Incredibly long offseason

LOL! Other than cruising fanboards, you mean?

I’ve got some classic Canes games that have been viewed on occasion throughout the summer. Watched all of the playoff action, of course, as long we as it lasted, even though we had no part in it (other than seeding ex-Canes among the contenders).

Otherwise, lots of reading about hockey and talking about hockey with elskling and my longtime STH seatmate, who I see every once in a while and do a lot of email/texts back and forth with that’s hockey-related.

The hunger is building. It is an incredibly long offseason, isn’t it?

To quote Cole: Losing sucks.

I’ve been playing NHL 10 for PS3 all offseason. My Be A Pro guy got drafted by Minnisota though…….LAME.

haha – there must be something about this week that we’ve all hit a low in getting our hockey fixes. It’s been particularly painful for me this week.

Like Elsker I’ve been reading the forums. Also follow multiple hockey journalists and Caniacs on Twitter. Checking my hockey related RSS feeds. Watching some Canes classic games this week.

I followed all the NHL playoff games, the River Rats while they lasted in the AHL playoffs, watched the IIHF World Cup games online. And while watching the FIFA World Cup games I pretended they were just hockey on grass (didn’t work so well) =)

I went to the Canes Draft party, the Fan Fest, heck even going to Select-a-Seat was hockey related enough to get me through that day! Made it out to Conditioning Camp 2 days to see the new prospects.

Every couple of days I bring out my Helsinki travel itinerary, study some more Finnish and think about what we want to see while there.

I’ve been trying to read the hockey books HMof2 has been posting about, but I get very little time for leisure reading, so it’s taking me a while.

Thankfully Canes Country has remained fairly active, that helps!

Well, there’s this:

158 folders
58,066 files
463 GB

42 games
53 practices
10 special events

And that’s just the Data/My Pictures/Canes/2009-2010 Season folder to be cleaned up.

(for the record I’ve pared it down about 50GB so far…)

And when that isn’t keeping me busy, #WHIH fills up the rest of the time.

i play nhl 10 on 360 back and forth between be a pro and playn with canes against my nephew almost daily,had to bring babchuk and corvo back and created couple players to make current roster

I like watching game highlights from either the Canes website or nhl.com.

Only 51 days to training camp kids. Basically it’s early in the third period, with less than 18 minutes to go. Amazing that we’ve kept it going this long.

(Only 44 till Traverse City. Better yet: From what we’ve been hearing, Camp Brind`Amour will be starting up in just 4 weeks. It’s been more than that since the draft.)

I’m enjoying late evening walks to the park with my kids and dog to play catch. Or catch fireflies. And I’m reading a lot of good books, plus catching up on movies on TV. Between the Canes 82 games and my kids hockey schedule, I see very little non-hockey entertainment from October to May. I miss it, but the break helps give me perspective.

and watched this a few times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heezaZocGdg

You people and your xbox’s disgust me. I only say that because mine crashed a couple months ago due to a “hardware failure”. The warranty was expired so I’m torn between paying half price for a refurbished one, or full price for a new, with a warranty. Oh well, stuck with the wii, but no hockey game for me. Otherwise, my summer has been spent preparing for, and recovering from, neck surgery. But at least it’s allowed me to spend the whole summer with my kids instead of chasing drunk tourists around the Outer Banks all summer. My hockey fix, you good people here at CC and over on Twitter are taking care of that for me. Thanks!

between what has been happening here @ CC the prospect camp,the NHL entry draft,3 road trips to Charlotte,following what i can get from the WHL and the OHL, keeping up with my children & grandchidren,reading some older books ( non hockey types) becoming more politically aware of what is NOT happening for we, the people,writting letters physically as in “snail mail” to people i have not heard from in ages.and loving & helping my wife as much I am physically able to. and last but not least Twitter….Yaaaawwwnnnn other than that, pretty boring…NOT !! hehehe…..I had to laugh about the Xbox & games & reruns posts…yet i really should NOT be totally surprised as my grandkids even the girls go nuts with xbox and PS3. myself, operating this computer is enough for me…:-}

However I did play the Wii version of the NHL game on vacation….Canes versus Blackhawks……(My brother is a blackhawks fan)……Canes won in a shootout…….
Eric Staal scored in the shootout……..(only in a video game).

Can’t wait for the season to roll around…..Hope we can survive the longggggggggg road trip at the start with our head above the water!

I haven’t played an NHL game since NHL 02. It was the best control-wise NHL game I ever played. The newer ones just felt like they complicated it way too much.

Other than working and browsing the fan sites, I usually spend my time away from work playing video games like World of Warcraft or watching TV or movies – or going out and enjoying some of the great restaurants we have in the area, like Sono and The Pit. :)

Here’s a new one. I went way out of my way to drive downtown today so I could take a picture of the ASG banner going up. That’s got to rank right up there on the old excitement level, eh?

Watched the first period of Game 3 of the 2009 Jersey series with elskling this morning.

Man, our crowd sure looks and sounds good. And we watch a lot of Center Ice, so have a feel as to how crowds look and sound.

As elskling said this morning, “I miss hockey”.

I called my wife “Pig T!ts” one time. Didn’t go over very well………wouldn’t recommend it.

IT’S SUMMER! I play real hockey and go to the beach and do P90X and hang out with my wife and play with my dogs and go visit friends. Trash the video games.