A Canadian team hasn’t won the Stanley Cup in more than 30 years. And this year the Edmonton Oilers lost to the Florida Panthers. Ouch.
DB2
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I’m happy that one of my local teams won, but this win was a tough one and they barely won it. Barely. Of note, it is kind of funny that 3 out of the last 5 winners of the Stanley Cup were Florida teams. Florida!!! A hot and humid state with no real winter to speak of. No frozen lakes. No outdoor skating rinks, heck, hardly any skating rinks at all.
Well Vegas won and did it in 6 years. They did it by beating the Panthers. Look for ice in the Desert. Anyway I was rooting for the Oilers but the Panthers played a terrific game so congratulations.
Andy
I was considering writing that “hot states won 4 out of the last 5 Stanley Cups”, but then I remembered the mountain I drove up right next to Vegas and it was 14 degrees with heavy snow at the time. We were in Vegas touring the area in Dec '99, and that day we drove to Furnace Creek in Death Valley, looked around a bit (it was 96 F), then left there to head back to Vegas (where our hotel was located), and on a whim decided to drive up the mountain because someone told us it snows up there and people ski, but we didn’t quite believe it. So we drove to the top, and sure enough there was heavy snow and it was 14 F. How do I know the exact temperatures? Well, we rented this newfangled car that had the outside temperature IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR! That car even had this weird stalk thing installed that would give us directions to places we asked for (but it did make us drive in figure 8s a few times to “calibrate the GPS”, was so weird). First time we ever experienced those two features built-in a car. A couple of years later, I bought my first Garmin device for our car.
So, since the Vegas area sometimes has cold and snow, I decided against including it.
OMG, no, it was not a terrific game. This last game was terrible! The Oilers took 10 or 11 shots straight near the end. That’s not terrific. The first 3 games were closer to terrific with the excellent goalie percentage.
That is about 50 miles outside Vegas. It’s called Mt. Charleston. But in Vegas itself it only snows about once every 5 years. But Nevada is a very biologically diverse area. In the Northern part of the state their are some very high peaks where one just recently lost the last bit of it’s glacier.
I see it differently. Alot of shots on goal, great puck play and the panthers goalie did an outstanding job. I don’t consider the shots on goal as an indicator of a bad game, but what the team does to block the shots on goal. The Panthers proved their defensive strategy, which they built their team on, to be superior. With the score being 2-1 I would say that is terrific.
Andy
I miss all of @tim443 's hockey posts
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Chuckle but my three grandsons in California (2 in college) follow hockey far more closely than their dear old retired military dad.
I have been invited to a meeting with people from DVA (Department of Veteran’s Affairs) next week as they want to ensure I have sufficient cognitive ability to neither starve nor complain about my (4) very adequate pensions and investment savings. When I mentioned that my Lawyer/Diplomat daughter was interested in attending as she has been very involved in our planning since she lost her FIL some weeks back (also retired military) who made a complete disaster of his by not informing people of his serious health issues and even ordering the doctor who diagnosed the advanced cancer to not tell anyone in the family.
The DVA people were more than interested and the arrangements have been made for her to attend.
Anyway … be aware that none of us will live forever.
Regards to All
Tim
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So sorry to hear about your family’s loss. I hope things are going well otherwise. We are heading up to a road trip interspersed with hiking and photography from Windsor, OT to PEI in September with some friends who live nearish Ottawa.
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Hey Tim! Great to see your sig.
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Nice to hear from someone from the Old Gang. Jeff and his wife Joy are going to visit us here in Halifax on the 15th of July. Just so happens that their rather large “Boat” (OK it is a cruise ship) will be docked in Halifax harbour for a few days.
Regards Tim
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Glad to see you still kicking around Tim; hope you are doing well.
JimA
Wow, we appear to have woken the beast, Hi to everyone who reads this.
Signed “Old retired Military Guy”.
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All well here, Some of the Orinda CA family will be coming to visit in a couple of weeks.
I will be 77 on my birthday in early August … can’t believe I made it this far with no major health issues. }};-D
Tim
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Ah, welcome back, even if only temporarily. I am also 77 with no major health issues. Except losing 4 teeth when the implants came loose, so I’m having new ones put in, right after the jawbone regrows thanks to some dead-guy bone being put in there to serve as host.
And the arthritis which makes me ache after just a few minutes of actual physical labor. That’s why I try to avoid it, although in truth I did even before I had the arthritis excuse.
And the hellacious asthma, which makes the sinus’ swell, which makes getting the new implants dicey. But over “chewing” and “breathing” I’m going for “breathing.”
And the spinal surgeries, now up to three, with plates in my neck and in my back and screws the size that some people use to support their decks.
And the …. … , well, it isn’t fun, but as I say, “Never trust an old person who doesn’t complain.”
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Dang, I’m being inundated with fellow “Old Guys”. Wife and I (plus my Lawyer/ Diplomat daughter) spent the morning in a DVA (Department of Veterans Affairs) office having a really knowledgeable guy explain all the benefits I and my wife are entitled to due to my military service. I’m seriously impressed!
The knowledgeable guy says we have done most of the right things and added a few suggestions that that would improve the outcome including booking baseline medicals for both of us. Apparently this would allow us to be pre-approved at a much lower monthly price should we need to give up our condo and move into a nursing home.
Good luck to us all.
Tim
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