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Welcome Back, NHL...

The NHL is finally getting back to being a hockey league instead of a locked out league. In a few short days, games will count, and it will be a sprint of a season where every game could have playoff atmosphere with so few games being played. It should be an exciting season for NHL fans.

Even more so, fans like me of the Minnesota Wild are really wound up about the season after it's off-season acquisitions. In any normal year, adding two players like Torrey Mitchell and Zenon Konopka would be a very nice off-season. Of course, the Wild did not stop there and added a couple of guys named Zach Parise and Ryan Suter. Those last two additions have made the Wild a favorite to play for the Stanley Cup this year. It's been a long time since the State of Hockey has seen playoff hockey, much less a chance to chase for the cup. So, let's play hockey, shell we?

OK, now onto a few changes the league could make to improve things. There is already talk that the league will be changing up the divisions and going with a 4-conference lineup as opposed to the current 6 divisions. I truly love this decision and am very much looking forward to it. If it goes through, each team would play 2 games against the teams not in their conference. That change alone is excellent as right now teams can go years without playing each other, but with this change every team will visit ever arena every season. And as a Wild fan, it also means we don't have to stay up for 9 PM start times 20 times a year as our conference will feature 7 other teams that are in our time-zone as opposed to playing many games in places like Vancouver, Calgary, and San Jose. Now, with this realignment plan, here are the other changes I would make:

Move the Phoenix Coyotes to Seattle.

Move the Florida Panthers to Portland.

And, (drum roll please) move the New York Islanders to Toronto.

I believe these relocated teams will help strengthen the league. No one is going to watch hockey in Phoenix. And yes, Seattle isn't in a hockey hotbed, but it is in a northern climate, and they would make an immediate rival in the Vancouver Canucks. The same reasoning can work for moving Florida to Portland. Portland may be a smaller city, but I don't see any possible way Miami has more hockey fans than Portland would. And it would get another team west in a league where most of the teams are east of Ohio. In the final move, yes, I am stating to move a team out of New York. The Islanders don't draw fans. And while New York is substantially bigger than Toronto, Toronto has enough hockey fans to support two teams. Can you say the same thing as New York? I don't think so.

Those moves could leave the four conferences looking like this:
Conference A: Anaheim, Calgary, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Portland, San Jose, Seattle, Vancouver.

Conference B: Chicago, Colorado, Dallas, Minnesota, Nashville, St. Louis, and Winnipeg.

Conference C: Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Toronto.

Conference D: Carolina, New Jersey, NY Rangers, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, and Washington.

That's my plan. And I'm sticking to it. Welcome back NHL. I can't wait for Saturday.

The Vikings Biggest Mistake

The Minnesota Vikings season came to a crashing end on Saturday night after falling to the rival Green Bay Packers 24-10. Despite the season ending on a down note, it was a remarkable season for many reasons, and had one big error that might have made a difference last night.

That one big error? I think they should have kept Sage Rosenfels as their backup QB and switched Joe Webb to WR. This move would have helped in three ways, and I can't really think of a bad thing it would have brought. Joe Webb is NOT an NFL QB. Granted, he didn't play any meaningful snaps during the season, so the backup QB spot was mostly an afterthought through the season. However, having Rosenfels as the backup QB could have done a few things for the Vikings this year. It could have given Christian Ponder a voice of reason on the sidelines. Yes, the Vikings have a QB coach, but as in any job, while any coach or manager an help someone grow, having a peer that can share their experience is such a positive growth tool, and was something Ponder didn't have in Webb and would have had in Rosenfels. It also could have meant Leslie Fraiser wouldn't have been afraid to pull Ponder during one or two of his horrific games he struggled through. I'm not saying he would have replaced Ponder as the starting QB, but to give Ponder a chance to watch, learn, and find his focus again could have been good for him. And of course, it could have meant the Vikings could have still had an NFL QB ready to start in the playoff game against the Packers. Sure, there is a very good chance it would not have changed the result, but I am very confident that the Vikings chances of winning the game would have been much higher if Rosenfels would have been the backup QB instead of Webb.

The other side of that coin is keeping Rosenfels could have also move Webb to Wide Receiver. Joe Webb is a fantastic athlete. He is not an NFL QB. The Vikings biggest weakness this year was at WR, and this one little move of keeping Rosenfels and moving Webb to WR would have killed two birds with one stone. Yes, Webb would be inexperienced at WR. But putting his athletic abilities on the field, giving him a chance to be the deep threat, to run bubble-screens, to run a few wild-cat plays, to be a red-zone target that can jump through the roof to catch a high pass at the back of the end-zone. I don't see how any of those things wouldn't have helped the Vikings maybe even win one or two more games during the season, and possible still be playing in this years playoffs.

OK, having said that, this year was a FANTASTIC year. There is absolutely no way anyone could have expected a playoff team this year. I think 98% of Vikings fans would have been happy with the improvement if they won 7 games. But they over shot those expectations to win 10 games and make the playoffs. So here are some key players that helped make this a season of beating expectations:

Rick Spielman had a fantastic first season in his General Manager position. The draft was insanely successful and saw many players have huge impacts on the season. Matt Kalil, Harrison Smith, and Blair Walsh are all going to be studs for many years to come. Josh Robinson, Rhett Elison, and Jarius Wright are all going to be the type of roll players playoff teams need to be successful. Yes, Spielman didn't get the results he wanted by signing John Carlson or Jerome Simpson. I don't think those were bad decisions, they were good decisions that just didn't work out. Spielman filled a lot of holes in the roster last off season. If he can find a WR or two, a linebacker, and a backup QB to push Ponder, and have another very successful draft, this Vikings team is going to be tough to beat going forward.

Leslie Fraiser has turned a franchise that is used to being full of "character" moments (love boat, wizzinator) into a franchise that talks about football. His leadership and demeanor have greatly revitalized the franchise. Many in the national media compare him to Tony Dungy. I think a more appropriate comparison would be Bud Grant. And I look forward to Frasier leading this team into the future.

Bill Musgrave and Alan Williams. Bill Musgrave has one major issue he needs to fix. He out-thinks himself too often. I think when Ponder was struggling, he didn't call games in a way to help out. Those last four games of the season though, he was really dialed in and called outstanding games. But then again in that game yesterday, I think since he was stuck with Joe Webb at QB, he should have just kept running QB options instead of having Webb throw the ball as much as he did. The first drive was perfect. The rest of the game he called a different game. But the most overlooked part of Musgrave is that Adrian Peterson owes much of his success this year to the game plans and the running schemes Musgrave put together. Meanwhile, Alan Williams oversaw a defense that kept getting better as the season went on. As he learned on the job, as he learned what his players could do, as his players developed, our defense really started stepping up and kept us in games so the Vikings could win despite not being able to throw the ball. I'm excited about what he can do going forward.

And of course, there is Adrian Peterson. Good gawd, what a season that guy had. To do what he did when everyone knew he was getting the rock is just amazing. Odds are he will never have a season like this again, but I'm going to be the first person on his Drive for 25(00) bus next season.

Every team in the league, even the eventual Super Bowl Champion, will look back and see mistakes they will try to fix. It's my opinion the Vikings biggest one was the moves made with Rosenfels and Webb. Even with that move, the improvement from 3 wins to 10 wins is just incredible. And I have no problems giving this season a standing ovation.

Adrian Peterson vs. Peyton Manning

There is a lot of talk around the NFL regarding the MVP and Comeback Player of the Year awards, and almost all of that talk centers around the same two players. Peyton Manning and Adrian Peterson.

First off, let me say that what these two are doing is truly fantastic and worthy of all the talk they are getting. And secondly, I will state that since I am a Minnesotan, a Vikings fan, and an Adrian Peterson fan, this might be a little biased, but I have always been a fan of Manning too, so I will hopefully prove that I am not just your typical rube.

Let's first talk about the Comeback Player of the Year award. So far, through the first 14 games each has played this year, both players are putting up some of the best numbers in their career. Peyton has come back from an injury that sapped the strength out of his throwing arm, yet he is posting numbers that rival his two best seasons with the Indianapolis Colts. 2004 was obviously his best year, with 2005 being easily his 2nd best year, and this year he is performing just as well as he did in back '05. Granted, Peyton's main strength is his mind, and as long as he keeps putting in the film study and game study that he is a legend for, he will always be a phenomenal quarterback in this league. But having lost his arm strength, and to come back after a full season away and perform like his 2nd best season ever is truly remarkable. Now, for Adrian, he only missed 1 full game last year. And like Peyton losing his arm strength, he had his knee blown up, and you'd have to say a running back tearing up his knee is similar to a QB losing his arm strength in how it affects both of them. And where Peyton is putting up numbers that rival his 2nd best season ever, Adrian is throwing down perhaps the best season ever by a running-back. He is currently ahead of the pace Eric Dickerson set in his record breaking season way back in 1984. Now, the medical field in all of it's advancing technologies has made it possible where tearing up a knee usually only takes about 9-months to come back from. However, most athletes say it still takes an additional year to start feeling like their original selves again. Adrian has said screw that additional year and is making his previous seasons (which have been excellent) look pedestrian. Both players have very similar stories here, which is why this is such a highly debated topic in the NFL. With everything said above, I'm going to have to say I'd give the Comeback Player award to Peyton this year, simply for the reason that he had to sit out a full season.

Now lets talk about the MVP award. Peyton went to the Denver Broncos during the off-season. A team that won it's division last season with Tim Tebow at quarterback. Let's let that sink in for a bit. The Broncos were good enough last year to win their division with Tim Tebow at quarterback, a guy that can't even unseat Mark Sanchez. Adrian Peterson is the ONLY option on the Vikings. Every defensive coordinator, every opposing defensive player, every fan at the stadium, every fan with their ass glued to their couch knows Peterson is going to be handed the ball. And he is still putting up the best season in NFL history. You take Manning off the Broncos, they are still the AFC West Division Champs. You take Adrian Peterson off the Vikings, and they are looking for their 3rd win instead of exceeding all expectation laid upon the team heading into the season. As tough as a decision the Comeback Player award is, the MVP award HAS top go to Adrian Peterson this year.

The Evolution of the Forward Pass

The Minnesota Vikings are doing something that has not been done in the NFL for a long, ne, for a very VERY long time. They have forgotten how to effectively use the forward pass. The Vikings possess arguably the best running back the league has seen over the past decade. Defenses will put 8 or 9 guys up near the line ("in the box" if I was to use NFL-speak) to try and stop Peterson to no avail. The advantages that gives the Vikings to complete a forward pass is one that no other team in the league gets. With that many guys focused on stopping the run, that leaves two, maybe three guys to cover our wide receivers. This is something that should be absolutely easy to take advantage of. And for some reason, the Vikings are unable to do so. Adrian Peterson rushed for over 200 yards in the first three quarters of the game against the Green Bay Packers, and in those first three quarters, they had managed to put up an anti-prolific 53 yards passing.

Insert migraine headache here.

There are a vast majority of people putting the blame of this on Christian Ponders shoulderpad covered shoulders. And that just isn't fair. I am not saying Christian is doing a good job, by any means. But for this to be going as bad as it is, it takes an entire team to be this bad at throwing a ball down the field. It has become painfully obvious that the Vikings possess both the best WR in the game in Percy Harvin (who has missed the last few games), and the absolute worst collection of WR's the league has seen since, well, maybe ever. The Vikings Wide Receivers constantly get the benefit of one-on-one coverage, and they are unable to ever get open. And the few times they do get open, they manage to drop a pass Ponder puts right in their hands or on their numbers (maybe Ponders tendency to be inaccurate in his other passes catches them off guard when he does hit them in their hands?). Then there is also Bill Musgrave, the offensive coordinator for the Vikings. This guy has got to be able to find a way to be able to get ONE receiver open on a play once or twice a game, no? Send the receivers in motion, run them off picks, something has got to pop into his head to take advantage of our receivers getting to find an open spot when only two defenders are worried about them. And then there is Leslie Frasier. Over-all, I think he has done a very good job at moving the team forward this year. The Vikings are a MUCH better team this year. Yes, there have been a few disappointing losses, games that maybe we could have won if we had done something on one or two plays in the game. But the fact we are competitive a year after winning just 3 games is a fantastic improvement. But Fraiser has to be more willing to sit Ponder down when his passes are obviously not working. I am also not here to say that Joe Webb is the answer. He is even less accurate in his passing than Ponder is. So, even though I wish we'd see Webb on the field once in a while to spice things up with that insane athletic ability Webb has, he is not the answer at QB. But throw him in there once in a while when Ponder is struggling.

I still think Ponder can be a decent QB in this league. Yes, there are QB's that are coming in and doing wonderful things in their first year or two in the league now, but that is not something every QB will do. A couple guys named Eli Manning and Alex Smith struggled mightily their first two-three years and they have proven to be pretty good quarter-backs now (ok, yes, Smith has been replaced as a starter. That wasn't due to him not performing, but to his backups stellar play).

So, yes, the Vikings currently possess the worst passing attack the NFL has seen in a very long time. And the fact they are as inept as they are with entire defensive teams focusing on stopping Adrian Peterson exasperates the problem. I think too many people are putting the problem solely on Ponder. I'm blaming this display of fucktitude on Ponder, the offensive line, the wide receivers, Bill Musgrave, and on Leslie Frasier. The entire group should be embarrased (and thankfully it sounds like they are).

Span-less in Minnesota

Terry Ryan of the Minnesota Twins has just pulled the trigger on his first trade since officially reclaiming the title of Twins GM again. He has sent the Twins starting center fielder, Denard Span, to the Washington Nationals for a very young, low minor league pitcher named Alex Meyer. From what I have been reading around the web, it seems like most writers feel the Twins made the right move, and most rubes are blasting the team. I very much agree with the writers on this trade. Ok, yes, this trade does absolutely nothing to fix the major issue of the 2013 pitching staff for the Twins. Unless, of course, you consider that the salary Span was getting paid can now go towards a free agent pitcher, or even get piled onto the amount the Twins have available to pile onto a free agent pitcher in an attempt to get a higher grade pitcher. I have no idea if that is going to happen, but I do know the Twins do not need to spend that money on another outfielder as they already have a replacement in Ben Revere (who is actually a better center fielder, but not quite as good with the bat yet). The exciting part about this trade, in my opinion, is how this stacks the Twins rotation in 2-3 years. Obviously anything can happen between now and then, but Meyer is a potential top of the rotation pitcher, where he should be joined by current Twin Kyle Gibson. It could potentially be the first time in decades when the Twins could illegitimately have 2 top of the rotation pitchers. Add in Scott Diamond as a very solid #3 and that could hopefully be 3 guys that can take the Twins a long ways for many years to come.

I Almost Died.

So, I almost died Monday night. Not in the “I laughed so hard I almost died” way, or the “OMG, my fart smelled so bad I almost died” way. In the “my heart almost stopped beating and I turned purple” way. There was an issue with carbon monoxide at my job, and I took the brunt of it head on. At one point, during the night, I started feeling light headed, and a little fatigued. My thoughts then were I hadn’t had anything to eat in almost 8 hours and had been working hard for most of those hours. I was finished with my work, and was starting to bring all my equipment back to the van that was in the loading dock. Each trip I took out there, I’d come back in feeling more and more light headed and fatigued. I drank a glass of water a couple of times, and it made me feel better, and that just reinforced my thought that I was feeling that way just out of sheer hunger. The last task I had to do was roll up the 300+ feet of hose onto the storage wheel in the back of the van. As I was doing so, everything started getting worse and worse. My heart was beating ungodly fast. My arms felt fatigued like I had just done a crap load of curls in the gym. My vision was getting blurry. I stopped rolling the hose for a while trying to catch my breath and slow down my heart. Now, I was doing this job alone, but there were two people “watching” me as this was in a high-security building and they had to be in the same room as me the whole night. At this time I was at the back of my work van, they were at the opposite end of the loading dock. I started trying to roll up more hose, and the dizziness, the lightheaded feeling, my heart racing so damn fast, all my limbs going numb, my vision going blurry. I realized that I was going to black out, and turned to start walking to the door, thinking some fresh air would help (again, I was still thinking this was all hunger related, little did I know how much I really really needed that fresh air). But as I turned, I realized there was no way I could walk that far. I was that weak, that dizzy, that close to blacking out. I turned the other way, thinking I could walk to the other side of the van and get the attention of the other two guys. Everything was shutting down so fast on me at this point. I was slipping under so fast. There was nothing I could do except completely understand how fast I was slipping. Everything was going dark. It was literally the scariest feeling I have ever had in my life. I managed to yell out one of the names of the other two guys. They both came over. I could only make out the shadow figure of one of them coming around the van, even though it was a situation I should have seen him clearly. I don’t remember anything after that. By the time the 2nd guy came around, he said I was purple, and my eyes were rolling back in my head. I was still standing somehow. The first guy sat me down on the back of the van. The 2nd guy got me back on my feet and started slapping my chest to get me going. They got me outside and that is when I “came too” again. We were right across the street from the hospital, so after I got some of my strength back we walked over there, and that is when the other two realized they were lightheaded and dizzy too. I know, probably should have called 911, but we were all a wee bit messed up at this point. The hospital got me back to a bed right away. Got me on some oxygen. Drew some blood to test it for how much carbon monoxide I had taken in and other tests. Gave me an EKG. When they drew the blood, it was probably 90-minutes after I blacked out and turned purple. When they gave me the results, they told me a normal person has a CO rating of 2-4 in their blood. A smoker has around 11-14. I was at 23. TWENTY THREE!!! They upped the oxygen, and kept me around for a few more hours before doing another blood test. They were debating putting me in a hyperbolic chamber, and some other measures to get me back to normal. At 3 AM my level had dropped down to 6. I was cleared to go home. And home is where I am sitting right now, lucky to be here. Lucky to feel zero effects of the day. If I hadn’t managed to call out to the guys that were watching me, there is no way I’d be sitting here typing this. I’d be dead. If my company had their crap together, they would have called in ahead of time that I would be there, and those two guys wouldn’t have been there TO come save me as I would have been cleared to be there alone. It all happened so fast. I still have no recollection of the one guy slapping my chest, or how they got me outside. I’m just so very thankful that I am still here with all of you, because it very easily could have turned out much much different. I am alive.

No Offence, But Your Offence Is Terrible

On Sunday, the Minnesota Vikings took on the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle. It was a game I was hoping the Vikings would win, but was not expecting it as it is tough to win in Seattle (Just ask New England and Green Bay). This second-half of the schedule for the Vikings is going to be a tough one, and if they can't find a way to move the ball through the air, it could be a VERY long 7-game stretch.

There are a lot of people piling onto the "Bench Christian Ponder" bandwagon after he failed to even reach 100 yards passing for the 2nd time in 3 games. But how much of that blame goes to Ponder? We have exactly one wide reciever that can get open, and his name is Percy Harvin. The rest have not been able to do anything other than get pass-interference calls (Thank you Jerome Simpson for all two of those). So who exactly is Ponder supposed to throw to? There is also the issue of the offensive line not being able to block what the opponents are throwing at them, giving Ponder no time to figure out where to throw the ball. And then finally, we have Bill Musgrave and Leslie Frasier. These two guys need to figure out how to get this passing attack going. It has appeared that there has been zero plan of a)How are we going to attack this defense, and b) what is our identity over these last four games. The opening four games of the season, we had good plans, and they worked. Lately? It's like they completely forgot how to game plan. And then that brings us to Ponder. Yes, he has no WR's to throw to, yes, he has no time to even think about throwing it to them, and yes, the coaching staff has failed miserably in how to fix these issues. But there HAS been times where Ponder DID have open receivers and DID have time to throw it. And he missed.

The Vikings right now have possibly the two best offensive players in the league right now in Adrian Peterson and Percy Harvin. Adrian is easily the best runningback in the league. And Percy is the best weapon in the league. Opponents have to defend Peterson, which should be leaving the passing game wide open. Why is that not happening? Even with the defense stacked against Peterson and leaving the WR's alone, we still see AP blowing up and putting up numbers that can only make you shake your head in amazement. And our offence can only put up 44 net yards through the air despite no one defending it. This shouldn't be too difficult to figure out. What is going to be difficult is figuring it out while playing a schedule that has us facing Detroit, Chicago twice, Green Bay twice, Houston, and the Rams.

I'll be very happy if we can sneak 3 more wins out of the season. Anything more than that will be a complete shock, and perhaps a sign Fraiser, Musgrave, and Ponder have figured out that the football does travel through the air.

NHL Cancels More Games

Today, the NHL reached out and canceled games that had been scheduled through Nov. 30th. This is just a complete joke that these two sides can not figure this out considering they both have agreed that the split should move to a 50/50 split. Right now the players get 57% of the pie. If both sides agree on that 50% split, what's the hold-up? Well, the owners want to want to cut the players salaries down to size so that the salaries will fit into that nice 50/50 split right now. Yeah, never mind that these same owners are the ones that signed the contracts to pay out that much money. Why honor their own signatures, right? The "promise" that the players will get any of the money cut this year paid back out the remaining years of their contracts (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). Well then what happens next year when paying the players this money back, the players pie gets up over 50% again? Do the owners throw another tantrum and stomp their feet and hold their breath?

On the other side you have the players, who in their last offers to the league said they wanted to get the players share down to that 50% split, but neither one of their official offers got down that far while giving them sizable raises each year. That sound you just heard was my head slamming against the desk a few times. How on earth can you say you agree with that 50/50 split and turn in two different offers stating that they both get down to 50%, when in fact neither of them do?

These sides are SO close to figuring this out, why can't they see how easy this is? Owners, honor the deals YOU signed. Players, how about accepting slightly smaller raises each year through the deal? If they simply cut 1.5$ off the current 57% salary cap each season, they will get to their beloved 50/50 split in four seasons. With the leagues revenue growing as fast as it had been up until this ridiculous lockout, they players salaries will still be going up even with the lower percentage of revenue going to them. If they sign a seven-year deal, the last three seasons will be played with both sides splitting the revenues 50/50.

Now, someone go knock some sense into these two spoiled babies, show them how simple this is to figure out, and for the love of all things frozen, can we have some NHL hockey?!?

How To Lose a Football Game

Let me start out by saying I am a fan of Jared Allen, the defensive end for the Minnesota Vikings. But the guy has to get his head screwed on straight if he is going to help his team win some games. In the teams first game of this 2012 season, he was called for being in the neutral zone on a play he got a sack on. He lost the sack, and also lost a spot to stand up as a leader. Instead of saying something like "I need to watch the ball closer and not give the refs the option to giving me a penalty that hurts the team", he goes on to complain that it shouldn't be a penalty. Now, given, it was a VERY close call. I wasn't surprised that it was called, and I wouldn't have been surprised if it wasn't called. But if the guy is going to be the leader of our defense like he should be, he needs to say the right thing regardless of what he actually feels about the refs call.

And then there was another penalty in the Vikings 2nd game, in which Jared hit the QB after he went out of bounds. Now, again, it was kind of a close play, but Andrew Luck was obviously running out of bounds. You NEVER go after a QB like that on the sideline when he is running out of bounds. It's going to be called. And the fact that he made contact, it will always be a penalty. I don't have an issue with Jared going all out trying to make a play, that is what makes him a great player. But, that leadership thing is again the issue. Did Jared fess up and say he let the team down, like a good leader should have said? No, he didn't. Here is his quote: "I still don't think it's a penalty," Allen said. "They can say what they want ... I didn't even hit him with my shoulder pads. I hit him with my arm. This is football, I thought." Yes, Jared, you hit a QB with your arm, while he was out of bounds. That is a penalty. And that was another opportunity for you to pull up your big boy pants and be the leader this defense needs.