Not really hockey blogging (yet)

Apparently, Mitch is a masochist, because he's invited me to pollute his blog while he's otherwise indisposed for the next few days (don't worry, he'll still be posting occasionally). For those 99.99% of you who haven't heard of me, I'm Steve, and I blog (semi-regularly, according to Doug) at Helloooo, Chapter Two.

It's been suggested that I should cover hockey nonstop, just to irritate Mitch. And with Gopher hockey that would normally be easy for me, but tonight My Lovely Wive (MLW) and I were headless-chickening all over town trying to find a particular Christmas gift. (OK, to be fair, we only had to go to Maple Grove and then Albertville, but for us that's a busy night.) Since then we've been cleaning house and wrapping presents while listening to Christmas music, and therefore completely missed the Gophers slaughtering powerhouse Merrimack 6-2.

The really sad part? MLW's little brother is in the hockey band and was planning to drop by after the game tonight, and we still didn't think to check the game out on TV. Oh well. Anyway, they play Northern Michigan tomorrow at 8 in the Dodge Holiday Classic finals.

And that's the kind of exciting, insightful commentary you can expect from me (well, at 12:10 AM at least). Join me tomorrow later today as I discuss the relative merits of paper vs. plastic at the grocery store!