The Bondra Trade
The Caps, especially the owner and GM, are being taken to task by fans and media alike over having traded Peter Bondra to Ottawa yesterday. I think the criticism is unfair. Not that I don’t like Bondra...
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Throw Him Out
This is has no place in hockey. This is not ‘watching out for your teammate’, this is not ‘retribution’, this is not ‘the hockey code’. This is criminal and has no place in organized sport at any...
View ArticleJagr to Moscow
Jagr says he’s got a deal to play in Russia if there’s an NHL lockout next season. According to ESPN The All-Star right wing of the New York Rangers told the New York Daily News that he has a...
View ArticleNo-Star Game
The NHL has cancelled the 2005 All-Star Game, originally scheduled for Atlanta in February. This AP article notes that the last time there was a lockout in hockey (1994) it ended in January, 1995, and...
View ArticleRIP NHL
Gary Bettman finally got his wish, although I doubt he’ll admit he had it. Now that the owners have cancelled the season perhaps they will examine the strategy which have led the NHL to the brink of...
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Adding Insults to Injury
That picture to the left (click for larger) shows the last moment that Steve Moore was upright on the ice, just seconds before Todd Bertuzzi sucker punched him from behind, pushed his head into the...
View ArticleCasualty of the ‘New’ NHL
The reigning Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning have waived the team captain, Dave Andreychuk, who’s 42. He’s been a class act around the league for a long time and it’s a shame to see him go....
View ArticleAlex The Great
Alexander Ovechkin, rightfully, seems to be a lock for Rookie of the Year. Not surprisingly there are a number of excellent video tributes to his amazing abilities. The best one I’ve seen so far is...
View ArticleAnthem
Hockey makes me cry. My eyes well up and I choke back my emotions because after all, who cries at the start (or finish) of a hockey game? It’s a hockey game, for Pete’s sake. Big guys on skates...
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Swine Flu Symptom: Public Dorkiness
OK, this is one for the books. Caps are on a roll (having dispatched the Pens after TCB with the Rangers) and eveyone on the train home Saturday afternoon was in a great mood. Then these two – father...
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