With the NHL season still about two months away from starting in earnest, and the the Olympics in Sochi still six months away, here in the down-iest of summer down time feels like a good enough time for this subject to be addressed now that the dust has settled from the release of the national team roster invite lists. It’s been bubbling under the surface for a while, and is only sure to boil over as time inches closer to the opening ceremonies, and that’s Russia’s flagrant LGBT rights violations, and how it’s going to affect the NHL’s participation in the Sochi games.
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Morning Links 8/13/13
No pressure dude: Blackhawks
Milestones upon us: Blackhawks Up
As in tradition: CSN CHICAGO
Whitey Bulger will keep his ring: PuckDaddy
Tragic: TSN
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Ask Us Anything
We tried this last August, and it actually turned out to be pretty fun. So let’s try it again, because God knows there’s fuck all else to talk about. Leave your questions about anything in the comments, and I’ll pop back in through out the week to answer what I can…or what I want. Though these days, those things intersect.
Fire away.
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Morning Links 8/12/13
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Friday Stream Of Consciousness
As we head off into the weekend here, and with nothing on or off the ice to discuss, I’m just going to spill out whatever is floating around this shaved dome of mine.
-I’d like to begin these proceedings by saying fuck Tiger Woods (sorry, George). Not because he’s a raging asshole who can’t stop sticking his piss pump wherever it will go. I don’t give a shit, and neither should you. Famous men will do that, especially famous athletes, and probably all of your favorites do. Don’t care that he was married, as I have pretty liberal views on the whole monogamy thing anyway (another talk for another time). Just don’t care, Jay Cutler (or Jake Utler).
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Morning Links 8.9.13
The thing the Red Wings did in the late 90s: Hawks
The 10 best “Free” RFA’s: Backhand Shelf
Yes it did: TSN
The NHL will literally go only weeks without owning a franchise: SportsNet
Apparently six outdoor games makes up for a lockout: Globe and Mail
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Morning Links 8/8/13
Khabibulin optimism: ESPN Chicago
Walkom gets the call: PHT
Goalie pads get smaller: The Score
Out with a whisper: Grantland
Yotes still in the desert: SI
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Sports And Entertainment
Warning: this is going to be an attempt to get a little intellectual. It will probably fail terribly.
So most of you have probably seen Molly Brook’s hockey/sports cartoon, but if you haven’t, you can check it out here. Do so before reading the rest of it.
The relationship between sports and entertainment, or at times the lack thereof, is something I’ve tried to write about a lot in my editorials in The Indian. I never can get a handle on it perfectly, but I think Brooks gets some of the things right here. Though I don’t usually like the comparison of sports to work of fiction, such as books or movies or theater. It’s just not the same thing. But I don’t think she’s making a direct comparison.
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Morning Links 8.7.13
Well considering that building was demolished in 1994: Chicago Tribune
I don’t care if it’s for a good cause, you bid, and you’re weird: Comcast
Hockey Pucks hurt: Backhand Shelf
Back to Hockey: CBC
How a single trade changed the way GMs and Owners do business: TSN
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Morning Links 8/6/13
Taking a peer(y) into a possible 2C: ESPN Chicago
Probably his last one of these: CSN
I’m sure everything will be just fine now: SI
Drafting was never the issue: PHT
Best Hawks by country: Puck Daddy
