Happy Days Are Here!!!

Imagine the Princess' surprise and happiness when she looked in her email and found this headline on the NHL newsletter, "Hockey Awards Show June 18th in Las Vegas!"

I live in Vegas.

Yeah, don't laugh some of us do live here and not in casinos, either.

Some of us just happen to work in them,too.

I'm sorry that Toronto didn't get to have them for another year, but while I may not be able to afford the tickets to the show, at least I'll have a shot at them and won't have to fly cross country to get there.

I'll just take public transportation or a cab.

I can hear some of you snickering.

Why did Vegas get it, there's no hockey team there.

Yes, we do have one and they're the ECHL farm club of the Calgary Flames.

Why not LA, New York or Montreal?

Montreal had the all star game, New York is the home of the NHL offices and we have as much glitz and glamour as LA.

Maybe even more. We are, after all the place where all the beautiful people from Hollywood spend their weekends.

I know what the hangup is, and it's not the heat.

We have that in late June, not the early part of the month.

It's the gambling.

hate to break this to you, every US and Canadian city has a casino.

There's a good chance somebody on the Buffalo Sabres is telling a blackjack dealer to "let it ride" and it's not in Las vegas.