Who is the 38th best member of the Arizona Coyotes?
It's a question that stalks you in your dreams, like a benevolent Freddie Kruger.
Wonder no more, I am here to solve one of the great mysteries of the universe:
It's Mike Gartner.
Mr. Gartner was a well known celebrity presence in my home town growing up. He owned a cottage on the lake, and one day we saw him walking down the road.
We asked to stop and get his autograph, but my dad (realizing how stupid we'd seem pulling over and asking some random dude if he was Mike Gartner) refused.
My best friend Scott was with us, and he leaned out the window and screamed a bizarre rant about how much he was a fan. This rant included a surprisingly high-number of factual statements (his career with the Leafs, how many 30 goal seasons he had etc) because at the time, there were few 12 year old in the world who knew as much random hockey info as Scott and I did.
We never met Mike Gartner, but I wonder if he remembers one time in the late 90s when some random kid yelled his career achievements at him from a moving car.
Once, years later, Scott pulled a similar trick when he ran into the trailer of the guy who played Carlton Banks, on the Fresh Prince and yelled at him.
Anyways, Mike Gartner is the 39th best player to ever lace 'em up for the Coyotes, even though he only played two seasons at the end of his career there.
Top 50 Movie Countdown
If there is one movie you probably don't want to be watching these days, it's the Shining.
Watching a movie about a man with an axe slowly descend into a boredom induced murderous insanity while trapped inside all winter with his family.......is perhaps not the best idea.
Coming in today at #38 is the currently just-as-topical, but far less ominous Groundhog Day a doozie of a movie about a guy (Bill Murray) who is forced to live the same day over and over and over and over and this joke is terrible, my apologies.
Here are is our top 50 list so far:
50: Limitless
49: Oh Brother Where Art Though?
48: Role Models
47: the Rock
46: Mission Impossible Franchise
45: Nicholas Cage Man Tetrology
44:Heat
43: The Art of Self Defense
42:Walk Hard
41: The Winter Soldier
40:Taken
39: The 6th Day
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day came out in 1993 and was the best film of the year. I can actually speak with some authority here because I have seen every movie released in the year 1993 due to my own groundhog day time loop experience, which occurred (uselessly) inside of a Blockbuster store that was locked from the outside in early 1994.
Interesting fact - the first choice to play Phil Connors was Jean Claude Van Damme, but filming Time Cop overlapped with making Groundhog Day, so he had to drop out.
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