Ronnie Brewer Profile Story.

While the Holidays are fast approaching there’s one thing that is getting Chicago sports fans ready for Christmas this year, basketball. The NBA lockout was affecting many people this year but people like Ronnie Brewer Jr. kept hope, continuing his workouts all summer in hopes the lockout would end with any type of a season left at all. “All I can say is that I’m glad to be back at work,” Brewer on the lockout lift.

For Brewer, basketball wasn’t always something he thought himself of playing, “The love for the game grew with the relationships and friendships that came about with the coaches and players and the competitiveness which allow me to play today,” he explained.   Born on March 20, 1985 in Portland, Oregon his father, Ronnie Brewer Sr. wanted him to play baseball and to create his own path and not be compared to him while growing up because he had also played basketball in the NBA. He did try baseball and was good at it but it wasn’t anything he loved. He wanted to do everything his older siblings did and so, he did just that, which has led to his on growing basketball career. Although criticized by some others praise his unique shot caused by an accident in the 5th grade, in which he broke his arm on the water slide. It healed properly but affected the way he shot the ball and has been shooting that way ever since.

Declaring early for the draft in 2006 Brewer didn’t finish his last year of college at Arkansas, he thought that this summer with the lockout he would go overseas to play but his mother, Carolyn Brewer, thought differently and encouraged him to go back and finish his final year.

A moment he will never forget and the biggest highlight of his career, the 2006 NBA draft, “Having my friends and family with me in NYC for the draft and hearing them call my name, greatest moment thus far,” he described. Being drafted by the Utah Jazz was the start to his NBA career. He slowly became their main shooting guard until 2010 where he was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for a short 5 months before agreeing to a deal with the Chicago Bulls. Brewer loves Chicago and its atmosphere, the fans, the team and the coaches but when it came to the weather, Brewer couldn’t express that same love, “I’m still trying to get used to the weather, not a fan of that just yet.”

While only doing marketing and promotions, for Brewer, for a year, Knyja Reed said Brewer would do anything within reason for his fans, “He loves his fans and feels very blessed to have them, “she said, which may be the reason other than the love for his community in starting the “Brew Crew.” In 2006 he started the Ronnie Brewer Foundation which goes hand in hand in helping the community both in Chicago and back in Arkansas. “It’s my intuition that you have to know where you’re from before you know where you want to go in life,” he described. He is not only very active in giving back to the communities around the holiday season but also has scholarships for local high school and university students; he has an annual Brew Crew basketball camp and an annual Ronnie Brewer Foundation dinner. He has also been a great guy when it came to a local signings in the Chicago land area. He was extremely friendly and great to fans, Alan G. a worker from the signing at Fans Edge said, “He was very down to earth and was so easy to talk to; it’s those kinds of athletes that really stand out as keepers and Chicagoans hope stick around.”

Newish Job

So since living in Chicago i got a job at the most amazing sports store. Well i love it. We just had a signing at the store and usually i am on the other end of those. I always thought while being at them though like man it would be pretty cool to work one and see what it's like, right? It went great and everything it was for a basketball player, Ronnie Brewer of the Chicago Bulls.Although basketball was never really my sport and i don't religiously watch it he really was a class act guy and very niceand may have changed my wanting to pay attention more,that and my crazy basketball player and lover of the sport roommate of course. I also made chocolate covered strawberries for the event and they were a "Great Success!" Well for now i just thought i would make this great discovery until my later story will come, a
profile on Brewer. I'm in the process of talking with him and have to get it all together. ESPN here i come wednesday to tour you, make my dreams come true!
Over and Out, Candice

DEFENSE.

Chicago's defense has been SUPERB! They have been not only scoring points but playing both defensivly and offensivly great. Nick Leddy has been ultra impressive, Montador has been a beast. The whole team itself has been playing all around better then a couple of the "fluke" like games they had.
I have a feeling this circus trip is going to be one of there best get some bonding going on and some great chemistry going. They got some canuckle heads to tend too!

Polar Plunge

My dearest family and friends, it's here again. I am mentally preparing for the Polar Plunge that will take place in February. I have HUGE goals this year compared to the last 2 years so I’m getting a head start in November to make sure i can raise as much as i can for such a great cause. I personally don't have any family members who are a part of this program but i have raised money for it for 2 years and know how much it means to all of those who are a part of the huge event, they are all amazing people and deserve to do what they love just as much as anyone! I will be doing everything i can to raise money this year to make sure i can top my previous years, so PLEASE have a warm heart and do what you can to help an amazing fundraising organization reach their goal. I will again be joining a Blackhawks player in this event but it is not revealed yet who the lucky guy will be, and we will make sure he actually goes in this year (John Scott.) We are going to want to be the team that raises the most! It is not only raising money for such a good cause but I meet wonderful people doing it some of which are my close friends. It’s a great event and great opportunity to make a difference and do it Freezing your, well you know. Anything will help, so please tell your friends, tell your neighbors, heck tell the next person you see!

You can do it in one of two ways:
1. Cash donations I will collect for a while and then I put them online with your names on the amount along with it.2. Visit my awesome site and follow the steps on there.
 http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/candice-martens/2012-polar-plunge-evanston
                                                                            Thank You So Much, CANDICE!

Check it out the first time interviewed from the PLUNGE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdVjV8sJPw

WinnBos.

It was just as excciting as flying to Atlanta last november, seeing some old guys (Ladd, Buff.) Not only is it officially my game of the season to always go to now but it was an actual really good game. I mean it put us on the edge of our seats right off the bat with them getting a lead on us but both teams played a good strong game. So happy i got to be there for it, it was weird everyone just kept talkking about buff being back and stuff but to me i was like umm hello ladd left and took over a team? Did we forget he was one of my favorite players, yet another player i called in his success, i swear people should listen to me more just like the organization should really give me tickets to the whole season, on account they win all the games i'm at...am i right? of course i am.
Much like tonights game against Boston, the boys looked really GOOD, i was extremley pleased with how they played. Never been a fan of the shootout determining the game, i can't say they aren't exciting and nail bitting but i like it as an entertainment thing not to determine who gets the extra point. Nothing is like an original six match up i feel as if we should play them more throughout the season, but who am i to say.
Can't wait for next saturday, we play the Av's at home and the Hull/Kita staues will be reveiled, Oh man exciting!
Found out i get free NHL for the month of october yesterday, WHAT and noone told me!? Now i can watch hockey all day everyday, thank you coworkers! Really can it get better than that?
That's all folks. Far well for now.

Random.

Man in the last couple of days a lot has gone on, well i think. ESPN's Sarah Spain wrote an article about Chicago female fans giving other sports areas a run for their money because we mean buisness, which we do! Anyways she mentioned me in it which was cool i told her a cool story of my die hardness and she mentioned it a little, unfortunatley some girl had sent a picture of her shrine in so she got more of the spotlight but hey fellow hawks lover i could care less as long as shes a real fan of the game, right and her shrine is just as amazing as mine so it's like how could i be mad she is awesome! I have the link posted her so you can check it out, pretty amazing.

http://espn.go.com/espnw/commentary/7089966/sarah-spain-windy-city-boasts-most-die-hard-female-fans

Today the two patricks went to a downtown Qdoba to film a commercial for blackhawks tv, so i figured hey i live downtown why not go check it out right? Well i did, it was pretty cool and fun to see and say hey i was at that, but i mean to many puck bunny type girls there, not fun. Didn't get a free burrito but it's okay i'm fine with it although we were rather hungry, no big deal. haha but now it was a fun situation and intresting to watch and see how big these guys really are down here, they are literally treated like celebrities and it's insane, i love it, they deserve it!

Ahh, tomorrow is game 3 for the boys against Winnipeg and i am proud to say i will be rockin in the madhouse tomorrow. Get to see not only my boys but my boys from Winni too, Ladd, thank goodness!
Thought i'd do a little update there will be great hockey stories tomorrow after the game, so be alert the one of you that read this. Ta-Ta for now.

First Game at the Madhouse 11'-12'

Tonight is what THEY do! 5-2 win over Dallas, Hawks outshoot 31-21. They still have improvements on little things (penalty kill, just want it to be the same rockstarness as before) but tonight was a good win they needed to get that. Now they got the 4 day game break until the face Winnipeg at home! (Time for a new Program/Magazine too)

Crawford again did good, as little action that he had, he was tested and for the most part did steller. I mean the first goal was a bad angle top shelf goal and the 2nd was a crazy redirect in front of the net after that HARDcore blocked shot Kruger took from Surray, Intense!
Burish definatley seems to be over the friendly nice guy to us on the ice, i know he can't be all buddy buddy just cause we won a cup with him. I get it he's on another team has to do what it takes for them but i felt he was very wanting to start it with everyone tonight it was some crazyness. Like the fight that arose from him with Mayers/Dowell, i mean i don't want to see dowell fighting ahh, it's so hard for me to get over some players, with Dowell i don't know if it's the article i read about him last season just got me and made me live him more. But it was a good clean fight so that's good!

Nothing was greater then the breakaway goal by Toews, right out of the penalty box, the best ones by far.

How different is this team when Bolland is back. He really has that "rat" impact on our bench and i love it, him and Carcillo are going to make a good under the skin couple. If you can't beat join em, right Carbomb? ha. Nothing ended the game more wildley then first sharp going from a 2 minute minor, to adding on the 10 minute misconduct? Sharpie with a tude,crazy? and of coure with the Rat(with frolik) finishing the Stars off with the empty netter.
It was a great game they played tonight and something that we want to see more of!

Little fun fact that happened today: The first hattrick of the season, Phil Kesell of Toronto. That'll show you to pick him last again for the All-Star game, haha.

October 22nd the Unveiling of the Hull/Mikita Statue, get excited, these men are well deserving of this can't wait!

For Laughss.

Now predictions to me really mean nothing this early on in the season so really what my "predictions" i am going to make now are more or less who i want in the playoffs this year and who i think really has the good shot of it so just for laughs i'm going to do it...in no particular order, come on now, way to soon.

Eastern
Buffalo
Tampa Bay
Winnipeg
Washington
Pittsburg
Montreal
Boston
New York (R)

Western
Chicago
LA
San Jose
Nashville
Colorado
Detroit
Anaheim
Vancouver

Now this will probablly change in a week on account i had a hard time just doing this now cause there are so many potentials i think this season so i'll wait a little longer and make a better educated guess.

Not how i would want.

Well, so there it was...
They lost game one. It crazy, i mean we have what it takes there looking good, it's just not their night tonight. They just needed a good ol' start in the Madhouse. Leddy made it intresting, right, 13 seconds left on the clock you had that excited hope they may come out and tie it up. I hate to say we out-shot 38-33 because the score didn't show that but at least we are shooting.
How bout that hit Benn layed on Hjalmersson, dannnng, that kid broke the glass, that could have been no bueno for our little swedish man!
They just gotta get home get pumped becasue Game 1 in the Madhouse has yet to come. They got the studdly (corny) red carpet event tomorrow and it's game timeee they get to start from scratch with this guy's and show them whose house they are in.

As for around the league it doesn't get harder than this...
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=35&id=126646
watching the Bruins banner ceremony. To thin kit was us the beggining of last season (we lost) but still man! I mean i have to say i think they deserve it, i personally like Boston and honestly thought they were going to be the team that played the Hawks last season in the cup i knew they had one coming sometime soon. Congrats Bruins but once that ceremony hits man let the real challenge begin, The repeat!
See you in the enddddd!

Until then, I bid you farwelll!

You ready to rock

Well they went 2-1-4 in preseason, luckily i was able to go to the Washington one (why they won.) They should really give me season tickets to be there, they always win, i can't help it. All i can say is thank god it's over and we are moving forward to regular season, 4 days in counting.(which means 10 until Winnipeg is in town, whose excited? This Chikaa)
Now they can at least start just focusing on the game. I mean they made it official today Salak will go to Rockford and Emery will be the backup for Crawford, hopefully this means Emery can focus on his game now and impress us beyind what we could imagine when we need him, he's got what it takes.

Ahhh, what else is going around elsewhere, oh yes how could i forget Mr. Crosby was placed on IR for the begining of the season...right. Now i'm not one to judge how hurt someone is or what happened to them, but what happened to him? Now maybe he has really extreme symptoms, i don't know? Like yeah a concussion, i get it, but was is something more than that? I mean he's been out a good amount of time now. When people talked career ending i honestly didn't get it i saw all the hits he took last year and i just didn't see it. I just want to know what's truley and really going on, please tell me!! Milking it? i don't know in any event he's out for at least the first 7 games, tear.

Oh yes, how could i forget, more suspension hearings of course. Man Shanahan is going to be a busy man this season with this rule change in fact by the next time i post there will most likely be another hearing of some sort.
Well the days of off season are officially coming to an end and people are getting ready to start counting points, watching their fantasy hockey teams, pulling the jerseys out and getting ready for some goal music(Chelsea Dagger.) So let's get pumped for there are only 3 days left till it all begins.

Get ready boys and girls, it's here!!

Dilemas.

One of the hardest things for me to do right now is trying to figure out my schedule in life! I know that sounds so dramatic the fact that i mean, revolving my life around my hockey games, which alright it's a little extreme but come on i feel like i'm behind if i miss them like a weekly television show. Being away now in school, getting a new job adn trying to find an internship is crazy but "They" tell me it pay's off in the end, i hope "Their" right.
Now tonight, the Blackhawks played the Penguins and because of this new schedule i missed the first period and when i started to watch it i must say i was a little bit bummed we were out shooting them and had 4 power plays with no goals, when i started to watch it. They were the PP Masters and we for sure need that back! They ended the game with 1/6 on the PP, AHH!
I was on the other hand very impressed with the Bickell, Olesz, Pirri situation going on tonight. Great play making good chemistry going on there i love it! Pirri has actually impressed me beyind belief through this preseason training camp.
One other big thing i have always had a non like for is the pulling goalie deal, i mean i know it has helped before and you get real excited when it works in your favor but i just never was a fan and when they pulled him, not that he was great tonight or impressed me, but it was the last 50 seconds or so and we already were on a PK and it's preseason i think they might have been better if we kept him and they tried one last run, they started to get some flow at the end? Just not a fan of the goalie pulling. On top of this win we had to extend the Penguins win streak during preseason, come on boys!
All in all i CAN NOT wait for the last preseason game because next saturday they start big boy real game stuff and i want to see if there going to whip some crazyness out on us and shape up a little more.


Stay classy folks.

There are other sports out there...i just only have one on the mind.

Who knew last night when my friend invited me last minute to go to the White Sox game that one they would win the game and two it would be Ozzie Guillen's last game. I sure didn't on account, my nose is always in hockey news, i had no idea! I mean you'd hear like "Is this Ozzie's last season?" but i thought it was just that news that was to get the fans going. It was a pretty fun game and hey they played the Toronto Blue Jays, i apparently can't escape Canada in any way and the Canadian Anthem only made me more pumped for regular hockey season to start.
Speaking of hockey season Whoa Shanahan, i thought this new and improved rule 48(checks to the head) and rule 41(boarding) were all good and dandy until during preseason every single time i go to the NHL site, someone new has gotten suspended or being reviewed for the new changes. Really though i think what he's doing is only going to help out the organization and maybe players are going to start learning, finally, what's acceptable and whats not. If it takes them suspending all the players, ha.
On the other hand this sport is a physical sport and it's know for being a physical sport and you can't take the grit out of them game! It is just such a double ended battle that will end up running in circles FOREVER. People will love the cahnge and people will hate it, it happens.
As for people like Jacques, boy you got what you deserved. I don't know if he forgot what time period we were in but old time hockey fighting "jumping off the bench" hasn't been allowed quiet some time.

                                               Take a gander yourself. It's dirty, come on, Cheap.
Man between fans and players this preseason WHATS GOING ON!! Everyone needs to shape up and get ready for regular season.
Farwell for now.

There Baaaaackk

It may have been a preseason game but a game is a game and The Boys were Back in Town! It felt so good being at the United Center again and of course it was nice leaving with the win. Again it's always great to hear Jim Cornelius blow the top off the place with his amazing rendition of the national anthem. I can't say that they were on fire with the play but hey, Stalberg came to the game and Saad put them over to win it. They looked a bit sloppy in my opinion but i think they have what it takes and all the right players to get where they need to get this year. Toews and Smith were just not seeing eye to eye or conecting with passes to one another, i obviously wasn't the only one who noticed it cause it only last for a couple of lines before they got switched, Phew. It was surprising to see that they had the same amount of shots on goal because it seemed like the Caps were out playing the Hawks quiet a bit. All i can say is they need to work on PP although a lot of the "key" players were not in it would feel a lot better if they could be rock solid with or without them you never know whose going to get hurt, but hey like i said before it's only preseason they are still trimming the roster up and figuring eachother out. i think they got some great potential this year, i can smell the playofffs!
http://video.blackhawks.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=894&id=124472&navid=DL|CHI|home

Banana, Really?

Wow, you have to start to wonder about some of these hockey fans these days. I mean from Philly fans spitting on children in the playoffs to Vancouver having a riot, yes, when they lost? To people throwing banana peels at players?

I mean some good rivalry is okay in the sports world but really, really? Throwing a banana at someone who not only one probablly make 3 times more then you can make in your life, two has more skill then you ever would on account of, Oh yeah, HE STILL MADE THE GOAL, good one jackell and three i don't know if you've noticed but we live in the 21st century eh, your going to be a hillbilly then go to a Nascar race, welcome to a real sport.

“I’ve never had a banana thrown at me before... I guess it’s something I obviously have to deal with being a black player playing a predominantly white sport. I’ve grown a lot playing in this league and throughout my whole life. I’m not going to dwell on that. It’s over with now."

I'm sorry but i don't care if your purple, you shouldn't have to say, you guess you have to deal with it, if you got this kind of skill to be playing professionally, you play the game.
So classy fan, you fail. The NHL world doesn't need your support my friend there are plenty of fans who know a good player when they see one.

                                                 You stay classy fans.

"Roo-Wah"

I give him all the credit for why i am so into hockey the way i am. His bobblehead was the first ever hockey collector i ever had, thanks mom by the way. He made me want to play goalie when i was in floor hockey or when my brother wanted to shoot the puck in the driveway, which never believe your brother when he say's "oh you'll be fine" in the net with no protection and they play ice hockey, they act like your forhead is one with the net. I always have found him to be so fascinating and intresting and the greatest ever. I know there are plenty of great goalies out there like a Hextall or Dryden or Plante. But Patrick Roy was just so different he did his own thing always, he deservingly won the Stanley Cup 4 times two times with the Canadiens and two with the Avalanche but Montreal was where he first would shine and make an amazing change in his life from being a young scrowny goalie to one of the greatest goalies ever.I mean the man did the butterfly when his coach urged him to stop, that style is becoming more and more huge nowto amoungest goalies. His dad wrote a book about him that i bought and finished so fast because i thought his life was so intresting i didn't want to put it down. He literlly inspires me and i don't even play hockey but he is the reason i am so passionate for the game, Why i appriciate goalies so much adn how hard there position actually is.

"How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?"- Jacques Plante

I am a HUGE Chicago Blackhawks fan HUGE, but i was always intrested when i was younger in the Av's because that's who he played for then and i was like "oh yeah i love them," but really i just loved seeing Roy, and i always will have a spot for Montreal in my life, knowing that's where he like became ROY, which is very uncommon for people these days noone willingly picks them as there number 2 team, Ha. But as i got older i realized you start to learn more and more about all teams and all players and if i want to love more then just who plays for what team i was raised up on, i will do just that. No one can tell me differently because i know more now than i have ever about the game and more then just saying oh yeah, Go Hawks, i'm from Chicago so i'll cheer you on. I see what it takes for them to get the status they get and all the different thing's different teams go through and it's so cool to understand it.
I this year actually, like a crazy fan, wrote Roy (my idol) and rewrote what i wanted to say like 4 times before i sent it so i didn't tell him my life but i was seriously like on cloud nine when my mom texted me a picture of the envelope from Quebec i was like "No way." Now i don't know how writting players works these day's especially for retired players i'm sure they don't just sit around reading them and typing individual letters to people, but i like to think the vague little letter i got was "just for me" as if he was saying it to me. I know pathetic right. He is the one person in the world i tell everyone i WILL meet him before i die and i will have him autograph me and get it tattoo'd you wait and see. I mean it doesn't hurt to have dreams or goals, eh?

I mean i could ramble on for hours about this man who has made me the hockey fan i am today but, how much can one take of this Roy talk?

That time again

Ahh, it's that time of year again. Yes, that time of year when facebook and twitter feeds are updating every second on games days and about teams and players and just hockey all season long. The time when your friends say "oh i didn't know you did that" becasue they had blocked your feeds when the first game started. Or maybe that's just me. It's for sure the best time of year a time for yelling at the tv, going to the games and getting really into it so into it you forget to eat!
Summer was way to long this hockey break. A lot of sadness and revamping around the league. Not only did 3 loved enforces die but the KHL lost a whole team and coaches. That was a hard hit in the hockey world, something like that is sad if it were just a plane full of anybody but being a hockey fan it was like i was stopped in my tracks like, Whoa, this is really serious. The ceremony they held for them was emotional beyond words i watched it online and couldn't hold back tears. On th elighter side of thing's a lot of team changing adn revamping went down this offseason, like crazy style, super fun to watch and see everything happening all over. HELLO, Winnipeg is back! I'm not going to lie i was a little bumbed when the Hawks traded away Kopecky but i can't say that i'm dissappointed in what they have going for them this year, Carcillo. I'm actually pretty excited to see a lot of teams this year and how they all pan out i think a lot of them have new changes to get use to and it's going to be exciting!

Just thought i'd start a blog randomly so i have somewhere to hockey talk when stuff starts becoming more thought processed i will get better with them and make them awesome but for now, I Bid You Farwell!