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Notes From a Hockey Day
I just wanted to pop in here with some notes and thoughts from the last few days. Anyone see Gretzky drop the F-bomb right after Grier scored the first goal in last night’s game between San Jose and Phoenix? I don’t know who he was directing it towards, perhaps an assistant coach said something stupid,…
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NHL.com Stats Suck
I am not one to put the word “Suck” in a post title too often, but I am feeling compelled. One of my coworkers is from Pittsburgh, and all fired up about the Pens and Sidney Crosby. Of course, he hasn’t had much to cheer about lately, and I have been the barer of bad…
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Wild vs. Edmonton: OMG (lots of photos)
Thanks to the strangest work schedule known to man (yes, stranger than the Acid Queen’s), I had Monday night off, and so I was able to attend another game at the Xcel Energy Center here in Minnesota. The thing that made this special was that I went as a guest of Branko Radivojevic. Trust me,…
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Koivu Doesn’t Speak French, Plays Damn Good Hockey Though
I seem to remember this came up last year, didn’t it? Wasn’t that when reporters were upset that Saku Koivu, Captain of the Montreal Canadiens, was taken to task for not speaking French while recovering from an eye injury after taking a stick under the visor? And wasn’t there a lesson learned in all of…