Author: James Gralian

  • Paul Kariya: The Memory Remains

    After a bit of a long day, I got home and decided to curl up with a little reading.  I don’t seem to take the opportunity enough, to just leave the computer behind, and just read. Which led me to not thinking about the post I had to write when I got home, which put…

  • Huntsville Havoc vs. Pensacola Ice Pilots: My First SPHL Game

    Near the end of the season, I diverted to Huntsville, AL to take in a SPHL game, the first I had ever seen of that league.  I’d been through Huntsville a few times, but never to see a game. Yesterday,  I showed you a few of the ‘lovely’ trophies the various Huntsville teams had won…

  • Huntsville Havoc and the Carnage

    A few months ago, I stopped in Huntsville, Alabama to see a Huntsville Havoc hockey game.  If you didn’t go back and read that first sentence again, you are doing OK.  Yes, there is hockey in Huntsville.  There has been a lot of hockey in Huntsville, actually. The game I went to was the day…

  • Thin Air: Sunday Hockey Thoughts

    The draft is over, the bloggers are back home, nursing their hangovers, and the draftees are admiring their new swag from their new team.  I hope everyone had a good time.  The draft is mayhem on the first day, but then things settle down on the second, despite the much faster pace. So here are…

  • Draft: Oh, What a Night

    Oh, how wrong I was. I thought, what’s the point?  Why pay attention to the draft?  What could possibly happen that’s all that intriguing? I went to skate for a bit before running home, and then to the Mile High Hockey party, and that’s when things got interesting. Liles traded to Toronto: You know what?…