5 posts tagged “layout”

To whoever reads this, I am updating my blog links list, so if you have a blog that's not on there and you want me to link, or change link or remove....... just leave me a comment or email me at pyattisafatty at gmail.com

Hehe. I love Canucks.com for having player blogs. How awesome is it to have "Ryan Kesler Blog" or "Mason Raymond Blog" on your links list? HAHAHA.

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PS: Hockey Links only please.

Vox finally allows "Sidebar widgets". Well for now, you can only use 1 widget, so I used that to finally create a "blog roll" type of thing and link to Canucks blogs I frequent and the hloggers' blogs.

I will collect the other hockey blogs I read later on, I'm too lazy right now. It's almost 1 am.

I wasn't able to watch the game properly tonight, hence I couldn't really comment on it properly. I went to my friend's house to watch the game, and since I got off work at 4, I ended up missing the first half of the first period before I arrived at her house at 5:20.

Anyway, the real key to this game was the powerplay. We had around 8 opportunities, including two 5-on-3's, to bury the Ducks, and we failed. On the other hand, the Ducks capitalized on the little powerplay time they received by scoring on 2 out of 4 powerplays.

Looking at both powerplay units, you would see a huge difference in the way they set up and move the puck. Doesn't it seem like once the Ducks are setup, anyone can take a shot from anywhere, and unless it's blocked, it would probably go to the net? They seem to be moving the puck around a lot by making smart passes, getting a good screen in front of Luongo, getting the shot through, whether it be from the point or the faceoff circles, and when Luongo lets out a rebound, there's immediately a lot of guys crashing the front of the net read to knock it in at all costs.

Ours is the complete opposite. Either we don't make smart passes, or we pass too much. The pointmen refuses to take a shot, the player at the faceoff circles also doesn't shoot until the last minute. Even when we do get a shot, we wait for so long that a player can just block it, and it doesn't even go through the net. Where's the one-timers? We also need to win more of those puck battles, better dump-ins and carry-ins.

The list can go on.

It's just really frustrating. We got a lot of powerplays tonight. If we were able to score on the 5-on3s at least, we might have won the game.

Well, we did score one powerplay goal. That was a good PP shift by the Canucks as they won the battles, Markus Naslund read the play well and saw Mattias Ohlund open on the other side and passed him the puck. Ohllie's shot was tipped by Giguere's glove towards Nazzy who just shoved it towards the net to tie the game.

That was it. We had, maybe, a couple more good scoring opportunities in the PP, just no finish. I hope AV's focus on special teams on practice tomorrow would vastly improve it on the game the next day.

Other things.......... hmm... Daniel Sedin scored the other Canucks' goal, Sami Salo was back in the lineup tonight, Willie Mitchell is alive and kicking, and Roberto Luongo thinks he deserves to be blamed for the loss tonight.

As I said, I couldn't really watch the game as me and my friend were focused on other things sometimes, like complaining on how long does it take to make and deliver pizza...

One other thing, I loved when the crowd were chanting "NAZZY NAZZY NAZZY NAZZY NAZZY!" when he scored. It was very heartwarming. Music to my ears. As you can see, my new layout features the man himself, Markus Naslund. *hearts* this guy.

To green! :D It's to celebrate the fact that the Canucks are planning to wear vintage blue and green tonight. 

Title says it all. I'll give it a day before I change the colors of my blog. I love pink, but not that much pink. Blech.

As for the new banner. :D I had to use that photo taken by 67SS from the Dallas Stars board of Taylor Pyatt. All of his photos from Game 6 are just really fantastic. I look at the photos I took during warmup, and I should curl up in shame.

Anyway, I've been looking for a photo of Pyatt in all his playoff face glory. Who knows, by Game 7, he'd have covered all his battle scars with makeup or something. :D I wanted to make a sig or avatar, but I decided to change my banner here instead.

Speaking of the banner, if you noticed I [temporarily] changed the name to "Canucks Fangirl". Thanks to JJ, people know this by that name now. Even Canucks.com has it linked as that. I'll try to change it to something else later on, if I can think of something clever-er. I was trying to think long and hard about a dumb name, but those things has to come naturally. I'll wait for that "eureka" moment.

Hopefully Pyatt's playoff face brings good luck to the team tomorrow.