1. A recent high school graduate football star from Mississippi. Committed to play at Mississippi State in the fall. A wide receiver hailing from Ocean Springs, MS (Ocean? Really? I knew you were backward, Mississippi.), Mr. Morrow is 6'5" and weighs 200 lbs and totally glares at you in the picture on yahoo sports.
2. A now 61 year old murderer who plead no contest in the murder of his wife in 1991, convicted in 2009. Cheery. He's from San Mateo, Cali. and from the comments posted on the story, he was creepy hard-ass. Not that you should believe everything you find on the internet. :D I refuse to put his picture up here. Even if I could find it.
3. St. Joseph's Morrow Park Catholic school. In Toronto. Speaking of which, I loled pretty hard at the Brian Burke interview during the draft. He gets this stony look and the guy asking the question digs for more information and he laughs at Brian's answer. Who doesn't. Crack. A. Smile. Lots of love for Mr. Burke. (To be clear, I didn't think much about him before, you know, being in Toronto and all, but then I heard about his son. Super sad. But I was super impressed with how he originally dealt with Brendan coming out and the things he had to say. It, along with Sean Avery's current support, gives me hope that there are good, open-minded people in professional hockey. If only everyone thought that way.)
4. Dr. Joseph Morrow, who won the International Dissemination of Behavioral Analysis Award. He received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 1965 from Washington State University. If you can understand what the hell his award is for, more power to you. Also, I'm surprised you're reading a hockey blog. Because I'm a smart girl, and I can talk about Freud and Pavlov and abnormal psychology and a number of other things sometimes there are more big words then my poor, tired brain can handle at once.
I think that's enough. Onto the real Joseph Morrow (because obviously, the hockey player is the only real one) who hails from Alberta. (One more! There's a Joseph Morrow who plays in the West Australian Football League. Not American football. And he's a cutie.) I'm currently looking at the NHL.com Draft prospect card for him. I love the questions they ask. It's like...give us fun facts for fan girls (like me, who like knowing useless facts). For instance, it tells us the important things like that his favorite movie is "Inception" and he likes to eat eggs benedict for breakfast and his favorite superhero is Superman. And he plays Call of Duty, so he'll fit in with the Pens just fine (you teenagers, you!). Also, his hair at the Draft was much improved over the picture on the website. A plus for his reference to his "old farmer's strength" in his prospect video.
Coolio. First round done. Unfortunately, I'll be unable to watch tomorrow. Habitat for Humanity and a WEDDING! (Excited, much?) I'm going to attempt to catch a bit in between, but I don't have high hopes. It's ok. It's highly unlikely anyone the Penguins draft this year is going to see professional playing time, let alone NHL playing time. One thing that I'm a little disappointed about? Brandon Saad. I was hoping, for the sake of such a perfect storyline, he'd get drafted by the Pens. It's looking unlikely.
A few notes on transactions: Setoguchi to Minnesota??? Boo. Boo. Boo. I quite like Seto in San Jose.
Also, Philadelphia. Whoa frickin nelly! Slow it down a little, huh? Not that I object to you getting rid of Carter or Richards. I do however object to the signing of Bryz. Now how am I supposed to like him? He's going to be wearing this hideous orange color in goal! It's a damn shame. (Though, I understand that career wise, it's a good move.) I am going to take this opportunity to most likely develop nice feelings toward Richards. Unless he steals too much of Jack Johnson's spotlight in L.A. Which should be impossible. Seeing as he's JMFJ. Possibly my favorite Ann Arborism. I should probably stop there. Or I'll go all girly about how awesome his and Sid's friendship is. (It's beyond adorable.)
