This is the grave of Herb Brooks. Born in 1937 in St. Paul, Minnesota, Brooks did what kids in Minnesota do--play hockey. He was a star as a high schooler, leading his team to the state title in 1955. He then went on to the...
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It contradicts the very core of my worldview to have anything good to say about anything associated with in any way with the Maple Leafs, but obviously I can have.
Will be largely absent the next couple days, as I made the retrospectively bad choice to pay a considerable sum to watch "the kind of game that ends people's careers".
The New York Times series about the late Derek Boogaard is an absolute first-rate piece of writing and journalism. In particular, part one (about his finding his niche as a fighter growing up in a small town 90 minutes from Saskatoon) and part three, about...
A lot of terrific players died in yesterday's horrible Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crash. But the one that depressed me the most was Brad McCrimmon. A stay-at-home defenseman myself, I always admired.
Should be a good one. Even though Vancouver's defense looks thin, I'll regretfully say they'll squeak another one out at home. My plan is to alleviate the tension by seeing.
Pierce on the test posed to the NHL by the douchetacular Alexandre Burrows: This Blog has to confess to being surprised that there actually was some dispute over whether or not Vancouver's Alex Burrows is going to get suspended for Tysoning Patrice Bergeron on the...
Derek Boogaard, R.I.P.
Not that it makes a lot of sense to put a team in Winnipeg before southern Ontario either, but this is still an improvement. In fairness, nobody could have predicted.
To expand on what I tweeted earlier because I knew I'd be late: BRUINS v. LIGHTNING: Really, really tough to call, with Tampa Bay's far superior front-line offensive talent going up against Boston's greater depth and better defense. Essentially a coin-flip, so as the deciding...
It's time for the annual tradition, and since Berube has already spoken it's time for me to weigh in. I was planing to do a Scocca-like graph except that my.
Above: my favorite card, in a collection that includes (admittedly non-mint) Gretzky and Lemieux rookies R.I.P.