Your Highlight of the Week: Sidney Crosby is en Fuego

Consider this your obligatory Dictator Crosby Propaganda video of the week with your obligatory Islander-tie in. I know a lot of people outside of Pittsburgh get tired of all the towel waving, communist-style military parades held for Crosby by those in the blogosphere and MSM. OK, maybe I made up the communist style-military parades part but you know what I mean. People in the media like to give the ol' pat on the back to the Kid. A lot.

But sometimes, it's deserved. As, I hope, this one is. He's goal six goals, three assists and is +8 in his last three games. It all started last Wednesday on Long Island when the Pens overcame a 3-0 deficit to beat the Islanders 5-3. Who would of thought that the Islanders, of all teams, would be the ones that could light the fire under Sid?

Oh and one more thing. He's taken 16 shots. So that's six goals on 16 shots, a .375 clip. Or, if you like, he's scored 5 goals on his last 11 shots. A .450 clip. Jesus.

So please enjoy the accompanying clip of Crosby lighting up the Devils for three goals on Saturday night. I promise this is the most you'll see about him here this week. Unless, of course, he gets arrested or starts dating someone really, really hot. At that point, everyone will want to talk about him.

Finally, to all the Crosby haters out there: Be thankful I didn't make this post a Top 5 countdown.

Your Highlight of the Week: 11.10.08

In keeping with our YouTube Diet (it's all the rage in Hollywood, I hear) there's only one featured highlight for the past week. It's brought to us by Miro Satan, the Pittsburgh Penguins and the letter F.

In this case, F stands for Freaking Fantasmic. That's right. Fantasmic. That's how good this play was. It gets it's own word. It's a combination of fantastic and cataclysmic. So enjoy and remember, don't mess with Satan. You'll thank me later.

Now why the hell didn't Miro do cool stuff like this on Long Island?

Highlight of the Week: 10/27/08

Mondays here at BMR mean a look back at the best plays from the last week. During the regular season and throughout the playoffs, I'll be recapping the best videos from around the NHL during the last seven days.

In keeping with our YouTube diet, I've selected only one highlight to grace our weekly feature. But let me tell you, it's a good one.

On Friday night, the Ducks were in Anaheim to face the Senators for a rematch of the 2007 Cup Finals. Ah, the memories. During the second period Todd Marchant of the Ducks scored one of the wackiest goals you will ever see. Honestly, I still can't figure out what happened here. The announcer does a great job but, well, it's still over my head (and probably Alex Auld's too! Zing!).

Next week we'll be back to our regularly scheduled YouTubey goodness, assuming the doctor allows it. Can't have our diet causing any unforseen complications now can we?

Highlights of the Week: We Need Some Cooling Off Time

Mondays here at BMR mean a look back at the best plays from the last week. During the regular season and throughout the playoffs, I'll be recapping the best videos from around the NHL during the last seven days.

OK, let's face it. We have a problem here. Well, I have a problem. I have become a YouTube-aholic. And, well, I can admit I have a problem.

That's why today we're going with an edited version of Highlights of the Week. I need a break. You probably need a break too. Also, following this post, there will be no more You Tube videos on this blog for 48 hours.

But I can't say this is totally my fault. Obviously, I'm the editor around here, so I'm responsible for all that goes on. But honestly, the saves these goalies have been making have been ridiculous. Brodeur, Niitymaki, Price a couple of times... It's really been pretty absurd. I'm not pinning it all on them. Not even most of it. It's just, well, it's hard for me to quell my YouTube addiction when they're doing things like this and this.

So anyway, we're going with one highlight this week, since you've seen so many at this blog during the last seven days. It comes from -- Jeez, who else? -- Carey Price on Saturday night against Phoenix.

Highlights of the Week: No Puck Dropping from [Name Censored], We Promise (10/6-10/12)

Mondays here at BMR mean a look back at the best plays from the last week. During the regular season and throughout the playoffs, I'll be recapping the best videos from around the NHL during the last seven days. They might be fights, goals or Vice Presidential Candidates dropping the ceremonial faceoff. Anything, really. Kind of like what goes on here every day of the week.

No matter who you are planning on voting for this November, I think we can all agree there has been enough talk about [name censored] dropping the puck at the Flyers game on Saturday. It's done, [name censored] more or less got booed, let's move on.

And move on, we will. There were plenty of other great videos from the first real week of the NHL season. Here's a look at the top plays from the last seven days, the [name censored] edition.

5. Jarome Iginla Knocks Down Willie Mitchell

There's nothing more gratifying to fight fans than watching a big knockout. I don't think Willie Mitchell ever loses consciousness, but he took a heck of a shot from Jarome Iginla. That leads Kent of Five Hole Fanatics to wonder who, exactly, is the Flames enforcer.

"Also, does anyone get the feeling that Iginla is a better scrapper than our current "enforcer" (although Roy now has more goals than Iginla, so...)?"

4. Nashville Area Woman gives Sean Avery the business.

Man, this lady has some guts. Avery is the biggest mouth in the NHL and he looks, well, stunned when some random lady sitting next to the penalty box goes off on him. +5 to her, wherever she is. You have to fast forward to the last 15 seconds of the video to catch it, but the rest of it is entertaining, too.

3. Zach Parise Beats the Penguins

If you're a Pens fan, this is going to bring up some bad memories. Saturday night the Pens surrendered a 1-0 third period lead, as Patrick Elias banked a shot off of Hal Gill and past Marc-Andre Fleury. In overtime, Travis Zajac threw a ridiculous lob pass to Zach Parise who ended the game.

2. Jordin Tootoo vs. Boris Valabik

It's quite possibly the most mismatched fight you will ever see, at least in terms of the fighters' size. Valabik is 6'7" and Tootoo is 5'9" but as you probably know, Tootoo is a pretty good fighter and also apparently isn't afraid of anyone. Just make sure you turn off you speakers, the audio on this video is ridiculously loud.

1. Def Leppard Does Not Understand the Stanley Cup

You've likely seen this video by now, but if you haven't, you'll be left dumbfounded. I didn't realize that the Stanley Cup needed an instruction manual on how to handle it. Now I know.

Highlights of the Week: 9/29 - 10/5

Mondays here at BMR mean a look back at the best plays from the last week. During the regular season and throughout the playoffs, I'll be recapping the best videos from around the NHL during the last seven days. They might be fights, goals or hockey players posing as rockers. Anything, really. Kind of like what goes on here every day of the week.

Ah yes, the regular season is finally here. It doesn't quite feel like it, as most teams were still in pre-season mode this weekend, but it's here nonetheless. It feels awkward, new and exciting all at the same time. Kind of like high school, with the exception of the excitement.

Here's a look at the top plays from the past week.

3. Virtual Mike Komisarek scores greatest goal ever virtually scored.

So if you have ever searched for hockey videos on YouTube, you might notice that there are a crap ton of random NHL 09 highlights on there posted by, presumably, thirteen year-olds. Most are about as pointless to watch as, well, random crappy videos made by thirteen year-olds. This one, however, shows us one of the best goals ever scored. Or ever not scored in reality. What? Anyway, the video:

2. Sean Avery is not a fan of Don Cherry.

In an interview last week on CBC's "the Hour" with George Stromtoolongofalastnametofigureout Avery had some rather kind words for the HNIC commentator; "He's a staple as far as Canadian hockey goes. And I grew up watching Coach's Corner, and he serves a purpose. But he really does not know shit about hockey." I knew this was going to be a fun year in Dallas!

1. You've already seen it, but it's worth another look -- or three.

It's the hockey clip that has been all over the internet this week. Carey Price's stunning save has has garnered so much attention that even With Leather took notice. When they start mentioning hockey for reasons like this, and not just making stale 'hey, remember how nobody watches hockey' jokes then you know it's something special. Well, they still made those jokes but at least it wasn't for a bad reason.

Highlights of the Week: 9/22 - 9/28

Don't fret that there's a whole lot of text in front of you right now, we are still going to keep with the Monday morning video tradition here at BMR. The tradition is just going to change a little. Instead of your regularly scheduled Monday morning icebreaker, you can now enjoy a recap of the last week through YouTube videos.

From now on Mondays mean a look back at the best plays from the last week. During the regular season and throughout the playoffs, I'll be recapping the best videos from around the NHL during the last seven days. They might be fights, goals or hockey players posing as rockers. Anything, really.

To start us off this week, here is our old friend JR, who took the time to sit down with the local NBC station in the Bay Area.

5. JR Auditions for Television

4. Mikhail Grabovski splits the Pittsburgh D

Tuesday night, Toronto's Mikhail Grabovski scored a nifty goal on the Penguins. The Leafs ended up losing the game 3-2, but it is only the pre-season and the more important thing is obviously getting on this countdown.

3. Ryan Hollweg forgets how to use his fists

Two nights later the Penguins and Maple Leafs would do battle again, but pretty looking goals aren't the reason these teams are back-to-back on the countdown. It's really because Ryan Hollweg squared off with Paul Bissonnette and, in all seriousness, only threw a couple punches. That's game, set and match to Bissonnette.

2. Washington rocks out

There's not too much that can be said about this video which hasn't already been said by Greg Wyshynski. All I can think of is that the Capitals might regret doing this in a couple years. Or at least Ovechkin's hair.

1. Jon Mirasty vs. Chris Gratton

Do you like the kind of fights where no one tries to block a punch? You know, when both players just mercilessly wail on each other. If that's your cup of tea, then prepare to have these guys smash it in your face.