Hockey fans or fans of great things in general, prepare to meet the doom of the next half hour or so of your life thanks to this Houses of the Hockey collection of goalie fights! There are some gooders in here, including my favourite of all time. Yes, Felix Potvin vs. Ron Hextall is here. …
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Bob Cole Calling The Henderson Goal
I don’t think you can live in Canada for any length of time without seeing Paul Henderson’s winning goal from 1972 at least once. It’s shown all the time, and Foster Hewitt’s “Henderson has scored for Canada!” is one of those things everybody seems to know even if they don’t know they know it. But …
A Random Bunch Of Brain Blarf
I stayed up until after 2 AM to listen to the Jays last night. I shouldn’t have. I should have gone to sleep earlier. It still would have been late, but it would have been some extra rest and I wouldn’t have had to se…that. When I thought about turning in for the night, it …
#getyouricecoldbeerhere!
What a neat ideathisis, and I’m sure it’s exactly the sort of thing the smart tech people have in mind when they invent things. For the last 5 years, Kevin Zelko has been selling beer at Safeco Field. He normally does the walking up and down the stadium yelling for people’s attention thing, but now …
The Return Of E5?
There has to be something going on here that can’t be controlled, either that or somebody has just up and lost his damn mind. Twitter is telling me that instead of going with the idea I had at the end of last year of using Edwin Encarnacion as a designated hitter and putting somebody at …
The Dead Art Of Nicknaming
Nicknaming is definitely a lost art. I think everybody other than those in charge of nicknaming people knows that. The stuff that passes for good nicknames now is pretty lame, usually consisting of little more than letter from your first name-2 or 3 letters from your last name. Most of the time I just try …
Happy Birthday To Shoe.
So last Saturday we had a party for the shoe thief. Back about a month ago, Shoe turned 40! We wanted to do something special for him, but between Steve feeling sick and one of Shoe’s friends being unavailable because of being on the other side of the world, we put off his party until …
Wells To The Angels? How Did That Happen?
Of all the things I was not expecting to hear last night,the news that Vernon Wells had been traded straight up to the Angels for Mike Napoli and Juan Riveracomes in pretty high on the list. I’ve had all night to digest this trade, and I still have no idea how in hell Alex Anthopoulos …
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Leggo Your Freedom To Go To Hockey Games
It seems that MLSE isn’t going to just sit back and take this throwing waffles at the crappy hockey team shit. In a move that says they might just care about what happens on the ice after all or at least one that says please stop drawing attention to our poor product, Joseph Robb, the …
Pat Burns Dies At 58
There are a lot of things that people willremember Pat Burns for,but to me he’ll always be the guy who took the Toronto Maple Leafs, who were pretty much a laughing stock for a good part of the 80’s and very early 90’s, and brought them back to respectability. The most successful and fun to …