Jerseys and Hockey Love

The Avs beat the Wild tonight, 4-1, but I only tuned in here and there. I just wasn’t into watching a game tonight, which is a bit odd, but not that odd. Some days, you remember how long the season is. 82 games is a long season for everyone, players and fans. But still, I [...]

Tonight was the Blue Man Group concert at the Pepsi Center. This was the third time I have seen their rock concert tours (twice from the previous tours), and have seen them in Las Vegas, Chicago, and Boston. If you haven’t seen them live, I highly recommend them. They have a unique outlook that translates [...]

The Colorado Avalanche were not playing tonight, but when I got home, there was still hockey on TV. Altitude had the Colorado Eagles vs. the Wichita Thunder (central Hockey League). A few too many penalties, but otherwise a fine game, in a league that doesn’t shy away from a punch-in-the-face contest. Eagles won 5-1. The [...]

Hockey loves stats. Hockey fans love stats. If you go to the stats blogs, you can see how much they love to create stats. These usually come into being by painstaking translation by an amateur statistision. They punch numbers into spreadsheets, do complex math and learn something nobody else noticed. I enjoy stats, but don’t [...]

Other than being a John Woo movie, that was the perfect description of this morning. The walk to work was absolutely gorgeous and snow filled, and the rest of the day (which was about loading in the opera) followed suit. Good hard work with people who aren’t pains, a good beer and burger afterwords, and [...]

Getting some sleep may have tamed my fire a little, but only a little. Then I wake up and look a the scoresheet, and find out what I missed. I missed a penalty shot from Alex O. I missed him being stopped by Budaj. Other than that, I’m amazed that Sakic didn’t get a star [...]

Let’s be honest here. For all the bashing back and forth between Canadians and Americans over who is better in hockey, or in anything, there is something seriously wrong with a lot of people on this side of the border. Take my night in the Czech hockey bar tonight for example:

I had a nice two [...]

I really did liveblog the game tonight, but thanks to Blogger, it didn’t go through. Now, I will repost what I sent in, with the blemishes and all. All the errors, all the drama. The end was interesting.

First Period

Who is Ref #40. He looks like a kid.

Caps get the first goal, Avs the first PP. [...]

My seat at the bar is between the TV the Avs will be on, and the one showing the Sharks – Wings game. They are showing that because it just happens to be on, nothing more. I love a bar that shows the game before the game. I am one happy [...]

The Avalanche are hosting the Washington Capitals tonight, or I should say, the parent club to the Calder Cup winning Hershey Bears. For the Caps, it isn’t about where they are, it’s were they are going. Either I am paying way too much attention to the Avs, or the Alexander Ovechkin show is a little [...]