Again….Please:(USA)
We have heard your chants before: (TSN)
The waiting game sucks…Lets play Hungry Hungry Hippos: (CBC)
Another Victim of the lockout: (Edmonton Journal)
They just want more: (Vancouver Province)
Another Kane forced to apologize: (TSN)
Screw it..Maybe Canada can save hockey: (AUTOPLAY)
Let’s change it up here a bit, and make this a thread about your favorite Christmas gift you ever got.
I’m trying to think of what mine was. A red #27 Hawks jersey in 1991 was pretty damn good, I have to say. My brother bought me Sailing The Seas Of Cheese when it came out and he was home from college. That was pretty awesome too. At an even younger age I got the Aerosmith boxset. Before you make a face it was all of their work before 1980, which is the good stuff. Maybe the best one was money to help with my trip to Portugal for Euro 2004.
Anyway, what’s yours?
It was not a good weekend for the Rock River Bacon Bits. Two losses, one in overtime, meaning it’s been four in a row now. Oh, and their coach is calling out some of the players in the press (or to Chris Block, but he’s more press than anything in the city these days).
It started well on Friday north of the border, the Illinois-Wisconsin border that is. 40 seconds into their tilt with the Admirals, Nick Leddy scored. But as it always is with the Hogs, the penalties they take cost them, and the ones they don’t cash in on cost them. A dumb roughing infraction from Wade Brookbank, and then a Brandon Saad high-sticking double minor saw the Admirals into the lead before the 1st was over. Both PP goals came from Gabriel Bourque and were off of scrambles in front of the net, in case you thought the Hogs were any better at clearing the crease than the Hawks. Oh and the Milwaukee power play was one of the worst in the league before this night.
Nothing: (TSN)
Support Group: (Grantland)
Can Canada save the NHL? (Sportsnet)
Make whole with the fans:(CBC)
Barriers in the KHL:(Pro Hockey Talk)
Second NHL Team in Toronto can’t happen: (Puck Daddy)
It won’t come as much of a surprise you all, but everything that’s gone on the past few days have killed a lot of motivation to write anything. That won’t last forever, but after days of true horror, true stupidity, and true loss — both in real world and in our little distraction world that’s supposed to bring us at least temporary joy and feeling but instead only brings frustration and weariness — it’s kind of hard to figure out what to say.
But at least in this very tiny corner of the world, we have to start planning. And seeing as how this blog only exists for you, we’d like you to help out.
To the court system we go: EDM Journal
Which means everybody could become UFAs: Deadspin
So this is the guy who decides: ESPN
At least someone thinks there will be a season: PHT
These guys are even more important if a new CBA eliminates middle class players: HF
This week we’ve got Lovie Smith and Brian Urlacher channeling Hemingway, with many BJ Rajie jokes.
Also, we’ve dropped the price of a full-season subscription to just $40. If you sign up and the NHL season is eventually canceled, that subscription will carry to the following season (if they actually play hockey then, that is). So it’s a real savings. Get yours today!
Isn’t so much me as it is Roenick: (Fox Chicago)
This isn’t fair!!!!!!(NHL)
The Waiting Game Sucks: (TSN)
Now what?? (Sportsnet)
The Owners already won:(CBC)
Twinky Winky plead guilty: (Toronto Sun)
The Simple Things: (Styrofoam Playground)
It’s the same call I made in October. I return to you, players, to do so once again.
I ask this of you not because I’m not sympathetic to your cause. From the word go I have found what the owners are doing to you disgusting, obstinate, and absurd. The thought of Gary Bettman smiling, having a cigar and a brandy while slapping the back of Jeremy Jacobs and Murray Edwards over a job well done makes me want to vomit up lunch from two days ago, then eat it up just so I can vomit it up again. I know it makes you feel that way.
But sometimes doing the honorable thing is one that is odorous to every sense. And this is starting to feel like one of those times.
