Thursday 10-1-09

I would like to take a minute to write about the upcoming season for our nations team, The Washington Capitals. What can I say? We are going to be amazing. One of, if not the most feared teams in the league. Our offensive firepower is unparalleled. We have the most explosive, pure goal scoring, hardest working, most entertaining, biggest hitting and mindest boggling force in Alexander Ovechkin aka The Great 8, The 8 Train, Alexander the Great and of course Ovy. This man is leaps and bounds ahead of every player in the NHL when it comes to the complete package, like you didn't know. To compliment him we have quite possibly the most offensively talented player in all the league in Alexander Semin. He is not as big, as fast, as strong or as defensive as Ovy, but his hands, oh my, they are as good as they get. With these poetic phalanges, Semin is able to do things with the puck that don't seem physically possible and when he shoots, here is some advice, GET OUT OF THE WAY! I feel bad for the back of the net...laser rocket cannon shot he has. To finish this line off (yes, they are on the same line, this is where the question of fairness comes into play), is again one of the best in the league at what he does, Niklas Backstrom. What does he do? Well, lets first focus on what he doesn't do. He doesn't lose the puck. He doesn't make a bad play. He doesn't make a bad pass. He doesn't fall down. He does rank among the top five every year he has played in assists. He does make passes that I cant even see on replay. He does know exactly where Ovy and Semin are at all times. He does know exactly where to put the puck. I do have a man crush on him.

Before I get too carried away and go over every player on our team, I will sum it up with a few more notes. We acquired Mike Knuble from Philadelphia and Brendan Morrison from Vancouver, both are solid players who know how to make plays and finish them, solid additions to our lineup. We have the best minor league team in all of the land in case we get hit with the injury bug again. We do have the most offensively talented defensemen in the NHL in Mike Green (I am not lying, we have some of the best proven players alive, no joke). Finally our goaltenders. This season was a fight for starting position between three excellent netminders. The verdict, two starters, Jose Theodore and Semyon Varlomov. I believe that these two goalers will split time until one outshines the other or one begins to play poorly, which may never happen. God forbid anything happens to either, we have Michal Neuvirth down in Hershey. He is currently good enough to be a starter in the NHL and nearly made the team if not for injury. He is only 21 (like Varlomov), expect to hear about this kid in the future. Three is better then two.

WOD:

10 squat cleans (from floor), 135lbs
50 GHD sit ups
8 squat cleans
40 GHD sit ups
6 squat cleans
30 GHD sit ups
4 squat cleans
20 GHD sit ups
2 squat cleans
10 GHD sit ups

12:30

This was my last WOD before the competition on Sunday, which is a good thing since I am already sore from "Angie" and plan on getting more sore as time passes. This went well, I was able to do all of the cleans unbroken (not super fast, but nor real rest, hands never came off the bar). The GHD went surpirsingly well even after 100 sit ups the day before, my split was as follows: 50 (25, 5, 10, 10), 40 (10, 10, 10, 10), 30 (15, 8, 7), 20 (20), 10 (10). Now I plan on resting Friday and Saturday and performing my best on Sunday.