Bye, David Hale.
I’m bummed to see him go. He was a large, stay at home defenseman, not a playmaker or a points-scorer but the kind of guy who could muscle a Crosby or Ovechkin out of the slot when needed. Rumors of his imminent trade have been swirling since his sustained [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2007
Hale-ing a Ride to Calgary
Silver Linings
Hockey teams often seem to play to the level of their opponents; picking up their games when needed and sadly dropping their games when least called for.
The Devils didn’t look like division leaders against Washington today, losing to the Caps for the first time in about a season and a half. With a [...]
When No Words Are Enough
We concluded our annual President’s Day tournament in Washington, DC yesterday evening by playing in the championship game. Tournament hockey has its own strange little cadence; you spend all day thinking about your final round-robin game to determine the medal games, only to see that it’s been made immaterial by the divisional game [...]
Tourney Time
I love tournament hockey. It’s not for the hardware or the glory: in ten tournament tests, over the course of 4 seasons, my son’s team has brought home exactly one bronze and one silver medal. Many times we were mathematically eliminated before the last game was played, giving us sympathy not for [...]
Assist From Bubba
Here’s a shameless plug for my son’s website and community service project: Assist From Bubba. For the past 6 months, he’s been skating with our special needs hockey program, the DareDevils, and for the past year he’s been an on-ice assistant with the primary program. Through the DareDevils he’s learned first-hand [...]
Mamalushen with Chico
I bust a gut listening to the telecast of tonights Devils-Habs game. During the pre-game Chico Resch made a big deal of Sheldon Souray’s lack of scoring against Brodeur, trotting out enough cross-linkages between the Devils, Canadiens, traded players, Brodeur’s home town and defensement leading their teams in scoring to make a serious [...]
Ugly in the Day, Beautiful at Night
Hockey played by adults, that is. For some reason the Devils seem to play at an energy level somewhere between “lethargy” and “sloth” in the matinee slot. Maybe it was the big shutout over the Islanders, maybe it’s just a time when the Meadowlands is usually amping up for Disney on [...]
Hot Times in the Igloo
Went to the Penguins-Canadiens game Thursday night (2/1) in the Igloo in Pittsburgh. Work related, not purely for fun, although it was a fun game. The Igloo is a complete toilet by most standards of modern ice hockey arenas. The ceiling is low and domed, there are a scant few [...]
