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• Game 18 vs Boston - Disgusting

  I am disgusted with this team right now. To play as sloppy as they are right now…I am throwing the whole team under the bus. Miller is not playing well. He’s not helped by the give-aways his team his making in front of him. You get a 3-1 and 4-2 lead against a team like [...]

• Manchester Bound Clune Returns From IR

  According the Rich Hammond of Inside The Kings, Kings forward Richard Clune who impressed many with his scrappy play, has been activated from injured reserve and assigned to Manchester of the AHL. Clune suffered a broken rib during training camp on a hit by Denis Gauthier and hasn’t appeared in a game yet. Also, a [...]

• The worst is definately over.

  Finally management knows it can only get better from here.  This is the advantage of being worst in the east.  Sheesh. OK, enough of the slagging, it’s not really my style. So what’s the trend here?  Oddly, over 10 games, it’s .500.  And when you factor in the last 2 losses, which could have been wins, maybe [...]

• Thoughts…

  - No surprise from anyone that Dustin Penner got benched by Craig MacTavish. The $4.25m man never lived up to expectations and probably never well. Brian Burke felt that the massive overpayment would have ramifications on the free agent market, but it didn’t, but regardless Burke gets the last laugh because now the Oilers are [...]

• Stages of a Keeper League Team

  For those of us in Keeper Leagues it is about this time of year that we begin to get a general feel for what direction our team might be headed in. Are we for real and need to just make a few tweaks for veteran pickups, or are we looking at a long season followed [...]

• Player News - Some Bad, Some Good

  Not a ton of exciting news out of El Segundo today but some noteworthy items, for better or worse. I guess I’ll start with the bad news? The Bad: John Zeilier is ready to enter the Kings’ lineup for the first time this year. I’ve never understood the organizations like for this guy. He doesn’t make [...]

• How Is The Finger Holding Up?

  So far so good… sorta… kinda… The Leafs have a 5-7-0 record with Jeff Finger in the line up so far this season.  They have given up a combined 44 goals against since he’s rejoined the team following a broken foot earlier this season.  That’s the bad news.  The good news is, despite the fact that [...]

• Crombeen claimed by Blues

  Ouch. That will help the Blues for years to come if they do it right. Crombeen is a good young player and I hate to see him go. Why are we watching young guys go, and signing guys in their 30’s in a down year? The addition of Mark Parrish, the departure of James Neal, and [...]

• Trying to raise that cap…

  In an “economic crisis” (seriously, the family in front of us at the last game could only afford to buy their kids nachos, hot dogs, ice cream, foam fingers and programs, but no Pizza Hut. Tough times…) the NHL is rolling out third jerseys this year in an effort to drum up some revenue and [...]

• I'm Sorry Scott Nichol, I Didn't See You There

  Maybe the only thing more satisfying than the Sharks domination of the Preds last night was the manner in which they answered the proverbial bell.  Earlier in the game, the Sharks allowed the Preds (ok, really just Jordin Tootoo) to get themselves into penalty trouble, and the red-hot PP ran up the score a bit.  [...]

• No time to panic - yet

  Well, I learned one thing this weekend - I should go with my gut. I just didn’t want to think that they could lose two games in a row, but I knew that Columbus was going to be trouble. And the Sabres played bad - real bad - in that game. And they got horrible [...]

• Forbes review

  This was reported recently and the Coyotes have much to do in order to bring up the value of the franchise. Now, of course there is always a lag on these types of things, but as a Jets fan when I was a kid and always very interested in the franchise, I am not surprised.  With the [...]

• How Quickly We Dissent…

  We’re always quick to toss them away… What a joke. We always give a guy very little time before we want to toss him away because he sucks. Toskala is a very good goalie. Is he struggling? Yes. But that doesn’t mean we just toss him out. Montreal better trade Price too, because he’s been absolutely [...]

• monday random thoughts

  Last night I had my quarterly drops for my 10 year pts only keeper. Each quarter we drop 4 players, followed by a 4 round snake draft. Being first I had the last pick and the hardest drops (Elias, Visnovsky, Huet and Afino). Elias was picked right before my first pick and with only 2 GM’s [...]

• Dallas 3, Phoenix 2

  I’m not sure how to blog about winning games any more, so I think I’ll just rip them for their performance in Phoenix on Saturday night, shall I? Maybe not… The Stars laid the perfect blue print for themselves on Saturday: -Very Few minor penalties. They were short handed only twice. -Face offs. They won 71 percent -Turnovers. An [...]

• Demitra effective (and Prab Rai - prospect)

  Pavol Demitra was certainly effective in his first game back after missing a chunk of the schedule with a rib injury.  Despite his three assists, I might say that his 6 for 8 faceoff wins were the most impressive stat tallied on Saturday’s Hockey Night in Canada game.  I was unable to watch said contest, [...]

• Sunday morning armchair

  i grew up in Southern Ontario but for the last decade i’ve lived in Winnipeg, immersed in western Canadian hockey culture.  this last week i’ve loved the fact that the Leafs have been in the west, LOVED … IT.  i saw an interview with Matt Stajan where he said that all the Canadian teams should [...]

• Overacheiving Preds Snap Kings' Win Streak At 4

  As Kings’ fans, we’ve seen it happen too many times in the past, we saw it happen again tonight. The Kings came into tonight’s game against Nashville red hot, winners of 4 straight and having gained points in five straight games, and fell to the overachieving Predators 3-1. The Kings dominated play in the first [...]

• Things That Make Me Laugh

  As the Sharks embark on what I think might be their toughest test of the season, going into Chicago and taking on a Blackhawks team that seems to have found an identity again under Joel Quenneville, there have been a few things that have transpired in the NHL in the last few days that have [...]

• Signs of a Power Struggle

  As is so often the case, small bits of information, when put together, begin to show a clear picture.  It has now become blatantly obvious that this team is in a power struggle.  Maybe not an all out war, but certainly a top down forced culture change.  I suspect it is this situation which is [...]