Our Date With Hockeywood...Third Visit

Buon Giorno. Welcome to the Waikiki Hockey Ristorante. The Ristorante has been fully booked so it's been awhile since we've been able to come in.

If this is your first visit to the Ristorante you may to want to look back to our first and second visits where we looked at some couples in our quest to determine who the most interesting hockeywood couple is.

Today we'll add another five couples to our ever growing list. Let's get to it:

Jordan TooToo and Kellie Pickler – dated for most of 2007
When an American Idol contestant is considered as a celebrity things are getting desperate. Kellie finished sixth on Idol in 2006 but after her elimination she was signed to a record deal and released her first album…“Small Town Girl”. The country album went gold and three singles reached the top 15 on the billboard charts. Kellie Pickler is also infamous for conclusively proving she is not smarter than a fifth grader ... shouldn’t somebody have told her that going on this show would be a bad idea?

Tootoo is best known for being the first NHL player of Inuit descent to play in the NHL. He’s only 5-foot-9 and 190 pounds but he plays much bigger. He’s been called a cheap shot artist lately … mostly because of the one punch knockout he gave Stephane Robidas in 2007. Number 22 (a clever play on his name) has scored 22 NHL goals in 232 games so scoring isn’t part of his game. The relationship ended after Jordin cheated on Kelly.

Dinner Potential: During their courtship, country girl Pickler was planning on visiting Jordin’s family in Nunavut where she was going to “build an igloo”. We can't find any news if the trip actually happened but we would definitely love to hear those stories. Judging by her performance on 5th Grader Pickler would have been entertaining enough to even warrant her own reality show. We really need to consider the length of our meal before we invite Pickler…we can see her act getting old veeeery fast.

Quality Quotient: 3 (her) + 4 (him) = 7 total

Jose Theodore and Paris Hilton – weekend hookup in 2006
What do we say about Paris? She’s the pinnacle of no-skill stars … famous for no reason. She does it all: model, write, act, sing … but none of them very well. She’s also famous enough to get mentioned in a John McCain speech. That’s pretty famous. Her response to McCain was probably her best piece of acting work to date.

Theodore put up a few monster seasons with the Canadiens … especially in 2001-02 when he won the Vezina trophy. Since the lock out, he hasn’t faired too well (a GAA above three every year) but he got his career back on track with a good season last year ... which he translated into a two year $9 million deal with the Capitals. Jose must be one of the stupider NHL goalies out there -- his weekend fling with Paris happened while he was dating Stephanie Cloutier. Cloutier, who had just given birth to their first son only three months earlier, broke up with Theodore after seeing photos of him and Hilton in every single newspaper! Here’s a tip Jose: If you’re going to cheat on your girlfriend don’t do it with one of the most famous people in the world.

Dinner Potential: Even though Paris has always annoyed us, she probably has some pretty good stories to tell. She would also be invaluable if we wanted to check out some clubs after dinner, we probably wouldn't even need to wait in line. We could get used to being a VIP.

Quality Quotient: 6 (her) + 5 (him) = 11 total

Sergei Fedorov & Pavel Bure & Anna Kournikova - married? dated? we've got no idea
We realize Kournakova isn’t a Hollywood starlet but her modelling work puts her on the same scale as a lot of the ‘talent’ we’ve looked at. Sergei and Anna dated in 1999. They broke up and Anna started dating Pavel – who lived in the same apartment building as her. Rumours surfaced that Pavel and Anna were engaged … both denied the rumours. In 2001, Pavel and Anna broke up and Sergei and Anna got back together. Rumours then surfaced that Sergei and Anna got married … both denied the rumours. In an 2003 interview with The Hockey News, Sergei admitted: “We were married, albeit brief, and we are now divorced." The two were said to be married in a Moscow registry office but are no longer in contact with each other. Anna still denies ever being married to Sergei to this day.

Dinner Potential: Sergei and Pavel are two of the best players to ever play the game but with the Melrose-style love triangle going on here we wouldn’t want any part of it.

Quality Quotient (Sergei): 3 (her) + 8 (him) = 11 total
Quality Quotient (Pavel): 3 (her) + 7 (him) = 10 total

Valeri Bure and Candace Cameron – married with kids
Since we’re on the Bure’s we’ll take a look at Pavel’s younger brother Valeri and his relationship with Full House star Candace Cameron. Bure and Cameron were introduced by Dave Coulier (the guy that played Joey). Coulier must have thought they had so much in common since they are they are younger siblings of a much more famous brother.

Other than a 75 point campaign in 1999-00 Bure has never scored more than 55 points. So other than regaling us of the time he won gold for Russia in the Olympics we probably won’t have many good hockey stories over dinner.

Dinner Potential: Bure’s hockey stories may not be up to snuff but his true value may come when we order the wine … he is a bit of a wine connoisseur after starting up Bure Family Wines. In addition to their winery, the pair have also opened up a restaurant called The Milk and Honey Café ... making Valeri the first hockey player to open up a restaurant not featuring their name in the title.

Quality Quotient: 3 (her) + 4 (him) = 7 total

Eric Lindros and Kate Hudson – allegedly dating again in 2008
Perez Hilton (we can’t believe we just linked to Perez Hilton) reported in July that Hudson and Lindros hooked up again after Lance Armstrong dumped her for being “too needy”. Both camps deny the rumour and from our 3 minutes of research it looks like they truly are just friends. But we’re not going to let the opportunity to discuss an actual Hollywood star pass us by.

Like her mother, Goldie Hawn, Kate is a really big movie star who really doesn’t have many really good movies on her resume. Other than the excellent Almost Famous, she has been in ho-hum comedies and a lot of terrible romantic comedies. She’s very attractive, if you like the tall leggy blonde look (which we do) and she comes from a hockey family … kinda. Kurt Russell is Kate’s quasi-step-dad and he’s a big hockey fan, going as far as playing Herb Brooks in Miracle. His son and Kate’s half-brother, Wyatt, is also a goalie playing Division 1 in the NCAA. So it may just be a matter time of time before she ends up dating a hockey player anyway.

After a 57 game - 149 point season in the OHL, Lindros had the potential to be one of the greatest players in history. But other than a 115 point campaign in 1995-96 he never lived up to the hype as he missed 160 games due to injury in his first eight seasons in the league. In 1999, he almost died due to a collapsed lung which was misdiagnosed by Flyers training staff. The resulting feud with GM Bobby Clarke ended with Lindros to be traded to the Rangers where he had a few decent seasons but nothing like earlier in his career.

Dinner Potential: We can see it now. We pick a restaurant. Lindros says he’ll never go to that restaurant. We play hardball and go there anyway but Lindros doesn’t show up. We decide to instead have dinner with Peter Forsberg, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Mike Ricci, Kerry Huffman, Steve Duchesne, two 1st round selections and $15,000,000 cash. Sweet deal for us.

Quality Quotient: 6 (her) + 6 (him) = 12 total

We still have a few more couples to look at so keep coming back to Waikiki Hockey to find out who we pick as our most interesting Hockeywood couple.

Our Date with Hockeywood...

Buon Giorno. Welcome to the Waikiki Hockey Ristorante.

Today we won't be deciding which tantalizing meal to have but instead which hockeywood power couple we would like to share that meal with.

We're not looking to see who is the best looking couple or who has the most money or power. We are trying to determine which hockeywood couple would be the most interesting to have a dinner conversation with. We are able to invite both current couples and couples from the past as we recently picked up a flux capacitor online.

We plan on visiting the ristorante once a week where we will take a closer look at another five couples ... so make sure you check back into Waikiki Hockey regularly to see who gets selected for our dinner date. Click here to see our second visit.

Let's get started ... in no particular order:

Tara Reid and Sergei Fedorov – Briefly dated in 2004
In 1999, Tara was a pretty big thing. She was one of the stars of the popular teen movies American Pie, Cruel Intentions and Van Wilder. Since then her star has faded. She’s been in a bunch of movies you have never heard of, did the odd guest spot in a sitcom and even got naked in public on more than one occasion ... classy!

Sergei’s career has tracked pretty closely with Reid’s. From 1990 to 1996 he was scoring at a point-a-game pace and was one of the biggest and most marketable stars in the league. His best season was in 1993-94 when he scored a massive 120 points. He has won the Stanley Cup three times and has been named to six All-Star teams. Since the lockout in 2004, Sergei’s star has also faded ... now a 50 point season would look good for Fedorov.

Dinner Potential: We would love to hear some stories from the Red Wings Stanley Cup runs but we would be worried about Tara's behaviour if we happened to order a bottle of wine.

Quality Quotient: 5 (her) + 8 (him) = 13 total

Mike Comrie and Hillary Duff – Currently engaged ... we think
Being a successful movie and music star gets Duff a few extra points as most stars usually embarrass themselves in one of the two areas. She’s been in 20 movies and 10 TV shows. When you also consider she has released three major studio albums it’s looking like Ms. Duff is a pretty big star. The only problem is all of her movies and albums a horrible… in Hillary's defense, we're probably not the target market for Lizzy McGuire and A Cinderella Story. Duff’s earnings in 2007 were over $15 million which goes a long way to help us overlook her movie and music choices.

Mike Comrie was selected 91st overall in the 1999 Entry Draft by the Edmonton Oilers. The WHL product quickly became a fan favourite in the Oil when he racked up 33 goals and 60 points in only his second season with the team. His status as fan favourite quickly changed when he decided to sit out the 2003-04 season in a contract dispute … a classic douchebag move. The Oilers eventually traded him to Philadelphia (after passing on a deal from the Ducks for Corey Perry and a 1st rounder... ouch!) but not before some Oiler fans started up a nasty rumour about Comrie. Since his days with the Oilers he has played for four teams over four years …which pretty sums up his value as an NHL player.

Dinner Potential: Things could get tense with Comrie if his Edmonton exit comes up but we would like to get some financial advice from a multi-millionaire.

Quality Quotient: 7 (her) + 4 (him) = 11 total

Sheldon Souray and Angelica Bridges – Currently married with two kids
Angelica has starred on Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful and Baywatch ... she's a very gifted actress obviously. She has graced the pages of FHM several times and has been named to FHM’s '100 Sexiest Women' list in both 1998 and 2003. If that was not enough, she is also the lead ‘singer’ of the pop group Strawberry Blonde (click at own risk).

Souray looked like he was going to be a borderline NHL player. He was six seasons into his NHL career and had a career high of only 11 points in a season. In 2003-04, he got his career back on track with a solid 35 points in only 63 games. Souray really broke through in 2006-07 season when he scored 26 goals and an incredible 64 points for the Canadiens. He parleyed the fantastic season into a $27-million dollar five year deal with his favourite team as a kid, the Oilers (a deal that Edmonton has to be regretting after one injury filled season). The jury is still out whether Souray is a big time defender or if he was just a product of Montreal’s vaunted power play (see: Streit, Mark).

Dinner Potential: Since we've just opened up the Waikiki Hockey Ristorante we would like to get a bit of advice from Souray who owns a restaurant in Montreal with Martin Brodeur. Angelica would likely have a few good Hoff stories but she may want us to listen to her CD .. that's not worth the risk.

Quality Quotient: 3 (her) + 6 (him) = 9 total

Alyssa Milano and Wayne McBean – Dated from 1988 to 1990
We’re surprised that Alyssa has only dated one hockey player. She has no problem dating sports stars as she has been romantically linked to Brad Penny, Joba Chamberlain, Carl Pavano, Russell Martin and Barry Zito. Also, since she has designed a line of clothing for NHL.com, she must be a big hockey fan. In her days as Samantha on Who’s the Boss, she met and dated McBean when she was 16 and he was 19. In her post-Wayne years, she went on to star in the TV series Charmed and other than a few guest spots on sitcoms not much else.

McBean was a WHL star and won the Memorial Cup in 1987 and 1988. He was drafted fourth overall in the 1987 Entry Draft in what would amount to one of the bigger draft busts in history as McBean went on to score only 49 points in 211 games. His best season was in 1990-91 when scored a whopping 18 points for the Islanders.

Dinner Potential: Alyssa could answer a burning question we have always had: who really was the boss? On the other hand, we envisage lots of awkward silences with McBean … “What was your name again?”

Quality Quotient: 5 (her) + 1 (him) = 6 total

Tie Domi and Kelly Carlson - Dating since February 2008
Kelly is an actress who is best (only?) known for playing Kimber Henry on Nip/Tuck. We have never seen the show and have no real desire to. Not a good sign for Kelly Carlson being invited to dinner.

Domi is one of Waikiki Hockey’s least favourite players. We took great pleasure in seeing Bob Probert pound Domi to bits in the 90’s. We will try to be impartial here, but with Domi it’s very hard for us. Domi played over 1,000 games and racked up 3,500 penalty minutes. We won’t even bother telling you what his point totals were because that’s not what he got paid for. He may be a jerk, a thug and a dick but he’s definitely got some good stories to tell after his long career. Unfortunately he can't remember any of them after taking so many shots to that gigantic melon shaped head of his.

Dinner Potential: Physical harm may come to us when our dinner conversation exposes our anti-Domi bias.

Quality Quotient: 1 (her) + 4 (him) = 5 total

Tia Carrere and Tie Domi - Briefly dated in 2006 (while Domi was married)
With starring roles in classic films like Wayne’s World and True Lies, Carrere was a pretty big star in the mid-90’s. Since then things have tapered off a bit for Tia. She starred in the lead role of the TV show Relic Hunter and a lot of movies most of us have never heard of.

Dinner Potential: Tia grew up in Hawaii and spent part of her life in Waikiki so we here at Waikiki Hockey would have a great conversation starter. Tia would always be welcome at our ristorante but we’re still a bit leery about inviting Domi in the door.

Quality Quotient: 6 (her) + 4 (him) = 10 total

Check out what couples we discussed in our second visit to the Ristorante.