Coyotes Carnival!
It's that time! - Time for me to post pics from the Coyotes Carnival and tell stories and basically just gush about how much I love my team. =) !
Special thank you to xcacophony for taking most of the pics of me with players, since she has a camera and I don't. Thank you!
1. First order of business was to get Jovo to sign my jersey. cause DUH it's his jersey, lol. The player they put with him was Paul Bissonnette. Now Biss is a really cool dude, if you recall he was one of the people who stopped after the last game before the break to sign for us in the parking lot. So anyway, when I got up there with my jersey I was having Jovo sign it and Biss said "Ok, you don't want me to sign it?" and I just felt too bad saying no, so I told him that yeah he should sign it. Aaaaand so there went the idea of only having Doan + Jovo sign the jersey, lmao. Oh well.
I was pretty much a pile of goo meeting Jovo, so all I managed to do was to tell him to sign on the white (thank god I said that). Biss made a comment about how many Jovanovski jerseys people had, and they both laughed. I think Biss was jealous =P
And that was that. I didn't get a picture with them. :( That was the only thing I wish I had done, was get a picture with Jovo. Oh well, next time...
2. Next on my list was DAN WINNIK, of course. idefk why I love him so much, but I do. Some pics:
I snagged this one from my friend SueAnn. :)
Holly took a bunch of Winnie and she doesn't even know why. :P She's not a fan of him. Which makes me sad. ;__; But the pictures make me happy! ;)
psst, that's my hair/black jacket, it's me walking away from him. He totally doesn't want me to leave, right? ;D
ALDG:HEGBNE;EUITH *DIES*. My faaaaave picture, like, ever. :D
Holly's camera was accidentally left on zoom, which totally works for me. You can see his eyes are so green. *___*
So yes. This made my day. Winnie signed my hat. I got to see him up close. I couldn't think of a thing to say to him, which is really sad. =/ Other people actually talked to him and said what a nice, happy guy he was. Damn those online gossip people for saying he's a jerk! I don't believe it at all.
The other player with Winnik was Vrbata. I just realized today that I didn't get his autograph on anything. What the hell was I thinking?! *sigh* That's how much Winnik makes me incapable of thought. >.> Anyway, I did actually play their carnival game. It was cork shooting. The first time I shot I did knock a can down, but it wasn't the one I was aiming for... lol. Vrby reloaded my 'gun' and his hand touched mine. So yeah, that was pretty cool! Czechs unite. ;) (I'm half Czech technically, lol)
Vrbata's like "What the hell is going on?" :P
3. I basically just snuck in with SueAnn to get autographs from Z and Leppie. And then snuck in on her picture. XD
I don't have much to say about them, lol. They were pretty quiet compared to other guys... not surprising.
4. Yandle had a booth by himself. Why? We have no idea. But he was just being his usual Yandleface self. I dunno, I can never take that guy seriously. ;D
Oddly enough, I think this was the best picture of me. He awkwardly put his hand on my back. Haha, awkward Yandle! :P
5. Vandermeer was also by himself. (See, wth? Him and Yandle could have easily been together. Maybe Vandy doesn't like Yandleface? ahahaha... *ahem*). But it was sad, because for long periods of time he'd just be standing there alone in his booth with no people in line D: We felt bad for him, so we decided to go to his booth. And what happens? A line starts to form right when we get there, haha. But it cleared out again once we got up to him.
So since nobody was around, I got him to sign both my hat and jersey even though we're only *supposed* to get one item signed. Then we chatted to him for a couple minutes, asking why they put him by himself and everything. The carnival chick who was running his booth was talking to us, but Jimmy was pretty quiet. Haha, poor dude. Still, it was really cool to get to spend a couple extra minutes with him. I kept thinking Kathy (wicked_kathy) would have needed a serious oxygen tank! ;)
6. Somewhere in here I went to the booth with Aucoin and Pyatt. I didn't get pictures with them, apparently (again, that was stupid). But I got both of them to sign stuff. Penny was awesome. He was very chatty and it kind of felt like I was hanging out with my dad (not MY dad specifically, but like a father figure). Which is weird if I think about the fact that Kathy wants to have his next 5 children! :P
But seriously, Penny was probably the nicest, most talkative, chill dude there. I just watched the video of the Carnival (you can see it on the Coyotes website) and he's cracking jokes about how he was at the "eye candy" booth because all the girls were getting lost in Pyatt. o.O Ummm, I wasn't one of those girls, lol. But apparently even Penny recognizes his "ocean blue eyes". So funny! For those who live in a cave, this is Pyatt:
haha
7. Next is Lombardi & Stempniak. Lombo was awesome, AS ALWAYS. He was probably the 2nd nicest guy, behind Penny. He's just so ridiculously NICE and patient and laid back. We had to take the picture twice cause the first time Holly's camera died or whatever, but he was totally cool with it. Then he was watching as I tried to play their "golf challenge game", and I had to tell him, "It's ok, you can move on to the next people." lol. But he totally would have spent more time "playing" the game with me if I had chosen to monopolize his time. But I was ok with not doing that. :P
Yes, he put his arm around my back and I got to put my arm around him. XD eeee, love you Lombo. So much.
Kind of sad and weird that they paired Lombo with Stempniak. Nobody really knows Lee well, obviously. He just kind of stood off to the side, and I wouldn't be suprised if he was just shy about the whole thing. Still, I heard a fan wishing him well in Phoenix, and I think he appreciated it.
8. Finally, last up! Fiddler!
I walked up to him and handed him my hat to sign, which I promptly dropped on the floor >.> haha, why do I always do that? He and I bent down to pick it up at the same time, lol. He asked me how I was doing, and I just said "I'm good..." I wish I had thought of more to say, since I'm like a total fan of his. But again, I was tongue tied!
Hey look, I got to put my arm around him too! XD
I think he's only half-smiling in the picture because he's self conscious of his teeth. Cause SOME people say it's disgusting that he's missing 2 of them >.> You know who you are! :P
The front of my jersey, with Lombo's signature. =) He was the only one I decided to let sign on the front. Cause he's special. ♥
All of the sigs I got on my jersey. Numbered for clarity, since the pic is blury:
1. Shane Doan
2. Paul Bissonnette
3. Michalek
4. Jimmy! Vandermeer
5. Adrian Aucoin
6. Derek Morris
7. Sami Lepisto
8. Lee Stempniak
My hat, once again. Now with Vernon Fiddler, Taylor Pyatt, Jim Vandermeer, and Dan Winnik's signatures.
Bonus!
yes, I bought an old roster photo JUST for this part. OMG TELLY YOU DOOFUS, I LOVE YOU SFM. Tellqvist <3
I can't cut this part. All of the tickets we got to get players' autographs were also raffle tickets. One of the raffle prizes included an autographed Dan Winnik helmet. Um, who wanted that helmet REALLY FUCKING BAD? That's right, me. I put four of my tickets in the drawing for that package. And who won it? I DID!!!
What does my face look like?
Not to mention the prize also came with an autographed Beanie Wells football (a Cardinals football), a signed Jason Richardson Suns jersey and signed pictures of Grant Hill and Amare Stoudemire. I am one very happy Arizona sports fan right now. XD XD XD
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS TL;DR. Oh well, just look at the pretty pictures... :D
Special thank you to xcacophony for taking most of the pics of me with players, since she has a camera and I don't. Thank you!
1. First order of business was to get Jovo to sign my jersey. cause DUH it's his jersey, lol. The player they put with him was Paul Bissonnette. Now Biss is a really cool dude, if you recall he was one of the people who stopped after the last game before the break to sign for us in the parking lot. So anyway, when I got up there with my jersey I was having Jovo sign it and Biss said "Ok, you don't want me to sign it?" and I just felt too bad saying no, so I told him that yeah he should sign it. Aaaaand so there went the idea of only having Doan + Jovo sign the jersey, lmao. Oh well.
I was pretty much a pile of goo meeting Jovo, so all I managed to do was to tell him to sign on the white (thank god I said that). Biss made a comment about how many Jovanovski jerseys people had, and they both laughed. I think Biss was jealous =P
And that was that. I didn't get a picture with them. :( That was the only thing I wish I had done, was get a picture with Jovo. Oh well, next time...
2. Next on my list was DAN WINNIK, of course. idefk why I love him so much, but I do. Some pics:
I snagged this one from my friend SueAnn. :)
Holly took a bunch of Winnie and she doesn't even know why. :P She's not a fan of him. Which makes me sad. ;__; But the pictures make me happy! ;)
psst, that's my hair/black jacket, it's me walking away from him. He totally doesn't want me to leave, right? ;D
ALDG:HEGBNE;EUITH *DIES*. My faaaaave picture, like, ever. :D
Holly's camera was accidentally left on zoom, which totally works for me. You can see his eyes are so green. *___*
So yes. This made my day. Winnie signed my hat. I got to see him up close. I couldn't think of a thing to say to him, which is really sad. =/ Other people actually talked to him and said what a nice, happy guy he was. Damn those online gossip people for saying he's a jerk! I don't believe it at all.
The other player with Winnik was Vrbata. I just realized today that I didn't get his autograph on anything. What the hell was I thinking?! *sigh* That's how much Winnik makes me incapable of thought. >.> Anyway, I did actually play their carnival game. It was cork shooting. The first time I shot I did knock a can down, but it wasn't the one I was aiming for... lol. Vrby reloaded my 'gun' and his hand touched mine. So yeah, that was pretty cool! Czechs unite. ;) (I'm half Czech technically, lol)
Vrbata's like "What the hell is going on?" :P
3. I basically just snuck in with SueAnn to get autographs from Z and Leppie. And then snuck in on her picture. XD
I don't have much to say about them, lol. They were pretty quiet compared to other guys... not surprising.
4. Yandle had a booth by himself. Why? We have no idea. But he was just being his usual Yandleface self. I dunno, I can never take that guy seriously. ;D
Oddly enough, I think this was the best picture of me. He awkwardly put his hand on my back. Haha, awkward Yandle! :P
5. Vandermeer was also by himself. (See, wth? Him and Yandle could have easily been together. Maybe Vandy doesn't like Yandleface? ahahaha... *ahem*). But it was sad, because for long periods of time he'd just be standing there alone in his booth with no people in line D: We felt bad for him, so we decided to go to his booth. And what happens? A line starts to form right when we get there, haha. But it cleared out again once we got up to him.
So since nobody was around, I got him to sign both my hat and jersey even though we're only *supposed* to get one item signed. Then we chatted to him for a couple minutes, asking why they put him by himself and everything. The carnival chick who was running his booth was talking to us, but Jimmy was pretty quiet. Haha, poor dude. Still, it was really cool to get to spend a couple extra minutes with him. I kept thinking Kathy (wicked_kathy) would have needed a serious oxygen tank! ;)
6. Somewhere in here I went to the booth with Aucoin and Pyatt. I didn't get pictures with them, apparently (again, that was stupid). But I got both of them to sign stuff. Penny was awesome. He was very chatty and it kind of felt like I was hanging out with my dad (not MY dad specifically, but like a father figure). Which is weird if I think about the fact that Kathy wants to have his next 5 children! :P
But seriously, Penny was probably the nicest, most talkative, chill dude there. I just watched the video of the Carnival (you can see it on the Coyotes website) and he's cracking jokes about how he was at the "eye candy" booth because all the girls were getting lost in Pyatt. o.O Ummm, I wasn't one of those girls, lol. But apparently even Penny recognizes his "ocean blue eyes". So funny! For those who live in a cave, this is Pyatt:
haha
7. Next is Lombardi & Stempniak. Lombo was awesome, AS ALWAYS. He was probably the 2nd nicest guy, behind Penny. He's just so ridiculously NICE and patient and laid back. We had to take the picture twice cause the first time Holly's camera died or whatever, but he was totally cool with it. Then he was watching as I tried to play their "golf challenge game", and I had to tell him, "It's ok, you can move on to the next people." lol. But he totally would have spent more time "playing" the game with me if I had chosen to monopolize his time. But I was ok with not doing that. :P
Yes, he put his arm around my back and I got to put my arm around him. XD eeee, love you Lombo. So much.
Kind of sad and weird that they paired Lombo with Stempniak. Nobody really knows Lee well, obviously. He just kind of stood off to the side, and I wouldn't be suprised if he was just shy about the whole thing. Still, I heard a fan wishing him well in Phoenix, and I think he appreciated it.
8. Finally, last up! Fiddler!
I walked up to him and handed him my hat to sign, which I promptly dropped on the floor >.> haha, why do I always do that? He and I bent down to pick it up at the same time, lol. He asked me how I was doing, and I just said "I'm good..." I wish I had thought of more to say, since I'm like a total fan of his. But again, I was tongue tied!
Hey look, I got to put my arm around him too! XD
I think he's only half-smiling in the picture because he's self conscious of his teeth. Cause SOME people say it's disgusting that he's missing 2 of them >.> You know who you are! :P
The front of my jersey, with Lombo's signature. =) He was the only one I decided to let sign on the front. Cause he's special. ♥
All of the sigs I got on my jersey. Numbered for clarity, since the pic is blury:
1. Shane Doan
2. Paul Bissonnette
3. Michalek
4. Jimmy! Vandermeer
5. Adrian Aucoin
6. Derek Morris
7. Sami Lepisto
8. Lee Stempniak
My hat, once again. Now with Vernon Fiddler, Taylor Pyatt, Jim Vandermeer, and Dan Winnik's signatures.
Bonus!
yes, I bought an old roster photo JUST for this part. OMG TELLY YOU DOOFUS, I LOVE YOU SFM. Tellqvist <3
I can't cut this part. All of the tickets we got to get players' autographs were also raffle tickets. One of the raffle prizes included an autographed Dan Winnik helmet. Um, who wanted that helmet REALLY FUCKING BAD? That's right, me. I put four of my tickets in the drawing for that package. And who won it? I DID!!!
What does my face look like?
Not to mention the prize also came with an autographed Beanie Wells football (a Cardinals football), a signed Jason Richardson Suns jersey and signed pictures of Grant Hill and Amare Stoudemire. I am one very happy Arizona sports fan right now. XD XD XD
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS TL;DR. Oh well, just look at the pretty pictures... :D