Coaching Shuffle
The Flames fired Mike Keenan today. Let’s see, do we know any NHL head coaches who live in Alberta and miss home? This is pure speculation, but I’d make a $2 bet that our own Coach Sutter gets a call about donning the other red and black (and yellow).
Eight Days, Eight Nights in Outline Form
The more I blog and mention “the book,” the more questions I get about it. So here’s a summary of the book, in outline form, based on current course and speed. This is completely serious, including my sidebar comments about content and tone. Your mileage may vary, the actual contents may appear smaller than described, [...]
Return of Jews For Jeter
In t-shirt form, at least. After sitting shiva (electronically) for Jewish Fashion Conspiracy, the company that originated the “Jews For Jeter” t-shirt I was faced with a quandry about my favorite Yankees t-shirt: wear it and risk Premio sausage stains rendering it unfit for a trip outside, or retire it like an out-of-print Beanie Baby? [...]
Update On Garrett Beckwith
Three years ago, Bubba and his teammates had some fun with Garrett Beckwith attending their practices, working with the goalies and generally playing the role of “hip high school kid” to a team of middle-schoolers. At the time, I speculated that Beckwith was bound for bigger and better things, most likely west or north of [...]
Free (Technology) Agents
Had breakfast with a friend this morning who commented on the state of the economy in and around our neighborhood by saying that “there are many free agents available.” He wasn’t talking about the Yankees, Mets, Devils, Rangers, Knicks, Nets, or any other sports franchise that funnels ticket revenue into the hands of free agent [...]
Five Stages
1. Denial. That didn’t happen, it was the strangest game I’ve ever seen, and it must have been a dream. 2. Anger. I am so pissed off that the Devils blew two leads and lost in the last minute that I cannot speak. 3. Bargaining. John Madden, Colin White, and Niclas Havelid. Follows Anger and [...]
Free Agents, Drafts and Scouting
In the last decade, the Devils were a scouting machine: they found Brian Rafalski in Europe. They drafted Zach Parise after the Rangers and Islanders both passed him over. They signed Mad Dog as a free agent out of the University of Michigan. In 1994, after drafting the ever-popular Sherriff (Vadim Sharifijanov, one in a [...]