Niklas Hjalmarsson of the Chicago Blackhawks suffered a great indignity on Monday night … not only did he have to sit in the penalty box, he had to watch the Vancouver Canucks Green Men pull off a terrible magic trick. Sorry, Niklas, next time we’ll try to get you tickets to Celine Dion. (via NIS)

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Yesterday, we shared with you the very hopeful story of the NHL and NHLPA meeting to end the 2012 NHL lockout. It’s Wednesday, and the lockout is still going strong, but the two sides met and negotiated for more than seven hours. They’re planning to pick it back up again today. It feels like something might budge this time. Regardless, I think I speak for everyone when I say this: I’m happy the NHL Lockout happened, because it let this one Canucks fan pretend to be Robyn on the Internet.

Inspired by Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”, “Call The Union” is an impassioned plea from a hockey fan to the warring NHL and NHLPA to knock it off with the silent treatment and get to meaningful conversation. Chances are it will have no impact.

Are you kidding? Supporting, listening to or pretending to be Robyn always has an impact, especially when you center it around YouTube. Why do you think Taran Killam is suddenly so popular?

The end is in sight. If it isn’t? Hell, at least we get six more months of wacky viral videos. And for the record, I need the NHL Lockout to end for two major reasons: 1) It feels weird to go this far into a year without getting my hopes up for the Caps, and 2) I’m supposed to go to Canada at some point and visit my friend Danielle. How am I supposed to do that without hockey? I have to wait until the Spring and see the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays. How cruel ARE you, NHL?

[h/t to Bob's Blitz]

Michael Bay's pet tiger El Tigre Magnifico is listening to "Here Comes the Boom."

While working on yet another spotlight-stealing post for Vince at FilmDrunk, I used the ol’ Googles to search news stories about director Michael Bay and I was immediately drawn to the headline of one particular post:

“Hollywood Director, Michael Bay Buys Canucks“

I’ll allow Pam from Archer to give a visual breakdown of my brain upon reading that:

Unfortunately, it took me just two sentences to understand that it was a fake news story, and words can’t even express how disappointed that made me. And there’s obviously no point in discussing a fake sports story, but it’s the basic idea of a guy like Bay purchasing a professional sports franchise that I’ve bumped to the top of my list of things that need to happen immediately. Okay, maybe it’s second behind “Become insanely wealthy and Indecent Proposal Kate Upton” but it’s still a huge priority.

So I got to thinking, “What would it look like if Michael Bay owned a NHL franchise?” *strokes patchy chin stubble* Hmmmmm…

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Man, time sure does fly. It seems like just yesterday I was praising Drew Brees. Actually, it was just yesterday, but I was referring to when I named Brees and the New Orleans Saints winning Super Bowl XLIV the top Sports Moment of 2010. And you know what? That was a boring, predictable pick and it left nothing to the imagination of you, our beloved readers. You deserve more than just the run-of-the-mill year end list, because With Leatherites are smarter than the average sports blog reader, and I know that because I was called an idiot by you guys plenty this year.

You also have a better sense of humor than the average sports blog reader, so when I was entering the qualifications for this year’s Best Sports Moments into my sophisticated super computer (read: old yellow notepad) I wanted to kick the sentimental crap to the curb and really focus on what makes us all tick – namely, poop jokes and hot models. But mostly fun sports moments. As always, I don’t expect everyone to agree, and I’m sure that I left out a few moments here and there (sorry hockey). So feel free to school us on your biggest moments of the year, and let’s all hope that 2012 is a little more sex scandal free…

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Justin Bieber is currently in Toronto to record a TV special for Christmas, and he spent yesterday giving back to his fellow hosers by handing out food at the Daily Bread Food Bank before he made one child’s dream come true. Bieber and a child from the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada were welcomed by the Toronto Maple Leafs for yesterday’s practice and the Biebs put on a little display of his figure skating mad hockey skillz.

Despite having a reputation for being a spoiled brat, it’s pretty cool that Biebs took the time to make a terminally ill child a little happier, so for today I will go easy on the 17-year old pop star.

*folds up drawings of Bieber falling into a volcano, slides them under pillow*

Meanwhile, the Vancouver Canucks had Canada’s third national treasure* Michael Buble at their practice on Tuesday, but he wasn’t doing anything for charity so he’s not the lede. Buble called the chance to take a shot against Roberto Luongo the greatest day of his life, but unfortunately his shot missed. So he went outside, took a dump on the hood of a cop car and threw a trash can through the window of a Forever 21.

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"Hey Darlene, I found your panties, eh?"

It’s been just over 6 months since the city of Vancouver showed the rest of the world the ugly side of sports, as thousands of pissed off, brain dead sociopaths ransacked their city under the guise of being Vancouver Canucks fans upset that their team lost in the Stanley Cup Finals. The result was hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to local businesses and city property all because they’re the angry youth and they’ve had it with the man or whatever. I assume Hollywood North isn’t what Time Magazine had in mind when it named “The Protester” the Person of the Year.

But I’m not here to rehash a city’s shameful night, because much credit is due to the Vancouver Police Department, which handed down another 80 charges on 20 more rioters yesterday, bringing the grand total to 80 rioters arrested for 215 charges. And Les Yeo, head of the riot investigation Mounties, says this is far from over.

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