Today, Greg Wyshynski from Yahoo! Sports Puck Daddy blog will be your kind host.
Why do I get a Friday at the end of August? Seriously, this is like NBC debuting a comedy at 9:30 on a Saturday night. I feel like the “Inside Schwartz” of guest hockey bloggers. Leahy, you are teh suck.
Since I’ve been charged with filling space while Sean staggers around in a haze of rum while picking sand out of the most uncomfortable of places (like in the back of a Volkswagen), I decided to use this post to help solve my own personal conundrum.
I have a rather small collection of hockey jerseys in my closet: Four Devils sweaters (including a red-and-green one that I’m pretty sure my father made with electrical tape), a Predators, a Finnish national team, a Gretzky-era Kings, a Canadiens Roy jersey and a Nash Blue Jackets jersey (because he’s a cool dude). But I also have a white replica St. Louis Blues jersey that I snagged off of eBay.
That smudge you see is this autograph, which the seller mentioned in his pitch.
I’ve worn the jersey on many occasions. I have no fracking clue who signed it.
A first glance makes me think it could be Craig Janney. But that last name doesn’t look like it begins with a “J.” Cliff Ronning? It doesn’t look like an “R” either. In my dreams I want to believe it’s Chris Pronger, but the jersey has a little age on it and I’m not convinced. The name the autograph most resembles is Corey Perry, but that’s impossible.
What has me worried is this: When I was a young lad, I took a baseball glove to a Mets/Reds game. I was getting as many autographs as I could from the Cincinnati players, because we were on their side of the diamond. I had autographs from John Franco and a few other familiar names. When I took the glove home, there was a name I couldn’t make out. And then I flashed back to the autograph scrum and realized who it was: The damn batboy for the Reds reached up and starting signing stuff. What a dick.
So this could be Craig Janney or Cliff Ronning or Chris Pronger or Corey Perry or a stick-boy. Any help?
Happy weekend, everyone. Hope you get some muscle from behind.
6 comments:
It's gotta be Janney. Only guy I ever saw pass on a solo breakaway.
Pretty sure that's Chris Pronger
http://www.grandstandsports.com/sport5.aspx?itemid=11905
Do I see a number to the right of the sig?
Surely, you can get a better photo for us.
Don't think it's Pronger or Janney.
Connie Forey? Puck Daddy, he did play like 4 games ... *laughs*
Sorry, that was mean ... your blog is fine *smiles*
Pronger seems unlikely
Not Janney either
Although I can't find Forey's autograph (he played 4 games in the NHL), it seems like a fit.
That's Craig Janney. I've gotten his autograph many times and sometimes he loops back with the "J" and sometimes he doesn't so it looks like a "P" or "L". If the space is small he will group both names together and it looks like the example shown by "i have kasparaitis" - hope this helps.
Gregsky
I think that's Janney - I have his autograph at home and it looks pretty much exactly the same.
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