Category: NHL

  • 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…

  • Thin Air: Sunday Morning Hockey Thoughts

    Some hockey thoughts for you on a Sunday morning: – I don’t think I need to watch NHL Tonight with the sound on.  The highlights from the previous seasons on the NHL Network were simple: use the local broadcaster audio, and roll the tape back a bit more than your average ESPN highlight.  The best…

  • Thin Air: Hockey Thoughts

    Thin Air is a collection of hockey thoughts from a mile above sea level. Things get a little weird up here. Send oxygen when you can. – I woke up Sunday morning (OK, late Sunday morning) to several texts asking me if I was going to training camp. Until that point, I really hadn’t even…

  • Trapped in a Lockout (based on R. Kelly’s Trapped in a Closet)

    If you aren’t familiar with R,. Kelly’s hip hopera Trapped in a Closet, I am not all that surprised.  It was only brought to my attention this past year.  Most people I ask refer to the South Park episode where R. Kelly tries to get Tom Cruise to literally come out of the closet.  No,…

  • NHL Cliff

    “Lines of communication remain open.” That was the first thing I heard from my radio this morning.  Sound familiar, hockey fans?  Knowing my online life, you could assume that I was listening to sports radio, but no (in fact, for the record, I don’t listen to sports radio – not enough hockey).  This line came…