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Mike Green: Game Too?

By junior on May 4, 2009, at 11:00 am

Prior to Game One of The Crosbys vs. The Ovechkins, I posted a photo I took of Alex Ovechkin in February during our visit to the Sunshine State (otherwise known as the Week We Retired).

Keeping in mind the worldwide influence of this blog, it would seem apparent to me that the appearance of the […]

May 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: 2009 OHL Championship Final, Adopt-a-team Project, Brampton Batallion, Digital Photography, Hockey, OHL, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, Windsor Spitfires | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Stanley Goes to Motown. Again.

By junior on June 5, 2008, at 8:40 am

Mike: You can exhale, uncross your fingers and toes, uncover your eyes, put down the four-leaf clovers, and – for heaven’s sake – let the rabbit have his feet back. The Wings’ Cup championship was well deserved; they outlplayed their rivals from Steeltown, and it would have been an unjust result had they not prevailed. […]

June 5th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Detroit Red Wings, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs | 3 comments - (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

Team-Elect Announced

By junior on April 9, 2008, at 7:33 pm

After a very carefully run election (no doubt involving United Nations observers), the Leaf fans at Pension Plan Puppets have at my suggestion adopted the Washington Capitals, champions of the NHL’s NASCAR division as their foster team for this year’s NHL playoffs.

The first (and hopefully last) adoption of one poor underserved hockey team is […]

April 9th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Adopt-a-team Project, NHL, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Ridiculous Dept.

By junior on March 11, 2008, at 2:27 pm

Evidently, the poor (on-ice) performance of the Leafs is being cited as a contributing cause to the cancellation of certain CBC programming (via bitterleaf):

Apparently, without the playoff revenues generated by the large audiences that tune into post-season Leaf broadcasts, the CBC can’t afford to keep crap quality programming like Hockey Wives and Jpod on […]

March 11th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: CBC, Hockey, NHL, Toronto Maple Leafs | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)