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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…
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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?…
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Draft Day Decisions
Like the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, I had a plan. Unlike the Cylons, it didn’t involve wiping out an entire species, but hey, if it happened, then whatever. I was going to be prepared for the first round of the draft. I picked up the draft issue of The Hockey News at the airport for…
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On Rioting
(image source: yfrog/ niamhsays) The building on the right is the Queen Elizabeth Theater. I was lucky enough to work there for five weeks last summer. It didn’t have burning cars and rioters outside when I was there. Wicked the musical is playing there now. Here is an account of what it was like for a…
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Game 7: Over and Out
My feelings about game 7 are a little bit tempered by the rioting that went on in Vancouver. I will put up a separate post about that later. For now, my thoughts are with my friends in Vancouver, like @ryanclassic, @alixiswright, and @alanah1. I feel bad that they can’t celebrate a Cup win, and that…