Hey you got Superheroes in my Hockey.

The NHL just figured out that superheroes are popular. So they hired Stan Lee to create a superhero based on all 30 NHL teams.

You can read an article here where a sports writer is obviously not happy with this. I mean I don't like it, but I recognize it as a promotion. Mr. Wyshynski seems to be very upset over this. I don't know maybe one of the guardians failed to save his Uncle Ben.

NHL I am disappoint. They only two they have released pictures of so far are the King and the Penguin. I am not blown away by the names, I hope they get a little more creative later cause the Blue is not going to cut it.

All 30 are set to be unveiled at the All-Star Game. I assume there will be some guys wearing the costumes.

...and the jocks will still say that Dungeons and Dragons is nerdy.

UPDATE: Okay, so evidently the heroes are all just named after the teams. One will be the Blue one will be the Islander, one will be the Canadian. *Sigh*

Sports from around the world.

Yeah I know my last post was about politics and this post is about sports. And this is supposed to be a geek blog now. The sports thing will eventually make sense, and as far as politics go...somebody has to keep an eye on that stuff, it may not be fun but it's important (if only so you know who to vote out when the time comes.) Also we're in a transitional phase here, so bear with me. Thanks for your patience.

From Germany: Stuttgart wins the 1st German National Roller Derby Championship. They've only been playing this sport for 4 years and there's already a national champion? Hey America time to get on the ball.

From Qatar: World Cup maybe moved to Winter in 2022. From the World Cup that is being dubbed "The FAIL that keeps on giving". So when in Qatar Don't be gay, don't be drunk (outside the stadium), don't be improperly dressed (if your female), we may need our neighbors to help us pull this off, and now they might not be able to get the climate controlled stadiums they promised? Might I suggest that if they can't get it together we just move the event to America.

UPDATE: I realized after I wrote this I should specify why a winter world cup is a problem. The problem is that a winter world cup will disrupt Europe's leagues (I'm not sure about other continents.) Granted they do have 12 years to deal with this problem and the others I mentioned above, but it seems like this wasn't thought all the way through when FIFA voted on who would host the World Cup.

From Canada: In 1995 Quebec lost a hockey team, 1100 fans of this team invaded New York last week in order to send a message that they would like a team again. You can read the aftermath here.

Not bad though a team that hasn't existed in 15 year getting 1100 people to go to another country for a single game. Especially when the game is being played by two teams who can't seem to draw a crowd to save their teams. (This statement maybe literal quite soon.)

Keeping with hockey, two goals that will make you say. Holy Crap.

Oh yeah tommorow is the last batch of games in European soccer until the new year so if you want to see some games go to ESPN3 (even if the games are too early for you, you can watch them on replay all weekend.) See you tomorrow.