The NHL GameCenter LIVE™ streaming package!!

I am not happy that Europe and the Middle East are unable to purchase and download The NHL GameCenter LIVE™ streaming package. Are we ever going to be able to purchase it, as i think it is a great package deal and it would be quite useful for us NHL subscribers.

Nicholas Wright

GO SENS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So glad about the Senators win over the Hurricanes! Meanwhile, although Leafs still suck, I have to (albeit reluctantly) admit they have done pretty amazingly against the Capitals. I mean 6:3? For Maple Leafs? Not in my wildest dreams.

5 Main Questions

Going round and about over the net, I came across 5 basic questions that an expert in the development of aspiring hockey players, Kim McCullough, had said to be the questions “that every young hockey player looking to reach the highest level of their sport must ask themselves”. The article claimed that the answers to such questions would define whether a player had or not what is necessary to reach professional levels and outstand amongst average.
In my opinion these questions could be used in any field and for any carrier where one really wants to be successful, and that include teams. Therefore I would like to know from the Ottawa Senators Manager and Coach if they have not only asked themselves the questions but if they have asked their players and what were the answers???????? If the guys haven’t done it here goes the questions.

How bad?

How bad ado you want to win, what does it take to be the best?? Are we really doing what is necessary????? Are we all committed to the same objective??? What could be done to better express that winning is our main goal????? “Do we wish that to happen, or would we like that to happen, are we Making it happen???”

What?

What else are you going to do, or sacrifice in order to get it??? Does everybody on the team knows what exactly is needed to reach the highest level of game that fans are hoping, not to mention paying for???

How much?

How much is everybody investing?? Is everybody really giving its best??? How much is the team putting into the game??? Is it enough???? What else could be done???

Why?

Why are we doing it?? Is it for the money? Is it just to shut up fans, or to make the managers happy??? To justify our big fat salaries, or is it for the love, passion??? What motivates each individual and of course the team as a whole?

Do you love it?

This could be slightly changed for; does everyone involved with the Senators team really love the game???? Is it the food that you eat and the air that you breathe????

Well I would definitely love to hear the players’ answers for these questions.

http://ezinearticles.com/?5-Questions-Every-Young-Hockey-Player-Must-Ask-Themselves&id=1524663

A great Thanks to the "Thanks Giving"

This posting will be dedicated to give thanks for the American "Thanks Giving". As most of the viewers of this blog must know, I live in Europe and for that most of the season year I survive with a very poor sleeping, almost all of the games happen after 12:00 am. Although today for a change, it is 20:45 and here I am watching to the good old hockey game. A blessing!!!!
I have been stuck to the TV set since 18:00, and it looks like I am not going to go anywhere before 3 in the morning. The games so far have been great. Watching the Pengs struggling against the Islanders has brought a spackle to my day.
Well I am not going to go on and on writing have more TV duty to do.

Joking Around with The Sens Underground

As you all know two weeks ago I was named the Sens Underground Hockey Ambassador to the UK.

In my duties as Ambassador I sent them a joke that I find particularly funny...

Listen to it online here: http://www.sensunderground.com/ - episode 6.

You gotta hear these guys and you gotta hear this joke!

Enjoy.

In Sens we Trust!

The Hockey Ambassador

Poor refereeing lets the Sens down!

The Devils came to O-town on Saturday with the hope of a shutout (which would be goalie Martin Brodeur's record breaking 1000th). At least, in one respect, they left disappointed!

Sens fans can't really celebrate, though. The final score was 3-2, for the Devils.

Last year Chris Campoli was kept in the shadow of that traitorous, indecisive....... whose name is mud to every Sens fan (and who calls himself Danny Heatley).
This year, Chris Campoli is one of the Sens leading goal scorers. Tough, sneaky and determined, Campoli's gone from strength to strength.

On Saturday night (HNIC!) Campoli scored yet another goal against Brodeur and his Devils in the second period- bringing the Sens into the lead. It was nothing super, but good enough for a point. In the third period the Devils scored once again. Chris Campoli was sent to the box and the Devils scored their winning goal.

It's not the fact he was sent to the box that really bothers me. That happens. It is WHY he was sent to the box that makes me suspect the refereeing was just not up to scratch. The penalty was called for 'delay of game' when Campoli accidently flicked the puck over the glass in the Sens end. Looking at it - he didn't seem to intend to do it. It would make no sense for him to delay the game at that point - he had the puck!!

Accidents happen and this a silly standard. You can't call a penalty for delay of game every time someone slips up, loses the puck, or otherwise goofs.

And what REALLY bothers me is that this isn't the first time this season the Sens have been held back by useless refereeing and unwarranted penalties.

It seems like I'm not the only one who has noticed the penalty problem this year. The Senators Homepage News section has noticed: http://senators.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=505433
The Ottawa papers have noticed.
And fellow blogger Silver Seven has also been on the case: http://www.silversevensens.com/2009/11/7/1121019/senators-blow-two-goal-lead-lose-3
I like his reflection on Jaarko Ruutu's penalties being based on his 'reputation' and not really based on his actual behaviour.
So TRUE!!

So how are the Sens gonna get out of the box? It's hard to say! I really can't see what they're doing wrong! A lot of this is down to bad referreeing!!! It's out of the Sens hands, it seems to me.
We just have to hope that we get a ref who knows how to make a call and when it is warranted. This isn't like giving a time-out to a toddler for bad behaviour... this is hockey!

I say, let 'em play and let 'em win!

The torch for the Winter Olympics....

.... before going back to Canada and the opening for the winter Olympics ceremony came to me: THE AMBASSADOR.
In the picture from left to right, James Wright, Gregor Robertson, the Olympic Torch and me the Hockey Ambassador (Nick Wright).

GO CANADA GO!!!!!!