We are a mere five sleeps from the greatest day of the year. No, it's not a birthday, or Christmas, or Halloween, or anything else Hallmark would have a card for... (Although they should. I'd show up at a buddy's house with one...)
September 9 marks the release of the latest installment of EA Sports' NHL series... NHL 2009.
Unfortunately, I do not return to Yellowknife -- and an XBox 360 -- before the 19th, so that should give some of you (read: Kev) a chance to build up some much needed confidence and get some practice in before Daddy SweetThumbs (am I allowed to self-nickname? Sir Score-a-lot? Dr. Kev Kill? Annihilatatron?) returns to reestablish his dominance with a tyrannical reign of beatdowns, shutouts and mid-game-pause-and-resets-because-the-game-is-so-out-of-hand... eh? eh?
I do have a beef, though: Phaneuf is on the cover.
Dion Phaneuf has 45-minute conversations with rocks.
I've never been so in love with something that has such a horrific and unpalatable appearance.
It would be like a girlfriend coming back from a week long vacation with a Mike Tyson-style facial tattoo. Or being covered in feces or ebola or something... I'll get over it, but I might cringe as I take it out of the packaging.
One other thing. The official trailer kind of pisses me off.
Awesome! Phaneuf lays out the Twins twice, and the Canucks look like a bunch of flunky jabronies...
At least now, I think we can officially kill the long held (and baseless) conspiracy theory from bitter Oilers/Flames fans that Canucks players' ratings are inflated because the game is made in Burnaby, BC.
No Canucks fan would ever endorse Dion Fanook doing something like this.
I need something to cheer me up...
Ahhh... much better....
