Well, thought Steve Yzerman, as his eyes scanned down the list of contracts he now controlled as General Manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Team Canada this ain’t.
It remains to be seen if Yzerman is the blossoming young executive genius the Lightning hope they’ve signed. For his entire — brief though it may be — [...]
Okay fellas, come on in here for a minute. I’ve got something just tremendous to say to you.
Men, you are down two opportunities to nothing to the San Jose Sharks. That’s twice now that they’ve just taken the tremendous opportunity to seize the moment and enjoyed it, and twice that you have done just a [...]
It’s tough not to smile this morning, what with the Washington Capitals so powerfully demonstrating the immense chasm between Contenders and Pretenders when it comes to handling Game 7 pressure.
So … to review. Things you don’t want to do in a Game 7: Don’t rely on your superior skill level to assure you of victory; [...]
The above image can also be found in your favourite dictionary of popular phrases, directly beside the entry for ‘game face’.
As for last night’s Wings/Coyotes game, I have a few thoughts beyond the instinctual ‘holy-fucking-shit-yes’s and ‘ohmygodpleasedon’tscore’s that were the only possible reactions at the time to what was, to paraphrase a fictional old gay [...]
(Yeah, it’s been a while. But the season only really began a week or two ago, so sue me.)
Tonight — about six weeks after pundits began to say that we’ll see what the Detroit Red Wings are truly made of — we’ll get to see what the Detroit Red Wings are truly made of.
I said, [...]
Are you watching? Good. Because this is me, not panicking six games into the 2009/10 hockey season.
See? I’m breathing deeply, sleeping well and eating full, balanced meals. I’m drinking delicious Canadian beer in reasonable quantities and am not under any circumstances swigging straight from the bottle of American whiskey and cursing at my television set [...]