OH EM GEE!

Joe Nieuwendyk has been named GM of the Dallas Stars!
Sure, I’m no investigative journalist or anything, but that came out of nowhere! I saw it on Twitter and just skipped right by it, then froze in mid-step and backed up. Just like in cartoons.
I am not sure what to say about it. [...]

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Our little Bouche is in the Stanley Cup Finals.

From Heika’s blog:
Philippe Boucher looked across the dinner table the other night and caught the gleam in teammate Bill Guerin’s eyes.
“Bouch, have you ever had this much fun in your life?” Guerin asked.
Boucher thought for a moment.
“I told him, ‘No, Billy, I honestly haven’t.’ ” Boucher said.
He’s looking good out there. The Penguins [...]

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Sid’s move.

I’m kind of on a YouTube kick these days, aren’t I? I’m also on a big Sidney Crosby kick. I was on the Reebok site, actually looking for shoes, and I was reminded of their hockey section.
So I wandered over there and found this video. There is a [...]

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It’s Chelsea Dagger by the Fratellis.

Again, I have very little that’s interesting to say. I just had to post this because I so love the Blackhawks’ goal song.
Outside of Boucher and Sid, I think Patrick Sharp might be my favorite player in the playoffs right now. (I hope I didn’t jinx him.)

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First Star.

The Penguins won the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals and Boucher got a goal and an assist with just 8 1/2 minutes of ice time.
He was named the first star of the game and even got a media scrum afterwards in the locker room.
It was a great game to watch. I’m pulling [...]

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We’re still only on round three.

Okay. Now that only one despicable team is left in the playoffs (leave it to the Ducks to fall asleep at the switch), it’s time for the Conference Finals.
It won’t be long before there’s no hockey left and I’m reduced to free-agent rumor obsession. But let’s not think about that right now.
There are [...]

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I knew it all along.

As everybody’s probably already heard, Mike Modano is returning to the Dallas Stars to play next season.
I don’t have a ton to say about it, except that I’m glad. I wanted him to play another year, at least, and I expected him to. You can say what you want about Modano, but he [...]

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The “he’s boring” argument is stupid.

I have an auto-record wish list for “Sidney Crosby” on my little TiVo and the other night I found an All-Access show about him from 2005. Poor kid.
I was thinking then about an everyday situation that can be used as an analogy for what he’s been going through since he was 14. [...]

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They’re loving Jussi in Raleigh.

Our little Jussi Jokinen scored another gamewinner tonight for the Carolina Hurricanes. He is just tearing up the playoffs. He already has five goals and, counting this one, two of them were game winners and one of them was a game tie-er. During his post-game press conference, Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice talked about [...]

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I’m still here.

I haven’t been writing much lately, have I?
The playoffs are leaving a lot to be desired, let me tell you. I’ve been forced to choose between evils, root for teams that can’t possibly win, and root for teams that can’t possibly lose, but are.
The first round coughed up the Ducks and the Wings and [...]

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