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December 8, 2008 By

This weeks, I’m shirking my duties at JAHL (like that’s something new) to help out Steve Lepore at Puck The Media.  Steve is one of my favorite bloggers, a regular contributor to the podcast, and has a unique blog, covering the hockey media.  I’ll be posting over there today and tomorrow.

Tonight, I will have a liveblog of the Versus game tonight, but not your typical liveblog.  I’ll be critiquing Versus themselves, rather than the game.  Should be fun (for me, at least).

We are up to episode 10 of The Rink, with eleven going live tomorrow.  If you haven’t given it a listen, it usually runs around half an hour, so really, it’s not a huge commitment.

Oh, and I had nothing to do with this.  Nothing at all.

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Further Proof That the Blogosphere is Going Under

September 22, 2008 By

Title says it all, but the proof:

Blog World Expo just happened in Vegas, and they can’t be bothered to post about it one their blog,

Joel Quenneville was arrested with possible drunk driving implications, and I can’t be bothered to write anything about it (I though about it, but let it go for a moment),

Hockey bloggers are writing about Yankee Stadium.

Is it the end of the world? Not yet, wait for a week.

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Columbus Meet Up

September 20, 2008 By

I believe it was Ex -Poet Lauriete Billy Connnely who said you should never meet a favorite poet, because you will be dissapointed.

And yet, here I am, venturing out into the public, to meet up with Blue Jackets bloggers and fans alike.

Monday, around 6:00PM, a few of us are meeting up at Mac’s, my favorite bar in the Short North.  If you happen to be around, you should stop in.  Meet a few of the Blue Jackets bloggers, and talk about hte upcoming season.  You can find us by looking for the jerseys.

Mac’s

693 N High St,
Columbus, OH
(614) 221-6227?

Map to Mac’s

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Draft Day and Happy B-Day, JAHL

June 20, 2008 By

It’s time for the NHL Draft, and I am woefully unprepared. Luckily, since the Avs traded away their first round pick – if they even had one (I told you I was unprepared) – there is little I have to know today.

For anything I really need to know about the Avalanche and their draft, I can turn to the excellent blog Colorado Avalanche Prospects. Jori keeps us updated on all the action around the leagues pertaining to players in the Avs system. I don’t know how many other teams have a blog like this, but it’s unique as far as I have seen. If you are interested in Avalanche prospects, go check it out.

Last year, I was able to attend the draft, so I had all my reading material ready. This year, I busted ass on the drive from Tampa to Washington DC, just to get here in time. Aside from XM Radio, I have very little idea of what to expect, other than the obvious conclusion that Samkos is going to be selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Either that, or they wasted a lot of money in web development.

As a side note, and to stoke my own vanity, today is also the second anniversary of Jerseys and Hockey Love. Two years in blogging years feels like about 14 in real life (any real connection between blog years and dog years is strictly coincidental), and if I were to have an honest assessment of this past year of blogging, it would be a little disappointing on my end. I feel like I had things I wanted to say, but felt I shouldn’t, and that, as necessary as it was at the time, took too much time off from writing. if I had kept the pace, I feel like JAHL would be a little better place, and the quality of writing would have been better. I also miss some of the humor that I used to bring to the blog, that has fallen by the wayside (aka, I used to be funnier).

For what it’s worth, I plan to do more. By more, I mean that I have a new (hockey related) project in the making, and it’s going to need some help. I should be ready to announce what I plan on doing in about a month (hey, that’s better than Battlestar Galactia).

I do want to thank the people who read this blog, and especially the people who comment. I started Jerseys and Hockey Love to talk about hockey, and even though a blog is more of a one way conversation, it’s the commenters that make it fun. If you haven’t commented here before, take the ten seconds to say hi, and make sure to comment on other blogs. It makes the bloggers feel like they are fighting the good fight.

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Community

June 14, 2008 By

Maybe it’s the offseason looming, or maybe I’m just getting more and more frustrated lately, but I’ve really been concerned with the lack of a community in the hockey blogging world. Sure, there are little networks, focused around blogrolls and individual teams, like the Oilogosphere, one of the tightest knit groups around. I mean, they even play street hockey against each other.

MSM sports journalists have a forum and site to go to for discussion of the issues, stories, or just plain BS that relates to them. Bloggers are a technical enough bunch, but really haven’t had a place to go.

It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while, but haven’t had the (insert excuse here) to do. In other words, I haven’t stepped up to the plate.

Let’s celebrate a few people who have:

First off, we have Bethany from Bethany’s Hockey Rants. She has started a social network for hockey bloggers. It’s brand new, and a little rough around the edges, but it’s there, and it’s waiting for you. Go sign up, and contribute. It will only live off the strength of the membership. Plus, it takes a serious commitment to set up something like this, so kudos to Bethany for doing this.

You can find it at:

http://hockeybloggers.ning.com/

Next up is Greg Wyshynski from Puck Daddy. He’s been linking to the good stuff all over the hockey blogging universe, more so than a lot of the larger blogs. He certainly deserves credit. Thanks, Greg.

Puck Daddy can be found here.

Having a hockey blogging community doesn’t mean we all have to get along, agree, or even like the same things. I disagree with many of the things that the Avalanche bloggers say (and agree with plenty of it, too), but that makes for some good discussion.

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