Welcome back to the show, everybody. The Reilly Sports Blog is a big supporter of the NHL and I will dish out some hockey talk throughout the lengthy season (Now until June.) The season officially starts tomorrow and we will do a quick standings prediction. For a more comprehensive look (a-la this blog's NFL preview,) go ahead and check out my buddy Danny Will's blog. He spits knowledge like baseball players spit sunflower seeds. Let's go to the standings predictions for the '09-'10 season. The eight playoff teams from each conference will be in bold with their seeds in parenthesis. ( ). Like that.
EAST
Atlantic Division
1. Pittsburgh Penguins (2)
2. Philadelphia Flyers (4)
3. New Jersey Devils (6)
4. New York Islanders (11)
5. New York Rangers (12)
Northeast Division
1. Boston Bruins (3)
2. Buffalo Sabres (7)
3. Ottawa Senators (8)
4. Montreal Canadiens (10)
5. Toronto Maple Leafs (13)
Southeast Division
1. Washington Capitals (1)
2. Carolina Hurricanes (5)
3. Florida Panthers (9)
4. Tampa Bay Lightning (14)
5. Atlanta Thrashers (15)
WEST
Central Division
1. Chicago Blackhawks (1)
2. Detroit Red Wings (5)
3. St. Louis Blues (7)
4. Columbus Blue Jackets (9)
5. Nashville Predators (12)
Northwest Division
1. Calgary Flames (3)
2. Vancouver Canucks (6)
3. Minnesota Wild (8)
4. Edmonton Oilers (10)
5. Colorado Avalanche (14)
Pacific Division
1. Anaheim Ducks (2)
2. San Jose Sharks (4)
3. Dallas Stars (11)
4. Los Angeles Kings (13)
5. Phoenix Coyotes (15)
We will do the playoff predictions in the coming week to complete this here preview. We are going to keep it simple for this week's What About Conor. I just watched the first two episodes of Modern Family and was very, very, very pleasantly surprised. So for this week's edition we are going to do the top five shows I am most dedicated to on television. These are going to be modern, FYI (no Fresh Prince, Boy Meets World, Wayans Brothers, etc.) Enjoy.
Conor's Top Five Current Television Shows
5. 24 (FOX)
A few points deducted here because of course it's not in season right now. Admittedly, I missed 2-3 full seasons of the show after avidly watching the first few. But I picked it up for this most recent season and really enjoyed it. Maybe the missed seasons were a good thing for me, as I wasn't able to foresee twists that the avid watcher might be accustomed to. Nonetheless, I'm very pumped for the upcoming season. These things become very exciting whilst unemployed.
4. The Office (NBC)
No surprise here. Everyone loves The Office, and I'm categorized under 'everyone.' I was a late arrival to the show, as I watched every episode from the beginning in the spring of 2008. While I cannot deny everyone's claim that the show has fallen back a bit, that's not saying too much. It's like going from Tom Brady to Chad Pennington. It's not a big downgrade.
3. Entourage (HBO)
Another mega-hit enjoyed by the majority. I almost kinda sorta abandoned hope in this show a few years back. At that time, I saw it nothing more than a Sunday night appetizer before HBO's Flight of the Conchords (which, if still in production, would probably have the top spot on this list.) Entourage came back with a fury last season; and the celebrity cameos and ridiculous women make it pretty darn entertaining still. You can see the gas gauge creeping toward 'E' as far as material though. And yes, that was a totally unplanned pun.
2. Monday Night Raw (USA)
The longest running episodic show on cable television. Announcer Michael Cole tells me every week. How could I keep a show off this list if its tenure is longer than the other four combined? (Speaking of which, I don't know why I don't really watch The Simpsons anymore. i will watch re-runs like nobody's business, but I just graze over the new ones. I can't explain it. I think what's going to happen in the end is that the show will conclude, and I will spend 3-4 months straight watching it online. And I will enjoy it and wonder why on earth I didn't watch it at the time.) But yeah, Raw is the best.
1. Friday Night Lights (NBC)
Best show on television. Hands down. Never has there been a show in which a guy can have so many women crushes and man-crushes. And as the blog suggests, I kind of like sports, so bonus points there. Coach Taylor should play every role on television. And Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly, supposedly to be Minka Jeter soon) is almost unfair to growing boys. I was crushed when I found out a few months back that the new season wouldn't start in the fall, but later on. But with the ridiculous, mysterious, criminal crappy ratings, I guess I should be glad it's on at all. Watch it. Watch it now. Watch it over and over all the time. I'll be here to say you're welcome.
Honorable Mention: The Simpsons, Flight of the Conchords, House, The Ultimate Fighter, Family Guy, Cops
Up-and-Comers: Modern Family, Flash Forward, Bored to Death, The Cleveland Show
Shows I Don't Watch But Will Eventually: How I Met Your Mother, Fringe, Two and a Half Men, Intervention, Mad Men
Shows I Don't Watch and Never, Ever, Ever Will: Lost
We'll be back for the football weekend and as mentioned, the conclusion to the hockey preview. Enjoy the rest of the week.
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Solid...but here's my thoughts. the addition of hedman, and the continued improvement of stamkos are gonna make them better than 14th in the east. i'd go as far as to venture 11th. you also have new jersey ranked as sixth. today, brendan shanahan mysteriously decides not to play for putty's favorite team. something is wrong in newark, and it's not mayor booker's ill-fated attempt to knock down the prince of late night, conan o'brien (we all know craig ferguson is king). ok, two teams down.
ReplyDeletenext one is atlanta. they did nothing on the offseason, except for signing one of toronto's castaways. my thought is that they end in the basement, with the islanders finishing in 14th place, or perhaps even better.
as much as i love your prediction of rangers in 12th, i think they have a lot of question marks. they'll probably end up doing better than that, but not making the playoffs. for some reason i cannot use the arrows to edit this, so these are just rambling thoughts. here's some question i have for you...who's gonna have a greater point total at the end of the season, tavares or duchene? who gets the calder (filatov, hodgson...two guys the islanders passed on for josh bailey, or does bailey get more points than them). what's the over/under for rick dipietro returning, and how many games started? does ovechkin score more than 65 goals this year? is crosby really that much of a pansy? does toronto make strides in returning to glory? what city are the islanders gonna move to once wang refuses to scale down the lighthouse? will the addition of jacques lemaire hurt the production of perrenial islanders killer zach parise? who's the unheralded goalie that will lead his team to the stanley cup finals this year? can jay bouwmeester thrive in the west? in garth we trust? what's the role of toughness in todays game?
P.S. the check is in the mail.
ReplyDeleteDo you like fishticks? Cause you forgot about South Park you gay fish. I mean, not even honorable mention?
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