Welcome Home Teppo Campaign 2012

As you all know, Teppo Numminen plays an important role in the lives of the nervoustime crew. A fellow Cancerian, he has always been and will always be Rebecca's favourite hockey player of all time. He was the classiest Jet (original franchise), and now he's the classiest assistant defense coach around. Harlequin's reinterpreted song "Numminen: he's all we ever needed" sums up our views on Teppo. He really is all we ever needed.



When Teppo returned with the Sabres on Jan 19 (Wpg 4: Buffalo 1), he received no public accolades or 'shout-outs'. Where was the love? We don't know. Shame on Winnipeg! Shame on the Jets!

On March 5th when Teppo returns for the 2nd Buffalo-Winnipeg game, we need to show him our city's gratitude for his years of service. And Rebecca needs to add a fresh signature to her Numminen game-worn jersey (the signature from 1996 has faded). We'll try to figure out how to make that happen...

But in the meantime, we need your help Winnipeg in honouring our defensive superstar. Let's start a "Teppo" chant. We want to see Teppo signs in the crowd. How about airing a little video montage on the screens? Or even better airing the Harlequin song? Who's with me? Let us not forget our other Finnish hero!

TEPPO CAMPAIGN 2012

ps. Kenny G and B-Town will be in section 217 thanks to the wonders of chance & opportunity.

pps: check out our friend Aynsley's blog about home renos - she's hilarious: http://bohohouseandhome.blogspot.com/

Boston @ Winnipeg Feb 18, 2012

boston bruins @ winnipeg jets

this one's brought to you by the winkworth sisters, kenny-g and trace are representing nervoustime @ cheer bar. gsp, where are you? since gsp fell off the facebook earth we never see him.

amazing energy. vanessa got carded and rebecca didnt so the elder sister is having a bit of a meltdown.

chara isnt as big as we thought he'd look in real life.

we're getting into a little bit of trouble for our signs. no touching the glass and no leaning apparently in the mts arena. "Doesn't that guy Constantine work @ the Mts centre? We should ask him about this no leaning rule next time @ Cheer".

i've got a feeling about wheelz tonight! - r

end of 1st period. no goals.

intermission was jam packed with line-ups.

burmistrov scores!

moments later, kelly scores and we have a tied game!

and with 2 min left, wheels scores a beautiful goal! so beautiful we're gonna tell vic toews all about it.

one of our signs says "no to c30" if anybody cares.

the woman next to me scared the shit out of me. cosmetic surgery gone wild. oy vey.

end of second period. 2:1 jets.

vanessa dropped the last skittile. "still gonna eat it. you can wipe candy clean".

another realization: $10 doubles are the way to go @ the mts centre.

krejci scores and makes it 2:2 tie.

the slovak giant earns a chorus of boos from the crowd.

bryan little scores it up by snapping into the top corner! 3:2 jets!

little again! 4:2 jets! and there's a mutha fuckin wave going through the arena! yessss!!!!!

a puck flew super close, an older mad scientist caught it right behind us but gave it to a little wee bruins fans. what evs. we'll be waiting for you after the game, kid. at least the usher didn't take away the puck. that is the stupidest new rule ever.

we've got 4 on 3 (jets) this is gonna get crazy. fans are goin wild.

that wave lasted for at least 6 rounds.

waiting to start the play til the smooch cam's done.

now the queen is on the jumbo screen pulling the winning 50/50 ticket! she's got 3 british guards with her and this is one of the best things i've seen at a recent jets game. welcome home, queenie!

there are a million penalties going on right now.

jets power play. 5:30 left in the game!

boston pulls tukka from the net. oops, has to go back right away!

it's an empty net for boston and it's gonna be a jets win!

final score 4:2!

what an amazing game for Little and Wheelz! you've always been 2 of our favourites, guys. Oduya and Slater, too. And Stuart. 'Don't forget Thorburn'.

we're off to paint the town red, crash some parties and get rowdy in the streets. and hopefully run into some jets so we can high five them in person.

ps. we haven't had time to draft a new blog about our horrendous Moon Club dining experience @ Rudys in Winnipeg's Hydro building. Unbelievably overpriced food, salt-happy-chef, pretentious 'deconstructed' salads, horrible management, sand-in-the-scallops, measly portion of chicken. The only redeeming factor was our sweet waiter who had to deal with us after our request to speak to the manager or chef was ignored. Thanks for nothin' Rudy's! We'll never be back.

jets vs sabres. live from the cheer

Present, currently: tracey, kendra, vanessa, becca. live blog thanks to tracey's extra work phone. beer is cheap as borscht @ the cheer before 7pm.

Truth: Vanessa saw a mama and baby bear in wellington park last night. "Did you call the media?" - K.

Discussion about wildlife in urban areas - rabid raccoons, bloody deer and cute rabbits.

It's Winnipeg @ Buffalo. The "Numminen sets the Teppo" sign is still in Rebecca's purse. No Teppo sightings yet on the multiple TV screens surrounding us.

Discussion about boys, friends and rules of relationships.And then Prince: why can't you take a photos during his concerts? is it because he's a jehovah's witness? an artist? controlling?

jeremy and pam arrive. according to ace burpee it's easy to trust people who are into cross-country skiing and snow shoeing. according to v you shouldn't trust anyone who has hair covering an eye "they have something to hide." according to k you should trust people who are into winter (ace and kendra are kindred spirits).

end of 1st period. no score.

trivia time. "i think i know that guy" - rebecca.

stocking up on cheap beer 6:59pm.

"i think you're the only one who brought a sign" - vanessa. "also, i had a huge crush on that guy kendra knows from like 10 yrs ago."

shout out to the stellar buffalo defense (hello, teppo!)

2012: the '77 rule is out. now you can only sleep ith dragons and rabbits. omar's on his way "he'll totally win the 20 gift card during the 2nd intermission trivia."

tyler myers scores. 1:0 buffalo.

"i wonder if claude noel sings opera in the locker room?"

24 7 requests: winnipeg and detroit (v), winnipeg and columbus (k - to raise awareness), winnipeg and buffalo (r, obviously).

"turn down the suck!" pam

jets are 5 on 3. wheeler scores! game tied at 1:1.

"it's always ok to cut up a flag to make a sundress".

reminiscing about tijuana yacht club " i used to go there and visit each bar asking the bartender to make me a shot that was 'pink and on fire'".

jeremy hit a nerve. see his facebook status for details (discussion on cycles). "im just happy we all still get our periods"- pam. cheers to not being pregnant.

"i dont want to go to the bathroom in case something happens" - pam. they have tvs in the bathroom @ earls. "i went there with gsp and when i went to the bathroom i didnt want to leave." - k.

"i love hockey players spelling bees" - r.

3 min left in the 3rd . "i'm calling a shoot out" - pam.

we wonder if bogey threads his eyebrows. "thats his armenian blood."

dating guys who are prettier than you: weird.

johnny oduya scores! oh what a day! oh what a guy! what a smile! "he is so sexy i can barely contain myself. i could hump anyone named johnny right now." - r.

kenny g's big into briere. "he's a snake."

cbc cuts to the montreal-toronto game instead of replaying johnny o's goal ("which i will be doing all night when i get home"- r). goddam yu, cbc. who the fuck cares about the leafs.

regardless this game will go down in history. #iddoyaoduya. proud of ya, johnny. hope to see you around town.

love the nervoustime crew. xo

winter classic

Typical of Jagr, marching to the beat of his own drum.
Winter Classic 2012, Rangers vs. Flyers. "This is how hockey should be played".

In attendance, Rebecca (host), Eric, G Smith-Pelly, Kendra & Vanessa
"mmm mmm" Kendra, "we wrote about how good these cookies are already, right?"
Eric (marshmallow salad King) "we should have the Winter Classic here this year". Agreed!

Rebecca has revealed the 2011 news quiz! Time to put our remembering caps on.
weird diplo's blackberry commercial.
'the class clown isn't very funny if he can't pass the test."

favorite new york rangers:
kendra: michael del zotto
rebecca: marc staal (shoutout to the sunshine sod farm)
graham: the coach, john tortorelo
vanessa:
eric:

we can come back to this.

Turns out jagr (who just missed a goal) is rebecca and ness' mom's choice for 'best looking guy in the nhl ever" kendra's is vincent lecalvelier, graham: john tortorello, the coach of the rangers, eric's hasn't formed an opinion yet, rebecca 'teppo numinen of course and then johnny oduya". the winkworth sisters both like kimmo timonen ("mainly because his name reminds me of teppo's" - rebecca)

So the flyers are skating upwind in the first period and still have more shots. weather update from philly, 4 celcius with wind at 35Km / hour, Winnipeg we are at minus 14 with 13km/h. There wind is west. Ours is north.

The game is scoreless after the 1st period.

Brunch is served: eggs, bacon, toast, marshmallow salad, cinnamon cookies, cherries and dried apricots, fruit juice (variety), gin, whisky.

Start of the 2nd, still no score. Lundquist's new goalie pads featured. Don't look as aweseom as Mason's new pads. "He seems like a great guy" - GSP. Commercial break, time for a quote from Ron MacLean's new book Cornered:
'Cari said "That's not a woman, Don. That's Elvis Stojko."'

Tanqueray makes us think of Snoop Dogg and Amy Winehouse. The mixed drinks are delicious: cranberry, gin, gingerale, fresh ice (thanks to Eric "your ice was questionable". "Your ice is fine with me" - GSP.)

1st NHL goal for Brayden Schenn! "Another famous bro!" - Kendra. "Faceoff win, thank you very much"- Vanessa. 1:0 Flyers.

And before that goal sets in, Giroux gets it up and in the net! "Nice!" "Incredible" "And he was out for so many games and now he's the scoring leader" "AND he had a concusssion!" 2:0 Flyers.

And before THAT goal sets in, Rupp gives the Rangers some life and salty salute to Jagr. Apparently Elliotte Friedman is the 'salute specialist' on CBC. 2:1 game.

there are strawberries under the cherries. kendra's top three flyers: jagr, briere, giroux. rebecca: hartnell, jagr, timmonen, graham: simmonds, talbot, and hartnell, vanessa: timmenin, simonds and jagr.

quote from cornered: "Don Cherry is the clown prince. Foils like Ron Maclean are a dime a dozen."

It feels like minus three. the wind has died down to 19 kms/hr.

SHOUTOUT IN ADVANCE to any meterology students that may be linked to our blog because of our weather.

Next quote: 'good grief, if that's the size of the bone, imagine the dog!"

Eric lindros has the best hands! 'if that's the size of his hands, imagine....."

Quote: 'ron, there are plenty of sweaters in this world"

The flyers jerseys are bright bright though. the roots, 'pretty depressing that they're called jimmy fallon's house and now...."

so many commercials. 'i always side with love and he argues for respect" - another part from Cornered.

they haven't started the third yet.

if i was a coach (k) i would form my lines based on how good of a chant could come out of their names, 'gsp' etc

'the best period is about to come".....3rd period.

Is Elliotte Friedman retiring? @ElliotteFriedman

Rupp shoots and scores a"bad goal". 2:2 tie game!

Lundqvist shuts the door. Great goalie. Great pads. Great saves. Hartnell's brilliant ginger mane is dulled by the bleeding colours of his jersey. too bad.

Brad Richards scores and the Rangers lead 3:2. lots of Ranger fans in the crowd. this is uncomfortable territory for Philly.

the new york rangers had an eruption. but ron maclean quote: 'remember, if you make them look good, you'll look good" - i think that's misplaced commas. the double comma means you can take it out and it will have the same meaning: 'remember you'll look good'

john tortorella reminds rebecca of tom cruise. leads to question 'are there any nhl players who are scientologists?" jere gillis: "I made it to the NHL but Scientology has made me more successful. It has given me an understanding of life and relationships that cleared up a lot of "advice" that I had before. And life is great!" also daniel boyle. just an observation (k) that maybe some la kings too. the scientology buildings in hollywood are huge!!! it's pretty remarkable.

discussion of phil collins and 'against all odds' imagine graham, former edward carriere model skating on the ec rink with that song playing in the background 'take a look at me now, baby."

graham applauds gb. 'i like gary bettman now"

average ticket price of the scalpers '489 dollars" #blackmarketvalue

mark messier, not a scientologist but an advocate for preventative health care.

penaty shot

another winter classic come and gone, we feel a lot better than other years, still divided on whether we prefer it to be on the 1st or 2nd

happy new year, rangers win, don't forget to watch the junior game tomorrow and jets/montreal on thurs. see you soon, xo love nervoustime

Party like it's 2011 - Happy New Year's Eve!

V & R representing at the Flo, rocking the eyeshadow and awaiting Kenny G & GSP. "I hope Kendra is wearing eyeshadow"- R. "And that someone is bringing veggies".

Someone once said you can never wear too much blue eyeshadow.

hi guys! it's kendra here and it's almost a carnival like atmosphere here at nervoustime and you bet i'm wearing eyeshadow.

The Leafs have the lowest PK average in he NHL in the last eleven years! Ya!

Graham has arrived with lots of chips.....pam has bumped into enstrom, she is texting from the game.

lots of leafs fans in the house, graham 'probably chris hannah' - graham 'i love the jets after that game. why didn't you get me a glass..."

the food is fantastic so far. lots of cheese and dips and fried things. Vanessa made sure nothing burned in the oven (high five!)

ok we're gonna report a brief moment on the game: it's the 3:2 Jets. Bogosian with the 1st goal, Ladd with the 2nd and Wheeler with the 3rd. High fives all around.

CBC cuts to a shot of Evander Kane wearing a silver suit (a wee bit snug) and Graham thinks it looks like it's made out of duct tape. "Eric Fehr, I like him a lot" - GSP, "But he's not very good."

Oduya is once again on fiyah tonight (BTW, #iddoyaoiduya is a hashtag sensation!) Bogey, also playing like a superstar.

Group discusses the "boo effect" when the Wpg crowd tries to intimidate opposing teams by booing and taunting players. GSP doesn't like it. Rebecca thinks it's all about context (ie if a player recently injured a Jet).

"Why does that referee have a hockey stick?"

Jets nicknames:
Enstrom - Pocket Lidstrom (apparently from Atlanta)
Wheeler - Wheelz
Oduya - Johnny O (I'd do ya, Oduya)
Kane - Big Daddy Kane/King Kane
Byfuglien - Papa Buff/Big Buff
Pavalec - Pavi
Hainsey - Hainseysey
Bogosian - Bogey
Ladd - Andy

GSP's phone ring is the Sex and the City theme song.

Time out. 1 minute left in the game!

TORONTO EMPTY NET! BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER! 3:2 final.

Tension on the ice between Bogosian and Cormier, despite the awesome win. "They must have slept with the same girl." Apparently the Jets will be partying at Rudy's tonight - we're still contemplating crashing "especially now that they've won, they'll totally want to party!"

Jets can ring in the New Year as WINNERS! So can we. And so can you. Love to all our nervsoustime readers and thanks for the great 2011. Can't wait for 2012.

'can we watch a big daddy kane video?'" - graham. 'oooh bon jovi in buffao'

happy new year love nervoustime xoxo

the crosby show, november 21.

2nd period thanks to rebecca bringing her work laptop. fancy. present, kendra, gsp, rebecca. my apartment is so hot i've changed once and graham just took off his sweater. we got pizza from paradise and breadsticks. drinking cheetah power surge for the first time and it's pretty refreshing. graham says it reminds him of grape tylenol. so sidney crosby, thoughts? rebecca, "i gotta think about my words a little bit.' graham "i don't have any yet, you can ask my thoughts on feta and tomato pizza. that's my thought on sidney crosby." graham has been getting lots of texts and is already four lucky's into the evening. "it's like summer time, a bunch of lucky's it's 35 degress in this apartment and sidney crosby's back, it's like a typical june day" rebecca. graham is going to check his facebook. so it's a break right now, still hasn't gotten any cooler in this apartment. we have discussed our hope that people don't hit him hard. i LOVE the saying 'new season, new hat' as i used to have a theory that i would only date people who only owned one hat. i find when people own too many hats it is too overwhelming. rebecca has her head close to the screen and is wanting to make out with sc. she also likes the hat detail. super nice to recieve messages from other fans, ryan, etc. the breadsticks are also great as always. rebecca and vanessa got free pizza recently, it was 78 minutes and free. not sure if it's over 75 mins or what when that happens. 'i should have ordered a salad, 20 pizzas.....'. we also were talking earlier about how chris pronger is probably a really nice guy off the ice and there are lots of parks in winnipeg, speaking of parks conversation turns to the occupy process. what do you think think tanks come up with.....what's your message? what are they asking for, just a discussion about how our parents don't always understand the drumming circles. that's what they are hearing from the news. tom broadback 'we want our park back" graham disputes he has ever been to that park. the other park has a name the stockbrokers may not know. 'i hate drum circles but i hate corporate facism even more'. graham's talking about postal rally's this summer and how the speakers didn't mention how the industry has changed, they have lost leverage because of technology and they don't mention that.
third period up. 'i feel bad for the goalie, kindness." another goal for the penguins. just to say if you read our archives the pens were the original faves of nervoustime when our blog began in 2009. graham already thinks the penguins are going to win the cup this year. we're still talking about police brutality. very serious night here at nervoustime, i blame the heat. i am so hot right now i'm contemplating changing into a sundress. rebecca is barefoot. graham asks if sidney has a brother...he must have one. that's not his brother though. maybe he has an older brother......pittsburgh and montreal this saturday. who is that guy? the coach didn't tell the team. i found out from kelly hrudey, rebecca found out on tsn, graham found out from me. we listened to pam's broadcast (new sportscaster) but she mostly talked about football. rebecca is dressed for summer in capris. graham still in longjohns. 'all sid all night' rebecca loves fluery. 'like a butterfly'.
so we are all getting subway giftcards for xmas from graham. last year i gave everyone maps with their favorite restraurants marked with stickers on the map.....rebecca - sals, vanessa's pancake house, sherri, taco bell, graham nook. 'we have to go to sals one day' ' we have to go to the st. james nook.'. ....we're giving a shoutout to ducky, breakfast conisouer. discussion of how often restaurants change their vents. favorite smells, rebecca 'dryer sheets' kendra 'red wine' graham 'cinamon' haha i might change my smell to orange but at the game yesterday i got a little too cute.....'oooooh someone smells like wine....." so we also didn't look back while reading the stadium and right after saw ace freeley's biography in chapters 'no regrets' and that made it seem more realistic. also what we will do in berlin. one minute left in the big comeback game. realized we haven't really been talking about the game but it's good to blog again.
final thoughts graham 'you can never have enough rope.' kendra 'no regrets' rebecca 'i think we should all try and get tickets to the next pittsburgh game.'

xo gps, r and k.

first live jets game blogspot

breaking news!!!

game hasn't started but we have confirmation on scott oake's birthday! his nephew spotted us with our sign on portage ave and let us know: birthday july 17, 1952. the randomness of winnipeg is truly magical.

we're in the best seats in the house. shout out to uncle norm! met our neighbours (also coming from the bombers game - they won!) feeling good about this game. despite carolina's winning streak, i'm thinking the winnipeg winning streak is going to trump it.

opening thoughts: "holy shit", vanessa says "jets are going to win". "feeling verclempt", rebecca.

good pace. we can smell the players from these seats.

weak goal for carolina. jokinen.

another weak goal. 2:0.

"i've never seen the coach yell at a player like he's yelling at scheifele right now" - our neighbour. vanessa's reading lips: "he said 'no more funny business'".

2:1 now! burmistrov!

eric staal is way better looking in person. also apparently it's burmistrov's birthday today. 20 years young.

end of first period. the crowd is fantastic. so protective of our young guns. we think oduya might've seen our sign.

also, multiple text messages confirm nesse and i were on cbc.

2nd period and jets score 4 min in - slater brings in the lead! 3:2 jets.

evander kane shoots his first of the season! there was another goal too! we missed it waiting in the beer line. we are trying our hardest to pace ourselves, it's been tough limiting alcohol consumption with the bomber and jets double-whammy.

5:2 jets!

this game reminds me of why i love hockey; community spirit.

staal-sie and oduya are itchin' to fight.

the cbc camera guy likes us.

the "i'd do ya oduya' sign made it on cbc. held by the guy across the aisle from us. he had no idea what it said but seemed really eager to grab it from us. now he says we're "bad news". we can only implore that it is, in fact, all good news. best thing is nervoustime got a major big-deal shoutout on cbc! maybe scott oake will read our blog now!

making friends smoking outside during intermission. people chanting 'go jets go' amidst the haze of tobacco and other smokable products.

back inside now. the beer line is insane. there are a lot of line-ups at nhl games.

still waiting 5 min later. ridiculously insane. beers cost 8.25. again, insane.

back at the seats. slater's hurt. i'm worried.

the guy from across the aisle comes back. he's received many emails/texts teasing him about the "i'd do ya oduya" sign. we can't wait to make more signs. this cbc guy really likes us and we think this is the beginning of a long-term relationship.

jokinen scores again. 5:3 jets. still feeling confident, although the jets are looking a little pooped.

been a lot of bullshit penalties. 5 on 3. nervoustime. birthday boy burmistrov is incredible. we tell him so.

our neighbour's name is neil.

end of game. 5:3 jets. we may be their good luck charm. neil thinks so, too. just sayin'.