More Curious Than Worried

It’s Playoff Beard Time!

A playoff beard is an NHL tradition. In order to have a playoff beard you need 2 things: A NHL team in the playoffs (Done!) and facial hair (um…this may take a while).

This year, the NHL is doing a Beard-A-Thon to raise money for various charities. As I am an Avalanche fan, any money pledge to me will go to Kroenke Sports and Entertainment (KSE and owner of the Avalanche) Charities. For more information about KSE Charities, click here.

Click on the image above to pledge a donation. If you don’t trust moving, blinking images use this link: https://www.beardathon.com/avalanche/pledge.aspx. Enter my name under #1, then be generous. Half the reason I’m attempting to grow a beard is just for the entertainment value, the other half is to raise money for charities. I can only provide one half of the reason. I need you to do the rest.

Each game day I will post a new beard picture to my blog, Facebook and the Beard-A-Thon website. So since this the day of Game 1, here ya go…

Just my pretty face. Nothing even close to a beard yet.

If you are also growing a beard for the Beard-A-Thon, let me know and I will give you a $10 donation. GO AVS!

Facebook Thinks I Should Be Friends with Martin St. Louis

If you’re a user of Facebook (and who isn’t), you’re familiar with the little “Suggestion” box on the right side of your home page. It usually suggests fan pages or groups or friends you haven’t interacted with in a while. Sometimes it recommends new friends to you because you have some mutual friends. Sometimes it recommends completely freakin’ random people to be your friend. For example:

Facebook thinks you should be friends with Bob Smith. Bob Smith is 17 years old and lives 2000 miles away from you. You have no mutual friends and he’s into men’s bikini volleyball. Send friend request?

No! Why would I be friend’s with Bob Smith? Why would Facebook possibly think I have anything to do with Bob Smith? These suggestions are usually met by me cocking my head to one side and squinting at my monitor like I’m going to somehow look through the screen to devise the purpose of this suggestion.

Imagine my surprise this morning when Facebook suggested I become friends with some random guy named Martin St. Louis. I don’t know of any friends or family named Martin St. Louis. I didn’t graduate with any one with the last name of St. Louis. As a matter of fact, there is only one Martin St. Louis that I can think of, but no it couldn’t be that Martin St. Louis, could it? So I check out his publicly available information on his profile. He’s in Tampa Bay, FL and this is his profile picture…

Yep. It’s 5 time NHL All-Star and Stanley Cup Champion, current alternate captain of the Tampa Bay Lightning, (mar-tan san loo-e). What can I possibly have in common with a 5 time NHL All-Star player? Apparently Facebook thinks we have something in common.

This entertains me to no end.

So I do what any self respecting person who’s easily entertained would do, I take up Facebook’s suggestion and send Martin a friend request along with this message:

Facebook said I should be your friend

I am so entertained by this bit of internet randomness, I thought I’d send you a request just for the hell of it. I’m not sure what Facebook thinks we have in common except that you play NHL hockey and I watch it. Anyways, enjoy the rest of your season and stay safe!

-Scott

Hockey Weekend Across America – Best Day of the Year

Yesterday morning we took our daughter, Ashlynn, to the Edge Ice Arena for a free, girls-only hockey clinic. She got to put on all the pads and skate around with one of the Colorado Select Girls Hockey Association players. We got to meet Natalie Darwitz and Jinelle Zaugg of the 2010 USA Olympic Women’s team. And she came away with 2 autographed posters, a jersey, two free tickets to the Avalanche game on Tuesday and one helluva fun time. I’d like to think I’m pretty good with words, but I am having a really hard time finding the words to describe just how great this event was for us. I just really want to thank everyone who was involved in putting this together. I’ll show my thanks the best way a blogger knows how, by providing praise and links to their sites.

• Thanks to the Edge Ice Arena for providing ice-time for this girls-only event. We go there all the time for skating class and just for fun and we’re always treated well there.

• A SUPER HUGE BIG thank you to the Colorado Select Girls Hockey Association!! If you are in any way associated with the girls who play for the CSGHA, you should be VERY proud of these girls. Without their enthusiasm and great attitude, this event wouldn’t have been the monumental success it was. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! A special thank you to Taylor, who plays for the 14AAA team, for spending the whole time on the ice with Ashlynn. Click here to donate to the CSGHA.

• Thanks to Ken Klee and the Colorado Avalanche for the free ticket vouchers and a big thanks to USA Hockey and Natalie Darwitz and Jinelle Zaugg of the 2010 USA Olympic Women’s team. It was great to be able to meet them and get pictures with them. Their presence made the event even more special for us all. Thank you! GO USA in Vancouver!!