A mini Mini Mo to go with my mini Mo.

Good grief, that Morrow bobblehead is frightening!  The Modano bobblehead is small and probably not that high-dollar, but it at least has the spirit of the bobblehead in mind.  The dumpy body, the ankles together, the nice smooth paint, and the giant bobbing head.  The Morrow looks like it started out to be one of [...]

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Stars vs. Sharks 10/29/07

Dallas 2, San Jose 4
The Stars start out well this time, but the game steps off the curb halfway through the third period. I saw the game in person from some pretty good seats (always keeping an eye out for potential season ticket seats). The boys started out fairly well, with some energy and some [...]

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The problem with planned economies.

Matt, over at the great Battle of Alberta, has a really good post about the reasons the central decision to make Reebok the sole provider of NHL uniforms is a bad idea all around.
I really couldn’t agree more.

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Stars at Coyotes 10/27/07

Dallas 5, Phoenix 3
Okay, first of all, Jobing is pronounced joe-bing. If you want it pronounced jaw-bing, like jobs, it should be spelled Jobbing. I don’t know how an entire company can be based on a misspelled word, and then be allowed to plaster it all over an arena. I’m so glad I’m not a Coyotes [...]

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My dog ate my homework.

WordPress ate my post. I just finished writing up a whole post about last night’s game, with links and everything, and then hit the “Publish” button and the whole thing disappeared into the ether.
The gist of it was that they lost to the Kings and my cheap-crap DirecTV DVR, which is not TiVo, decided [...]

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Zubov is destined.

Dan Rosen on NHL.com asked Sergei Zubov what he thought of his chances of getting into the NHL Hall of Fame
The silence didn’t last long, but it was telling.
Sergei Zubov didn’t know what to say, didn’t know how to react.
The answer to this one question is something the Russian-born, Dallas Stars defenseman admittedly has never, [...]

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Stars vs. Ducks 10/20/07

Dallas 3, Anaheim 1
I have a bad habit of rambling on about hockey with friends and family who could not care less about hockey.  So I make a conscious (yet futile) effort to pretend I have more to offer a conversation than reasons everyone would love watching the Stars if they just gave them a [...]

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Revolutionize hockey? Slow down there, hotshot.

Heated skate blades will apparently be tested in practice by NHL players to see if they really make a difference in game situations.  
It’s really amazing when you do a search on a topic and find hundreds of articles about it, then realize they’re all just the same AP article with only slight changes in the headline.  [...]

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Stars at Blue Jackets 10/16/07

Dallas 3, Columbus 2, SO
“Coachable Moments”
That’s what Razor Reaugh called a lot of the first period. There seemed to be a lot of passes that were just out of reach and lazy dangles until somebody stole it and blatant bounces off shinpads.
During penalty kills they really struggled to clear the zone, and that’s been true [...]

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I derailed myself.

In my last post, my original point was going to be that the media were probably overreacting to the fact that Doug Armstrong and Brett Hull stopped in to visit Peter Forsberg. My Forsberg-loathing kind of sent me off on a tangent.
What I meant to point out is that Armstrong says they just did Forsberg [...]

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