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Lincoln Stars vs Tri-City Storm
I am here to tell you, hockey is alive and well in America. Sure, the reports from the NHL are a little bleak right now, especially in places that have other sporting events going on (Boston and Colorado with the MLB playoffs, for instance), or teams that just can’t seem to run a business (like…
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On The Road Again
I won’t be able to pay much attention to the Avs vs Blackhawks game tonight, unless it’s via my not-the-famous-Treo phone on the mini-web. I am driving from Dallas, TX to Minneapolis, MN to set up shop for five weeks. But it wouldn’t be Tapeleg Travels (yeah, I just made that up) if I weren’t…
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Don Says Party Up, Thrash
So, we all know by now that Bob Hartley was fired from the Atlanta Thrashers for going 0-6 to start the season, and 0-10 from the playoffs last season until now. Not that it was any big surprise. But now that GM Don Waddell is behind the bench, it isn’t going to be all toil,…
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Bashing Your Own: Dater Says Wise Up
Yesterday, in my micro-recap, bullet points post about the Avs 5-4 shootout victory over the Calgary Flames, I wrote this: Ryan Smyth got something similar to a hat trick, only it wasn’t. Smyth got 2 goals in the game, and a shootout goal, which does not count. So, what do you call that? A not-trick?…
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NHL Recaps Around the Web: Comparison Edition (graphic heavy)
I have been banging on quite a bit about the NHL and their new style scoreboard. It’s not much of a stretch to say I don’t care for some of the changes that have taken place. So, what else is there? What do you compare the efforts of NHL.com to? Here we go, and click…