HFNHL GM Roll Call

[GM Bruins]

Hmmm. For some reason I can't stop humming one of the song's for sesame street when I read that. You know the one ... one of these things is different from the others, one of things just doesn't belong :p

How can you be such a homer Leaf's fan and have Wayne Greztgy on that list, or was he your favorite before the game 7 game winning goal in the LAK vs TOR semi finals

True that the "Great One" caused the Leaf Faithfull and I serious grief in BOTH games 6 and 7 - how can anyone ever forget game 6 overtime...we're still waiting for that penalty . And then the hat-trick in game 7...with Dave Ellet assisting Gretzky on the game winner. Oh there was pain. Much pain.

However, to state that he wasn't one of my favourites would be an all-out lie, even if I had to 'hate' him from time to time. The greatest player ever IMO. Any kid who had to suffer through the Ballard years dreamed of having Gretzky miraculously traded to the Leafs. He should have worn the blue and white in his last years, but even with his dad being a permanent fixture in the Gardens - it just wasn't meant to be.

 

[Dr.Sens(e)]

Name: Keith Fernandes

Favourite Movie(s): "Bridge over the river kwai"

Many things people have mentioned have made me wish I'd included more, but none more than this. Hell, I could hold off bragging about my substantial athletic prowess, but I simply could not stand by and leave this great movie off my list.

"With or without the parachute."

Absolutely classic stuff.

 

[Brock]

Skills: I played AAA select baseball until the age of 17 (Bloor Jays!).

You guys officially had the ugliest jersey's I've ever seen (although after not playing rep the past few years, just high school and house league for fun I haven't seen them in a few years so they may have changed.) That Ol' school baby blue Toronto Blue Jays look was so the 80's The Ugliest uniform battle was between you guys, Aurora (that ugly black and grey dirty crap) and Streetsville (with the attempt at pinstripes, except that the stripes were going horizontally)

 

[Chuzwazza]

I’ve been told I have a voice for radio… I’ve also been told I have a face for radio, so I guess those cancel each other out.

Funny, I've been told the same thing

 

[Andrew Chang-Sang]

Who?

Name: Andrew Chang-Sang (GM Washington Capitals)

Age: 31

Hometown: Mississauga, Ontario (but my heart still lies in Scarborough)

Occupation: I play with numbers....and look at porn

Favorite Hockey Team: Buffalo Sabres...I grew up on Gilbert Perrault/Richard Martin/Don Edwards etc....

Favorite Soccer Team: FC Koln (German league team that drafted me at 17 back before I was married, had kids, enjoyed life, didn't have a death wish...oh but I digress)

Favorite Car: Mercedes McLaren (hate than Montoya's coming over....gonna force me to cheer for him)

Favorite Movie: The Ninth Gate, A Murder of Crows, Aliens, Dude, Where's my Car? (I know...I know), Undercover Brother, all Abbott and Costello movies, any of the Chica Boom porn series (solid)

Favorite Book: The Firm, Meg, LOTR series, The Pelican Brief

Favorite TV Show: The Simpsons, Family Guy, WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, CSI

Favorite Music: love house music but I'm a metal head at heart (Metallica, Korn, AC/DC)

Skills: 8 years of martial arts training (UFC stuff before it got mainstream)....I can kick a ball and have the most in-depth knowledge of pro wrestling (past and present) of anyone in the entire world....I know....I know....let the beatings begin

 

[Wildman]

Name: Hasnain Jessa

Age: 39 and counting

Hometown: Richmond Hill, Ontario, born in DAR-ES-SALAAM (figure this one out),

Occupation: General Manager of NYI and working part time as a Financial Analyst for a Bank

Favorite Hockey Team: Toronto Maple Leafs although I pay close attention to Mike Milbury

Favorite Soccer Team: None, lost interest after migrating to Canada some 21 years ago.

Favorite Car: ACURA MDX, trying to buy one but can't save up enough.

Favorite Movie: Sleepless in Seattle, You Got Mail - its Valentine this Saturday gotta pick chick movies to prepare myself.

Favorite Book: Family Matters

Favorite TV Show: Everybody loves Raymond, Seinfeld

Favorite Music: lAnything Classical

Skills: Love to play Squash, been playing since 8 years old

 

[Ajacied]

Name: Jordi Kleijs

Age: 19 (turning 20 in August)

Hometown: Den Hoorn, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands

Occupation: Student and I work partime as a financial administrator.

Favourite Hockey Team(s): Dallas Stars

Favorite Soccer Team(s): AFC Ajax Amsterdam and I guess Ado Den Haag too..

Favorite Soccer player(s): Jaap Stam, Rafael van der Vaart, Patrick Kluivert and Veron.

Favorite Basketball Team(s): San Antonio Spurs.. (Best franchise in sports baby!)

Favorite Basketball player(s): Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Malik Rose, Jason Kidd, Rik Smits, Dan Gadzuric.

Favourite Hockey Player(s): Pff, nearly all Stars: Mike Modano, Steve Ott, Brenden Morrow, Marty Turco, Sergei Zubov, Rob DiMaio, Philippe Boucher, Richard Matvichuk, Pierre Turgeon.. Non-stars: Adam Deadmarsh, Peter Bondra, Shane Doan and Ryan Smyth.

Favourite Movie(s): LOTR I, II and III. Don't be a menace, (next) Friday, Braveheart, Matrix series, Lethal Weapon.

Favourite Book(s): Books? I never ever read books..

Favourite Tv Show(s): Sam-Sam, Flodder, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friends, Martin, Punked..

Favourite Music Bands/Artists: Huge Eminem fan, got all his cd's and went to his concert last summer. 50 Cent, Christopher Wallace, Tupac Shakur.. mostly hip-hop. But more into trance and what we call "ski-hut" music when going out..

Favourite Food: Pizza, Shourma, Kebab, Frikandellen, Patat, Kaassoufle's, Mexicano's, McDonalds.. Mostly junk food..

Skills: Playing basketball on the streets for like 7 years, which I am still enjoy doing. I play like a true European, pretty tall but can shoot the lights out from everywhere. Played soccer (central defender, ala Jaap Stam) at a very high level for 11 years, played against some of the countries biggest clubs and even got scouted once, but unfortunately didn't work out. Wanted to play hockey when I was 6, but my mom never let me (the closest rink was 50 miles away) and when I could, I was too old to learn. Can play darts as well as pool..

 

[SensGod]

Name: Laurens Thie

Age: 31

Hometown: Ottawa

Occupation: Assistant CTO for a high tech company

Favourite Hockey Team(s): Ottawa Senators

Favorite Soccer Team(s): AFC Ajax Amsterdam

Favorite Soccer player(s): Rafael van der Vaart, Wesley Sneijder and Edgar Davids.


Favourite Hockey Player(s): If they wear a Sens jersey Except for Lalime right now!

Favourite Movie(s): Animal House, God Father series, LOTR series, STAR WARS!

Favourite Book(s): Count of Monte Cristo, Harry Potter Books are good I guess.

Favourite Tv Show(s): Hockey Night in Canada, Monster Garage

Favourite Music Bands/Artists: Too many to list...but Nirvana, The White Stripes, Guns 'n Roses, Motley Crue are near the top.

Favourite Food: Meat...veggies feed my food.

Skills: Dunno really...my girlfriend is a very happy woman though!

 

[Tampa GM]

Just a little questionaire that each of us can fill out...

Name: Martin Sedin, not the third twin..

Age: 28

Hometown: Ornskoldsvik, Sweden

Occupation: Sales Agent for a major Scandinavian Airline, its your job to guess which one.

Favourite Hockey Team(s): Colorado Avalanche, Vancouver Canucks and MODO.

Favourite Hockey Player: Peter Forsberg, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Marcus Näslund, Niklas Sundström. You get the picture or should I go on?

Favourite Movie(s): Forrest Gump, Face/Off, The Rock,

Favourite Book(s): Everything with John Grisham

Favourite Tv Show(s): Sopranos, sopranos and some more sopranos.

Favourite Music Bands/Artists: REM, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Roxette, Gyllene Tider.

Favourite Food: Show me the pasta

Skills: Pretty good radio commentator. Has talked in webradio all MODO homegames for the last three years. Also knows everything about the airline industry.

 

[Donga]

Favourite Tv Show(s): Sam-Sam, Flodder, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friends, Martin, Punked..

After watching the Flodders movies, I wish I could see the tv series of it here in Australia. It will be watching "Number 96", a Aust tv show in the 70's, in someways.

 

[Ajacied]

After watching the Flodders movies, I wish I could see the tv series of it here in Australia. It will be watching "Number 96", a Aust tv show in the 70's, in someways.

Wow.. I never realised "the Flodders" were shown outside Europe.. But yeah, they have their own series every friday evening. Too bad they stopped making new ones since one of the main players (Johnny) died 2 or 3 years ago.

 

[Ohio Jones]

Forgot to add The Sting... Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Best Picture winner 1973.

Sorry to continue this self-indulgent babbling, but I was asked what movies the directors I'd listed had made - here are the highlights:

Bridge on the River Kwai (I agree gentlemen - magnificent!) falls under the filography of Sir David Lean, along with Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India...

Sir Richard Attenborough was behind Gandhi, A Bridge Too Far, and Cry Freedom...

Howard Hawks' brilliantly witty explorations of gender differences include Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Big Sleep, and classics like His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby (Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn - funny and charming)...

Hitchcock should be familiar to everyone, of course - To Catch a Thief being one of my favourites...

Akira Kurosawa will be familiar to any film student, with films like Rashomon (a definitive study of point of view) and Seven Samurai influencing entire generations of filmmakers (Seven Samurai was remade as Sam Pekinpah's The Magnificent Seven)...

Minghella, Carpenter and Shyamalan are current directors, so should be more familiar - Anthony Minghella directed The English Patient and Cold Mountain, John Carpenter... I'm more a fan of his older work, as he's done a lot of crap lately, but Halloween (the first one), The Thing (the Kurt Russel remake), Big Trouble in Little China (which someone else also mentioned - way ahead of its time in terms of blending fun with mind-blowing action) and Prince of Darkness... M. Night Shyamalan's films have been The Sixth Sense (an incredible first film!), Unbreakable, and Signs - his next picture The Village is due later this year, with Joaquin Phoenix (Gladiator), William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Adrien Brody (Academy Award winner for The Pianist).


That's been doug's movie corner for this week - tune in next week when we'll be discussing the worst films of all time (just kidding!).

 

[Chuzwazza]

Ok DOug...it's official...you have WAY to much free time on your hands!

 

[Ohio Jones]

Ok DOug...it's official...you have WAY to much free time on your hands!

On the contrary, I've got way too much work on my hands, and way too little desire to do any of it...