Month: June 2006

  • Thin Air: Start of free agency

    Free agency starts tomorrow, and I couldn’t be less prepared. It all seems so fast, like the dates get mashed together so quickly. Everyone is making announcements, teams are hiring and firing with wild abandon, and things seem to pile up. My news reader is stacked with articles left unread, and just not enough time…

  • AHL goes all visor, all the time

    The AHL announced that next season, all players are required to wear visors. So, the AHL catches up with the ECHL, the CHL, and the UHL. Good for them. Here, I’ll repeat that. GOOD FOR THEM. I still don’t understand the position taken by so many around hockey. The argument is that since visors, the…

  • Thin Air

    I’m driving from Philly to Denver starting Tuesday, so I have no time to really look at who the Avs drafted. I think it’s amazing they didn’t trade the first round pick for two tickets for Larry the Cable Guy. So some quick hits here. – Todd McFarlane came out with pictures of the next…

  • Hockey Book #1

    Final post tonight, I promise… I just finished my reread of Open Net by George Plimpton. If you haven’t read it, you are missing out. The Canadians have Dryden’s The Game, but for my money, this is better. If you can find the hardcover, buy it, for all the typos, and the great black and…

  • Why bother?

    I suppose I should put a little thing up about why I want to have a hockey blog, what makes me “whatever” enough to do one. Simply put, nothing makes me “whatever” enough (good, crazy, insightful, literary). I believe any idiot can have a blog (kind of the point of blogs), and I’m just that…