Ex Post Trade Facto
I’m trying to make sense of all of the noise building up to the trade deadline, because there wasn’t anything ear-piercing or earth-shattering that happened this week. There were some deals that raised my eyebrow (singular): Dallas passing Halpern to Tampa Bay as part of the package for Brad Richards, which I think will reduce [...]
Bye Cam, Hello Bryce
OK, that’s perhaps one of the most statistically unlikely titles ever. Cam Janssen is now back home in St. Louis (this will make long-suffering ticket-share partner Sok happy, I think) and the Devils pick up Bryce Salvador in a one-for-one exchange. There’s little to say about this one; Salvador gets about half the ice time [...]
Princeton Hockey: Ivy Champs!
In the midst of much cheering of all Devils teams, big, small and Lowell-oriented, I failed to comment on Princeton clinching the Ivy League men’s ice hockey championship for the first time this {decade, century, coaching era}. Last time the Tiger strode atop the Ivy halls, some kid named Jeff Halpern (now #11 on the [...]
More Site Updates
I’ve been trying to squeeze the most out of the latest version of WordPress while simultaneously moving, converting, converging and editing down old content. I’ve taken down the old homepage of agrosnowman.com and replaced it with a pointer to the blog; anything of interest there now shows up as a page on the right-hand nav [...]
Cheering For The Center Box
In every ice rink, there’s a box at the center red line with the clock, something resembling a table top, and occasionally a microphone and/or music system, all covered in the cruft of graffiti, coffee stains, sandwich debris, hot chocolate spills, and fingerprints that give rinks their character. It’s the scorer’s table, and the people [...]
Update on Assist From Bubba
The Assist From Bubba autism awareness and fundraising campaign is now two full weeks underway. We’ve received a steady stream of traffic from Autism Town, a very clever fund raising effort based on selling “real estate” off of their home page. Donations have come in from the good folks at Stick Sock as well as [...]
Top Of Their Game
The last two Devils games have been delights to watch. Dismantling the Islanders after 11 months of frustration was pure joy on Saturday afternoon. Normally the only thing that should give you that much heartburn for that long is the Long Island Expressway. Today’s game in the nation’s capitol was fun in a different way. [...]
Questionable Content
I’ll admit to a bit of off-hours entertainment this week that didn’t involve Devils games: I started reading Questionable Content, an aboslutely brilliant web comic, and was so intrigued by the few panels that I saw that I went back to square one (post one, if you must) and began reading the whole strip. This [...]
Big Five Hole
In previous years, the arrival of March signaled any number of sad events: the end of the youth hockey season, the end of a proper winter, and usually the mathematical elimination of the Rangers from post-season hockey. The blue shirts are managing to hold on this season, though, with thoughts of last year’s series win [...]
NJYHL Playoffs
As Disney fave Rafiki says, “It is time.” NJYHL playoffs start in about 30 minutes for the Bantams, continuing into tomorrow morning for first-round “A” games and tomorrow afternoon for the medal round games at the “B” level. 10 months ago, we picked a team based on tryouts, coach’s evaluations of the players, and what [...]