Surprise, Surprise, Surprise

The other two jackholes for this week are...

BROOKS ORPIK

for intentionally trying to injure Johan Franzen with a dirty knee-on-knee hit

~and~

THE NHL DISCIPLINARY BOARD

for not suspending Orpik

Remember who made you jackhole

Dear Brett Lebda,

You play for the TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS.

They aren't good.

You were already a member of the best organization in the league...

and you SCREWED that up.

The Wings gave you every chance to play and every chance to win.

Stop talking crap you ungrateful bastard.

xoxo-

JennHo

P.S.

You were the joke in Detroit and you're already a joke in Toronto.

See a running theme here?

A few snaps from RWTCTC

Here are just a couple of favorite pictures that I took at Red Wings Training Camp in Traverse City:

"People let me tell ya' bout my BEST FRIEND"

MULE

Kenny Holland and Mike Babcock look down upon you.

BERT

Ozzie drinking PEPSI?!? On the ice?!? At Training Camp?!?


The ice :)




To take a look at all my pictures from RWTCTC check out my photobucket album

Two Sports, Many Jackholes

Hockey Jackholes of the Week are...

Puck Bunnies!

But not just ANY puck bunnies. The puck bunnies who find it necessary to change a player's wikipedia page to include themselves.

For example- Some broad put this on Darren Helms' page
"Darren is married to Britney ********** and they have three beautiful children together"

Take your meds and stay off of peoples' biography pages.

By special request


FOOTBALL Jackhole of the Week


OFFICIALS

specifically those who worked the Bears vs. Lions game last Sunday

Twitter causes a Jackhole frenzy of enormous proportions

Above are the tweets that caused the entire world to FREAK OUT on Tampa Bay Lightning Goaltender Dan Ellis.



Here is my interpretation of the Twitter-ers that went nutty on Dan Ellis for his opinion.


This guy, Believe it or not, is "Puck Daddy" himself... Greg Wyshynski.

And here is our little war started himself... Dan Ellis.


This all occurred in the past week on Twitter. Dan Ellis was reacting/giving his opinion on the NFL owners suggesting that the NFL players should all take 18 percent pay cuts. His point, although taken the wrong way by some, was that no one likes to lose any amount of money. Which is true. If someone suggested that I should lose 18 percent of my pay I would be mad as all get out.

To some, including Greg Wyshynski, it looked to appear that Dan was being a "whiney millionaire". I do see the point that Dan is lucky to be paid the amount that he is during this time of world financial crisis. However, I don't feel that Dan was in any way intentionally trying to insult or slight those in the world who don't have as much as he does or make as much as he does.

A couple days following the Goalie Tweet Gate 2010 Dan Ellis (pressured by the Lightning front office I presume) resigned from twitter with the following speech:

"Twitter was a great way to see inside the life of athletes outside of
public media. But this is even too much for me. I feel bad for the sincere
followers/fans who just wanted a glimpse of things from the inside. But with the
recent explosion... I am shutting down my twitter because in no way shape or
form do I want this to disrupt my team.

I deeply care for my teammates
and faithful followers. This has all been misconstrued to no end and ppl's
feelings are getting hurt.

There was never any intention in my tweets to
undermine ppl who are in different income brackets. I donate 10% of my salary
each year to help under privileged kids across the world. as long as I play in
the NHL my peldge (sic) will remain the same to The Garth Brooks Foundation

I deeply care for the less fortunate and make many efforts to be of even
marginal help. I wish you all a happy twitter experience and...

Hope you
do not allow this misunderstanding to form the basis of your opinion of me. I
welcome any of you to meet me in person to chat.

But no longer will I
xpress things through this medium. Thx again to all the good ppl I have met on
twitter. I wish you all the very best.

Peace out twitter!"

I understand why Dan Ellis leaving twitter at this time was for the best. He desperately needed to get the negative spotlight off of the Lightning and himself prior to starting Training Camp and this new NHL season. However, I think Ellis could have handled the negative responses better and stuck it out.

So the jackholes for this week are as follows


DAN ELLIS
For his not so graceful exit from twitter

GREG WYSHYNSKI
For attacking Dan Ellis and being unwilling to recognize where Dan was coming from.

THE ANGRY TWITTER MOB THAT ATTACKED ELLIS
For attacking Dan Ellis and continuing to do so even after he apologized and tried to explain where he was coming.

Repeat offender

Once again Gary Bettman's totalitarianistic actions have led him to be...

THE

JACKHOLE

of the

WEEK

Gary's legal foot stomping and temper tantrum throwing regarding Kovy gate are too much to handle. Accompanied by threats to review other players contracts (previously accepted by the NHL), GB has gone off the deep end. I'm personally sick of him and all his antics.

A sight for sore eyes

HALLELUJAH!

There is ice at the Joe and there were Wings on it... TODAY!

Eaves and Zetterberg

Jimmy and Ozzy having a staring contest

Jimmy and his newly painted mask

Zetterberg "trying to check" Lidstrom (kinda looks like he's giving him a little huggle)

Former Wing Manny Legace

Ozzy just maxin' and relaxin' all cool (or menacingly staring at Jimmy)

HELP ME HOMER

The Perfect Human himself Nicklas Lidstrom

Zet-ter-berg

Wings (and some others) stretching

Did he just murder someone? Is that why he looks SOO happy? SMILE Bert!

Zeta, Draps, and Cleary plus Horcoff

Homer and Jimmy

Helmer trying out to be the next great action hero.

All photos credit to the Detroit News and John Greilick