Faxes from Uncle Dale

Tag: hockey

  • Morning Links 10/08/13

    Morning Links 10/08/13

    Except the WIld have more talent: SunTimes

    Now for that Penalty Kill: Comcast

    I would assume not, since well you know: Daily Herald

    This makes things a bit interesting: ESPN

    The definition of the phrase “Fall Guy”Philadelphia Examiner

     

  • Morning Links 10/02/13

    Up goes the banner: PuckDaddy

    On to the next one: SunTimes

    So it begins: Hockee Night

    The kill was there when it was needed: Chicago Tribune

    Gutty: Comcast (ap)

    Advanced Metrics: Extra Skater

  • Blow Up The Outside World: The Pacific Division

    Blow Up The Outside World: The Pacific Division

    Continuing our look around the NHL, we continue to our own conference with a look at the Pacific Division. I have to say, I really liked the idea of having no conferences whatsoever and re-seeding for the last four teams, but understand why they scrapped it. When the NHL adds two teams — and you know they will — I hope they go back to it. Anyway, let’s look at all the fodder for the Kings.

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  • Blow Up The Outside World – C.I.’s Preview Of The Rest Of The NHL: The Northe….The Atla…..Oh Whatever

    Blow Up The Outside World – C.I.’s Preview Of The Rest Of The NHL: The Northe….The Atla…..Oh Whatever

    We’ve been looking inward for a bit now, and you know what happens when you look inward for too long. You start thinking you have complexes and shortcomings that aren’t there, and deciding this or that is the reason you can’t love or can only get off by being spanked with a cricket bat and then you dump all your money to some therapist before you end up sitting on the floor in your apartment with a bucket of chicken wearing nothing more than your underwear as you smear the grease on your chest and….oh, wait, this was just my Saturday night. Ok then…

    But sometimes, it’s best to look at everyone else and point out their faults. Well, maybe not best but it sure is a hell of a lot more fun. And it’s easier to blame others for your problems than yourself (unless you’re Catholic). So let’s start that process today by examining what should be the Adams Division or maybe the Northeast except for that thing where the two Florida teams are involved because Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa fans love to go to Florida in the winter if they don’t live there already. Seriously, have you been to that stretch between Ft. Lauderdale and Miami in January? It’s lousy with French-Canadians. They’re everywhere, interspersed with the old Jewish men who constantly looked bewildered. Probably because they are. Oh, and Scum. Because Detroit is so far Northeast.

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  • Blow Up The Outside World – C.I.'s Preview Of The Rest Of The NHL: The Northe….The Atla…..Oh Whatever

    Blow Up The Outside World – C.I.'s Preview Of The Rest Of The NHL: The Northe….The Atla…..Oh Whatever

    We’ve been looking inward for a bit now, and you know what happens when you look inward for too long. You start thinking you have complexes and shortcomings that aren’t there, and deciding this or that is the reason you can’t love or can only get off by being spanked with a cricket bat and then you dump all your money to some therapist before you end up sitting on the floor in your apartment with a bucket of chicken wearing nothing more than your underwear as you smear the grease on your chest and….oh, wait, this was just my Saturday night. Ok then…

    But sometimes, it’s best to look at everyone else and point out their faults. Well, maybe not best but it sure is a hell of a lot more fun. And it’s easier to blame others for your problems than yourself (unless you’re Catholic). So let’s start that process today by examining what should be the Adams Division or maybe the Northeast except for that thing where the two Florida teams are involved because Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa fans love to go to Florida in the winter if they don’t live there already. Seriously, have you been to that stretch between Ft. Lauderdale and Miami in January? It’s lousy with French-Canadians. They’re everywhere, interspersed with the old Jewish men who constantly looked bewildered. Probably because they are. Oh, and Scum. Because Detroit is so far Northeast.

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  • Morning Links 9/13/13

    Morning Links 9/13/13

    Hoping for a healthy happy Hossa Comcast 

    Bickell too: Chicago Tribune

    This is only here because it made me laugh, guess why: Fox

    What’s that cliché about athletes after they sign big contracts: CSN

    For pro athletes he is kind of right: TSN

    This makes no sense: Sunbelt Hockey

    Geno is on the right side of history: Pitt Trib

  • Morning Links 9/12/13

    Morning Links 9/12/13

    They’re heeeere: Suntimes

    Back to work: Chicago Tribune

    Another Cup, but the carousel still turns: Daily Herald

    Captain Excitement: Comcast

    What a dumb slogan: New York Times

    So this is what the market dictates: PuckDaddy

  • Morning Links 8/19/13

    SLOW NEWS DAY!!

    All around the world: CBC

    All I can say is good for Dustin Johnson: ESPN

    Because signing a franchise goalie is too hard: PuckDaddy

    Can a lower budget help: Backhand Shelf

  • 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 7/8/13

    Morning Links 7/8/13

    Time for camp: Chicago Tribune

    Players to watch: SunTimes

    Welcome to the future: Daily Herald

    Free Agent Recap: Cheer the Anthem

    A good place: ESPN Chicago

    Corsi and Moneyball:The Leafs Nation

    This kid is something else: TSN