Author Archive for Micheal A. Aldred
A sports journalist for The Score Federation. Owns Checkingfrombehind.com and hopes to one day become Wyatt Earp.
Ilya Kovalchuk’s Diary
After recently visiting Ilya Kovalchuk’s new pad, I found the following diary and decided to share it with the world because I am an awful, awful friend. Day 1 – Dear diary, I have arrived in New Jersey. While the city itself is a tad busier than Atlanta, I still feel like I am at [...]
Letters to BJ: Hockey Summit
Hello sports fans, and thanks for tuning in to Letters to BJ. Today, we have some great questions from a few popular faces at this year's World Hockey Summit. Let's see what we have in our bag of goodies. Our first letter today is from Slavomir Lener, the hockey director of the [...]
Food for Thought – 1st Overall?
Just looking at the information floating around. Mapleleafs twitter releases rumour of "Bozak, Kulemin and Kaberle for 1st overall and high salaried player." That, in itself, is crazy. But I would have called the Phaneuf trade insane if someone had suggested it prior to it happening. Now, Darren Dreger reports that the Florida Panthers are [...]
Blackhawks with Plenty of History
While many didn't predict the Blackhawks and Flyers to be in the Stanley Cup Finals, there are plenty of historical facts that may prove the hockey Gods have decided this would be the match-up for the Stanley Cup before the year even started.
Crosby Loses Bet, Moves Out
Sidney Crosby's days in Mario Lemieux's basement are finally over. An unfortunate loss in the world wide known "Cole Harbour Salmonizer" event had Mario Lemieux jumping for joy, and Sid the Kid packing his bags. Cole Harbour natives are known to partake in these "bets" whenever challenged, but the track record of their success is [...]
Cormier Facing Charges
Former Team Canada World Juniors captain, Patrice Cormier, will be facing charges of "assault causing injury," says Annie-Claude Bergeron, a spokes-person for the Crown prosecutor's office of Rouyn-Noranda. Cormier will appear in court on July 12 for his hit on Mikael Tam on January 25th of 2010. The QMJHL suspended Cormier for the rest of [...]
Jokinen/Valiquette to KHL?
It was reported yesterday that former New York Rangers back up goaltender, Steve Valiquette, will be heading to the KHL next season. Today, it appears more movement will be taking place from the Rangers organization as newly acquired Olli Jokinen is currently in discussions with Dinamo Minsk of the KHL. "Sportsdaily.ru is reporting that New [...]
CFB Playoff Predictions (Eastern)
The Playoffs are about to start and what better time than now for the CFB predictions. We highlight every series with individual writers giving their own opinion on why or how a particular team can win the series. This is the Round 1 Predictions for the Eastern Conference.
Modano’s Emotional Win
The Dallas Stars have been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs for over a week now, but the season wasn’t quite over for Mike Modano. Last night, in the last home game of the season, the Stars played host to the Anaheim Ducks in a game that will be remembered by Stars fans for a very [...]
How Stempniak REALLY Became First Star
Former Blues and Maple Leafs, Lee Stempniak is the NHL's first star of the week. "How?" I just assumed you asked. Quite simply, a young boy in the Netherlands just sacrificed a goat to the Gods over a copper caldron and down came the magical "wish demon" to provide the boy with three wishes. "What [...]
NHL Signings
The Pittsburgh Penguins have announced a new contract extension with defenceman Kris Letang for 4 years worth $3.5M per season. Letang has posted 21 goals and 58 assists in 221 career games with the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Dallas Stars have signed former Yale forward Sean Backman to a one year deal. He led Yale in [...]
Coyotes Back to Winnipeg?
A few reports came out that Toronto billionaire, David Thomson had a deal in place to move the Phoenix Coyotes back to Winnipeg if no deal could be reached to keep the team in Glendale, Arizona by June of this year. Since then, it seems Jerry Resindorf is back in the bidding for the club, [...]
Seabrook KO’d by Wisniewski
Once again, a hit to the head results in a dangerous play. Now that the NHL is looking to add a new “head-shot” rule, it seems the hits are becoming more glaring and frequent than ever before. There are many opinions behind the events. Some feel now that the head-shots are public, players are doing [...]
Czech Republic Holds Off Latvia
The Czech Republic came out flying and looking for the early lead. They got three of them as David Krejci, Tomas Plekanec, and Jarmir Jagr each buried a goal in the first five minutes of the game. Marek Zidlicky had what could be his best game of the tournament with three assists.The Czechs got comfortable [...]
Selanne Sets Record in Finns Win
On Friday night, Finland continued its quest to steal away the number one seed in Group C from the 2006 Olympic Gold Medal winning Swedes. It would come in a matchup against the defensive team Germany, lead by Marco Sturm and Jochen Hecht. It was Finland’s powerplay that buried the Germans in this outing, scoring [...]
Slovakia Wins Wild One Against Russians
In a night of Olympic shootouts, the Russia vs. Slovakia battle did not disappoint. Down by one after the second period, Slovakia rallied back to force the overtime frame tied at 1 apiece. After sudden death solved nothing, a shootout was required to cap off the exciting matchup. Slovakia scored the game winner in the [...]
Attendance Records Shocking
The NHL released their attendance average numbers this season, and the numbers are a bit confusing. Not only have some teams not seen a large improvement, but as many as 11 teams are down 500 or more fans, with the Coyotes – a team looking to stay in Phoenix – showing their true fans appreciation as [...]
Habs Blockbuster!
Alright, it’s not a blockbuster, but I found it funny. Reports suggest Montreal acquired Dominic Moore from the Panthers for, you guessed it, another 2nd round pick. He’s becoming the 2nd round pick man, for some reason. He has 8 goals and 9 assists this season. Knowing Poni is commanding a 2nd round pick and [...]
Kadri’s NHL Debut
Two Leafs players have food poisoning, so Nazem Kadri is an emergency call up for tonight’s game. No word as of what line he will be playing on just yet, but one thing is for sure this will be an interesting sneak peak at what Kadri and Kessel could bring to the club next season. [...]
Scandella Suspended Indefinitely
In the wake of the Kovalchuk trade, there’s another vicious elbow to the head that has rewarded an indefinite suspension in the QMJHL. Val D'Or Foreurs defenceman Marco Scandella has been suspended indefinitely for his elbow during Wednesday night's game.
