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[12 May 2006|07:16am] |
So, I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina for a bit, and I really don't know what there is to do around here since I've only ever been to Raleigh. I think I will go out and check this place out, seeing as I'm going to be spending some time here this summer. On Monday at 3 I'll be going in to have my first surgery of the summer and suffice to say I am a little more than nervous. I've had plenty of surgeries before, plenty of chances to be told, "hey, you can't play anymore." However, legs and feet are an intergral part of playing hockey, so when the doctor told me that he was going to have to break both of my feet to repair my ligaments and tendons, it felt like my heart skipped a beat.
Hockey is what I know, it's what I've built my entire life upon. If I lose it now, at this age, what will I do? A good friend of mine told me that they have ankle surgeries pretty much perfected, but this is a little different and despite trying to think positively I have this little nagging feeling. Maybe it's just there to keep me in check, so I don't work it too hard, too early and lose an entire season because that's the last thing I need.
Anyway, I should be discharged from the hospital on Tuesday and I think I'll stay in N.C. for a couple days and see how this foot is going to heal and then head up to Philadelphia and take it easy.
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[03 May 2006|07:48am] |
I don't want to talk about this series. Not yet anyway, I can't.
Locker cleanout and then I have to go back to Sweden, I have some things going on and that's where I need to be.
God dammit.
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[23 Apr 2006|10:17am] |
Monday is going to be a blood bath.
I don't care how fucking clean that hit was, Campbell freighttrained this 20 year old kid.
Right now, we are a brotherhood, fuck diversity, fuck the miles that separate our hometowns. Right now, we're the Phiadelphia Flyers and we're a family and Brian Campbell took out our little brother last night and Monday, we will make his team pay dearly.
If Buffalo's team wants to make this an out and out physical war, fine, we'll do it. But here's how it's going down. You won't play your fast game with your little forwards. You'll play a physical game, you will grind it out every night until you can't feel your legs under you, you will work until your lungs are burning and it feels like you can't take a deep breath of air, we will play you until we break you and we will make you pay. We will make. you. hurt. I won't promise anything, but I hope to fucking hell that when we fly back to Philadelphia, there is one less Sabre on that plane. One guy who has a torn ACL or a concussion, we're past separated shoulders and broken fingers. You want to play with grown men, fuck you, you'll play our style whether you like it or not.
Why?
Because. You don't. fuck. with. us.
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[05 Mar 2006|11:38am] |
It's been a week. A week since they laid that heavy gold around my neck. The feeling is still indescribable, and I am still drunk, but that's besides the point.
We won. We won again. And we deserved it.
And I still can't think of anything coherent I want to say.
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[04 Feb 2006|01:28pm] |
The Olympics are coming so soon, and I was, and to an extent I still am excited, but I really with Markus was playing. My friend, I hope everything is better for you soon, I know you made the right choice for yourself and that's what is important. I bet we can still take down Canada ;). Welcome to the team Homer.
Otherwise, things aren't going half bad, I guess. I'd really like to get back playing, but the team doctor wants me to take it easy so I will. Rangers tonight, and then next week we're in Ottawa, I'll finally get to spend some time with Mike.
Also, Superbowl tomorrow. Seattle, 24-13.
Peace.
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[28 Dec 2005|08:52am] |
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Yyyyyyyyyyyyeah Italy. Who's stoked?
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[24 Dec 2005|08:43pm] |
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Happy Holidays to you and yours.
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[10 Dec 2005|05:30pm] |
The results of your analysis say:
You plan ahead, and are interested in beauty, design, outward appearance, and symmetry.
You are a social person who likes to talk and meet others.
You are negative, fearful, resistant, doubtful, and/or selfish.
You are a talkative person, maybe even a busybody!
You enjoy life in your own way and do not depend on the opinions of others.
What does your handwriting say about YOU?
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[22 Nov 2005|11:37pm] |
I don't get this.
My condolences to the family of Chris Neil.
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[22 Nov 2005|09:23am] |
When Sergei and I were together, several years back, I had the opportunity to become quite good friends with Jiri, but, since then we've drifted apart.
Niklas called me last night, he was upset and understandably so. I heard it from him before I saw anything on the TV.
I really, really hope he's going to be okay.
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[09 Nov 2005|05:59pm] |
Forsberg Wills A Win 11/09/2005 @ 11:41 AM
I was lucky enough to attend last night`s game in Philly and what a game it was. Having only seen Forsberg from afar before this year I was amazed by what I saw last night. There are many levels to this player`s game.
Since the beginning of the season we have seen his timing return and he continues to get better and better with every shift. It has amazed people at every level of the Flyers organization. One senior person admitting to me, "I had no idea how good a stick handler he was."
Well last night he showed that he could will a game to win. With about ten minutes left last night Forsberg stood up on the bench and screamed something down the line. I don`t know what he said, but it may have been, "watch my next shift!" Forsberg hit the ice at a level we had not yet seen in Philly. He hit three players in the offensive zone, sending two to the ice. The Flyers bench was standing watching him basically decide it was time to win a hockey game. Forsberg skated back to the bench and Mike Richards jumped over the boards at full play-off intensity. It was contagious.
The next Forsberg shift saw a Bruin try and make amends for the hit he had taken. Forsberg saw him coming and flattened the Bruin instead. The puck went up ice, and the Bruins scored a goal after Joni Pitkanen gave up the puck. Forsberg stood at the bench and went at the referee at center ice who had just let a blatant penalty go.
Then Pitkanen came by the bench. Forsberg stopped him and said something to Joni that turned Joni into an offensive machine. The rest is history with Joni;1 on 4 getting the puck to Gagne, and Forsberg making an unreal pass with 23 seconds left to Joni to tie, and Joni winning it in overtime.
The crowd poured into the concourse and chanted like a play-off series had been won.
All on a tuesday in November.
Thanks Peter.
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[08 Oct 2005|08:40am] |
I'm really enjoying Philly, the city is great, the people are great, my teammates are great.
But I won't lie, it's a little lonely, which I think has everything to do with just not knowing this place, and that's fine. The more I get used to this city, the more comfortable I'll be,
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[24 Aug 2005|08:33pm] |
I guess it's really time to tell everyone about this...
New screen name since ColoradoForCup21 doesn't function that well for me anymore, I can now be reached at Forsberg Flyer, because I am original and creative and all that jazz.
So far, I am really enjoying this city, Bobby Clarke has taken me around, and now I am pretty much settled in, I have my car, and I have a loft, and I can get myself around pretty well. I am quite proud of myself.
I needed to make a move for my career, I was becoming sedentary in Colorado, I suppose you could say. I'm not oblivious. I hear what people say, and I know what people think, and I knew it would make me miserable, and really, I thought Footer was going to stay. Though, that really did not effect my decision. Philly came in at the last minute and made me an offer I really couldn't refuse. And the fans have been wonderful. Philly is an amazing hockey city, and so rabid, and they seem quite happy to have me back, and I hope I can provide for them, I want to go out and play hard every night.
And being closer to Mike is nice, too, and he has signed a good contract and I am very, very happy for him. We are very happy.
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[04 Aug 2005|06:57pm] |
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Mike has been teasing me about having to wear orange. If I thought that it would actually freak him out, I would put a spider in his bed. But he would probably just think that it was cool, and catch it and put it outside. Well, that and I would actually have to find a spider and pick it up and put it in the bed, and I'd probably forget about it and lay down on it and crush it, and that would be gross. I'd make Mike sleep on that side of the bed.
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[27 Jul 2005|09:14pm] |
A lot of things happening right now. Mostly waiting, though, which I have never been good at. And rumours, which I have also never liked. I am not going to address the rumours yet, because nothing has been decided, so there's no point. All I would be saying still is "maybe" and "perhaps".
The NHL schedule was released today, and I think I dislike the lack of cross-conference games. It's going to make some things more difficult.
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[22 Jun 2005|09:04pm] |
I am really sunburnt. Mike and I have spent a lot of time recently out on the boat and it's been great. We've had a good time. We've done quite a bit of riding as well. He is really... graceful, I guess you could say. He has this air of ease with everything he does.
Soon we'll be leaving for that camp he's running, I'll have to see how close it is to Toronto, because I can't really see myself staying in this cow town. I mean- he'll have stuff to do during the day, with the kids and all. And I do want to be there with him, I just... me and bored don't go together.
Oh well, it will work out.
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[15 May 2005|07:22pm] |
Mike showed this to me, while we were in Austria, and every day I've been reading back a few pages, I never really had anything interesting to say.
Which isn't all that surprising.
It's a shame that Canada lost to the Czech's, I will call Mike later. We had a good time in Austria.
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[11 Apr 2005|09:51pm] |
There is a little progress everyday, something small triggers something big, and things will come back to him in a rush.
This is Mike, if you haven't figured it out.
I've started spending the night here again, and we sit up late and tell stories. We're going to a U2 concert in April, and he talks so animatedly about their concerts and the energy.
It still hurts a little bit to see struggle through his thoughts, but it's progress and that's good.
I think I should have him read through this, and catch up on everything that has happened in the past couple years. Maybe sometime. Right now though, we are having a good time talking. We are becoming friends, and it's nice, but for me the love part is still missing. Soon, I tell myself, soon.
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