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Gender: Male

Location: Ventura, CA

Quote: "If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and my straw reaches all the way across the room into your milkshake, I drink your milkshake! I drink it up! DRAINAGE!!!!" - Daniel Plainview, "There Will Be Blood"

Relationship: Single

Orientation: Straight

Children: Maybe Someday

Body Type: Slim / Slender

Religion: Agnostic

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

AIM: sw6554

About Me: I'm a born and bred Californian who loves anything and everything having to do with hockey. Strange, right? I first got into it in 3rd grade when one of my friends was playing roller hockey at the local Boy's and Girl's Club. The rest of my family was hooked after we watched the 1996 Stanley Cup Final when Colorado defeated Florida off of a goal by Uwe Krupp in OT. The following season I decided to pick a team that was a little closer to home, and so I became a Ducks fan. And let me tell you, all of the years of abuse from my friends about how, "The Ducks suck," well it's all worth it now that they've won the Cup. I can honestly say, I've never been happier than when I watched Teemu finally lift that Cup over his head. Here's to hoping he can do it again this year! Aside from hockey, I'm a film student at Brooks Institute of Photography, and I hope to one day be a screenwriter and director. I also play the drums, and am the proud owner of two guinea pigs - Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy.

Music: Finger Eleven. Neil Young. Tool. Led Zeppelin. The Doors. Dredg. Alter Bridge. A Perfect Circle. Piers Faccini. Nirvana. Soundgarden. The Police. The Wonders. Bob Dylan. Jimi Hendrix. Cream. Eric Clapton. Blind Faith. Bobby Womack. Otis Redding. The Four Tops.The Allman Brothers Band. Boston. Journey. Bon Jovi. Def Leppard. Metallica. Neil Diamond. The Who. Deep Purple. The Rolling Stones. Sublime. Tom Petty. Tenacious D. U2. AC/DC. David Bowie. Muse. Al Green. Matt Costa. Bushwalla. Ray LaMontagne. Todd Hannigan. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Crosby, Stills, & Nash. Simon & Garfunkel. Queen. Pink Floyd. Radiohead. Bob Marley. Creedence Clearwater Revival. The Beatles. The Band. Buffalo Springfield. Bruce Springsteen. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Johnny Cash. Guns N' Roses. The Eagles. Foo Fighters. Jack Johnson. Janice Joplin. Jefferson Airplane. ...and so on and so forth.

Movies: To name a few: Star Wars. The Lord of the Rings. Indiana Jones. The Godfather (I and II, not III). Pi. Requiem For A Dream. The Fountain. Boogie Nights. Magnolia. Punch-Drunk Love. There Will Be Blood. THX 1138. American Graffiti. Jaws. Little Miss Sunshine. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Taxi Driver. Raging Bull. Goodfellas. The Departed. Raising Arizona. Miller's Crossing. Barton Fink. Fargo. No Country For Old Men. Donnie Darko. Miracle. The Doors. Se7en. Memento. Superbad. Chinatown. The Usual Suspects. The Graduate. Forrest Gump. Pulp Fiction. Jackie Brown. That Thing You Do! Million Dollar Baby. Dog Day Afternoon. Network. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Last Days. Once Upon A Time In Mexico. Man On Fire. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Almost Famous. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The Boondock Saints.

TV: Stanley Cup Champion Anaheim Ducks hockey on FSN Prime Ticket. Arrested Development. Lost. The Office. Entourage.

Books: The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings. Ener's Game. Ender's Shadow. Shadow of the Hegemon. Shadow Puppets. Shadow of the Giant. Speaker For The Dead. Xenocide. Children Of The Mind. The Worthing Saga. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe. The Last Day of a Condemned Man. Crime and Punishment. The Brother's Karamazov. White Nights. The Double. Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenence. I Am America (And So Can You!). Hammer Of The Gods. Riders On The Storm. Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend. No One Here Gets Out Alive. Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas. The Boys of Winter. The Game. As I Lay Dying. Middle Passage. Etc. etc. etc.

Likes: That new book smell. The warmth of a brand new screenplay fresh out of the printer. Beer. Watching hockey with my Dad. The rain. The winter. Snow. Laughter. Fireplaces. Guinea Pigs. Dogs. Record players. Vinyl records. My hometown (Newport Beach).

Dislikes: Excessive make-up. Vanity. Nip/Tuck. The Los Angeles Kings. The Minnesota Wild.

Hobbies: Reading. Writing. Breathing (only ocassionally). Drums. Fantasy Hockey.

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11 out of 16

Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 10:59 PM [General]

That is the amount of points earned by the Ducks on their franchise-record 14 day road trip. What's even more remarkable about this is the fact that the trip didn't start out so hot. In fact, many fans (myself included), started to get really worried after they dropped the first three games of the trip. However, it's amazing what a certain Finn that goes by the name of The Flash can do for a group. Since Selanne returned against the Islanders, the Ducks went 5-0, to finish the trip with 11 out of a possible 16 points. Not too shabby.

That leaves them 4 points out of the lead in the Pacific and 4th overall in the Western Conference. Now, almost every other team (except Dallas) has multiple games in hand against Anaheim, but the important thing is that they bury their heads and don't worry about other teams - only worry about what you can immediately control.

Now the boys have a few days off before taking on Dallas on Friday. This should be a fantastic game, as it could very well send one team on their way towards claiming the division title.

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Measuring Stick Game

Sunday, February 10, 2008, 01:46 PM [General]

Coach Carlyle always talks about "measuring stick games," - important games where you can see where you stack up against the competition. Today's game against Detroit is such a game. Detroit has been the class of the NHL all season, and the Ducks have been a bit of a disappointment. Today's game is particularly huge, because barring any unforseen developments, it'll be the first time all season that the Ducks have played against Detroit with their full roster, as Selanne is back, and Pahlsson is expected to play. Granted, Detroit is now missing Dan Cleary, and while I don't discount Cleary's contributions to the winged wheel, I somehow think that they'll manage just fine without him. Regardless, it should be one helluva game, and I can't wait to watch it!

Things to watch for:

1. Teemu pots his first goal of the season.
2. Pahlsson's first game back after missing the last 20 with abdominal problems.
3. Who starts in net? Conventional wisdom would say Giguere, and I'd be shocked if he didn't...but Hiller played what was easily his best game of the season against New York a couple of nights ago...so you never know.
4. Will Detroit be able to withstand Anaheim's physical presence? They did a pretty good job of it in the last game between these two teams, but with the last change today, it should be interesting to see if they feel the need to match Anaheim's physicality.

12:30 can't come soon enough!