The Devils, hell, and the NHL
"It is no longer clear exactly which frontloaded contracts are kosher and which are treyf"
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Don’t mind me; I’m on a math bender
As the paid-up holder of a Mainstream Media club card, can I warn the sportswriters away from making too much of the statistical...
A grand Central station for Chicago
Congratulations to the Chicago Black Hawks on clinching the NHL’s Central Division title seconds before their opening faceoff...
Cherry to Corsi: ’Get off my lawn’
It must be 2010; I’m watching Don Cherry talk about Corsi numbers on TV [fast-forward]. Granted, he’s...
Off-key in the NHL headshot chorus
A memo to those who are concerned with (hitherto) legal checks to the head in the NHL: I sure hope you’re not just fighting...
Bakunin in the blues
A couple of weeks ago, Colleague Gohier mentioned to me with Colleague-ly sympathy that the 2009-10 Edmonton Oilers must be...
So farewell then, Curtis Joseph
This is a heresy I normally utter only in the presence of trusted intimates, but this is a special occasion : if I had a playoff...
Hands off the silverware, Grapes
So Don Cherry likes the idea of changing the name of some of the NHL’s year-end trophies, does he? Breaks my heart to say it, but I guess he is a bad role model after all.