Busy Day for Wild, Stalker Opportunity, T-Day Prep, RSVP!!!

Wild Press Releases

• Guillaume Latendress is scheduled for a 2fer surgery session on Wed: 1. Repair the torn labrum in his hip - think Backstrom, Harding, and Porcelain Groinboy from back in the day. Gui will also have a bilateral sports hernia repaired.  From what I'm reading and hearing it sounds like we'll be lucky to see him on the ice before the season ends.  This is beginning to sound an awful lot like a broken record with our players: concussions, blown out knee caps, broken feet and ankles, hips, etc.  I'm expecting to hear Clutterbuck's out with herniated discs any day now...   
• Patrick O'Sullivan was picked up off of waivers by the Wild.  Talk about full circle.  For those of you who don't remember, the Wild drafted Sully in 2003 and was doing very well in Houston.  As fate would have it, the Wild packaged Sully as a part of the trade that brought Pavel Demitra from the L.A. Kings to the Wild in order to make Porcelain Groinboy happy.  Sully played three seasons in L.A., scoring a career-high 22 goals and 53 points in 2007-08.  He was then then traded to Carolina, and traded again to Edmonton.  The Oilers waived him after being a minus -35 last year.  He was picked up by Phoenix for the purposes of buying him out and they placed him on waivers the next day. Patrick signed as a free agent with Carolina in September this year.  In 10 games he scored one goal and was placed on waivers November 22.  Annnnd here we are full circle.  You might read this and be asking - what's wrong with this guy and why are the Wild taking a chance on him?  At least, I was up to a point.  But he's here on a relatively cheap 2-way contract which means we're not out the 2.5 million we're paying Latendresse or the 4.25 million we're paying Bouchard right now.  Considering he holds a boatload of the Houston Aero's franchise records he'll be welcomed there with open arms should the Wild send him down.  When you consider that Lantendresse is likely out for the season now and with PMB needing to just say "retire" this is a good hole-filler for now for the money we still have to work with.  Maybe he just needs the right home for now in order to find his way back into the game.  For those of you who don't know or remember: Patrick O'Sullivan Story  
• My babeeee Casey Wellman has been sent back to Houston.  He needs to be there.  He's very close to being here, but not quite yet.  He's had a good taste of the NHL so he'll be hungry and willing to do whatever it takes to get back here as soon as possible - and for good.

***Anybody else catch on to this or is it just because I'm a little snarky on the Wild these days:

             Tradition / It's In Our Blood

It's in their genes to be lazy and unwilling to play 60 minutes of hockey!  

(The Wild marketing team nailed this one on the head)

***Reason to follow Russo on Twitter:

                                 "I worked hard during first 20 minutes of Wild practice. Now I'm going for a coffee the next 20" 

It's funny cuz it's true :<0

Stalker Alert!
Poor Vicki - she's pulled Stalker-Sitting duty once again.  Wednesday evening the Wild will be hosting one of their Chalk Talk sessions prior to the start of the game.  The one, the only, the man of my hockey dreams - Wes Walz - will be hosting this one.  Unfortunately, the only question I've got for Wes is the one he doesn't hold the answer to: Why isn't he behind the Wild bench instead of Dave Barr or better yet, Darby Fall-Down Hendrickson?  I want Todd Richards to personally show me how Darby Hendrickson has made an impact/difference in how this team is playing since being handed the coaching job on a silver platter. Anyway, back to Wes and the Chalk Talk... I wonder how much a camcorder runs these days? 


T-Day: Minus One Day And Counting
For those of you who are now off the rest of the week, the rest of the folks who only have Thursday off salute you:

I'm happy to say I'll be cooking on T-Day and for some of the best friends I could ever ask for.  It will be a dine and dash event - they'll be dining and then dashing back home to watch football. I don't watch football and wouldn't even know how to converse about it intelligently.  I'll be watching movies and eating pie after dinner...and napping, lots of napping.  I need to be rested for Friday's battle. 

I won't be shopping with hordes of lunatics who will be up at 1:00 a.m. in order to be in line by 2:00 a.m. for a store opening at 4:00 a.m. only to find out there are just 2 giant t.v.'s in the whole store for that super-duper-low-low advertised price.  No, instead I'll be battling for a parking space in the RiverCenter ramp.  I'll be going up against all those St. Paul working folks who don't have Friday off, thousands of Hmong who will be kicking off their New Year celebration next door to the Xcel, hundreds of Xmas shoppers - all sleep-deprived and crazed from having gotten up six hours before the sun rose, and last but not least - the rest of us crazy Wild fans who are trying to get to the arena before the puck drops at 1:00 p.m.  Of all the games in a given Wild season the day after Thanksgiving is the one I dread the most in terms of parking and getting into the arena on time. 

RSVP - What Does That Mean?

The term RSVP comes from the French expression "répondez s'il vous plaît", meaning "please respond". If RSVP is written on an invitation it means the invited guest must tell the host whether or not they plan to attend the party. 

An incomplete list of respondents can cause numerous problems for a host including difficulty in planning fairy drop and margarita quantities, among other things.

So the next time you see RSVP on an evite to a Peace On Earth FFS Celebration, please respond promptly.  Your hostess with the mostess thanks you