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Setting the Market: Brian Burke and the NHL Trade Deadline 2009

By junior on February 28, 2009, at 11:14 pm

Nb: I am cross-posting this article to both my own site and Pension Plan Puppets; I spent a lot of time working on this, and it occurred to me that if Jammies or Sexypants accidentally pushed the wrong “deletify” button over there at PPP, I might lose the whole thing. So here ’tis:

Here’s the […]

February 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Brian Burke, Columbus Blue Jackets, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, NHL, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs | Comments are closed

When Good Coaches do Bad Things.

By junior on May 1, 2008, at 1:41 pm

Quickly: I can’t believe Montreal coach Guy Carbonneau started Jaroslav Halak in place of Carey Price at goaltender in last night’s Game 4 matchup with Philly. Bonehead move. I do not understand the thinking behind that; Price had not played poorly in game 3, despite what the sportscasters are blathering about in their 30-second soundbites, […]

May 1st, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Montreal Canadiens, NHL, Philadelphia Flyers | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Ovie’s Overtime?

By junior on April 22, 2008, at 8:47 pm

Game 7 between the Capitals and Flyers is now going to overtime. A pretty good game with some (again) horrid officiating. It is difficult to know what gets a guy a penalty in this league any more. Ritual decapitation? Is that always a penalty? Even late in the third period of a tied game 7? […]

April 22nd, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: NHL, Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

Gr8 Game Seven Coming

By junior on April 21, 2008, at 9:46 pm

Watching Game 6 of the Caps/Flyers series tonight, I was struck by how great a game Mike Green was having. From the hit he laid on Sami Kapanen (the one where they had to get the Philly Fire Department to pick l’il Sami out of the rigging up in the rafters) to his rapid and […]

April 21st, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Adopt-a-team Project, Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens, NHL, Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals | Comments are closed

Birds, Louts, and Losing

By junior on April 19, 2008, at 12:45 pm

A couple of days ago, I congratulated myself for sticking with this blog project fairly consistently. I then promptly disappeared for a couple of days. So it goes.

A few things:

As I type this post, I am seated out back of the family estate here in Juniorvania on a Muskoka chair that needs a […]

April 19th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Hockey, Juniorvania, NHL, Philadelphia Flyers, Theories Dept., Washington Capitals | Comments are closed

Project Adopt-a-Team Underway.

By junior on April 11, 2008, at 7:19 pm

Blatantly swiped graphic from Japers’ Rink, posted there as a welcome for those of us clambering aboard the bandwagon and shouting “Just say OVIE!”

Thanks to the folks there, and the folks at On Frozen Blog for throwing out the welcome mat for us in a big way.

I got home right at 7:00 […]

April 11th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Adopt-a-team Project, NHL, Ottawa Senators, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Trying to measure a moment: Leafs/Flyers March 11th, 2008

By junior on March 12, 2008, at 4:03 pm

Back in the mid-1970s, when I was about seven or eight years old, I built a crystal radio set. The radio came in a kit, and I got it as a gift, I think probably for my birthday. Building the radio was fun, and I learned a little bit about electronics and how radios work; […]

March 12th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Hockey, Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Windsor Spitfires | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)