As big of a hockey nut I am, I don't really get into collecting memorabilia. I've a few t-shirts from the Pens Stanley Cup and the back to back Eastern Conference championships but really not much else. No City of Champions cereal or Bud Light cans for me. I mean, a Penguins Snuggie? Really?
What does get my collecting juices flowing are hockey jerseys. I love them and if I was a gazillionaire, I'd have a whole room dedicated to nothing but hockey jerseys. I have a very modest five jersey collection now. I have the obligatory Crosby jersey plus a Gonchar, a 1995-96 Jagr diagonal road jersey and my new Sunday gold Lemieux jersey. My coup de grace is a 1990-91 home jersey signed in the summer of '91 by Mark Recchi and Mike Lange. It's starting to show its age but I think its headed for a nice jersey frame.
Whenever funds allow, i.e. when I graduate and find a real job, I'd like to get the following jerseys:
Teemu Selanne-Winnepeg Jets. Oh man would this be cool. Selanne is one of my favorite non-Penguins and I remember his rookie year when he scored 76 goals.
Alex Kovalev-Penguins. It doesn't really matter which style. I've always liked Kovy, especially when he feels like playing.
1977-78 Jean Pronovost-Penguins. He is my favorite pre-Lemieux Penguin and this was the year he was captain.
Brendan Shanahan, either Hartford Whalers or St. Louis Blues. I've always loved Shany but aside from these two teams, he's always played on rivals.
Dino Ciccarelli-Minnesota North Stars. Say what you want about Dino, he played hard and has 1,200 points to show for it. Same thing with Shany, he either played for rivals or teams whose jersey I don't want to own.
Peter Stastny-Quebec Nordiques. I've always liked the Nordiques road jerseys and Stastny is easily my favorite Nordique. I have his Old Time Hockey NHL Alumni t-shirt. It's sweet and better than Barclay Plager's. Bum.
Luc Robitaille-Penguins. Lucky Luc is one of my favorite players and his 58 games in a penguin uniform were not enough. His OT winner against the Caps was epic.
Phil Esposito-Boston Bruins. Espo rules.
Eddie Johnston-Boston Bruins. Oh, come on. If you don't think would be cool, there is no hope for you at all.
I am sure I will think of others, like a Gilles Meloche Oakland Seals, and I may never own these jerseys but a man can dream can't he?
Monday, December 28, 2009
The Long Onerous Misery of Winter
I enter the long, arduous winter minus a motorcycle and plus a million ideas for the one I've retained.
Yes, the sad $300 motorcycle (aka '82 Seca 650) has been sold. I got it to run, briefly, and was on my way to restoring the bike but I found myself burdened with schoolwork and too many other things so I sold the most expendable project I had: the Seca. All it was doing was sitting anyway. I liked that bike and was sad to see it go but I had no time to work on it and all it was doing was taking up space and making me spend money on it.
With my new-found funds, I did the mature, responsible thing and bought stuff for my Bonneville. I first picked up a set of EPCO stainless steel mufflers (or silencers, since the Bonnie is British) and I also chucked my intake snorkel. I've wanted to do this for a while now but I was either putting money into the Seca or the Corvette and wasn't able to put money into the Bonnie as well.
I haven't been able to ride the Bonnie with my new pipes on it because of weather but it did sound good in my garage and I get to play with more carbs.
Santa brought me a Triumph accessory chrome chain guard (and a sweet Sunday gold Mario Lemieux jersey) to brighten up the rear. And, since my Bonnie is an early production '08, I've ordered the classic garden-gate badge kit to rid my gas tank of those horrid chrome plastic montrosities. If I had to pick one thing I dislike about the '08 and up Triumph Modern Classics, it would be those god-awful badges. Nothing says "we're cutting corners" like a fake, chromed plastic badge. I hate 'em!
I'm not going to go crazy and ruin my Bonneville, I just to make mine. I guess, you could say, I just want to go my own way...
Yes, the sad $300 motorcycle (aka '82 Seca 650) has been sold. I got it to run, briefly, and was on my way to restoring the bike but I found myself burdened with schoolwork and too many other things so I sold the most expendable project I had: the Seca. All it was doing was sitting anyway. I liked that bike and was sad to see it go but I had no time to work on it and all it was doing was taking up space and making me spend money on it.
With my new-found funds, I did the mature, responsible thing and bought stuff for my Bonneville. I first picked up a set of EPCO stainless steel mufflers (or silencers, since the Bonnie is British) and I also chucked my intake snorkel. I've wanted to do this for a while now but I was either putting money into the Seca or the Corvette and wasn't able to put money into the Bonnie as well.
I haven't been able to ride the Bonnie with my new pipes on it because of weather but it did sound good in my garage and I get to play with more carbs.
Santa brought me a Triumph accessory chrome chain guard (and a sweet Sunday gold Mario Lemieux jersey) to brighten up the rear. And, since my Bonnie is an early production '08, I've ordered the classic garden-gate badge kit to rid my gas tank of those horrid chrome plastic montrosities. If I had to pick one thing I dislike about the '08 and up Triumph Modern Classics, it would be those god-awful badges. Nothing says "we're cutting corners" like a fake, chromed plastic badge. I hate 'em!
I'm not going to go crazy and ruin my Bonneville, I just to make mine. I guess, you could say, I just want to go my own way...
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