Why I love the Dallas Stars: Joel Lundqvist

Joel Lundqvist is going to find his niche this year. He’s a tough player and a good hitter and he will always have a place on a line with a pair of skilled guys.
He’s a checking winger, and he likes it that way.
That’s a role he played when he was in Sweden, [...]

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STUUUUUUU! Noooooooo!

Stu Barnes has announced his retirement from playing in the NHL. That’s the bad news. The good news is that he’s signed on as an assistant coach.
It’s really too bad that he has to retire so soon. I hate to seem him go out because of a concussion. He says he’s [...]

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Not that far off.

Just to add to my previous rant about making changes for the sole purpose of attracting fans that don’t want to be attracted:
 Didja watch the Olympic water polo last night? Didja? Didja?
Hey, it’s sorta like hockey and these guys are great athletes, but it’s even harder to follow the play on TV. They need a [...]

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Five stupid ideas to improve the NHL.

Puck Daddy has invited people to list 5 ways they’d change the NHL. (He doesn’t have a category for it, so you’ll have to go looking for them. Sorry.) I’ve basically skipped them, because I almost always disagree with suggestions to improve the game.
Here are some that I think are the stupidest.
Bigger [...]

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Why I love the Dallas Stars: Mike Ribeiro

We here in the Sunbelt are very lucky. We’re about as far from Montréal and Toronto and New York as you can get. The full-on frenzy that surrounds the teams in those towns is something we don’t have here for hockey.
So even though I saw the infamous incident in the playoffs when [...]

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World traveler.

I’m back from Holland and I’ve had a nap (or two) so now I can finally get back to posting. I’m not sure if that’s good news or not.
I was sent to the Netherlands by my company. We have recently had a series of buyouts and re-orgs (as we corporate types [...]

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I’m home! *kneels to kiss tarmac*

I’m so sorry that birthday post was left up there for a week. I had all kinds of plans to write posts in the evening but there just wasn’t much time to do it. It was mostly work and then watching the Olympics in Dutch.
I had a really good time in Holland. [...]

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08.08.08

Today is my birthday. I’m 48. On eight-eight-oh-eight.
That’s all. It’s just a very cool date for a birthday. Otherwise, I’d never mention it.
Next week I will be in Holland on business so the posts might be pretty few. Even more so than lately. I’ll see what I can [...]

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Will he or won’t he? I don’t care.

I’m pretty indifferent to the whole Mats Sundin soap opera. Will he retire? Will he take the Canucks’ $20 million? Will he, after all this, go back to Toronto? Frankly, I don’t really care.
Don’t tell anybody in the Toronto media, though, because that’s like saying I don’t care if an asteroid [...]

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Weather update.

I know I’m overly concerned about the heat, but sheesh. This is ridiculous. It actually said 110 when I first drove into my neighborhood, but had cooled by the time I went inside for my camera.
My car has a pretty good thermometer so I believe it. And almost 150,000 miles, you might [...]

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