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NY ISLANDERS vs PITTSBURGH PENGUINS ROUNDTABLE PREVIEW
It’s an 8 seed versus a 1 seed. The up-and-comer taking on a Cup-chasing, playoff-proven contender. We have a singular superstar and a veteran goalie leading the underdog’s charge against a relative murderer’s row of names. But the New York Islanders/Pittsburgh Penguins quarterfinal matchup carries significant intrigue and no shortage of [...]
PUCK DADDY COMES TO NYC – Viewing Party for Islanders/Rangers Game
As you may have heard, our friends at Puck Daddy are having a viewing party for the Islanders/Rangers game on Friday, Dec. 3. I will be showing up, as will I am sure a lot of others in the blogosphere and fandom. Puck Daddy’s Greg Wysh and Sean Leahy have been very good to us. [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits As We Head Toward the Weekend
Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another edition of Blog Watch: Quick Hits. Obviously, this week has been all about the New Jersey Devils signing Illya Kovalchuk to a 17-year deal, only to have that deal rejected by the NHL. Let’s see what the hockey blogs are saying about that and other topics [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits to Begin Your Weekend
Good afternoon hockey fans and welcome to another edition of “Blog Watch”, where I point out various hockey blogs and what they’re talking about. Obviously, the rage this week is Illya Kovalchuk but remember, hockey is a team game and is not just about one player. I’d like to take the time to acknowledge what [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits to Close out Your Weekend
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I hope that you all had a terrific weekend and are all refreshed for the week ahead. To close out the weekend, I figured I would give you folks some hockey blogs to check out before shutting your eyes and dreaming about the upcoming hockey season. Enjoy: The Hockey Guys: [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits for Your Friday Hockey Reading
Good afternoon folks and welcome to another edition of “Blog Watch: Quick Hits”. It’s certainly been an interesting week in the sporting world but seriously, who cares about the NBA? With not caring about the NBA in mind, here are some hockey blogs to check out to get you through the last day of the [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits As We Await Eventual Kovalchuk Signing
Good morning folks. I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend and are now settled back in at their homes, vacation houses, offices, etc. Here are your quick hits to help get you through another day in the NHL’s off-season: Puck Daddy: Looking at the chances that the NHL adds another team in Canada. Hopefully, Jim [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits Two Days Before Free Agency
Good afternoon ladies and gents’. I hope everyone enjoyed the NHL Draft and were satisfied with who their respective team selected. Here are your quick hits to help get you through this hot summer day (at least that is the way it is in New York): Puck Daddy: Greg Wyshynski looks at 10 UFA goaltenders [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits Before Tomorrow’s NHL Draft
I hope everyone enjoyed the NHL Awards show last night. I believe that the right players won the awards last night and that overall, there isn’t too much to complain about. Now, onto your quick hits for the day: Puck Daddy: Puck Daddy doles out a few NHL Awards of his own for the NHL [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits on a Tuesday
Good afternoon ladies and gents. Here are some quick hits to help get you through your lunch break/work day/second day of summer: Sportsology: Russ Cohen, who has many years of experience covering our great sport, does a mock draft. He has a lot of insight when it comes to NHL prospects so you should really [...]
Blog watch: Quick Hits to Begin Your Week
With the NHL Awards Show and Draft slated for this week, there is going to be lots of chatter in the hockey blogosphere whether it’s on award picks, draft picks, trade rumors (be careful where you go for those), free-agency talk, etc. All in all, it’s going to be a fun couple of weeks for [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits for Your Thursday Reading
Welcome to another edition of “Quick Hits”, where I point out what hockey blogs are talking about whether it’s teams, players, coaches, news, rumors, ideas, etc. So, throughout the rest of the work day whether it’s on your lunch break, snack break, procrastinating break, or whatever else you do to get away from work, feel free to [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits on a Tuesday
Good afternoon folks. How much does it stink that no hockey is being played right now? While it’s great that the NHL Network has solid programs to keep us puckheads occupied during the off-season, it just doesn’t measure up to what goes on from Setpember to June. Just three and a half months to go! [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits for Your Lunch Break
Here are some quick hits in the hockey blogosphere to take a look at while you are on your lunch break: Puck Daddy: Sean Leahy takes a look at the Hall of Fame class for 2010. Kukla’s Korner: Lots of off-ice action is headed our way. Puck The Media: The NHL kicked booty this season. [...]
WWW, The Blues And A Sobering Realization
There was a reference yesterday by Greg Wyshynski (aka Puck Daddy) of an Adrian Dater article from the Denver Post. The theme of Dater’s piece was the slipping attendance in Colorado and around the NHL could have something to do with the advent of HDTV. His premise is why spend a lot of dough to [...]
Sanction not Cherry the Answer to Head Shots
Greg Wyshnyski, the editor and major writer of Y!’s Puck Daddy blog wrote a piece this morning on Don Cherry and asked the question should the flamboyant one join the charge against head shots in the league and drop his “old time hockey” mantra. Greg answers his own question “no“, but for different reasons than [...]
Sean Avery and his Issues with Bruce Boudreau’s Weight
Who knew Sean Avery was a trash talker?
So You Wanted To Run A Hockey Site?
It was about midnight last night when the site suddenly went down. All three Gallofs resembled a Muppet skit as they sat trying to figure out which Gremlin just muddled up the site. Then it hit me . . . So you wanted to run a hockey site, eh? Yes, my mental voice even has [...]
