Never seen the Ducks in person, so tonight should be interesting, if only for that reason. I've long dreamed of seeing future Hall of Famers Scott Niedermayer and Teemu Selanne in the flesh; looks like I'll finally see Niedermayer tonight, but Selanne is still out with some kind of horrific fencing injury. Sigh.
Hedberg is said to be in goal.
Meanwhile, I'm still trying to decipher this article by THN's Ken Campbell. He's not wrong about the Thrashers being badly run (because they are badly run; in fact, let's say that again: THE THRASHERS ARE BADLY RUN), but the article is full of weird statements about the Kovalchuk situation proving that the post-lockout cap era doesn't work and that it should just go die in a fire. He also says something about the Thrashers never finding a center better than Todd White to play with Kovalchuk (he's clearly never heard of the Savard years), and he seems to think that Dany Heatley and Marian Hossa left the team in exactly the same way. Certainly a contender for "Most Bizarre Hockey Article of the Year." Or just the quickest-written.
UPDATE: Good piece by Wyshynski on this whole gigantic horrorfest. I pretty much agree with every word. At the end of the day, losing Kovalchuk would be a disaster, and it looks increasingly like we'd get very little back for him. Might as well just give the man what he wants, even if it is a colossal overpay. I'm not optimistic that the Thrashers could recover with young "pieces" if they traded him. Whatever does happen, it's past time Don Waddell moved out of the GM office to some respectable upstairs semi-retirement job. The fact that it's taken this long is an actual disgrace.
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Campbell's an idiot, and quite a few of the reader comments say as much. THN has some of the worst writers. They are all so anti-sunbelt hockey it's ridiculous. His article made absolutely no sense at all. Hockey is so far behind the other sports because of their own media coverage. Bob McKenzie is great. Everyone else not so much.
Quack, quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth!
My hope is that while the Ducks are in town, somehow they manage to slip #17 onto their team bus and we get left with Perry & Ryan and the eternal ability to score Knucklepuck goals from the blueline.
Nice read on the Kovy situation over at Puck Daddy...
It's Knucklepuck time!
Any of yall see Rory Boylen's hypothetical, also at THN? Makes Kenny Campbell look like he wrote his take on the Kovalchuk situation on a napkin he used to wipe the vomit from his chin during a bender and then had to read through the vomit and piss-poor journalism to get what he wrote. It assumes Kovy gets traded, but among all the rumors/hypothetical situations I've read and heard about, I think this is one I actually might could live with. Except that Atlanta would lose Kovy...
Here's the link to it.
http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/31046-THNcom-Blog-Could-Colorado-take-a-run-at-Kovalchuk.html
I wrote a whole post blasting Campbell myself. But with regards to Puck daddy...I have often taken exception with some of his stuff...but that article you linked was spot on...that couldn't have been better written if Hemingway had done it.
Regardless of what happens, Don Waddell's once again looking like a fool with his pants on the ground.
Nice 'pants' reference, GPY!
Did you guys SEE #17 "playing" last night? How about after the game, Antropov breaking his stick over the goal post in frustration? Hmmm...wonder what that could be about...........mmmmhmmmm.
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