All-Purpose Hockey Thread II

Peterborough's struggling this year so they'll definitely miss him.

The rest of the Eastern Conference in the OHL won't.

 

He's the team's best penalty killer and not only because of all his short-handed goals. He breaks up passes and forechecks really well. He could win the Selke a few times before his career is done.

 

He's the team's best penalty killer and not only because of all his short-handed goals. He breaks up passes and forechecks really well. He could win the Selke a few times before his career is done.
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He blocked his brother's shot during a Pens PK on Oct. 14.

 

Canucks Dave Nonis has his panties in a twist over NHL free agency and the schedule:

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=182410&hubname=

I can totally understand his problems with the schedule, but he has to realize that without those concessions in free agency that we still wouldn't be playing hockey. As well It just means he has to do a better job of managing his own resources and and make some tough decisions. If Pittsburgh wants to blow their wad on three forwards like Tampa did there's nothing stopping them from doing that. As well, just because you lose a plyer to free agency doesn't mean you can't replace him with another young free agent. It's called having a good scouting and management staff.

 

What Nonis isn't saying is that the owners wanted the new schedule to cut down on travel costs.

 

It turns out Evgeni Malkin does not yet hold the NHL record for most consecutive games with a goal at the start of his career -- but he could claim a share of it on Wednesday night.

The record is six games and is currently held by three people who, coincidentally, did it during the same season. What's more, the standard couldn't possibly be older than it is:

If he scores, the gifted rookie would be the first player with goals in his first six NHL games since the NHL's inaugural season in 1917-18, when it was done by Joe Malone, Newsie (sic) Lalonde and Cy Denneny.

http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=282118&page=NewsPage&service=page

It'd be pretty cool to watch the matching and breaking of an 89-year-old record. Wayne Gretzky still holds 60 or so league scoring records but I don't think he ever broke one that had been set in 1917-18.

 

Blogger Eric McErlain, whose primary site Off Wing Opinion is one of the most informative hockey blogs out there, has an interview on his NBC Sports blog with Minnesota Wild hockey operations director Chris Snow.

http://www.nbcsports.com/nhl/271723/detail.html

 

From what I've read ... not like any of us ever saw them play! ... that's impressive company. One of my favourite reads of all time is Hockey Night in the Dominion of Canada. It's a fictionalized account of the NHL's beginnings in Renfrew and it tells the story of Lalonde, Malone, the Patrick brothers and all the originals. If you can find a copy of it, I recommend it.


Sigh ... two from Zednick and two from Zubrus means the Flames lose again. Are we back to the mid-90s?

 

Good piece by Damien Cox on Michael Peca in today's Star.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162248614335&call_pageid=968867503640&col=970081593064&t=TS_Home

Peca didn't score or pick up an assist, but he had three hits, two takeaways, two blocked shots and spent four minutes and 15 seconds killing penalties on a night when doing that job well made all the difference

I've always been a huge Peca fan.

 

Oh, oh, Eddie the Eagle's at it again David Shoalt's column in today's Globe.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061031.SHOALTS31/TPStory/Sports/columnists

Forget about the so-called goaltender controversy with the Toronto Maple Leafs. It's a media-driven deal that does not amount to anything.

For a real goaltender controversy look south to Florida, where the Panthers are trying to slam the door shut on an incident in which one of their goaltenders, former Leaf Ed Belfour, was admittedly responsible for having their other goaltender, Alexander Auld, taken to the hospital for several stitches over his right eye in the wee hours last Friday.

Here's my favorite bit of tongue-in-cheek:

The team held its practice as usual on Friday on Long Island. The beat reporters noticed that Auld slunk into the dressing room with a tuque pulled down over his eyes, but were unaware of the drama in the hotel lobby.

This is not unusual, since everyone knows sportswriters do not frequent bars, nor do they keep late hours. But after practice, the Panthers closed their dressing room to the media. A team functionary said "bags" were being moved around in the room.

 

JR saw them play. ;D

 

ROFLMAO!! JR, you old dog, you. Got any good autographs?