I don't claim to be an English major, I'm a 19-year-old failed writer so I apologize if I used the world "inaugural" incorrectly.

In any case, I'm sitting here with a Corporate Finance textbook open in front of me and the Senators vs. Leafs game on a stream in the background, and since Corporate Finance just doesn't quite capture my attention the way the allure of the Internet does, this is what I have come up with.

Afraid yet?

So I debated for a long time what I wanted to write about for my very first entry on a hockey blog that I have been wanting to create for awhile. It should be special, it should be life-changing, dynamic, innovative so that people will want to keep on reading!

The best I can come up with is: Alex Daigle dated Pamela Anderson? Really? [I do like to check Wikipedia articles on a regular basis]

It's the second intermission for the Sens and Leafs game, both sides tied at one. A weird thing happens when Ottawa and Toronto play one another. Logic and reason are thrown out the window in favour of personal insults and foaming at the mouth. This has confused me ever since I was in 8th grade. We were on a class trip to Ottawa and one night we went to Hard Rock Cafe where they were playing a hockey game and it happened to the Sens versus the Leafs. Of course my whole entire class was cheering for the Leafs but I was a little confused at why we couldn't cheer for the Sens. They were in the same province! Where's the love? I'd love to say that was the reason why I was never popular in school...but let's face it, I was just a dork. [Was?]

And then I eventually became a Senators fan, thus requiring me to walk down the street with a bullet proof vest whenever I decide to wear my Sens cap in Toronto. [Well, wearing a bullet-proof vest in Downtown Toronto might not be a bad idea regardless of choice of head-gear]. From a business perspective, I suppose a rivalry is the best thing that could ever happen between sports teams. Mob mentality can cause people to do very insane things...and part with enough dollars.

In any case I suppose I'll end the very first entry here until I have something more substantial to say...and less guilt about neglecting my Finance homework.

Random Notes
- Am I terrible person for wanting Zdeno Chara to have a horrible, horrible season in Boston? Doesn't look to be happening though, he's already scored in both preseason games for the Bruins.

- I'll be checking out some preseason action between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Buffalo Sabres at Copps Coliseum on Saturday, September 23rd. Because some of my guy friends are still stuck in the '50s and don't believe that a female will not have any vested interest in hockey unless she finds a particular player hot [which I'm not innocent of, but, come on], they ask me if it's because I think Sidney Crosby's hot. Which is gross. He's practically jail bait to me. However, I am looking forward to witnessing the hated Buffaslug up close and personal. As both a future, soulless corporate drone and current Adobe Photoshop junkie, I'm intrigued by whichever genius in the Buffalo Sabres ownership group decided that spending millions of dollars on this monstrosity was a good idea.