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Picks for Goalies can be a Good Thing
Hot off the presses, Blue Jackets Scott Howson just traded three draft picks to the Flyers for goaltender Sergei Bobrobsky. Good move, Blue Jackets. Really. I know, it’s weird, that the Blue Jackets and GM Scott Howson can make a good trade. It doesn’t seem possible, like Phoenix drawing a sell out crowd, or the…
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Downie in the Dumps
By now, every Avalanche fan with an internet connection knows about the trade of Kyle Quincey to the Tampa Bay Lightning for forward Steve Downie. Then Tampa Bay GM Steve Yzerman quickly flipped Quincey like a house in 2007 to the Detroit Red Wings for a first round pick. My immediate thoughts on the trade…
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Deadline Day Favorite Tweets
I wanted to compile a list of some of my favorite trade deadline day tweets, just to share the love as an overview. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/darrendreger/status/42251154725408768″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/darrendreger/status/42251413694320640″] I kind of liked the first one better. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/wyshynski/status/42273057171177472″] Hey, welcome to the new media landscape. Anyone else getting a little tired of this complaint from the…
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Avs Trade Leopold to Flames for Bag of Pucks
See you later, Leopold. Don’t let the door hit you. That may sound kind of mean. I don’t ned to pick on Jordan Leopold, his services, when available, were decent enough. But it hasn’t been easy to get the taste of his first season with the Avs out of the mouth. It wasn’t always his…
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Deadline Day: Ready or Not, Here it Comes.
Trade deadline day is always a circus. Even if the team you love doesn’t make a lot of moves, watching the carnage around you is always spectacular. For the pre-deadline chat, Tom Luongo and I talked about some of the big names that may be moved on our podcast, The Rink. You can find that…