amusedParker and Witt Fight Over the Glass
I don't expect to see Parker at the game tonight. :P
[Edit:
tersa told me that he's not suspended. I guess that's one advantage of nobody knowing we exist? :P][Edit 2: Sharks' Parker suspended for two games. Guess they noticed after all.]
According to
tersa, who was at the game, Parker, already in the box during the TV timeout serving a penalty, was going psycho at the refs, and Kyle McLaren was sent over to calm him down, but he got the game misconduct anyway, and as he was leaving... batshit.Xiaxue has a hilarious post about this one cinema in Singapore that shows soft porn movies (actual porn is banned in Singapore) and dirty old men go there to watch movies and jerk off. :P I haven't heard about this place before but the government only raised the ban on soft porn (Yes, soft porn, including anything where you can see boobies, was banned before) after I came to the US. That's the sad part for me, that they aren't even watching real porn.
We brave the terror that's Yangtze
Limited glossary:
lar - a meaningless sound appended to sentences. Functions kind of like punctuation?
tak glam - not glamorous
auntie/uncle - what you call someone at least a generation older than you if they're not related to you, if they're related, there's some kind of special name for them depending on what the relationship is :P
Also, the girls wearing jackets is stranger and more of a hardship than you'd think because Singapore is permanently 90 degrees and like 90% humidity. :P
*snicker*
More on this: they had the camera on Mac's face during the TV timeout, trying to talk Parker down off the ceiling. It was one of those cases where it was really easy to read his lips: "Scott." *pause* "Scott." "Hey." "Sit. Down." "Sit...Down..."
I don't know why that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but it does.
Thanks for the link to the video. Shaeffer (or is that Nabby? Is Nabby back?) pulled him down off the glass! Hee! I was hoping their was tape of him going nuts in the box too, but sadly we were at commercials. *sob*
It's Schaefer. Nabby was out again today, and the Merky article from this morning says he only practiced for the first time yesterday (Sunday) morning. Still unsure when he'll return.
As I commented to Mae: Schaef handled having Parker using him as a step-ladder pretty well, but dude, we got to see how fast the boy can move in all that gear! :)
I hope Parksie is back for Thursday. I'm going tonight but dont' expect to see him *SIGH* but I really want him to play on my birthday!
Yay, birthday! But the Merky article also seems to indicate he's not going to be suspended, as the team expected they would've heard from someone by the end of practice yesterday if he was going to be. Color me flabbergasted. I'd predicted 5 games; Shofixti was saying 3.
Did you see the video of all the Sharks guys with tattoos? He's featured prominently in it.
I watched part of the game on Centre Ice, and I saw a clip of the 'climbing over the glass' incident, but I don't know what caused it or who was involved.
C.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/hockey/nhl/san_jose_sharks/14085689.htm
I still think someone peed in his Wheaties that morning.
:)
(Other than that, the article Mae linked to was pretty good. Just--overall, the game felt like the refs didn't quite have control over it. There was a bitchy undercurrent the entire time, which was really odd because these two teams hadn't even *played* one another since November, they're not divisional rivals, Nashville is so out of reach, points-wise, that the Sharks aren't really competing with them for a playoff spot... And then the knee-on-knee hit on Milan. A big guy, but he's really just a baby (21 years old), who has had three knee surgeries in the past two years.
Doug Wilson said back in January that Parker's been up in the press box taking notes on all the guys he's seen that he thinks have been "taking liberties" and messing with the Sharks, with the full intention of laying down the law when he was back in the game. I'm personally suspecting that his over-reaction may have been part of that. A big wake-up call to the rest of the Western Conference that Scott Parker is back, and there'll be hell to pay if anyone messes with any of the Sharks. Maybe it'll cause some people to back off these last 17 games or so. The Sharks really could use any advantage they can get).