From the monthly archives:

August 2009

New England Rivalry

August 29, 2009

I wrote a little while ago how the NHL signing period works. Typically the top flight talent goes, then, people to protect the top flight talent get signed. That’s where we are now, and the Springfield Falcons added a big protector in Kip Brennan yesterday.
Kip was a Lowell Lockmonster back when he still had [...]

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I’ve Been Had

August 22, 2009

The Lowell Devils get me every year. Last season they promised they’d be more up tempo, and tough…not your father’s Lowell Devils I believe was the quote. They were up tempo and decent. On Opening Night. This season, it is the press release I saw today where the Devils have signed AHL tough guy Louis [...]

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My Money is in my Other Pants

August 9, 2009

I am a reasonably smart man. OK, I am kind of smart…..fine…I am a man. Ooooo shiny….Anyway, what I can’t figure out for the life of me, is why the NHL is so vehemently against Jim Balsillie owning a NHL franchise.
Craig Leipold, a man who himself was forced out of NHL ownership in [...]

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