Dan Hinote Is Doing Okay

by Joe @ MHH on Jul 30, 2008 11:53 AM MDT in News Comment 21 comments

Dan Hinote used to play for the Avalanche as a lower-line, two-way forward who could hit and skate with competence, and even helped the Avs win the Cup in 2000-01. Though he didn't make the list of the Top 19 Avalanche Players Of All Time, he got a couple of nominations and a lot of Colorado fans still regard him highly.

So how's Dan doing these days? Well, he plays for the Blues now, and is still fulfilling his role as a checking line winger.

Oh, and he just married Amy McCarthy, former Playboy model and sister of the ever-annoying Jenny, also a former Playboy model. What a great family.

And don't go thinking for a second that the fact that the bride has no problem running around naked in front of cameras would somehow turn the ceremony into anything less than a classy affair. On the contrary:

The wedding party of 10 groomsmen and 10 bridesmaids wore traditional garb for the ceremony, but the guests were asked to show up in their favorite '50s costumes, which would explain the dead celebs who attended the wedding.

[Fidel] Castro, in full military garb and a fake beard, was among the last guests to arrive, which seemed a bit odd because he had a reserved front-row seat on the bride's side.

Who was that masked man, you ask? Well, let's do the math. Uproariously clever costume (right?), front row seats on the bride's side, at a wedding featuring a McCarthy sister. Hmmm:

Yup, superstar Jim Carrey...

And that's all that had to be said.

Also in attendance: most of the 2000-01 Avalanche roster, including groomsman Peter Forsberg, who apparently is somehow still able to walk, despite suffering repeated ankle and foot explosions, not to mention a twice-torn groin muscle. I'm convinced he'll be making a cameo in the new Terminator movie as the latest model of robot death machine.

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I think it was nice of Jim Carrey not to steal their thunder. Billy Corgan was at my son’s high school graduation & the graduation was lost in the excitement. “Son, you’ve just graduated from high school. Yeah, whatever, BILLY CORGAN’S HERE!”

hockeynana

by hockeynana on Jul 30, 2008 12:31 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

A friend of mine recently attended Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson’s wedding, complete with the Hot Simpson and Tony Romo, not to mention other assorted celebrities. In that case, I assume the sheer number of famous people canceled out any possible show-stealing. They were the show.

But yeah, I’ve been through several graduations (mine and other people’s), and I have to tell you, they would have been more fun if Billy Corgan had been there.

Go Avs! Let's get some goals!

by Joe @ MHH on Jul 30, 2008 12:34 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, but Billy Corgan is one of the biggest music stars in the world. Jim Carey is hardly funny.

26 Card Jet

by Tommelot on Jul 31, 2008 4:13 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

My son also met Kate Hudson when he was in college. He used to party with her brother Oliver. (They weren’t best friends or anything like that.) Anyway, I guess when my son met Kate at a party she was dating Eric Lindros & she was watching a game on tv. She kept saying things like, “He doesn’t like it when they say that.” My son didn’t like her at all. Oliver was cool tho.

hockeynana

by hockeynana on Jul 30, 2008 1:06 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Go Danny!

He drives and scores from down low in the crease!

"how you like them apples?"

by tele-mon on Jul 30, 2008 3:53 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Celebs

I must be the least connected person on the planet. I once was at a party that Michelle Kwan was at.

The jibblewife ran a 1/2 marathon with Rodger Craig last summer.

Oh yeah I ran into Karl Mecklenberg at water world when i was 12 or so.

Ummm, That’s it I think.

"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

by Jibblescribbits on Jul 30, 2008 5:09 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

One more

I was in Paris at the same time Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes got engaged (but didn’t see them)... does that count?

"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

by Jibblescribbits on Jul 30, 2008 5:10 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Doesn’t Paris have 12 million people in it? I don’t think that counts.

Go Avs! Let's get some goals!

by Joe @ MHH on Jul 30, 2008 7:17 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm a nobody's nobody

My kids have met people but except for some local Avs, Mammoth & Outlaw players, I haven’t come close to meeting anyone. Ever. John-Michael Liles has beautiful eyes. So does Nick Carlson (Mammoth player.) Grandmas probably aren’t supposed to notice these things are they?

hockeynana

by hockeynana on Jul 30, 2008 5:53 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I am not about to know what Grandmas are supposed to do.

Go Avs! Let's get some goals!

by Joe @ MHH on Jul 30, 2008 7:18 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

JML

Does have nice eyes. When I met him, though, his eyes were saying “get these damn fans outta my face. I’m wearing a silk suit, dammit!”

Tyler Arnason, on the other hand, looks like a psycho. His eyes say “bad people”. We all know I’m crazy for enjoying watching Arnason play, the superstar wish and all. Whatever it is that is in his eyes told me “I’m not right”. Not arrogant, not lazy, not worst player on the Avs, but “not right in the head”.

Don't Go, Joe!

by texacogirl on Jul 30, 2008 9:57 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

JML

JML could easily be the twin brother of Tory from MythBusters:

Creepy.

Go Avs! Let's get some goals!

by Joe @ MHH on Jul 30, 2008 10:35 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow

Never saw that before & I watch Mythbusters all the time.

hockeynana

by hockeynana on Jul 30, 2008 10:39 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

JML has better facial hair.

26 Card Jet

by Tommelot on Jul 31, 2008 4:16 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Arnie

I’m the one who saw Arnie up close & thought he looked like a goofy puppet. I could see his eyes kinda glazing over or looking in 2 different directions. Although when he was on Avalanche Alert, he seemed relatively intelligent.

hockeynana

by hockeynana on Jul 30, 2008 10:38 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Since everyone's telling stories...

I have met and run with Bill Cosby…He came to the University of Nevada while I was running there and came and practiced with us one day.
As with Cosby most of my meetings of famous people have been during competition in sports, or sports figures…
Track and Field: Stacy Dragila (Olympic pole vault Gold Medalist) had a crush on one of my teammates/coaches…I saw and talked with her numerous times over a 3yr period.
I met and ran against Michael Johnson and Maurice Green; met Amy Acuff (US High Jumper)
I have met and talked with Dan O’brien and Carl Lewis.
I was a teammate of Brandon Rock (5th in world in 95; 96 Olympian).
One of my former coaches was an athlete for Canada in the 84 Olympics.

In Hockey: I have met Clint Malarchuk (while he was coaching the AHL Las Vegas Thunder) and Radek Bonk, Curtis Joseph, Alexei Yashin, Petr Nedved, and Pavol Demitra (all were palying with the Thunder at the time)

NBA: Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon, and Greg Anthony (all were UNLV players), also Clive Drexler.

I also met a handful of “Pro-Wrestlers” in the Salt Lake airport (don’t remember who exactly)

"The difference between a successful person and others,
is not a lack of strength,not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
-Vince Lombardi-

by Americanario on Jul 30, 2008 9:07 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

The only real celebrity moment I ever really remember and appreciate was when I stood two feet away from Muhammad Ali when they broke ground for his eponymous Center in Louisville. The man had gravitas I can’t even describe, and all without saying a word.

Go Avs! Let's get some goals!

by Joe @ MHH on Jul 30, 2008 10:29 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

That’s a huge WOW!!! Beats the crap out of meeting a petulant Kate Hudson.

hockeynana

by hockeynana on Jul 30, 2008 10:40 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I seen em

We get our fair share of NHLers here in the Happy Valley (resort that rhymes with “FAIL”). I once delivered dinner to Alexi Gusarov when he was getting his knee done at the Steadman Hawkins clinic; real nice guy and tipped well. We have training camps here regularly, and I remember after Dallas won the cup in 1999, they had their pre-season camp in town. One night the whole team was at Garton’s, a local bar with a Grateful Dead cover band (Shakedown Street) playing, and I talked to a few. Modano was a total prick, even after I congratulated him on the cup and beating my beloved Avs. But Brett Hull was cool as shit – he was shaking it down hard on the dance floor, and I think he could have got two minutes for tripping! Total Deadhead. Those guys are all friggin’ huge too.

"how you like them apples?"

by tele-mon on Jul 31, 2008 12:12 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Speaking of huge

Have you seen Brett lately? I saw him at the Celebrity Golf tournament on tv & he’s gained quite a few pounds. (And his skate was in the damn crease – still bitter after those game 7 losses.) But I’m glad he was cool. Modano doesn’t surprise me. Dan’s wife is a whole lot classier than Modano’s.

hockeynana

by hockeynana on Jul 31, 2008 1:26 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs