Author: James Gralian

  • Ducks Avs Tonight!

    Somehow, it eluded me that tonight was a preseason game between the Ducks and the Avalanche, and I am in sunny Irvine, CA.  So guess what I’m doing tonight?  I’ll be sitting club level (tickets were cheap) wearing my Giguere game worn Avs jersey.  Say hi if you spot me. The Avs hacked down their…

  • 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…

  • Johnstown Game Tonight!

    Johnstown Game Tonight!

    Hello all!  I just arrived in sunny Irvine, California where, get this, my hotel doesn’t carry NBCSN.  That’s right, for the next three and a half weeks, I am without the national broadcaster of the NHL. Frankly, I may not survive. Opening night will be bad enough, but tonight is the Kraft Hockeyville game in…

  • Thin Air: Bubbles

    Happy Friday, folks.  Here’s what I’m thinking about today in the world of hockey. – Is the NHL starting to feel like a bubble industry?  $500 million expansion fees to put teams in questionable locations, meteoric revenue growth being tempered by a currency drop, and more and more luxury being added for the higher paying…

  • Avalanche Sign Johnson Long Term; Avoid Stastny 2.0

    There was an ominous quote from Erik Johnson of the Colorado Avalanche in the paper the other day.  Via the Denver Post: “It’s my desire to stay here, but it has to work for both sides and I’m all for working with the team and trying to fit into the structure. I’m not out to…