Get Ready For Some Playoffs!

To enhance the experience for hockey fans, the NHL is featuring celebrity bloggers again this year, starting today. Jason Reitman, the director of Juno, will be one of the featured writers. Reitman has overseen commercials for the league and also serves on its entertainment advisory board. A fan of the Canucks and Kings, he received the invitation to blog when the Canucks were still possible contenders.

Reitman explained: "This year is a little depressing because my two teams, neither of them are in the playoffs. Now the Canucks aren't in it. So what I decided is that I'm going to write a kind of mythical blog about what the Canucks and Kings would be doing had they still been in," he said. "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."

Director and raconteur Kevin Smith, though not Canadian (but an avowed lover of the original Degrassi), is also blogging and should be quite awesome in his own right.

Here's to a postseason of record-setting fistfights, broken limbs and teeth scattered across the ice!