I have this love-hate relationship with The Hockey News. At times their reporting seems to be a best of collection of beat writers and rehashed stories, and yet having all of the hockey beat writers appear in one regular publication isn’t a bad thing. Their coverage of college, major junior, women’s and international [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2008
1980 Over My Shoulder
I’ve been looking for a bit of writing inspiration lately — blogging has been slow, I haven’t had the energy or creativity to devote to working on the hockey book, and work has been, well, more than a job. Perhaps it was the rainy day today, or perhaps it was the fact that [...]
Facebook and the Wrong Definition of Productivity
I’m convinced that “productivity” is a dumb word. It presumes some magic metric for how people create value in the workplace, and that metric is usually, inexorably tied to a clocking problem. Work faster, work harder, work more hours – and my favorite – waste fewer hours! I hear Tock’s admonishments ringing [...]
Counting and Accountability
It’s another night of saying “no ken a horas” after watching a 5-0 Devils lead shrink to 5-3. As the Festrunk brothers would say, “I blame myself.” Had to tweet that Elias’ points streak is now five games with the assist on Zubrus’ second goal. An extended two on one that [...]
Elias on Twitter
Patrik Elias has his own Twitter page. And it’s 80% him, a bit from his management team but for the most part it’s unedited Patty-streams. There are a whopping three people following him – c’mon, folks, when you get a glimpse into the daily grind of a professional athlete, it’s “Real [...]
My Grandfather’s Tree Saw
Hanging in the garage of my parent’s house were two very large-toothed tree saws. Not your normal wood-cutting blades, measured in teeth per inch, as these monsters had inches per tooth, required at least two if not four hands to operate, and were intimidating to a 6th grader scraping by (no pun) in wood [...]
Anti-Marketing Call From The Rock
When my kids were little and tele-marketing was all the dinner time rage, I used to put them on the phone with the hardiest of cold callers. I thought of it as fair play; they were interrupting my family team and my dinner for some unwanted spiel about credit cards, home loans, timeshares, or [...]
Face(Book) Time With Elias
I discovered that Elias has a Facebook fan page a few weeks ago, and while it’s short of content (for now), it takes you to some interesting places and seems to be populated somewhat regularly with syndicated news feeds. A few emails back and forth, and perhaps some trackbacks from his sports management team, [...]
Four Months Measured in Weekes
Attention Devils Fans: Don’t panic.
As reported by Tom Guiliiti and others, Marty Brodeur is out 3-4 months having his distal biceps tendon (that goes through/around the elbow) surgically repaired. I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV or in my blog, but I have to believe that this isn’t a [...]
