Hinote to wed Playmate model on Saturday
Regardless of what the Blues did in free agency this summer, nobody in the organization had bigger offseason plans than Dan Hinote. On Saturday in Colorado, where Hinote was one of the city’s most eligible bachelors while playing for the Avalanche, the 31-year-old Blues forward will say “I do” to Playmate model Amy McCarthy.
“Dan and Amy met (four) years ago through a mutual friend,” Missy Christiansen, Hinote’s sister, told the Rocky Mountain News. “A year later, they saw each other a few times, in Las Vegas and also a weekend in Boston, to celebrate a friend’s birthday. From that weekend that was it . . . it was love.”
According to the RMN, the couple will tie the knot at the Keystone Ranch in front of 400 folks dressed in 1950s-era clothing. The list of attendees will include one of Hinote’s best friends, Peter Forsberg, along with John Michael-Liles and former Blue Shjon Podein.
The 31-year-old McCarthy, who was the “cyber girl of the month” for Playboy.com in January 2005, moved to St. Louis and has attended many Blues games the past two seasons. She is a personal trainer for obese children locally, volunteers at Children’s Hospital and also writes for a St. Louis magazine.
Older sister Jenny McCarthy, a fellow Playmate and the girlfriend of actor Jim Carrey, has attended at least one Blues game. Jenny might be the more popular of the two, but together they drew quite a bit of attention.
“Jenny used to get up at five in the morning to glue her bangs into a wave,” Amy McCarthy told FHM Magazine. ”Then she’d spend two hours putting on eye shadow, eyeliner and mascara. I grew up low-maintenance because I couldn’t get into the bathroom.”
Hinote, who won a Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2001, has always been known as a ladies’ man. One of his former gal pals was a cheerleader for the Denver Broncos.
When a reporter asked Blues center Jay McClement last year if the young players on the team were “living the dream,” being a professional athlete and single, Hinote jumped in and said: “No, they’re not . . . believe me . . . they’re not.”
While Hinote can dish it out, he has also taken his fair share of shots from the Blues during his courtship with McCarthy. Typically after a morning skate, players bolt quickly from the arena and enjoy a few hours to themselves before they return for a game that night. Once last season, Hinote was hanging around and hanging around before he finally said, “Well, I guess I’ll head home.”
One Blues equipment staff member quipped: “Oh, you poor thing . . . going home to a Playmate model. We should all have those kinds of troubles.”
But it’s all in good fun with Hinote, one of the Blues’ more entertaining personalities.
“There are a lot of disappointed ladies out there now that the world’s most eligible bachelor is off the market,” Blues defenseman Erik Johnson, Hinote’s roommate on the road, said Friday.
So Dan Hinote is the world’s most eligible bachelor?
“Besides me of course,” Johnson quipped.
Perhaps someone will buy Hinote a new car as a wedding gift. He still drives around a beat-up Dodge Durango that looks like it’s never seen a water hose. In a feature on Stlblues.com, Amy McCarthy tells writer Chris Pinkert that not washing his truck is one of Hinote’s worst habits. “He says, ‘That’s what the rain is for,’” McCarthy said.
“ALLLL-RIGHTTTTTYYY then,” as Jim Carrey would say.
Speaking of Carrey, will he be in attendance Saturday?
“I doubt it,” Hinote told the RMN. “That man’s busier than the president.”
Either way, it figures to be a night to remember. Congratulations to Dan and Amy!
JR
THIS is front page news??? Right next to the story about the fallen firefighter??? This would have been a minor blip on the Post’s radar if Amy McCarthy was an average, non-Playboy Playmate woman. Heck, it probably would’t have made the paper/website at all. The Post proved itself to be truly pathetic today. Grow up!
WHO CARES???????????
I thought it was pretty entertaining myself. Sounds like “Terri” may be a bit jealous.
Yes, this is front page story. Because you know all the problems in the city are fixed. This is tabloid journalism, you guys are getting lazier and lazier for stories. I have to get any current sport news from other sites. Because, St. Louis doesn’t report stories. Just does follow up on other peoples stories. I would be ashamed to call my self a Post Dispatch writer. I am amazed at the links of the front page that go to one paragraph articles.
No doubt TMZ journalism but the sad part isn’t whether the story was published or not….but rather the number of spelling errors in the text….e.g, “off course”??????????????
And when their kids grow, up I want to hear how the explain what mommy did for a “profession”. They’ll be so proud of her!
Hockey…Boring
Hinote…Still Boring
McCarthy sisters…Even more Boring
Worthless article…Priceless
Who gives a big rat’s a** about it!
wow, you people really have nothing better to do? Chill out and enjoy a good story about a profesional athlete. Read the actual newspaper if you have nothing better to do than b!tch about this. And it’s a blog, not a story so go ahead and less your grammer remarks.
YOU ALL NEED TO GROW UP
Bang it!
yeah i know Sue being a personal trainer for obese kids and someone who volunteers at a hospital, i cannot find anything to be proud of there…
After looking Amy (whom I had never heard of before) up on the web, I have to quote from a blog discussing the Kobe case in Colorado:
“I’d hit her twice, then go get tacos.”
Honestly, I want to know what she looks like. If your going to put this on the front page like it is some kind of tabloid, at lest give me a picture of her! This article is lacking substance!
I saw her hooha!
I’m cancelling my subscription to the Post Dispatch and am going to start getting the National Enquirer. Front page news???? Are we outta GOOD stories??? Seriously!!!
Cards must be losing, people are complaining. That, and ugly people HATE it when you talk about good-looking people being happy!
Oh, come on. A wedding is generally happy news. She was playmate 3+ years ago. She helps fat kids and volunteers at Children’s Hospital. She’s not working at Hooters. I would sometime like to see a professional athlete marry a normal woman, not a model or playmate or Jessica Simpson. But why complain about this fellow’s wedding? Wish them happy and move on.
Wow, That McCarthy family must be proud!
Two daughters that like to get nekkid for the men-folk.
I’ll bet Dan and Amy are hoping that any female offspring can follow in Mom’s footsteps.
Mom and Dad must be beaming!
as a blues fan, you can top off the great occasion in may/june of next year, helping the blues win a stanley cup! with all the depressing news about the economy this is something up-lifting for a change.
FRONT PAGE???? FRONT PAGE???? so what it was on the front page….. if you don’t want to read it, DON’T.
The gripe I have is not about the article. It’s not about the article’s placement on the web site. It’s about this “hockey” writer ignoring all the other more worthy hockey stories over the summer. If this were a Rams or Cards blog, there would be a post every day during the off season.
What “hockey” stories did he miss? JR is an excellent writer for the post and covers the Blues incredibly well. Very connected with the fans too on the Blues Talk forum, informing us as soon as he knows anything Blues related. Give him a break too, its the off-season…he busts his balls during the regular season for the post and Blues fans.
Please check out Dan’s website, Hinote’s Heroes; he is a huge advocate for Children’s Cancer. My little boy got to meet Dan at a Blues/Wild game last year, Dan paid for my son to invite friends to take a limo ride with Santa last Christmas, to see the lights. My son’s ‘real’ St. Louis Blues sweatshirt is still hanging in his closet. My only son, my only little boy died on Feb 26 of this year after an almost 3 year battle with a horrid pediatric cancer, he was only 7 years old. Dan made pieces of his life a bit easier to handle.
why dont u all just shut up and congradulate the man. its a stoy for cryin out loud, u read and then keep comments at the breakfast table so shut up and get a move on with your own lives instead of bitchin about others.