This is what I’ve been reduced to.

I cleaned out my garage! In the heat of the day! In July!
I came across a few things I hadn’t seen in a while.
I knew my dad’s childhood dump truck was in a bin out there, and every time I got in the car I thought, “I need to [...]

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Sergei Zubov is going back to Russia.

I really don’t like this news. TSN is reporting that he has officially signed a contract with SKA St. Petersburg of the KHL. I haven’t heard yet if he has any outs or anything.
I was mostly resigned to the likelihood that he wouldn’t return to the Dallas Stars, but I was planning [...]

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All! Uh-huh! Across the nation! Uh-huh!

There’s a new! Uh-huh! Hockey sensation, Uh-huh!
This summer is INTERMINABLE!
If it weren’t for this episode of The Penguins of Madagascar, I’d have gone completely insane.
See, it’s a retelling of the story of the last two Stanley Cup Finals between the adorable Penguins and the sewer-rat Red Wings.
Seriously. I’m not [...]

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Please don’t go, Zubie.

After a day-long post and re-post, tweet and re-tweet frenzy of Scott Burnside’s assertion that Sergei Zubov is probably leaving, I still wasn’t ready to think that it was anything new that we didn’t know last week. (Plus, I am skeptical of ESPN’s hockey coverage.)
Last week we knew that Zubie was checking out what he [...]

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Happy Stanley Cup Day!

Philippe Boucher had his Day with the Stanley Cup on the 4th of July. He took it to his home town for a parade and to his “cottage” on the lake for a party with friends and family. He even took it through the drive-thru at McDonalds.
You can read about it on the Hockey Hall [...]

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Fistric, Woywitka, and Auld.

Our inveterate GM has been working away. Joe Nieuwendyk has made a couple of moves in the last few days. I’m relieved to say that I’m fairly okay with the latest moves.
They highly-coveted Jonas Gustavsson picked a team where he’s likely to be the starter, which isn’t the Dallas Stars. So, since Joe [...]

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Ye olde days.

I was watching World Cup Hockey from 1996 on the great NHL Network, and it was pretty eye-opening.
The NHL Network was very nice to show an American triumph plus lots of American stats on the crawl at the bottom of the screen all day on the 4th of July. I think they also had [...]

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New guy.

The Stars have signed a UFA!
Karlis Skrastins is our new veteran defenseman. The Stars wanted a veteran at a discount and I think he’s a good find.
Skrastins broke the record back in 2007 for consecutive games played by a defenseman at 495. He’s durable. He’s experienced and he’s a stay-at-home guy.
I think he’ll [...]

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