I have the urge to buy some new shirts

After watching Denmark and Norway finish the first period of their game, I suddenly discovered the craving to buy their team logo shirts. I really like their logos, so that might be why. But I'm thinking about the German, Swiss, Danish, Norweigan, and Latvian shirts, not to mention a UMass shirt. Gonna be costly but I really want them.

International Hockey

I've been watching the Olympic qualifying matches for hockey, and it's been pretty fun. Right now I'm watching Denmark-Norway, and it's 2-1 Denmark in the first. It's just cool watching it on Scandinavian TV on a high quality link, not to mention seeing different teams play.

Birthday Thoughts

So today is my 17th birthday, and I honestly don't really care. I mean, it's just like any other day except it just so happens that I turned 17. I figure that I've outgrown celebrations so I didn't do anything, I just sat home doing whatever. And I'm fine with that. In my humble opinion, throwing parties is outdated, not to mention a bit stupid. My reasoning behind that is that I'm most likely going to be having many more birthdays so it's not like I can't sneak a party or two in. And really, I feel like that nowadays people are in the "it's my birthday so treat me like a king/queen" mentality, and I don't like that. Oh well, so here's to the last hours of my birthday and doing nothing to celebrate it. For the record, I enjoy sticking it to the man.

US-Canada game

Right now it's 4-4 with 15:45 in the second period of a huge game between the US and Canada at the 2008 World Juniors. It's frustrating since the US had a 3-0 lead with eight minutes left in the first period that they blew, with Canada coming back to tie it 3-3 after one. It's been really physical so far and and a ton of penalties, a lot coming from Canada. The US had a sloppy second half of the first period after thoroughly dominating the first part of the period. However they have been picking their game up. It's been really interesting now, with both teams fighting it out. Stay tuned

Edit- Cody Hodgson just scored off of a tip from P.K. Subban's shot on a powerplay

Canada-Kazakstan

God help the Kazakhs. For the pregame, the commentators were talking about how the record for most goals scored in one game at the WJC's and Canada's record for most goals in a game (18). AND Team Kazakhstan played against Germany last night, losing 9-0, and then they're playing less than 24 hours again against a ridiculously high powered Canada squad. We can only hope it'd be in single digits. In fact Canada scored withing the first three minutes of the game. Honestly, I'll be suprised if it's not over within the first, maybe even second, period. I mean, the Kazakh goalie is only around 5 foot 8 and there are several Kazakh players who aren't even 5'8''. In fact, the announcer mentioned that there were only around 30 players whom Team Kazakhstan could pick from, and there were only 20 selected. Still, they put a scare against Russia last year losing 5-4 so anything could happen; however that prospect is pretty bleak. Stay tuned for the inevitable lopsided goals.
-Update: 4-0 Canada with 2:20 left in the first. Shots are 22-2.

Canada just scored again

Angelo Esposito just scored on a pass from John Tavares, who's been having an excellent night so far. And ironically as I write this, Ryan Ellis just scored to extend Canada's lead to 4-0. By the way things are going, Canada is going to be a team that nobody is going to want to play, they're looking scary good. It's been so one sided so far it's depressing. Right now it's 2:34 into the third and it's now 6-0 Canada with Chris DiDomenico just scoring off of an assist from Zach Boychuk. It's probably going to be getting uglier too, which is depressing.

John Tavares

John Tavares just scored his second goal of the night, and what a beauty it was. It came on a one timer from Jordan Eberle across the crease and Tavares easily put the puck at the back of net behind a sprawling Tomas Vosvrda. Tavares has already gotten three points, the third coming from an assist to Angelo Esposito's goal.