Jerseys and Hockey Love

There’s been a lot of talk around the web about the new pink jerseys the NHL is putting out in another attempt to get women into the great game (“beautiful” is taken by soccer, and too hard to pronounce through broken teeth). Generally, it seems like people are more amused than anything, but there has [...]

Since work ended around 4:30 today, I don’t have a lot to do. My two big things…

Cleaning house.

Reading vancouvercanucksoped. Today, Alanah is blogging for 24 hours straight. About hockey. For charity. Now, that kicks ass.

Sure, its a Canucks blog, but it’s still a good blog. And it’s the blog that [...]

If there isn’t scandal, it wouldn’t be hockey. In the NHL, there’s the gambling scandal, which seems to have been swept under the rug. But in the UHL, you have the Danbury Trashers and the organized crime charges. From skirting the salary cap, to no-show jobs for players and maybe wives, the ramifications for the [...]

The Rocky Mountain News have the calculators out, and tell me this:

Assuming Klee and Stastny are on Colorado’s Opening Night roster, the
Avalanche currently has 22 players under contract for close to $42 million.

The NHL salary cap is set at $44 million, leaving the Avalanche a
little room to re-sign free-agent forwards Brett McLean and Marek Svatos.

Of [...]

Two signings came down from the Mountain today.

From TSN:

The Colorado Avalanche have signed defenceman Ken Klee and
forward Paul Stastny.
Stastny was signed to a multi-year contract while no terms were disclosed on the
contract for Klee.

What should this say:
The Avs are still active making moves. They are getting some more depth on the blueline, while working toward [...]

Off season hockey talk. Fun, fun, fun. Today’s rant…

Quit questioning the officials to the third degree. Why did it sound like they we’re deciding games? Stop it, let them do the job, and don’t let your cameras decide the integrity.

Americans can love hockey, just make tickets attainable.

Ottawa has a section 218 (the Devils hardcore fan [...]

I rarely throw out that it’s my birthday, and this is the only time I plan to do it here (this year at least). Last birthday was spent in the hospital recovering from a scooter accident from the day before, where I broke both arms. So far, this one is going much better.

This has been [...]

Slow news day here, with no good reason to call XM (even though I had some funny stuff, there wasn’t enough to chat about). So finally I’m posting a jersey, which is the first half of the title, so I should get with it.

This is my David Aebischer jersey:

The black strip through his name is [...]

My XM call was about Snow today. I had this to say:

I don’t know if you guys heard the latest rumors here, but it looks like
Francois Giguere is getting fired, and Peter Budaj is getting named as the new
GM. Also, Bryzgalov now says that Brian Burke is grooming J.S. Giguere as his
successor.

They laughed, but I [...]

So, the question I hear (read) asked a lot is weather or not a player is worth his contract. The last two I just read are Rob Blake (2 years @ $6 mil each) and Brendan Shanahan (One year @ $4 mil). Well, is Blake a $6 million D-man? For the moment, yes. But that [...]