Jason Reitman, come on down. You're the next participant on Celebrity Bloggers, NHL.com-style.
The Academy Award-nominated director (for Juno) is just one of several famous types who will be scribbling their thoughts during the Stanley Cup playoffs. The idea of having non-traditional hockey people writing on the playoffs was born last year when the NHL decided to use non-traditional hockey people to write about the playoffs.
Apparently, it went over better than the Atlanta Thrashers' post-season stint.
This spring, Reitman is the main attraction for NHL.com largely because he did such a marvelous job with Juno (the film, not the musical awards show). Reitman was born in Montreal and his father, Ivan, directed such films as Stripes, Kindergarten Cop and Ghostbusters.
Jason is apparently a significant Vancouver Canucks fan and is going to write “a kind of mythical blog about what the Canucks and (Los Angeles) Kings would be doing had they still been in. In my version, for the first time in NHL history, the Canucks and the Kings will be the first two Western Conference teams to actually meet in the Stanley Cup finals.”
Canucks versus Kings? Talk about the Titanic meets The Poseidon Adventure.
Along with Reitman, NHL.com has Lauren Conrad. I said Lauren Conrad, who is not related to Robert Conrad, William Conrad or even Conrad Black. According to people half my age, she's a 22-year-old reality TV star/personality/fashion student. She told NHL.com she's “a casual hockey fan” who has followed the Kings the past two seasons.
(Earth to Hollywood types: the Kings are presently hockey's answer to Ishtar. Go slumming in Anaheim and watch the Ducks.)
The next celebrity blogger is Dierks Bentley. Snap quiz: Dierks Bentley is:
a. The name of an English butler.
b. An expensive car.
c. A co-star on Lauren Conrad's reality TV show.
d. The top-selling country artist who wrote What Was I Thinking?
The correct answer is e. all of the above.
Also slated for appearances on NHL.com's Celebrity Bloggers are David Boreanaz, A.J. Buckley, Tom Cavanagh, William Fichtner and Geoff Stults.
I said Geoff Stults.
