As reported earlier, I’m having ifficulty with my D button. Much like the Habs, I’m trying to activate the D. This problem coul be ue to foo particles and jammy fingers, but is most likely the work of terrorists. I’ll keep you poste.

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I rarely talk about music but I strongly suggest you check out Regina Spektor’s musical bum. Edit: seems my space bar is also wonky. That was to read ‘music album’. Sorry for the confusion.

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Since I brought it up, I might as well post some possible solutions I’ve been thinking about for fixing my keyboar:

• get Duncan Keith to show it how a D is supposed to function
• tell it that it’s in a contract year an watch it start performing like it’s supposed to
• appeal to it’s intellectual side, then ask it to define ‘love’ and then subdue it
• show computer some Carcillo footage, might cause the D button to go down at the slightest touch

Speaking of  Dan Carcillo, this guy keeps going down like a Thai hooker on half priced nights (check for an Adam’s apple when in Thailand btw) and the league may be forced to issue supplementary iscipline even though the refs have missed 2 dives thus far. The past 2 years there have been 2 new rules brought about by ouchebag behaviour, an I think Carcillo may well bring about a 3rd precedent with his douchosity.

To make matters worse with Carcillo, he may have been bitten by Marc Savard in a scrum last night but can anyone believe him? Given his recent history for pantomiming on ice, the boy who cried (and looks like) wolf does not get the benefit of the doubt – and should not. You live by a dirty, cheap sword – you die by a dirty, cheap sword.

And that’s one to grow on.

Oh ****, I knew I forgot to do something.

Coming this week: the Smiling Gainey Olympic men’s hockey previews. I’ve got a strong hunch on team USA! Look for Crosby to do something memorable and establish himself among Canada’s greatest hockey players.

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Kevin Smith will be participating in a Walter Gretzky ball hockey tournament this summer.

more info on this in the entertainment section

CANADIENS/SMILING GAINEY FACE CHANGES AS BOB GAINEY STEPS DOWN (new blog format)

Bob Gainey stepped down yesterday as Genital Manager of Les Canadiens…which either makes me irrelevant or incredibly popular. I choose the latter.

This is as good a time as any to announce a new format coming to the SmilingGainey. In the very near future we will be changing into a strictly comedy blog, with little to no editorial.

You may be asking yourself ‘why the hiatus, and why the change?’, to which we would reply “do shut up.” In the grand scheme of things, trying to be right all the time, and more importantly, actually being right all the time (we were, we really, really were) bring little satisfaction at the end of the day. We gave 110%, took things one game at a time, and you can bet your ass we checked our guts on a regular basis. Still, it just amounts to a fart in a hurricane.

What’s said and done will be left for posterity, so that future generations may see the sheer awesomeness, and that we may gloat on our deathbeds about being right on the internet (to which people reply ‘what was the internet’?). What will be coming is a typhoon of hilarity from outer space (and inner space) that will dwarf 3 of the Cannonball Run movies in sheer comedic genius. So fear not, the best is yet to come.

(and yes, I’ll get around to taking down the Christmas lights eventually)

We’d also like to take this time to send condolences to the Burke and Reedy families.