10/3/13 1:25 PM

I am dying to get my nephew one of the Budweiser Redlights that is synched to your favorite hockey team and lights up and buzzes when your team scores. This would be an awesome birthday present. Unfortunately they only will deliver these in Canada. I would need a valid (no P.O. Box) Canadian address. I will pay for it, use your address as the ship-to, and pay the additional postage from you to me in New Jersey USA. I will also make a $25 donation to the cyclingforum website in your name as a thank you for helping out. Can anyone help me?

You can check out the product here:
http://www.budweiser.ca/redlight/

Thanks
Tony
aszurly at g mail dot com

10/3/13 1:41 PM

Maybe Paul Datars can help you. I am in Vancouver, shipping charges will be cheaper for someone who is out east.

10/3/13 2:02 PM

eBay ??

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canadian-Exclusive-Budweiser-Red-NHL-Hockey-Goal-Light-PreOrder-/200970300295?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item2ecac36b87

$$!!

10/3/13 2:29 PM

Nice entrepreneurial spirit there. the guy is charging a 100% markup. I'll pass, but thanks for the lead.

10/3/13 2:57 PM

I emailed you Tony.

10/3/13 7:16 PM

If sanrensho can't help you I can. Also in Vancouver.

10/4/13 6:21 AM

thanks guys, I appreciate the offers. Will wait a bit to see if any Eastern province help arrives.

10/4/13 10:56 AM

Nice, but one thing to look out for is if the service filters out IP addresses located south of the border.

10/4/13 3:07 PM

I toyed with the idea of trying to get one, but heard mixed reports on whether people could make them work in the U.S. The key seems to be the ability to open a Canadian iTunes account, since the light requires an app that isn't on the U.S. iTunes store.

Some people report they've done so; others haven't been as successful.

(I'm half-Canadian, and I can see Canada from my office in Detroit. That should count for something...)

Alan

10/4/13 4:02 PM

>>(I'm half-Canadian, and I can see Canada from my office in Detroit. That should count for something...) <<

A view of a foreign country certainly helped Sarah Palin!

10/7/13 11:50 AM

Tony, I just came across this, if I can be of any help email me at pauldotdatarsathotmaildotcom or give me a call at 613 825 0813

10/7/13 12:52 PM

"A view of a foreign country certainly helped Sarah Palin!"

Test her tolerance for further abuse from the left maybe... Not that I participated myself... ;O

I have to admit the SNL/Tina Fey Palin bits really accentuated perpetuating the stereotype much to my amusement.

10/7/13 4:22 PM

Stereotype?? Have you listened to the real Sarah Palin??

10/7/13 4:59 PM

Yeah, I guess Stereotype was the wrong term.
Perpetuating the idiocy may have been better.

10/9/13 9:15 PM

Hey, no thread-jacking ;)

Anyway, looks like Alenhoff may be on to something. Did a little research and you do need a CDN iTunes acct. Looking into this more, but wanted to say thanks to all who volunteered to help out. Will let you know if I can find a way to make sure it works for him.

10/10/13 12:44 PM

I emailed Budweiser, and they said they have no plans to extend this program to the U.S.

And just checking around the web, some people report that some of the U.S. hockey-showing networks run the game on a 5 second delay.(Others say this delay is related to watching a high-def broadcast.)

I have no idea which explanation is correct, but whatever the cause, some people in the U.S. report experiencing this sequence:

Budweiser light/siren activate.

(Meanwhile, on your TV...)

Pass.

Pass.

Shot.

Save.

Rebound.

Goal!

Kind of uncool...

Alan

10/10/13 4:11 PM

5 seconds advance warning might help at times like this:

29 seconds of Tomas Hertl's between the legs goal last night

10/10/13 8:09 PM

Impressive and more so if he keeps it up.

10/10/13 10:32 PM

makes it look like a walk in the park too!

10/11/13 5:16 AM

Perhaps it's been done before, but I've never seen it. It was so effortless that he must practice it. Now goalies have one more thing to worry about, as I expect there will be imitators.

Back in the day when I feebly attempted to do something that vaguely looked like playing hockey (mostly skating around in circles and falling down while wearing hockey equipment), getting my stick between my legs was generally a prelude to a face-plant. I certainly wouldn't have done it intentionally!

10/11/13 7:34 AM

Speaking of making it look easy...

I was walking down the busy street with my Mom. A guy on bike was slowly negociating through the thick crowd of tourists around Time Square. He dead end up against a curb so high it's actually a stair with 2-3 steps...

He casually popped a front wheelie just high enough to put the front on the top of the steps, followed by a back wheelie to flip the bike 90 degrees to the side to get around a group of people standing right in front of his path, all in smooth, fluid SLOW MOTION!

No hesitation, no dramatic jerking of body position, just resuming his slow progress through the crowd...

He made the whole sequence look so easy and effortless that my Mom turned to me and asked "you can also do that, right?", in a tone that fully expected me to answer... "yeah, sure".

I only wish I could do it, never mind as smoothly!

10/11/13 7:56 AM

It's a long standing Czech tradition-

Check this one out. Rangers defenseman Marek Malik is used in the 15th round of a shootout in Rangers vs. Caps game in 2006 and does his thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlplXgDMDdA

And back in 2001, Malik's former coach, Czech player Robert Kysela pulled this same move in a Czech league playoff game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoswQ7tLzfs

10/12/13 3:19 PM

The Red Wings' Pavel Datsyuk has used this move for several years, too. Lots of video evidence of this on Youtube, as well as other equally amazing wizardry from him.

This, however, is my all-time favorite goal:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/100408_mike_legg_michigan_goal

(The fact that I'm a Michigan grad has absolutely no bearing on that judgment, of course...)