Player of the Year/ Douchebag of the Year 2009

I've gone through great pains to select my player of the year 2009. I've decided that the honor should be based on:
1) performance post last season's All-Star break
2) anything in the off-season
3) performance this season so far
4) other shit

In keeping with my 2Man indie street cred I've decided to purposely think outside the box as it would be too easy to hand this honor over to Ovy or Crosby. While both players are more than deserving it just wouldn't be right for this blog.

My player of the year 2009 went along for the ride to the bottom with the awful Toronto Maple Leafs, the team he was traded to in early January. In late September this player was picked up by the Wings to be a soldier and so far has not disappointed. This guy has crashed, policed, and fought through 28 games this season filling a role as a combination of Aaron Downey and Dallas Drake. He has gone from performing a thankless role for a terrible team to a thankless role on a Stanley Cup contender. He is wildly entertaining because of his scrappy, on the edge style and I'm sure Datsyuk and company appreciate his 9 fights this season. For all that and for the fact that he's still ripping it up in his 19th season I would like to honor Brad May as the player of the year 2009.



Congrats, Brad May. Your award will be 12 buds if you ever want to stop by Tavern.

The Douchebag of 2009 needs no introduction. He was clearly the biggest loser of the due to his inability to act as if he has male testicles. Because his whiny voice almost ruined every Versus game he deserves to be honored as douchebag of the year. Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, the pussy from the Enterprise Rent A Car commercials:



"It's not expensive, Ma". Terrible.



The Asian lady can't believe she's in a commercial with Madea and this pussy.

- Nemmy

Weekend Wrap Up OR I really hate dogs

This is American power out-muscling Canadien whatever.



When you have bad hands, you should just play with Evgeni Malkin. I'm talking to you, Mike Rupp.




Hey, Todd Bertuzzi scored twice!

And this fight happened. Rick Rypien is fearless!




What did I miss?

-Bress

Question

This one comes in from reader MPH who asks,




"Is it me or is Wayne Gretzky looking more and more like Tim Russert?"



What up with that?

- Nemmy

A Festivus for the rest of us

We are going to have a whole day of Russian Olympic pics discussion on Monday. Enjoy your holidays.

P.S. I'm writing this in my Mets Snuggie. Jealous?

- Santa

What you missed last night while you were finally finishing your crhistmas shopping

Since there are no games the rest of the week, today's recaps will be hockey haikus. Think of it as an early Christmas gift!

Penguins roll over the Senators, 8-2:
Lost in this blow out,
are Fleury's 45 saves.
And Alfie got hurt.

Blues beat the Flames in the shoot-out, 2-1:
On one play, Langkow
laid out Paul Kariya. The
Blues swept all the west.

Canadiens beat the Hurricanes, 5-1:
So, are all games that
the Canadiens play in
the southeast in French?

Islanders beat the Maple Leafs, 3-1:
Blake Comeau played great
He could be this teams, Selke
candidate. John scored!

Wild beat the Oilers, 3-1:
I think that Owen
Nolan should only be known
as Cowboy. He scored.

Flyers beat the Lightning, 5-2:
I hope the Flyers
improve after Christmas
for the Classic.

Blackhawks shut-out the Red Wings, 3-0:
They're not booing you
Hossa, they're say, "yoooooooou sucked
in the play-offs, jerk."

Coyotes shut-out the Ducks, 4-0:
If a team wins in
the desert and no one is
there, does it matter?

Stars beat the BJs, 3-1:
Fire Hitch? Trade who? What
are the Jackets going to
do to stop this slide?

Bruins beat the Thrashers. 6-4:
Boston looks like a
team hitting their groove. Kessel
who? exactly, right.

Rangers beat the Panthers, 4-1:
I was supposed to
go to this game, but glad I
did not. Gabby scored!

Capitals win over the Sabres, 5-2:
Ovechkin scored his
24th goal in his game
29. Dream's alive.

Just a reminder

Happy Holidays from the 2 Man Advantage family.

Bishop Bill Guerin is in the mix tonight. 2 and 2 through 2 periods. Stay salty.

- Nemmy

What you missed last night because only the west coast teams were playing

Sharks beat the Hawks, 3-2: Not to say that any of the goals that Huet gave up were soft, but he should have done better. He went down so early on Heatleys. I guess Thornton made a good shot. And Demers' release was quick, but I think that's a stoppable shot. And Nabakov was better. And right there, in 4 or so sentences, is the game.

Canucks beat the Predators, 4-1: Last night, when Paul Hornqvist beat Luonguo with a sweet backhand to ruin Lou's shut-out, Roberto did something interesting. He smacked the post with his stick. Well, thats not interesting, but I can't remember ever seeing him emotional mid or post game. I think this is a good thing.

Ducks beat the Avalanche, 4-2: Are the Ducks maddingly inconsistent or just shallow with flashes of brilliance? Was this a great comeback or a game they slept through and got lucky? Also, pick a starting keeper already and trade the other one!