Once again, my favorite hockey team in the world makes a fantastic appearance for Weird Wednesday. I thought I already had WEIRD Wednesday covered this week (Meet Joe Bob Rock) but it’s ALWAYS worth highlighting weird and crazy things that happen to the Vancouver Canucks!
In the article on nhl.com called Wacky, Weird and Bizarre, Mason Raymond shows up front and center … and WEIRD. In a huge media event yesterday Raymond was asked a totally weird question, and answered with his own best weirdness – Q: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? A: A Colorado Blue Spruce. Why did he say that? Even Raymond said he didn’t know why he picked it! YUP, fantastically weird!
Of course, the journalists themselves are weird. Why else would they ask the crazy question, “Are you excited to be playing in the Stanley Cup Final?” In answer to that ridiculous question, Alex Bolduc said, “I mean come on, d’uh, of course I am!” Yah, D’UH!
We won’t even talk about the reporter in the blitz who was determined to discover secrets about the Winnipeg adult film industry from the former Manitoba Moose players. They didn’t answer him. He was just TOO weird!
I often say “Go Big Blue” which seems to be a throw back from some other era of the Canucks franchise, but blue was definitely BIG yesterday – blue hoodies, blue caps, blue backdrops with the large Stanley Cup emblazoned across them, even blue Gatorade. The theme wasn’t lost on me, ‘cuz I’m cool like that – I noticed right away! Weird and cool! Blue is definitely cool! And apparently the hoodies were weird and not so cool…. hockey players know how to sweat, and under the camera lights they were definitely sweating. Thank goodness for the blue Gatorade!
Weirdness wasn’t saved to showcase only during the media event today – weirdness with the Canucks happens all the time. Like a few of Ryan Kesler’s memorable recent quotes (not word for word, but something like these):
- “I’d play on one leg just to play.”
- when asked about leaving the ice with what appeared to be an injured leg – “Nah, it was nothing, I just had to go call my wife because I was afraid I had left the iron on at home.”
- about the Canucks appearing to have a good time at practice – “We play hockey for a living, what’s not fun about that?”
Kevin Bieksa’s weird goal obviously falls into this awesomely weird category, but some of his quotes and quirks do too. Calling former teammate Kyle Wellwood “Welly the Weasel” or something similar just cracked me up. And Kevin putting hockey tape up across the corridor by the Canucks dressing/locker room in Nashville (I think) with a sign saying, “CANUCKS ONLY”. And another one beside it saying, “NO PREDATORS EXCEPT PARTNER.” (Partner is Shane O’Brien, Bieksa’s ex-teammate who plays for the Predators.) He put the signs up to keep others, namely the opposing team, from coming by and messing with the Canucks’ stuff. It was quirky and seemed like a very Bieksa thing to do – and it was downright hilarious! Way to be WEIRD!
Big cheers for My Canucks tonight! I live in Alberta, and even cheering for the Canucks makes me weird. Sure, you’ve got your bandwagon hockey fans who jump on just ‘cuz Vancouver made it to the final, but I’m True Blue, a Canucks fan through and through! It’s even better that they are awesomely weird, very unique and individual in their own ways, and just a great group of guys. Game #1 of the Stanley Cup Final starts in about 15 minutes! You know where you’ll find me – parked on the couch, cheering on my fellow weirdies and favorite hockey players in the world!
GO Vancouver! Bring Home the Cup!
*** Join me in the weirdness, too… I KNOW you’ve encountered SOMETHING weird somewhere this week!! Leave me a comment and tell me all about it, or link up your own Weird Wednesday post (below)!! And have a look around for more Weird Wednesdays here on my blog!***
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