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| 11:04pm 31/01/2007 |
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mood:  relieved
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Finally. I am feeling like I am making a difference here for the team. I am getting back to my game and scoring some goals and starting to feel at home. For a long time I wonder if making this move was a good idea. That maybe my game would go to hell and it would be back to the fans booing me like they did in Tampa. When I had these terrible, awful years.
But I am starting to find it again. And I went to Dallas for the All Star game and found something else over the break. It was verrrry fun. |
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| 05:45pm 08/01/2007 |
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I don't even know where I would learn to eat fire! Unless I... ran away to the circus. Maybe someone from the circus can teach me when they come through Toronto. I could help to entertain the crowd during intermissions then. That would be pretty cool.
I had my first goal as a Leaf the other day! It was really cool. I had been hurt and I hadn't shown one of the reasons they wanted me to sign with them to begin with. I was one of the d men in Tampa who could score. I just hope this is a sign of things to come. I love scoring goals... i just want more now! |
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| 01:54am 21/12/2006 |
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[Just a little note letting everyone know that I will be out of town for ten days over the holidays so Kuby won't be around. Happy Holidays to you and yours and I'll see you when I get back!] |
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| 05:10am 11/12/2006 |
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mood:  tired
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Things have been so crazy I haven't written in here. I would say I have not been able, but that's a bit of a lie. I've been hurt and now back to playing. By the time I make it home I just want to eat something and go to bed and talk to someone in particular.
I miss you. I want to see you soon, I promise.
I need to find more teammates on here and be more social. |
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| 09:13pm 19/10/2006 |
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mood: bored
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Being hurt is very awful. I am wanting to help the team and show the coach and the management and especially the fans all I can do but it's hard when I get myself suspended and now hurt.
sigh. Well. I guess I will just have to be a cheerleader. Rah rah rah?
Me with pom poms would be ridiculous though. |
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| 01:33pm 10/07/2006 |
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mood:  weird
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It is hard to believe that I will not be back in Tampa this fall. It is where I have been since I first come to the NHL. I had my house there for so long. It's the only sweater I have worn other than a national one for a very long time. Toronto will be different. Bigger. Canadian. Colder. And I will miss being by the water. But this is the business of things.
I will need to find a new place to live and meet new teammates. Wow. |
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| 02:24pm 04/06/2006 |
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mood: relieved
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Ok, the season did not end how anyone on the team would have liked and we were knocked from the playoffs. I hung around Tampa for a bit, clean out my locker, get things in order before I leave. I hope they will resign me this summer. I have played there for the Lightning since I first come to the league and I don't know anything else. But, who can know what the future will hold? Hopefully more time here spent by the bay. I love my team and my teammates and being so close to the water...
I spent weeks in the tropics, getting as tan as a Czech can get. It was very relaxing and the company was excellent. *grins* Now I can work out and relax and cheer for my country in the World Cup. |
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| 11:10pm 09/04/2006 |
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mood:  excited
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Things have been busy with our play, some good and some bad after the Olympic break. I am happy to have come home with a medal, but more than anything else I want a chance to play to defend the Cup. We had such a great time with Stanley two years ago, that I would like to spend more time with him again. Not to get too far of ourselves, but we are getting confidence back. We are remembering that we can do this and we can compete. We have a lot of talent and skill, and we are reminding everyone.
I was gone for a few games because of an undisclosed lower body injury, but wasn't out as long as they thought. Hey, this is a time that my team needs me. They need my size and my play on the blue line and sitting at home was worse for me than dealing with some pain.
These last few games are going to come before I know it. I can't wait. I am ready for the challenge. |
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| 12:15am 06/03/2006 |
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I have finally gotten enough rest to sit down and write something on my journal. Ok, so here is the last month or so all summed up:
1. The Olympics were a lot of fun, and it was great for us to come away with a medal. I am very proud of my bronze and so proud that I wore an A for my nation in the Olympic games.
2. I am also very proud of Finland for doing so well, they played so hard and very much deserved the success.
3. Yesterday I had my 200th career point in the game against Montreal. It was one of the few good things that happened in the game.
Soon, we leave to go on a big road trip and hopefully we will find our game out there on the road!
more updates soon, i promise! |
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| 12:42am 21/01/2006 |
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mood:  accomplished
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Tonight in Dallas, I played in my 500th career game in the NHL. Just.. wow. It has not always been good playing for Tampa Bay, there were rough years for the team and for myself. There was the times when the fans would just boo me and it seemed like I could do nothing right. Those were the times when I would wish to get traded and sent somewhere else.
Now, I can't imagine playing anywhere else. This is the only team I have been with for my entire career in the NHL. Now, Vinny Lecavalier and I are the players who have played with the club for the most games in history. We have been here since we were the worst team in the league to defending Stanley Cup Champions. It has been incredible.
It helps that we won tonight. Everyone played very well and I even had a power play goal. Last time we played, it seemed like however I shot the puck it would get past the goalie. This season, I can't even hit a soccer net. Hopefully, this is a sign of the tides turning for the team and for myself. |
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| 06:51pm 22/11/2005 |
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mood:  worried
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From one hockey playing Czech to another,
Get well, Jiri. We are all thinking of you and wishing you the fastest of recoveries. Get back on the ice soon! |
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| 03:06pm 27/10/2005 |
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mood: accomplished
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Last night's win was very good. I'm glad that we were able to get together in the third and play as well as we did. I think it's what Coach talks about. When we pay attention to the little things and the details, we are a very hard team to beat because we have so much talent. Just play simple hockey, and the rewards and winning will come.
We have a day off now before playing the Capitals tomorrow, and we owe it to everyone, including our fans, to make up for the last game we played against them. We need to become a consistant winning team and show why we are Stanley Cup Champions.
I am sorry the Predators are no longer unbeaten. That was very fun to watch. *smiles* For a few reasons. |
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| 12:44am 25/09/2005 |
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mood: sleepy
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First win at home since we win the Stanley Cup. Was good, very good. Great to be on our ice in front of our fans again. I was just happy that so many came and remembered. The lockout went so long, maybe I was afraid that everyone would forget and we would go back to the empty arenas we used to have. Now... we just need the banners in the roof. Then it will be pefect.
Cibby, you had a great game tonight! When did you become such a goal scorer? We are all very proud. Maybe Coach will give you a little bit of an easier time tomorrow at camp. Probably not, but wishing for it can't hurt anyone.
Early practice, so must get some sleep. Oh yeah, and I am sorry Nashville lost tonight. |
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| 09:45pm 07/09/2005 |
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mood:  melancholy
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I have to go back to Tampa very soon. I want to and don't want to all at the same time. Even though what I don't want to be separated from has to leave as well, it doesn't make it any easier. |
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| 04:23am 03/08/2005 |
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mood:  anxious
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As good as it is to be a hockey player under contract during all the insanity of the signings, it's even more nerve wracking/disheartening to sit aside and see what is becoming of your friends and former teammates. I know it is a business. I know that very well. But... when you see men who stood beside you and fought and over come and got to the ultimate prize with.. being scattered like seed into the wind, it's hard. Very.
Condolences to Vladi for his injury. That is a very bad turn of luck, my friend. I am sorry such a thing is happening to you.
As for everyone else who does not know which team sweater they will be wearing in October, you are in my thoughts. It is a brave new world in the NHL, and so far it is just serving to make my head spin. |
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