Ottawa Playoff Run, Jason Becker

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I'm obviously really happy about Ottawa's playoff run so far this year (if you know me AT ALL, then you know I'm a huge Ottawa Senators fan) . Ottawa after the nine years previous of making the playoffs and underachieving, Ottawa's finally got a team that knows what the price of success is and is willing to pay the price. Daniel Alfredsson is playing like the leader he's capable of, the rest of the offence is firing hard, the defence is playing really well, we're hitting well and blocking shots, our special teams are great and we couldn't ask any more of Ray Emery. The best part is, if we can win one of the games on Saturday, Monday or Wednesday. We'll make the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in modern Senators history (in your face Toronto Maple Leafs! FORTY, count that, FORTY years of not making the Stanley Cup Finals much less winning the Cup.) Many Leafs fans complain to me that the Senators never won at all, why should you complain. Well, Ottawa HAS actually won the Cup. In 1927, the old Ottawa Senators won the Cup and went out of business in 1934 (7 year drought) then we came back in 1992 and haven't won since. 15 years. 15+7=22. Almost half the amount of the Leafs drought (should I also mention that at that time they're were 10 teams in the league, 12 of Toronto's 13 Stanley Cup's were in the Original Six era! CHOKE!

Ok, enough of that. From the glory to the revenge to the inspiring. This is guy is extremly inspiring. A guy named Jason Becker, who when he was one of the best guitarists of his genre (metal) and in music at the time. He was doing things like playing guitar with his left hand and twirling a yo-yo at the same time, he was the best and at 20, he got his big break. He became the guitarist for the new David Lee Roth band. Only a week after joining that band, he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) which is a disease that slowly cuts off brain messages to the muscles meaning that eventually he'd never be able to play guitar again. Despite this, he finished David Lee Roth's gold record "A Little Ain't Enough". Until 1996 when he lost ability to move his mouth. He kept composing with a computer program. He moved his head to the left or right to move the cursor by motion sensor and moved his mouth down to click the piano key he wanted the note in. Now he uses eye movements to talk with people, each eye movement represents a letter. And he composes with his eyes. This guy is brillant, even with ALS crippling his body and his voice, he remains optimistic about life and his music is better now than before ALS in my opinion. He is a true musical genious!

That's my blog for today. Thanks for reading and leave your comments, good or bad! I'm off to Ottawa for the May 2-4 weekend. I'll see you later, BYE!