Okay, if you came here looking for this week’s What We Learned, you will be positively devastated to learn that I have, in fact, had it stolen from TLP by Puck Daddy, where it will be the one of, if not the, first things posted every Monday morning from now until the end of time.
And if you don’t click that link and read WWL (or whatever they choose to call it.. I am not averse to changing the name, since it’s stupid) over there, Greg Wyshynski will actually kill a member of my family. He told me this!
But yeah, thanks for stickin’ with me. It’s times like these I almost forget I’m too talented and famous to be appreciative of you losers.
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. And, well, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
By the time you read this, I think we’ll be something like nine days and change out from the 2009 NHL Trade Deadline. Exciting!
And what a way to kick it off: the Senators traded Dean McAmmond and the San Jose Sharks’ first-round pick (so call it No. 28-30?) for Mike Comrie and Chris Campoli. Woo! Wake the kids and give them the big news. Comrie’s headed back to Ottawa.
Now, this might surprise you, but I am not a National Hockey League executive. Far from it, in fact.
I am, however, a rational human being, and thus find this trade to be, ummm.. ridiculous. The Senators, at the time of the trade, were 13 points out of a playoff spot and had just lost Dany Alfredsson to a fractured jaw (albeit for one game).
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team that played. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Danger: This post contains language that some people might not like. This will be the only thing on the site that regularly does so.
Okay sure, Mike Green had his streak of consecutive games with a goal scored snapped today against the Panthers, but he scored 10 goals in his previous eight games, and one imagines it’s going to be a long time before you see anyone do that again.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team that played. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Danger: This post contains language that some people might not like. This will be the only thing on the site that regularly does so.
Ed. note: I wrote this two years ago (and updated it a bit for this posting) after being inspired by the absolute insipid pointlessness of attending another boring Beanpot, which begins anew for the 57th time tomorrow night on NESN and Rogers SportsNet. I like to repost it every year just ahead of the Beanpot because, well, it’s the worst tournament in sports. Enjoy. Or don’t. I couldn’t care less either way.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team that played. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Danger: This post contains language that some people might not like. This will be the only thing on the site that regularly does so.
Yeah, yeah, All-Star Weekend, right? Big to-do. What am I gonna say, “Boy that game sure was boring as piss, huh?” Well obviously. Who cares?
The most interesting hockey event of the weekend didn’t happen in the NHL, the AHL or even Major Juniors. Instead, that event is the gutless, appalling attack (there’s no other word for it) by Michigan State’s Andrew Conboy and Corey Tropp on Michigan’s Steve Kampfer late in the dying moments of Saturday night’s game, in which the Wolverines were beating the absolute piss out of the Spartans for two straight games.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team that played. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Danger: This post contains language that some people might not like. This will be the only thing on the site that regularly does so.
It would be a hell of a goddamned idea for the Tampa Bay Lightning to get out from under the weight of the Vinny Lecavalier contract.
Let’s be honest: they’re probably not going to be good enough to win a Cup under the current management, even with Lecavalier, who’s one of the best players in the world. Plus the time to move him, should they want to do so, is now. That big 11-year, $85 million contract seems a little silly and unwieldy now that the team is going broke and also sucks a great deal.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Danger: This post contains language that some people might not like. This will be the only thing on the site that regularly does so.
I got a couple of e-mails about the lack of posting this week, and I can see why. Not one non-Good Night post. Not one. This is not because I was especially busy. It wasn’t because nothing interesting happened in the world of hockey. Actually, it was pretty much the craziest news week in the sport since the season began. I just couldn’t bang out anything even resembling entertaining, interesting writing. Worst case of writer’s block I’ve suffered through.
This is by no means intended as excuse-making for general laziness. To help confirm this, I have decided that this week’s What We Learned will not be about any particular subject. Rather, it will be the actual, unedited things I had written up in Word and saved in the hopes of returning to it when I could rub two brain synapses together and maybe communicate a cogent, interesting opinion that someone would look at and then not say, “What a collossally stupid piece of shit.” In this, I have obviously failed.
(And just so there’s no confusion, yes, this is being done in lieu of actual content because I’m still not over this stupid goddamn writer’s block and I hate myself for it.)
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Danger: This post contains language that some people might not like. This will be the only thing on the site that regularly does so.
I don’t get why World Juniors is so entertaining. On paper, you wouldn’t watch these hockey games with a nail gun to your temple. Yeah, great, one-sided blowouts for a week straight, then good hockey starts. Know what? Come get me in a week.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Danger: This post contains language that some people might not like. This will be the only thing on the site that regularly does so.
I’ve been sick of Mats Sundin since July or so, and now that he’s signed with Vancouver I wish everyone would just shut up about him.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team that played. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Danger: This post contains language that some people might not like. This will be the only thing on the site that regularly does so.
I have very little idea what’s going on in hockey right now.
While I attended two games this weekend and tried to keep up with news and scores as best I could, it was awful hard to stay up-to-date with all the events that conspired to happen between 11 p.m. Thursday night when my electricity went out until roughly 5:30 p.m. Sunday when it came back on.
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Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. And, well, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team that played. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team that played. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.
Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team that played. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time.