Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
I'm not counting the Predators out but if you are San Jose things are lining up pretty well I would think. The Ducks are gone and the Kings are gone and while there are no pushovers left I could see...
View ArticleHot Dog!
Three and one in an entertaining second round, the only loss being the Caps. Hilariously enough I was going to go with the Pens and then changed my mind at the last minute, going with my gut. Stupid...
View ArticleAll The Marbles
The Western Conference has pretty well dominated the NHL now for almost two decades. Thirteen Cups in nineteen years, seven of the last ten, if it weren't for New Jersey the gap would be even more...
View ArticleThose Melodies Come Back To Me
We hung around till the final band Called "Escape Is At Hand For The Travelling Man" You yelled in my ear this music speaks to me Absolutely gutted this morning, just shattered by the news about Gord...
View Article2016 Fin.
Here we are!!! 10 and 4 after three rounds and it's the Pens and Sharks in a final that I like very much, yes I do. I would prefer a Sharks' victory, with Thornton and Marleau and Burns and James...
View ArticleDad
This one is from last fall. We go up every year, usually in the fall to close, once we helped Dad open camp in the spring. It's always a quick trip, the boy and I are out the door at 7am, at Mom and...
View ArticleHappy Thoughts
Isn't that fantastic? As everyone here knows I love to travel and I had a six month stretch from November to April where the stars aligned, it will unlikely ever be matched to be honest. It started...
View ArticleNot Making Good Time
Heading to PEI tomorrow, our twelfth trip if you can believe it. I could do the trip blindfolded I am sure. So let's talk about Pete Chiarelli our wonderful GM. Did you see what I did there? When I...
View ArticleQuoth The Raven: 'Oh Those Oilers!'
Well ... I wanted to come up with something pithy to segue into a look at the Oiler's moves over the past week but honestly I have nothing. So here's what I think:- the Oilers are going to be better...
View ArticleMission Accomplished
I'm dusting off the old virtual pen and paper. I'M OKAY!!The kids' school runs a very popular cross country program every fall. Kudos to the teacher who runs it, he started it from scratch and now has...
View ArticleOnce We Had Hope, Now We Have ... E?
Remember when the first cluster was beginning to crash and burn - Schremp, Pouliot, Peckham, DesLauriers, Plante, O'Marra all unable to make the grade, Lupul, Glencross, Brodziak, Stoll, Nash, Torres...
View ArticleThe Oilers Have Risen and So Have I (not a boner reference)
Oh hello. I know, it's been a long time since we rock and rolled here, not a reference to my own rocking and rolling, not dead yet thank Christ.It is slightly ironic, not in the Alanis Morrisette sense...
View ArticleKeep On Keepin' On or Why Pat Maroon is Chia's Most Important Acquisition
Maroon reenacting the Orr shot.------------------- My daughter is going to high school in the fall, just over four years from now she will graduate high school and may be gone soon after. Sure if she...
View ArticleKris Russell, A Molehill.
Remember when the boy started his hockey career? Four straight seasons and four straight championships. It was amazing. After that he played goal for a team that rode a hot start to a regular season...
View ArticleWhat Is ... Playoff?
A great thread on Twitter a couple of weeks ago with folks describing where their lives were the last time the Oilers were in the playoffs, back in the spring of 2006. For me, I was pushing forty, I am...
View ArticlePlayoffs Playoffs! Are Great! Playoffs Playoffs! Can't Wait!
HI THERE! 'oo is it ......? It's me! Every few months I write a post and think to myself 'that was great, I have to do that more often' and then nothing happens. Anyhow here we are! Playoffs! And the...
View ArticleSoupy Campbell Conference
The time of the West being the home of the six or seven best teams in the league has passed, the balance of power is shifting east with the California teams and Chicago aging and St. Louis in...
View ArticleGlee
And let's get friendship rightGet life day to dayIn the forget yer skates dreamFull of countervailing woesIn diverse as ever scenesProceeding on a need to knowIn a face so full of meaningAs to almost...
View ArticleKoo Koo Bananas
Just a week ago I bemoaned the fact that the first round looked like a dud. No big rivalries, nothing to see here. And yet, and yet, *adjusts monocle*, this has been a great first week, perhaps the...
View ArticleOh Boy!
Well that was a crazy first round. I went a mediocre 4 and 4 and based on my pools I am not the only one who got bamboozled. The admin of our one said that in 23 years he has never seen so many...
View ArticleDog's Breakfast
A little late here but you can check the tweeter for what I said before this round started, I am sticking with it, more in a moment. 3 and 1 in round two, so 7 and 5 now and a chance for redemption on...
View ArticleFor Many, If Not All, Of The Marbles
Well here we are and it has been a mediocre year for me picking, 8 and 6 right now, if I fail this round then I will be at my lowest ever,, I haven't checked back but suspect I may have had a 9 and 6...
View ArticleProcess, Results, the champs and Hossa
It's been a long time since I rock and rolled, no? I am coaching the boy's soccer team this year. Our first game we got massacred, there is one team of boys in their second year, apparently they have...
View ArticleProcess and Results or Wing and a Prayer?
OK so yesterday I talked about the boy's game on Monday and how the team were playing just unreal but that the score wasn't reflecting this. We have a big game this upcoming Monday against the team to...
View ArticleThis Is Not Goodbye
As people who have been coming around these parts know my posts have been far and few between over the past few years, our lives have been growing busier and to be honest after a decade of horrible...
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