The Stanley Cup Playoffs

Going to try and write a little more every now and then.

What a (shortened) season it was for the NHL and the Stanley Cup Playoffs! It had everything a hockey fan could want this season. The playoffs, which last around two months, had no shortage of drama this season. My home state team the Minnesota Wild made the playoffs for the first time in around five years, and the Red Wings made the playoffs, keeping their streak alive.

The Wild were ousted in the first round by eventual Stanley Cup Champs Chicago Blackhawks. It's hard to complain about having to play the Hawks first when the Wild were lucky enough to trickle into the playoffs. The Blackhawks road to the Finals was almost stopped when they ran into my other hockey team from Hockeytown. Detroit had a 3-1 series lead on the Hawks, but could not close the door, and lost in overtime in game 7. From their they faced the emotion filled Boston Bruins. Who came back down 4-1 with 11 minutes to go in the third period of game 7 in the first round to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Bruins scored 3 goals in the last ten in a half minutes of the game to tie it, including two in the last 2 minutes with the goalie pulled for the extra man.

If you ever wanted to see the guts and determination of the Stanley Cup playoffs, this one instance sums it all up.



The Stanley Cup Finals was a dream match up for die hard fans. Two "Original Six" teams battling for the cup both teams have hoisted within the past four years. The first game of the finals set the tempo just fine for the rest of the series, going to the third overtime, which made fans of the popular twitter game #BucciOvertimeChallenge happy, to decide the winner, which ended up being Chicago. The series ended up going to game 6, which will go down as one the great games in Stanley Cup history. Boston scored to go up a goal midway through the 3rd period. This seemed like it was poised to go to a game 7, but Chicago had different plans. Chicago goes on to score two goals with 17 seconds of each other in the last minute and a half of the game. Chicago went on to win the game and the Cup. All around fan favorite Patrick Kane, who even did a "heartbreaker"celebration after scoring the OT winning goal to put them in the finals, recieved the Conn Smythe trophy for the Playoff MVP. Corey Crawford played better then anyone could have imagined in the playoffs for a goalie, and silenced a ton of critics in the process, myself included.

Hats off to Boston on a great season, and having a great product on the ice to help people deal with the tragedy that was the Boston Bombing. They have some unbelievable fans and run a first class organization.

Gotta Love Hockey.

Red Wings 22 Wins

The best story in sports right now might be getting covered up. Sure the Jeremy Lin craze has been lighting up ESPN, but the best sports story comes from the NHL. The Detroit Red Wings have won 22 straight games at their home rink, the Joe Lewis Arena. 22 straight wins at home is absolutely insane! There is only 82 regular season games, that means that Detroit has 41 home games a year. They have won OVER HALF of their regular season home games in one win streak. Sure the news outlets give them a highlight every once in awhile, but this streak needs to be acknowledged more. They have been doing this lately without the services of all star goaltender Jimmy Howard, who has been out of action since Feb. 2nd. The streak probably end sooner rather then later, hopefully they will somehow get the credit they deserve for this great streak.

Last year, almost to the day was my last activity on this blog. Writing about sports is something I have always liked to do, and I just figured that this would be a good way to do it. So to whoever is out there, hope you will like to what I will be putting out there soon!

Bauerlein was very wrong

When Bauerlien told us that technology was making us dumber, he must of not thought of all the benefits that new technology has helped us with. Just in our school system alone, technology has been a talker lately. In our recent focus groups, one talking point was free school wi-fi. I strongly believe that we should get this for Lincoln. With technology like iPods and iPads, wi-fi is something that can be extremly beneficial when it comes to working on projects in school.

Dropbox Denied

Since I could not work directly on my project today during class because of the filter on the internet, I figured I would just find content for my blog and send it to myself using the useful system of dropbox. Yet when I attempted to download dropbox from the internet, once again I was stopped by the internet filter. This time I needed a administration username and password to complete my work. This is getting really tiring when everyone else in the world is moving ahead on the technology front, and we still have the most basic of websites still blocked.

School in South Carolina Getting The Right Idea

Students that attend Robert E. Lee Acadamy in Bishopville, SC are getting encouraged to bring iPods to school, not discouraged. Bauerlien thought that this kind of technology would destroy students learning patterns, cause of the distractions they cause. This could not be farther from the truth in this school. They use iPads in younger classes to keep the kids interested in learning. There is apps on these apple innovations that are specifically designed to help kids learn. So my question is if there is technology out there that has applications that help students learn, why are we discouraged to bring them to school?
Below is a link to the article about the school which is using the apple technology to better learning.
http://www.theitem.com/news/article_efe8f318-3595-11e0-a77c-001cc4c002e0.html

blogging from my phone, because i can not blog from school.

During first block, we get work time everyday. For my first theme I am doing a blog about technology in schools, with most of my focus being about ipods and how they can be a focal point in public schools. I would love to start doing research and blog at school, but blogspot.com is blocked on our school server. For the administration personal looking at this right now, our internet blocking is stopping me from doing my project. Now I will have to go play a hockey game, get home at ten tonight, and work on this project.

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