NHL Connect ID:
caniac17
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Hi All, my name is Christine, I grew up in Michigan, attended Michigan State University, football and hockey fan since I can remember – Big 10 football, going to UofM football and hockey games. My first crush was Terry Bradshaw! (yes, you can laugh) When I moved to Carolina I just couldn’t get into any of the teams here, and just really don’t like basketball that much and I’m in the middle of ACC basketball turf. Then, the Hurricanes came to town! I’m proud to say my husband (southern boy that he is) is now a hockey fan!! For the first time, we have season tickets for the coming season and I am pumped. There is nothing like a hockey game and nobody better to watch in Carolina than Rod Brind’Amour!!! GO CANES! GO SENS!
Favorite NHL Team:
Carolina Hurricanes
Favorite Sports/Teams:
Carolina Hurricanes Ottawa Senators Detroit Red Wings Michigan and Michigan State (yes, love both) Pittsburgh Steelers
Favorite Players:
Rod Brind’Amour Jason Spezza Joe Corvo Mike Fisher Matt Cullen Tim Gleason Dany Heatley Ray Whitney Nick Lidstrom
Music:
old rock and roll – still a headbanger after all these years! current faves are White Knuckles by Alter Bridge and Sugar by Kid Rock
Books:
mystery’s
Movies:
The Godfather, Grease, Rocky
Other interests:
reading, working out, working in the yard, family time, hanging with friends, cooking – I’m Italian and love to make good homemade pasta for my family!
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Glenn_V
Sep 04 2008 22:14
About the pics.
Thanks for your comment. That rink in West Edmonton Mall is great, and the dynasty Oilers used to practice there. That’s cool.
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Glenn_V
Sep 04 2008 22:13
Thanks.
You’re fun to coach, ‘cause you appreciate it so much. You’re doing fine to me, and I understand not wanting to look silly, but unless you fall down on your face, you can’t look silly. Nobody is going to look down on you for walking or running slow, especially when you’re just learning how to do this. If you take twice as long and still finish it, you’ve accomplished the same as everyone else. Nobody will have travelled farther than you that day, so you can still be proud of yourself. You can work on speed and endurance from then on. I like your attitude, about signing up for more of them. That’s the way to learn. You’ll get better at it and more confident as you go along. And if you have a bad day or week, just tell me about it and I’ll help you through it.
I had my Wednesday Running Club yesterday, and I ran on my own, since I was faster and longer than the other runners there – I ran about 1 hour, 10 minutes (I think about 12 or 13 km). I’m scared for when the faster guys are there, because then I’LL look silly (those guys run a 10 km run about 20 minutes faster than I do, and that’s an eternity). Funny, but I seriously worry about looking bad, too.
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CheckMatePens
Sep 04 2008 11:37
See you there...
I’ll be the one looking dazed and confused and waving all over the place.
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CheckMatePens
Sep 02 2008 10:52
You're sooo right...
and there are way more Canadians in Raleigh than most would think. Yeah, I try every year to at least go to the Pens games at the RBC. Schedule didn’t work out so well last year…but I try to make a few games, whoever’s playing. I hope this year works out.
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Glenn_V
Sep 01 2008 14:56
Not a cake walk.
Half-marathons are still hard, just not excruciating for me. I can have a better strategy for a half-marathon, because I know I won’t hit the wall before it’s done. Don’t get discouraged. Long-distance running is something you work yourself into over time, and it almost takes as much mental training as physical. You slowly learn how to get a technique to do the distance, then you start mentally getting tougher as you train your body to do more than it’s used to (and more than it wants to). I’ve always been able to do long-distance runs, so when someone who doesn’t have the same gift does it, I feel more admiration. Please, still do the 5 km event in a couple of weeks, because you DON’T have to run the whole thing, and it’s for a great cause. Hey, don’t think for a second Captain Rod won’t be impressed by you overcoming and finishing 5 km whether it’s walking or running. I know I’ll be cheering you on and will consider you a champ for trying it. Regardless of how you feel about it, I’m very proud of you for doing this. That won’t change.
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