We’re not even at the three-quarter pole of the season, and I’m getting more than seasonally affected by the Atlantic Division. The Devils squeezed out a nice win last night, showing up to play after giving up the first goal (usually not a good sign) and after allowing the tying goal in the [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2008
Youth Hockey Jerseys at the Rock
Based on the wild acclaim for the high school jerseys displayed on the main concourse of the Rock, the NJ Devils asked the state’s youth hockey programs to send in representative jerseys as well. The result is a fabulous mosaic of the state’s youth players, from Ramapo to Vineland and everywhere in between.
What [...]
Slow Recovery
Bit by bit, I’m recovering the roughly 170 blog entries from the V1.0 SnowmanOnFire blog that didn’t completely suck. Some sucked, but not so thoroughly as to be left to bit rot forever. At my current rate of cut and paste, as well as proof-reading, fixing broken links and adding color commentary, [...]
“Pink at the Rink” Auctions
The ECAC has sponsored a new Coaches vs Cancer and American Cancer Society benefit called Pink at the Rink. Game-worn jerseys from all women’s ECAC teams in action this weekend and next are up for auction on eBay, and each coach has put up a game-worn tie, scarf or other piece of clothing.
You [...]
Performance (Blog, not Devils)
Things in snowman-land are slow, and I’ve already opened a trouble ticket with the powers that be (or more correctly, the iPower that hosts this site). Looks like some database performance issues since they moved my web site to a new hosting farm. I’m learning plenty about mySQL, the database that [...]
Where’s The Blog?
I’ve been thinking the same thing for the past 7 hours. It’s bad. Very bad. Like “cross the beams” bad. I attempted to upgrade the version of WordPress I’m using, but since I’m not using a nicely hosted Wordpress environment, I did it myself. Mistake. [...]
Turning Point Redux
Some nights the hockey viewing stars just don’t align, or they aren’t meant to align. I found the Devils-Penguins game on the Vs network here in my California hotel, just as I was getting ready to go out for a company dinner. I saw enough of the second period to develop a fear [...]
Illustrated History of Patrik Elias
Bubba and I modeled some of the international flavors of Patrik Elias at the Kings-Devils game on Saturday night. Bubba has the 2002 Czech Olympic jersey, with a completely English surname (missing the Czech accents that add color, intonation and printing costs). I’m wearing a somewhat official Metallurg Magnitogorsk Russian Super [...]
Octopus Pie Desktop
Not a reference to the Red Wings, nor a reference to some bizarre Sopranos inside joke. It’s this:
Octopus Pie is a very New York attitude online comic that mixes equal parts Sully Erna, Rachael Ray, Dorothy Hamill and Sean Avery. Seriously. It can’t be explained, so click away. But [...]
Perfect Ending
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m much more of a hockey and baseball fan than a follower of the prolate spheroid. Four months ago, I went so far as to suggest that the Giants were done and that the Yankees had life. Right city, wrong sports analogies. This is [...]
