Tag: Edmonton Oilers

  • Blink And You’ll Miss It

    It’s been a long time since I’ve written an opinion piece on this site, and I’m rusty as all get out.  So if this reads like a jumbled mess of thoughts, forgive me.  That’s pretty much what it is. But yesterday’s flurry of activity is too much to ignore.  Let’s start from the bottom, and…

  • Arenas From Abroad

    The NHL season is about to kick off and that marks the unofficial end of summer.  The official one may have been a few weeks back, but this is the one that matter. This summer, I spent much of my time in Canada, around Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary.  If you follow my 365 Project, you’ve…

  • Thin Air: Hockeyville

    Hello from sunny Irvine, CA, which is about as far from Johnstown, PA as possible, both physically (if you are staying in the contiguous 48 states) and metaphorically.  How can you not follow that sentence with the words “but I digress.”  And so I do. – As far as I could tell, NBC and the…

  • After the First Day: Free Agency Thoughts

    Market, via  Merriam-Webster: d : the area of economic activity in which buyers and sellers come together and the forces of supply and demand affect prices <producing goods for market rather than for consumption> I think a lot of hockey fans forget what a market really is when it comes time for free agency.  The…

  • Thin Air: Panic in Panictown

    Thin Air is just a collection of hockey thoughts. Short, to the point, and out there. Comments are open for discussion. – The Colorado Avalanche are terrible right now, losing to San Jose, Edmonton and Vancouver with a combined total of one goal for and eleven goals against. The penalty kill is awful, the power…