Hanging on by their Thumbs

As I write this, the Canucks are in the last-ditch effort to stay in the series in Ana­heim. The game is in over­time with the score tied 1 to 1, and Roberto Luongo, the extra­or­di­nary goalie (with a face by Modigliani) has made save after save as the Ducks keep shoot­ing (nearly 3 times as fre­quently as Van­cou­ver). It’s a nail-biter, to be sure. I can’t stand the tension!

All right. (*pant, pant*) Here’s a time out:

While stay­ing (loosely) on the hockey theme, I noticed (from some of the TV com­mer­cials he appears in) that Sid­ney Crosby, the rookie player for the Pitts­burgh Pen­guins (and the first pick of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft and one of the lead­ing scor­ers dur­ing last year’s NHL sea­son) bears a strik­ing resem­blance to Andy Sam­berg of Sat­ur­day Night Live. Don’t believe me? Take a look:

Sid­ney Crosby	Andy Sam­berg

Sep­a­rated at birth? I guess if they ever do a Hockey sketch on SNL, they’ll know who can play Crosby.

First time out is over. Still no score.

A Visit to the South
Tomor­row I’ll take a quick visit to my brother and his fam­ily in the Seat­tle. It’s the first time I’ve been down there since a day-trip in January.

And It’s Over
That’s it. The Series is ended with a bizarre shot by a guy named (of all things) Nie­der­mayer, which was the name — dif­fer­ent spelling, though — of one of the bad guys in the movie Ani­mal House…the one who would be “killed in Viet­nam by his own troops”.

*sigh* Well, it was nice while it lasted.