Normally I love everything about the number 8 — except when our Devils are tied for the 8th playoff spot. Nothing like giving up points to the teams below you while facing all of the teams ahead of you in the last 11 contests of the season.
The Devils have made the playoffs for [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2006
Unlucky 8
We’re Going To Lake Placid
Fifteen hours from now, I’ll be driving a car loaded with one smelly hockey bag, two well-worn sticks, two boxes of girl scout cookies, three suitcases, camera bag, case of trophies, box of NJ Devils Youth Hockey club pins, a cowbell, two parents (mine) and one son (also mine). 290 miles from [...]
Bluesmobile Trades
One of my favorite scenes in The Blues Brothers is where Jake and Elwood are riding in their recently acquired police car, and Belushi increduously asks, “You traded the Bluesmobile for this?” “No,” replies Akroyd, “I traded the Bluesmobile for a microphone.”
So far I’ve watched Lukowich take his eyes off of Peter Forsberg [...]
Number 8 Revisited
I follow number 8s. It’s my number, it’s my son’s number, it’s fun to look for the little snowmen in all their shapes and sizes in the wild. I have pictures of seat number 8 from the 1980 Olympic Rink, and a ticket for seat number 8 at that rink [...]
Big Time Big Player
Our coach’s son sometimes attends our Pee Wee level practices. He’s a goalie, 15 years old, and he’ll get on the ice with our two 12-year old goalies and work on controlling rebounds and deflecting pucks that would otherwise tip in off of a glove or pad. He does it because he’s [...]
Having a (Red Rubber) Ball With Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales, CEO of WikiMedia, was the closing speaker at the Worldwide Education and Research Conference this week. More on Jimmy Wales later. He gets his own entry. First we need to have a ball. Literally.
I ended last week by sending out copies of Kevin Carroll’s mini-book, Rules of [...]
Saturday Skate Around
Nice day for Devils hockey fans.
Our little Devils wound up their season with a 6-1 win, with six different players putting the puck in the net. What they worked on all year — passing, skating, controlling the flow, taking away passing lanes, clearing rebounds — all came together. Great way to enter [...]
Traffic in Patches
Yesterday was one of those days that gives New Jersey a bad name, if I can slightly misquote native son Jon Bon Jovi. Let’s just summarize like this: I got home from a breakfast meeting at 12:45 PM. I could have returned from London faster than that.
Day started ideally, leaving the house [...]
