Faxes from Uncle Dale

Tag: Paul Holmgren

  • Illadelph Halflife – Flyers vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Neurologist Appointment

    PF Flyers vs oldschool

    Game Time: 7:00PM
    TV/Radio: NBCSN, TSN2, WGN-AM 720
    Still Haven’t Sent Us Cheesesteaks: Broad Street Hockey

    A lot can change in three and a half years’ time. And there might not be two more wildly divergent teams in that period of the NHL with regard to both asset management and results on the ice than those that competed in the 2010 Stanley Cup Final. And tonight, the Hawks will welcome the Philadelphia Flyers back to United Center ice for just the second time since a 7-4 dong whipping in Game 5 of that series.

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  • Blow Up The Outside World – The Metropolitan/Megalopolis Division

    Blow Up The Outside World – The Metropolitan/Megalopolis Division

    Staying out east, it’s now time to take a look at the other half of the realignment mess that is that conference with the Metropolitan Division, which consists of all of the Mid Atlantic teams, and somehow Columbus and Carolina, which is the first time either place has been referred to even remotely as metropolitan. Most of the punditry will tell you this will be the best division in the new alignment. But just because it’ll be competitive doesn’t mean it’ll be well played.

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