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A New Style Episode of The Rink Podcast: Tweetcast
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…
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If You Thought The Refs Were Good / Bad Before: Walkom to Step Down
Darren Dreger just dropped a minor bomb on twitter a little bit ago: Stephen Walkom is stepping down as NHL dir of officiating and will attempt an on-ice comeback. I think that sound I heard was a large vein in my head exploding. I had to rush over to TSN to find out more: The…
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Does Balsillie Want to Lose?
I just saw this in my feed reader: Canadian billionaire Balsillie sets Sept. 14 deadline for Coyotes deal Um, does this seem smart? PHOENIX — Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie has submitted an amended proposed agreement to buy the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes for US$212.5 million and immediately move them to Hamilton, with or without the NHL’s…
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Is There a Problem with the New Team Canada Jerseys?
Nike, we have a problem. There was plenty of hoopla and fanfare surrounding the release of the new Team Canada Olympic hockey jerseys. As you may know, the IOC decided that the actual logos of the team’s governing bodies would not be allowed on team jerseys (this was also behind the changes made to the…
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Avs Finally Drop Bomb, but Make a Small Boom
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 was a…