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Racism and the NHL

April 26, 2012

So goes the maxim, as oft attributed to Mark Twain as to Abraham Lincoln: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt”. Twitter is, for so many of us (yours truly included) the loudspeaker for a great deal of idiocy.  It’s also a permanent archive.  The [...]

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Matt Cooke’s Dangerous Elbow

March 11, 2010

Matt Cooke, who like most NHL players is actually a nice guy off the ice, seems to suffer from a disorder that makes his on-ice personality the target of the ire of not only his opponents, but even his team-mates.  And now, like ripples through a still pond, a backlash is growing that may ultimately [...]

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Joe Sakic: The end of the franchise player?

July 9, 2009

We kind of knew it was coming, but the retirement of Number 19 still comes as a bit of a shock.  Joe Sakic averaged more than a point per game through his entire 20-year NHL career, even in the last season where he only managed 15 games due to constant back pain.  With each goal [...]

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Stanley Cup Goes For a Swim

July 4, 2009

Lord Stanley’s cup, purchased in London for 10 guineas, is said to be the most difficult trophy in sports to attain.    As such, it has been subjected to various indignities over the years.  It is rumoured to have spent a weekend on Guy Lafleur’s lawn in 1978, unguarded, for all his neighbours to see.  Countless [...]

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Michael Jackson’s mystery appearance with the Canucks

June 30, 2009

At the Canucks Fan Zone, blogger Derek Jory asks the question (of no one in particular — they don’t allow comments) whether the following photo, ostensibly from 1984, is real:

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NHL goalie salaries and playoff impact

May 16, 2009

It’s such common wisdom to say that your team gets you into the playoffs but your goalie gets you to the final that the phrase has become a hackneyed cliche. But there’s a new cliche in town:  One lesson is starting to become clear in the new NHL is that you’ve got to build it, [...]

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The Armchair GM’s Rx for the #Canucks in 2009/2010

May 13, 2009

Once man’s recipe to salvage the Vancouver Canucks’ chances at a playoff run in 2009/2010

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More NHL teams should salute their fans

March 8, 2009

Since the 1970s, Vancouver hockey fans have endured a club that has been roller-coaster at best and horrifyingly bad at its worst, often never making the playoffs and even more often getting drubbed in the first or second rounds by clearly superior teams.  Since my childhood the team has withstood four different ownership groups and [...]

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Miss Virginia needs some stealthy goalie pads

January 26, 2009

A kid in New Hampshire has developed stealth goalie pads, which he claims have increased his save percentage.  Stupid, but novel…. not unlike Gary Bettman.  What do I think, you beg?  Over the years I have used many different leg pad designs including a white maple leaf inset, white triangle insets, slashes, and all other [...]

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Doug Alward Should Light the Flame in 2010

January 14, 2009

The funny thing about Canadians is that we’re not very good at standing in the limelight.  While our neighbours to the South take their star turns for such staggering feats as winning a game show, it is a uniquely Canadian attribute that some of our greater contributors tend to go completely unredeemed. For that reason [...]

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