Aubin commercial
Here's what he had to say about the experience: ``My agent called and asked if I wanted to do a commercial and I said, `Why not?’ I had never done one before. It was a lot of fun. I got in there and saw all the extras and I wasn’t sure I could do it. But then you do the takes over and over and, after a while, you don’t even remember all the people there.’’
He said it took nine hours to shoot the 30-second spot. Personally, my favorite is, ``Yo' momma so ugly, they renamed Halloween Yomommaween.'' If you haven't seen it, here it is ...
He even sucks at this too.
He even lost in a pre-planned commercial? Although, its rather funny.
I think he should be working on his goaltending rather than an acting career....Then again....
This commercial originally aired during the Sabres-Pens outdoor game on New Years Day.
I think it's pretty amusing, and I'm glad to see a King on a national TV spot.
I think there are some hockey "experts" on some of the networks that don't know there's hockey outside of the northeast corridor. Maybe this will remind them? :D
Crawford shoulda been there to pull him quicker.
Aubin is even worse at acting than he is at goaltending and that's saying a lot.
Nine hours to do a 30-second commercial? If he only spent that much time working on his goaltending technique, practicing passing the puck to Kings players, etc. then the Kings would have a pretty solid goalie in Aubin.
Am i the only one that thinks it funny that he lost? What is basicly, let a goal in? So what has happen is the kings are now the butt of everyones jokes.
9 hours?! Wow. No wonder Buffalo played their backup goalie when they were in town. He got lit up for 4 goals. Miller came in... got lit up for 4 more goals. I don't care if we lose in commercials, let's get the goalies from opposing teams to film commercials when they're here in L.A.
Okay here's my new question of the day. If the Kings season so far was a high school prom theme, what would it be?
Here's my stab...
1) "A Night of a Thousand Nightmares"
2) "A Night to Forget"
3) "Score on me like everyone else does"
4) "LA Kings Fever!...catch it and die"
5) "Royal Knights...Spoiled nights"
"I've got the fake ID's.........Wheres the bar?"
Here are some extended notes of two things we here in Kings-land seen to go round and round about - is LA really that bad and should we (AEG) fire Lombardi?
LA vs TB
One interesting fact about this season is that two of the bottom-dwellers in the league are also two of the more offensively gifted teams. Tampa Bay, and their imposing ‘Big Three’ and Los Angeles and their soon-to-be ‘Big Four’ of Kopitar-Brown-Camalleri-O’Sullivan, are dead last in both conferences. Both has have no problem scoring goals yet both have the WORST goals against total.
TB – 15-22-5 GF121 GA144
LA – 15-26-2 GF123 GA143
The most important thing to look at here is the weight of the contracts of TB’s Big Three (+the impending UFA of Boyle) and the weight of the contracts LA has. TB decided, after wining the Cup in ’04, to keep the nucleus of St. Louis-Richards-LaCavalier at the expense of retaining their solid goaltender (Khabibulin.) Brown just signed a long term deal that averages just over $3 mil/yr. Lubo is on the books for $5.6 mil/yr. Sully is an RFA next season and Johnson and Kopitar are RFA’s in ’09. I think Lombardi has been calculating how to keep all the King’s positive/value assets under contract long-term without handcuffing himself when it comes to improving the team.
LOMBARDI vs TAYLOR
I know drafting is not done with the 20/20 vision we have currently. But, I think a look back is in order. Lombardi signed a 5-year deal in 2006. Based on the players he has drafted so far, he obviously cannot be judged on his drafting success until 2011. All his picks need years of development until they are NHL ready. Taylor had 8 years to prove his worth as a GM. I will grant Taylor this – he did trade for a lot of NHL ready players - Pallfy, Allison, Smolinsky, Deadmarsh, Miller, Potvin.
Lombardi has yet to hit gold on the trade/UFA circuit. I will say that he has so far shown to be more adept at drafting talent. Four players from his first two drafts were in the U-20 World Championship game on Saturday. That is HUGE. Taylor did a good job of drafting Kopitar and Brown. But Kopitar was a gift after the domino effect created by Anaheim picking Bobby Ryan over Jack Johnson. (Thanks, Ducks.) And Brown was a no-brainer but look at my notes regarding the players available at the time of picks 26-27. Frolov, Lubo and Cammi (after Steckel?!?!?!) were good picks, too. Also, look at all the ‘from’ picks Lombardi has. This shows aggressiveness to move up to get your guy instead of choosing from the ‘best available’ at the time of the pick. Any way, here is the list, you decide:
LOMBARDI
2007
4 L.A THOMAS HICKEY
52 L.A (from DAL) OSCAR MOLLER
61 L.A (from ANA) WAYNE SIMMONDS
82 L.A (from DAL) BRYAN CAMERON
95 L.A (from WSH) ALEC MARTINEZ
109 L.A (from CGY) DWIGHT KING
124 L.A LINDEN ROWAT
137 L.A (from T.B) JOSHUA TURNBULL
184 L.A JOSH KIDD
188 L.A (from CBJ) MATT FILLIER
2006
11 L.A JONATHAN BERNIER
17 L.A (from EDM) TREVOR LEWIS
48 L.A JOE RYAN
74 L.A JEFF ZATKOFF
86 L.A (from NSH) BUD HOLLOWAY
114 L.A (from NYR) NICLAS ANDERSEN
134 L.A DAVID MECKLER
144 L.A (from NYR) MARTIN NOLET
164 L.A CONSTANTIN BRAUN
TAYLOR
2005
11 L.A ANZE KOPITAR
50 L.A DANY ROUSSIN
60 L.A T.J. FAST
72 L.A JONATHAN QUICK
139 L.A PATRIK HERSLEY
184 L.A RYAN MCGINNIS
206 L.A JOSH MEYERS
226 L.A JOHN SEYMOUR
2004
11 L.A LAURI TUKONEN
95 L.A (from S.J) PAUL BAIER
110 L.A NED LUKACEVIC
143 L.A ERIC NEILSON
174 L.A SCOTT PARSE
205 L.A JOHN CURRY
221 L.A (from PHI) DANIEL TAYLOR
238 L.A YUTAKA FUKUFUJI
264 L.A (from CBJ) VALTTERI TENKANEN
Who came after Tukonen in the First Round? DREW STAFFORD, ALEXANDER RADULOV, WOJTEK WOLSKI, ANDREJ MESZAROS
2003
13 L.A DUSTIN BROWN
26 L.A (from COL) BRIAN BOYLE
27 L.A (from DET) JEFF TAMBELLINI
44 L.A KONSTANTIN PUSHKARYOV
82 L.A RYAN MUNCE
152 L.A (from NYI) BRADY MURRAY
174 L.A (from NSH) ESA PIRNES
231 L.A MATT ZABA
244 L.A MIKE SULLIVAN
274 L.A MARTIN GUERIN
Who came immediately after Boyle/Tambellini in the First Round? Corey Perry and Patrick Eaves
Who came after Pushkaryov in the Second? Matt Carle, Shea Weber and Patrick O’Sullivan
2002
18 L.A DENIS GREBESHKOV
50 L.A SERGEI ANSHAKOV
66 L.A PETR KANKO
104 L.A (from MIN) AARON ROME
115 L.A MARK ROONEEM
152 L.A GREG HOGEBOOM
157 L.A (from NYI) JOEL ANDRESEN
185 L.A RYAN MURPHY
215 L.A MIKHAIL LYUBUSHIN
248 L.A TUUKKA PULLIAINEN
279 L.A CONNOR JAMES
Who came after Grebeshkov in the First Round? Alexander Steen, Cam Ward.
2001
18 L.A JENS KARLSSON
30 L.A (from COL) DAVID STECKEL
49 L.A (from TOR) MIKE CAMMALLERI
51 L.A JAROSLAV BEDNAR
83 L.A HENRIK JUNTUNEN
116 L.A RICHARD PETIOT
152 L.A (from TOR) TERRY DENIKE
153 L.A TUUKKA MANTYLA
214 L.A CRISTOBAL HUET (Great pick, but where is he now?)
237 L.A (from CHI) MIKE GABINET
277 L.A SEBASTIEN LAPLANTE
2000
20 L.A ALEXANDER FROLOV
54 L.A ANDREAS LILJA
86 L.A YANICK LEHOUX
118 L.A (from OTT) LUBOMIR VISNOVSKY
165 L.A (from PHI) NATHAN MARSTERS
201 L.A (from T.B) EVGENY FEDEROV
206 L.A (from CGY) TIM ERIKSSON
218 L.A CRAIG OLYNICK
245 L.A DAN WELCH
250 L.A FLAVIEN CONNE
282 L.A CARL GRAHN
1999
No one of interest. Except maybe Parros and Clarke in the 8th and 9th rounds, respectively.
1998
The brother of Martin Biron ([FYI - After posting a 5.04 GAA, with 0 Wins and 2 Losses, Martin was sent back to the QMJHL to work on his skills] (Mathieu was picked ahead of Simon Gagne, Jiri Fischer and Scott Gomaz) and they picked some guy named after a poet in the 9th round.
1997
Olli Jokinen with the overall number 3 pick (who was 4th? Roberto Luongo) and Joe Corvo in the 4th round.
obviously some of you have never had to shoot a commercial.
Daniel - Great post!
@ Tito
"obviously some of you have never had to shoot a commercial" has got to be the weirdest diss comment ever on a hockey blog