Losing streak.

This losing streak is crazy. There’s no way they don’t get any more wins before the end of the season, but somehow I can’t picture it. I have forgotten what it’s like when they win. I’ve really forgotten what it’s like to expect them to win.
They get a bunch of great saves, lose 1-0. [...]

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I’m just going to enjoy it.

(Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
There’s nothing, really, that we can do now about this nightmare of a season, so my plan for the last nine games is to enjoy watching them, no matter what.
I’m going to pretend it’s early October and none of these games will have any bearing on whether we make [...]

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Happy Birthday, Bouche!

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Try some Bone Up, Brad.

Pierre LeBrun on ESPN.com talked to Brad about his new freak injury. (Thanks to Mark at Andrew’s for the link.)
After Brad broke his wrist (the first one), I checked with my brother-in-law, the chiropractor (in Tulsa), to see if he had any advice on healing broken bones. By the time I got around [...]

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Kovalchuk’s not bad. Let’s get him.

I’ve been kind of a long-distance fan of Ilya Kovalchuk since he was in the first NHL Draft I ever watched on TV. He’s not bad.

NOTE: Of course I have no idea what his contract situation is, and I can imagine even if he were free, his demands would be [...]

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We give.

Dallas 2, San Jose 5
I’m not going to ask what’s next, because I always get an answer. And I never like it.
Today’s game was the triumphant return of Brad Richards, a week earlier than the low-end of the prognosis.
Then halfway through the game, he BREAKS HIS OTHER HAND. He broke! his other! hand! [...]

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Heavy sigh.

Dallas 1, Calgary 2
They tried, they just didn’t win.
Mike Modano and Steve Bégin were out with lower- and upper-body injuries, respectively.
Early in the pre-game show, they were saying Mo was a healthy scratch, but the official word was a lower-body injury, day-to-day. If he really is just sitting out because he’s worn [...]

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Nice to find somebody on our side.

I tripped over this column by Iain MacIntyre, with the Vancouver Sun about the Stars-Canucks game last night. I just felt like pointing out that not everybody thinks that Avery has proven he’s been misjudged all these years, based on seven games with the Rangers. Like some people.
Add to this train wreck Avery’s [...]

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Barch is really growing on me.

Sure, we all like his energy and his willingness to fight and his general super-toughness.
But it’s stories like this that are making me warm up to Krys Barch’s personality.
With it being Friday the 13th, I asked Krys Barch how he ended up with the No. 13.
He said when he was a kid, he wore the [...]

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I don’t know what to say. Literally.

I haven’t posted anything since the debacle against the Kings, because I just don’t know what to say.
We came back to win against the Ducks, but I didn’t get the feeling that we were on any kind of roll. And I was right, because we turned around and handed the next game to Montreal. [...]

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