2010-2011 NHL season

All is not lost with your bunch, lisa. Thing is, it was either trade Kovalchuk or let him walk for nothing. Something was gotten for him, there's no big contract - that's the Devils' problem now - and these players, while not HOFers, are still better than watching Kovalchuk walk out the door for nothing.

 

Believe me, I am no stranger to the concept of "get something for a guy who's about to walk while the getting is still good." I've been following this damn team since its inception, and have been a KC Royals fan since I was five. And the Kovy deal is unquestionably far better than what we got from the Penguins for Marian Hossa. But make no mistake about it, the three guys we got for Kovalchuk are not, in total, equivalent to a player of his caliber. Period.

 

No argument there, lisa. I hear you ... that HAS to be frustrating. To see my NHL team have success the last few years has been a lot of fun and has surpassed my expectations. Unlike the other tenants of the ESA ...

 

Not that we needed any, but it's further proof that hockey players are the toughest fucking athletes of any sport.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/nhl/mapleleafs/article/934013--leafs-boyce-back-on-the-ice-smashed-face-and-all



I’ve been cleared by doctors . . . it’s just a fat lip and a black eye.”

Plus 14 exterior stitches, and another 10 on the interior, to close a nasty cut on the right side of his nose.

 

Holy, holy shit.

Gonna be awhile before I'm able to unsee that.

 

Windsor's winless in its last three and got bombed 8-2 tonight by Erie. The Spits' run is over. Oh-vu-her.

The hottest team in the OHL right now? Six straight wins, 9-1 in its last 10 games? First place in the Western Conference? Yep....Owen Sound.

 

The Red Deer Rebels are on a similar hot streak, now 13-1-0 in their last 14. Only loss was a terrific game in Saskatoon who may be the only team better than Red Deer in the WHL's Eastern Conference.

 

When players don't want to play there, they got far more than people should expect. Hossa and Kovalchuck were never going to sign there, never, they did as well as they could. The market is a joke.

 

Spits are in town today to play the Battalion (see you there, Huggy!)

Brampton will be in tough.

 

Good to see Matt Cooke is still a filthy piece of shit.

 

Indeed. That Tampa game was a huge turning point. Top line got going. That Johannsen goal shortie was a thing of beauty. Backhand, top shelf, through two defenders. Awesome.