Gulitti’s White Indictment
Tom Gulitti covers the Devils for the Bergen Record, and in addition to fulfilling the dual roles of a beat writer and blogger, he brings a lot of hockey sense to the net, electronic or nylon. He’s a great read; he listens (reads) his comment threads; and he (I think) genuinely cares about the team. [...]
Worst. Loss. Ever.
To quote Patrik Elias in the post-game interview: It was the worst loss ever. Worse than the 2001 Cup Finals versus Colorado. Why can’t the Devils win these games? They lose one with 0.2 seconds left. They blow a lead – in a series-clinching game – with 80 seconds left, and then cough up the [...]
The Other Kippy
Kippy, the Flames goalie with a goofy nickname, has given up 3 goals on 9 shots tonight. One was on a power play and one was a misdirection that fooled all three Flames pretending to occupy the slot, but this isn’t good for those of us who wanted to see Mike Cammalleri do his thing [...]
Winner, Seven
Another in a continuing series of craps references while writing about hockey…. I gave it my all in the last 10 days as a Devils fan. I had scores texted to me so that they were waiting when I landed in strange, horrible, anti-hockey (and anti-people) airports like Charles de Gaul in Paris; I stayed [...]
Rubber Balls and The Job Market
A break from the emerging markets travelogue. A few weeks ago I vowed to spend at least a little time each day helping people I know who have been affected by the current economy find new job opportunities. The local economy is nasty; I realized that half (literally) of my close friends are technically unemployed. [...]
Bengaluru and Tiger Tech
Back into something resembling a chronological sequence: blogging from the front row of the ITC Window hotel meeting room, where we’ll host the Bengaluru employee Town Hall later this morning. I arrived in Bengaluru after a semi-redeye that left Johannesburg and deposited me into Mumbai airport a few minutes after midnight. After a transfer and [...]
Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg
It’s so rare for me to have an “off day” while traveling on business that I’m remarkably lazy about preparing an itinerary. My usual plan includes: find some entertainment in a local casino and/or Hard Rock Cafe, if they exist (I’m a creature of habit); look for local Jewish historical culture (I’ve been to the [...]
No Natural Barriers
Despite my luggage trailing me by twelve hours, the Johannesburg leg of the trip got off to a good start. My hotel was adjacent to a casino, and where there’s a casino there’s usually a men’s clothing store amidst other shopping adventures. Sure enough, I arrived at the door of a popular South African menswear [...]
Headlines and Hockey
Logistics for the 2nd leg of this trip required that I leave Mexico City about half a day after arriving, although that was enough time for me to exhaust my (primarily food oriented) Spanish vocabulary. I believe I ordered fish tacos and hot peppers for lunch; sadly I can’t phrase the gradations of caliente or [...]
Handicapping The Hockey News
Every year, the good folks at The Hockey News make their predictions, and like all predictions, they are based on a limited view offered in August, before training camps open, before we see who the shining new rookie lights are, before we see who is a step slower and older and who is playing like [...]