Win a Minnesota Wild Flip Camera from Flip Video and Hockey Wilderness!

I would not say that I DESERVE a Flipcam, that would be pretty rude. I will say that I would like a Flipcam, and here is why you should consider giving me one! I am a huge Wild fan and I can’t afford to buy one for myself. I am divorced and I support my two kids financially. I often work two jobs to try to make ends meet. While I try to do my best for my kids, I often go without. Besides that, another reason I would like it is that there is this one guy that I would LOVE to embarass – Eddie Shore sent me this guy who was a chronic yanker. He would take deliberate penalties just to get in the penalty box all by himself and….danged if he wouldn’t….what is his name????

Special Pre-Recorded Wild Videos including:

Little Bouchards, Big World with Special Guest Jared Spurgeon
Trailer for the new Wii Game: Marian Gaborik’s Racing Simulator
Twitter Tips and Tricks with Martin Havlat and Alan Walsh
The short Indie Film: The Passion of Leddy
Professional’s Guide to Jobhunting in a Poor Economy hosted by Todd Richards

and lastly…

The James Sheppard ATV Blooper Reel

(This is not an official entry, just bored :P )

Oh, how a Flip cam
could make this season better.
Don’t ‘deserve’; do want. :) (emoticons don’t count, pretty sure.)

Think of all the fun
one could have with a Flip cam
Wild vids and more!

Clutterbuck and Burns
two Wild fan favorites
would love me to win.

Hockey Wilderness
great place for news and humor
def. not sucking up.

Haikus-not easy
really limited on words
so I’ll just quit now.

kthx.

passionate hockey/Wild fan. I live and breathe hockey. It would be so awesome to get a flip cam to record my favorite moments at Wild games, since I am a poor college student :)

http://twitpic.com/3dwf61

It’s a 4GB Flip MinoHD. Awesomeness.

I would use it for when the Wild come to Detroit though and up load exclusive video to the site.

I will jump ships, leave the Islanders behind and devote myself 100% to the Wild.

To answer a few questions:

A) Yes, my loyalties can be purchased but only after about two decades of borderline criminal owners (Including two who are currently imprisoned), wasted draft picks (Ryan O’Marra, Robert Nilsson, Petteri Nokelainen, Mike Rupp 9th overall only to not have him sign), trading away Roberto Luongo, Todd Bertuzzi, Bryan McCabe, Olli Jokinen, Raffi Torres, the draft pick used to select Jason Spezza, Tim Connelly, Taylor Pyatt and Zigmund Palffy, four playoff appearances since 1994 and the last Stanley Cup win when I was a month old.

B) Yes, the Islanders loosing 17 out of 18 can do this to an otherwise loyal fan especially when the last three games were loosing a home and home with the Rangers, followed by a loss to the Flyers.

But living where I live, Wild stuff is basically nowhere to be found in stores, and I LOVES having Wild stuff. Oh, and I don’t have a camera haha :P

1. I’ve been unemployed for about two years and lost pretty much everything I owned.
2. Iv’e been reduced to sleeping on a camp mat in my sisters basement. She’s very annoying and doesn’t like hockey.
3. The camp mat is pretty hard on the compressed vertebrae in my back.
4. My camera is so old it shoots print film.
5. I’ve never even owned a video camera.
6. I’ve been a fan of pro hockey in Minnesota since the days of the Gumper and Goldy.
7. I don’t post here much because it’s hard to get involved in the conversations when I can only watch on 45, because I can’t afford cable. Because of this, I was an avid reader long before I actually signed up a few weeks back.
8. I’m such a devoted fan of Minnesota pro hockey that even when I had cable, I wouldn’t watch the Stanley Cup if the North Stars or the Wild weren’t playing.
9. Both my parents died during the holiday season. My mother two days after Thanksgiving and my father on New years eve. Although both were several years ago.
10. And my faithful dog of 11 years has cancer and I don’t know if he’ll make through the holidays.

So have some “freakin” pity on me, I could use nice present this Christmas. I would be eternally grateful. I’ll even try to post more.

I have been kicking this around for a while in my head, and yet, I have no way of documenting my “story.”

It pains me, truly it does, to drive around the neighborhoods of the twin cities, and see ball-fields, and hockey rinks, in a city park, which go un-serviced. Due to the lack of service, these facilities are not used, or maybe they haven’t been used, thus, they aren’t serviced.

Today is December 8, and so far, I have seen one, ONE, outdoor rink that has been pre-flooded. We say we love hockey as a state, yet, the community rinks are becoming extinct on an alarming pace.

I would use this camera, complete with a hockey themed skin, to begin documenting outdoor rinks, their usage, their state of disrepair, the availability of warming houses and the like. It would be very neat, after the winter of 2011, to make a short presentation “documentary” regarding the level of availability of community rinks, and their condition. While i know many kids dont like to play outside, how much of a chance do you really have? The Strib ran an article last year about municipalities not flooding rinks to cut costs, but yet, many of those municipalities are concerned with obesity levels in children. Why not use and improve facilities in the neighborhoods, and encourage kids to get away from the Xbox, and onto the ice? Play, be outdoors, have fun, and get a workout!

I would love to get video sampling of the conditions/usage of our outdoor community rinks, and put together a persuasive package of why maintaining them improves our cities. But at the moment, I have no way to document that.

This is why I would like to win a flip camera.

I would work hard (sorry Tom) for 20 minutes creating the best content the Internet has ever seen! However, I would probably spend the next 20 minutes filming a plastic bag in the wind or some stupid shit like that. I might get back to filming the best content the Internet has ever seen during the 20 minutes that follows, but by then it will be too little too late.

Not so much as I deserve it, but I would really, really, really, really, love to have that awesome looking Flip camera and use it to video and share hockey. If I was so lucky to win that spiffy looking thing I would use it all the time to video hockey players and practices for college and local games, and then for Wild and Stars games when I get to go to them. Shoot, I would even do a post for Hockey Wilderness and show off some of the cool things I video with it and bad"flipping"awesome it is for a hockey fan to have! Maybe see if I can use it and get in to interview a Wild player or record nice fight with it next time I’m at a game. And definitely use it video it pranks we pull in the on campus here.

Quite frankly, I am in need of a camera. I told my parents I wanted one for Christmas, and instead took the money and bought myself a Backs third jersey. Now I am in need of something record all the Wild images I possibly can, whether at the game or out exploring the wildest regions of the country. My backpacking gear consists of a hockey stick for walking and cross checking wild beasts out of my way, and a trusty Wild t-shirt that has been around since Year 1. The Wild Flip Cam would be the perfect way to record my feet for this upcoming summer: play hockey on an actual glacier. Make it happen Hockey Wilderness!!! Por favor.

I would love to win one, because I was actually looking at this very brand of camera, I can’t afford it. I want to record the world around me, and that includes video blogging for the Minnesota Wild, my beloved hockey team I’ve followed through thick and thin for the past 10 years. When I was at the flip cam site I even searched for a Minnesota Wild design. Live by them, die by them. I’m a true fan, and would love to show my friends my dedication, granted they already know this by my nonstop hockey talk. I would love to have something with the Wild logo on it too. I can’t afford a jersey as I’m a college student, and have yet to be at a game. I’m dying to go and would think this camera would be perfect for me. I love the jersey as a design, it’s perfect.

Because I just had a baby and I need to film her! We dress her in Wild outfits so much and she barely has hair so everyone thinks she’s a boy. She will always be a Wild fan though!

Can’t come up with anything funny to say, but it would be super cool to win the flip camera. I have a one year old who is always doing great things, and it’d be good for him to see the Wild catching his moments. Also, we’re starting up an AHA team, and we could use some publicity

I love hockey and tend to take a lot of pictures when I go to hockey games. My favorite games to go to are of course the Wild, but I also love Gophers’ games and my high school, or any high school, hockey games. My nephew just turned 1, and I’m doing what I can to get him interested in hockey, I have already gotten him Wild stuff and I will again for Christmas this year. A flip video camera would allow me to film him dangling the puck on his journey to the NHL. =]. I would use it at other games too. Last week, my high school team was killing a 5-3 penalty, and my friend was out on the ice. He got the puck and passed it to himself off the boards, skating in between 3 defenders and getting past the goalie to put one in the net. I will relive this moment in my brain, but it’s a shame that not many hockey fans will get to see what could have gone down as the greatest high school hockey play of the year. This flip video camera would be an awesome way to record similar moments and I feel I could do it in style with this sweet Wild-customized camera, so please pick me so I have the chance to spread my love for hockey! =].

*I’m doing this at the last possible minute, showing my dedication.
*My favorite Wild player is James Sheppard.
*I still fume when I realize that DR could have traded Gaborik for AT LEAST two 7th round picks near the end of the ‘07-08 season, but didn’t pull the trigger.
*I truly believe that if the Wild didn’t trade Leddy last year, and drafted Bjugstad instead of Granlund, the Wild would have 3 Stanley Cups by now.
*I can assure you I will only use the Flip Cam to record my rants about how the Wild should trade for Mike Modano.
*I get mad that the film Juno was filmed in Vancouver, and then pretended it was Minnesota.
*I have the formula to the Wild turning their season around: (Trade Barker to NJD for Parise; Trade Miettinen to STL for Johnson. Done and done.)

I’ll await your congratulations.

I think I would be a great candidate for the Wild themed Flip camera! My newborn son, who is a huge Wild fan already at 8 months old, has already tried shoving hockey pucks in his mouth (eating pucks at 2 months old!?) and loves to lay around on the floor with his little Wild hockey stick and little Wild soft puck, pushing it around and chasing after it. Soon we will be bringing him to his first ever Wild game and I would love the opportunity to win this camera to document this occasion properly! We have a picture camera in the house but no way to shoot video and this would be an excellent gift for my family to document one of the newest Wild fans out there as he grows up in this hockey house!
Thank you for your consideration, and of course as always …
LETS PLAY HOCKEY!!!