December 8th, 2009
by Tapeleg
Just a few notes around the hockey and blogging world (most of them are a little selfish, but there you go):
- One of the funnier reviews of my podcast, The Rink I have ever seen came from Dirk Hoag, AKA The Forechecker on his excellent blog, On the Forecheck:
James “Tapeleg” Gralian and Tom Luongo break [...]
November 15th, 2009
by Tapeleg
Stuff that would normally go into the ether, were I still dealing with twitter.
- I went to a Spokane Chiefs game with Jason Cohen, author of Zamboni Rodeo, still one of my top five hockey books. Jason was a lot of fun, and I thank him for showing up. Now, if only the [...]
November 5th, 2009
by Tapeleg
Just some thoughts:
- You know what? Your incomplete theory on why attendance is low putting the blame squarely at the fans holds no interest for me. Fleshing out real reasons with actual ideas and research does interest me. Start a flame war on your own time. I don’t care.
- I know people think Tom [...]
November 4th, 2009
by Tapeleg
Haven’t done one if these in a long while. Here we… go:
- Phil Kessel took 10 shots on goal in a 2-1 loss to Tampa Bay, and managed to be minus one. Congrats to the Toronto media, who will ignore everything in the name of overzealous reporting. Go team!
- The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Ducks, [...]
October 26th, 2009
by Tapeleg
I was prepared to do an entire write up of tonight’s Leafs – Ducks game. Instead, I was as inspired to recap the game as the Ducks were to play hockey tonight.
This game was one of the worst games I have ever seen live. I have been to many hockey games over the past several [...]
September 26th, 2009
by Tapeleg
It’s that time of year again, where the Avs bloggers get together around the virtual conference table, and hash out what the season is going to look like. There were a ton of bloggers involved this year (I remember when there were 3 Avs blogs, and two were on their way out the door), [...]
September 14th, 2009
by Tapeleg
Number one in an ongoing sporadic series. This is a screen cap from my RSS reader:
Yeah. Ever wonder why the players only talk to the media in cliche and sound bytes?
Technorati Tags: That’s Not Nice
August 29th, 2009
by Tapeleg
I don’t do a lot of promotion of new episodes of my podcast, The Rink, on this blog. Maybe that is a mistake, but I wanted to keep the content here more about the writing, and less about the podcast.
This is a bit of an exception.
Late last night, I posted Episode 45, what I’m [...]
June 3rd, 2009
by Tapeleg
It took the Avalanche long enough to do what everyone already knew they would do, and fire Tony Granato. Even before the information was leaked to the media that the job was offered to Patrick Roy, it wasn’t a stretch to see Granato’s time with the Avs was coming to an end. It [...]
June 1st, 2009
by Tapeleg
The Kalamazoo Wings, as storied a franchise as you are about to find in the minor leagues, has opted out of the IHL.
The Wings announced today that they have…
submitted a letter to the International Hockey League to voluntarily withdraw from the league.
Keep in mind that this is not the same IHL you remember from back [...]