Warning! The photo I am about to show you is not for the faint of heart. It shows a Buffalo fan giving Steven Stamkos the ‘finger’ after a beaut of a goal during the most recent meeting of the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Buffalo Sabres. I caught this while watching highlights from that particular [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
The Season Started When?
Let’s all give a big congratulations to the Philadelphia Flyers, who are currently the only team in the league without a win this season! It takes a special kind of awful to spend the first 3 weeks of a season without a win, but the Flyers rose sunk to the challenge quite remarkably.
What can the [...]
Poll – Two for Toronto?
There’s been a juicy little rumor posted up at TSN.ca that reports league executives are talking about a second franchise in the Toronto area.
While some are saying expansion is a scenario (even involving Jim Ballsille), most seem to think that a relocation would be the only way another team would share a city with the [...]
Mmmm… Cake
One of my favorite blogs is Cake Wrecks, a showcase of professionally made cakes that look positively horrifying. They’ve posted a lovely hockey themed number that you just have to see.
An excerpt from the post, where the author does their best to explain the rules:
See, apparently they play this sport on ice – but they [...]
Impatient ‘Hawks GM Fires Head Coach Four Games into Season
The first coaching casualty of the 2008-2009 season has come, and we’re not even a month into the season.
Apparently a 1-2-1 record is unacceptable to the Blackhawks management, because Denis Savard is now unemployed. Joel Quenneville, the former coach of the Blues and most recently the Avalanche, has been named as his replacement. The concerns [...]
A Few Notes From the Last Week (or so)
- The New York Rangers are riding high on a 5-0 record to start out the season. After five games, who’s going to be the worst? The Kings? The Lightning? The Ducks? Unless there’s a miracle in net, my vote is on the Avalanche. Peter Budaj has looked nothing short of mediocre so far.
- Speaking [...]
