hate us. They're going to have nightmares about cowbells by the halfway mark of the season.

- I don't know if i ever mentioned this, but I won a hockey stick coat rack (that's taller than me) from the fan club raffle early in the season. I'm pretty sure I need this to compliment it. I might even go with a whole "hockey sticks turned into furniture" theme for my bedroom. That's not crazy... right?

- No ebay link because the prices (and some of the things posted) right now are ridiculous. I will say, there is a perfectly reasonable season ticket holder jersey up there though.

- A programming note: I've decided to take a little blogging break for two or three weeks. Let's just call it my own personal off season. Obviously, if the Blades make a signing announcement (which is incredibly unlikely if the last three season are anything to go by) I'll come back, but for now, I'm resting my overworked blogging muscles.

- Kitty time:

funny pictures of cats with captions
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