Technically the season is more than half over, but calling the All-Star Game a mid-term break is fair enough. With 48 games in the can, the Devils are atop the Atlantic Division. A nice change from last year at this time. The run rate of 1.31 points per game translates to about 107 points for [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2007
Private Tag, Public Confessional
I was tagged yesterday so I get to present five fun-filled formerly faintly fanned-out facts about myself, excluding my love of alliteration or anything I’ve blogged or podcasted about previously, greatly limiting the source material.
Warning: this post contains references to nudity, lingerie, and anatomic correctness, and it got really, really long. And [...]
The Adventures of Chickenman
I’m now the proud owner of a 14-CD set containing the complete Adventures of Chickenman. All 273 episodes, including the weekend specials that were sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, and the promotions, contests and “local avails” (where the local carrying station could insert some listener into the show, typically by splicing the intro and [...]
Best Words of the Weekend
It was a very busy celebratory weekend here in young Devils land. Our Squirt B Select team went to Lake Placid and came home with bronze medals, despite a tough tournament bracket and an Adirondack ice storm. Since we share a coach with that team, I called to check in on their tournament, and got [...]
Growing Up With Harry Potter
I was talking to a high school student this weekend who said, rather matter of factly, “I grew up with Harry Potter.” Color commentary is that the Sorcerer’s Stone hit the bookshelves when student and story protagonist were the same age, and now the final installment in the world’s most-read wizard’s tale will coincide [...]
Freakin’ Brylin
Tonight was not the first night I’ve run around screaming “Freakin’ Brylin!” 2000 Stanley Cup Playoffs, I was in a hotel room in Boston, and received a call from the hotel manager asking me to talk to “Freakin’ Brylin” a little more quietly. Tonight, though, Sarge gets all the loud mamalushen [...]
Kathyrn Bertine’s Olympic Quest
ESPN’s e-ticket follows Kathryn Bertine’s quest to represent the United States at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Doing just about anything, it seems. The series is Bertine’s quirky, self-effacing and sport-defacing travelogue of her attempts to qualify in the women’s pentathalon, checking out team handball to a tortuous, tortured, and not at [...]
Steve Martin Brodeur
Tonight’s blog takes the form of a Jeopardy front-and-back answer: Steve Martin and Martin Brodeur, brought to you by the semi-annual confluence of the Devils and Montreal. Comedian Steve Martin once said, you can say anything in French and it sounds great. “J’ai faisait du but”, pardoning my conjugation, means “I scored [...]
Big Sportsmen, Small Sports
I had the pleasure of seeing great displays of sportsmanship today from youth athletes, and it made me proud to be a hockey dad, a team manager for the NJ Devils Youth Club and of course my own son’s father.
We started in our own rink, watching the tail end of a Mite game that was [...]
Top Ten Hockey Books
I love books. I buy many more than I read, and lately I’ve been buying out of print or gently used editions from amazon.com to add to my collection. Typically the used tomes fill in from days when spending $15 on a book would have put a serious dent in my spending [...]
