More Q-Proofing: Tribune
The previews begin: CSN
More consistency please: SN
For the sake of the franchise? PD
Category: Everything Else
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For Those Scoring At Home
These days, I’m basically piggy-backing off the better hockey writers around because it’s late August and I can’t be bothered to think of anything myself. That will change next week when the calendar flips to September and we can really start to preview the upcoming season. It doesn’t feel like the season is about to start until the NFL starts, at least to me. But nothing gets you ready for the start of hockey season like Kaner in a Bears jersey, right?
So today, it’s basically a reaction to Down Goes Brown’s study of why scoring was so batshit crazy in the 80’s and then by the mid-90’s had completely arrested. Sean provides a multitude of reasons, from the difference in goalies, expansion, rules-relaxations, defensive systems that became successful, and all of these are correct in their own way.
That’s not really why I’m here today though, as I’d more like to look at whether or not there needs to be a clamoring for something of a return to those free-scoring ways.
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Morning Links 8/29/14
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Morning Links 8/28/14
Shaw?: Blackhawk Up
Getting a job for an NHL team in Vegas is how I die: PD
okay then: PHT
How old are they: NHL
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Diamonds And Dust?
By now you’ve seen the report from Tony Gallagher in The Province about NHL expansion to Vegas being “a done deal” and that by 2017 Seattle, Quebec, and a second Toronto team will have joined the league.
Let’s pull this rig over to the soft shoulder. As Wyshynski pointed out on Puck Daddy (and everything he writes from now on I’m calling “Mooney avoidance”), one of the reasons this is getting such play is it’s the end of August. We couldn’t be farther from the free agent signing extravaganza, and training camp is still a blip on the ever stretching horizon. We need something to talk about… or at least something that isn’t Baez or Soler-related (sorry Sox fans, I just can’t contain it).
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Morning Links 8/27/14
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The Forward Jam
You may have missed it today, so if you did our compatriot Chris Block did some excellent work on Teuvo Teravainen today and a few other things.
What Block concludes is kind of what I’ve always thought, that Teuvo is going to have to go out of his way to not be on the team by the holidays. He very well may start in Rockford, but he certainly isn’t going to finish there. As we’ve said all along, you can always tell when Q and Stan really like a player in the system, and those players always tend to find their way onto the roster.
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Morning Links 8/26/14
An out of town opinion: CSN Washington
I can’t wait for the final data: TSN
Well done EA: PD
Blues continue to draw inspiration for the past: PHT
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Morning Links 8/25/14
Diligence: Chicago Tribune
Poise: Sportsnet
What in the hell: PD
One of my favorites of all time: NHL
