Month: June 2008

  • Why is Tapeleg Smiling?

    And why is he speaking in the third person. Because Jose Theodore is out the door. From the Denver Post (which is not the AP, so I can quote the story): Talks between the Avalanche and Jose Theodore have broken down, and it now appears the veteran goalie will test the NHL open market beginning…

  • Draft Day and Happy B-Day, JAHL

    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,…

  • Community

    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…

  • NHL Awards Ceremony: Well, That was Crap.

    The NHL Awards ceremony shown – eventually – on Versus, went off without a hitch without Stompin’ Tom Connors showing America what he does best. I was pretty upset, his performance being the single reason I tuned in at all. OK, that isn’t completely true. I tuned in because there is no hockey action, other…

  • Can the NHL and Versus do Anything Right?

    It’s 7:03 PM, and I, like at least seven other many people across America, an I’m watching the Draft Lottery on Versus. Simply put, what the hell is going on? This isn’t even the CBC, it’s TSN. 7:05 PM and we now have the correct feed, too late to see Stompin’ Tom Connors. I’m so…