There is nothing I hate more than being used and I think everyone, from the media, to the bloggers, to the average joe fan, has been used the past few days by the write of the Hockey Night in Canada theme song. It was the day of game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals, the [...]
David Newland has an interesting article on 10 ways to improve the NHL which prompted a disagreeing response from Eric Francis. David’s suggestions were: 1. Management must love the game more than the money. 2. Bring back the tie, get rid of the shootout, and then rule changes must stop. 3. Play with wooden sticks, [...]
The Leafs have struggled at times this year but is it really fair to call the Leafs “vehemently awful” as Howard Berger does today? If vehemently awful describes a team which is 6-5-2 when not playing a team with a 13-1 record, what adjectives would you use to describe the Washington Capitals who are 2-9-1 [...]
The Toronto hockey media continues to amaze me. Today it is Howard Berger… Having compiled 17 points in 10 games (including a league-leading 11 assists), Sundin is tied atop the NHL scoring stats with fellow Swede Henrik Zetterberg of Detroit … Mats is almost 37 years old. He’s playing like a 27-year-old right now, but [...]
I am going to write more about the Leafs in another post probably later this week but for now let me continue my rants against the media: Today Mike Zeisberger writes: The Leafs are allowing an average of 35.33 shots per game, leaving them as one of the worst teams in the league in that [...]
There are a few people in the media that I really dislike and Pierre McGuire is one of them. It’s not that I don’t think he is knowledgable about the game of hockey (like Steve Simmons who I aslo dislike) but just that he often everexaggerates everything and/or he panders to his audience. For example, [...]
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