CrashingTheGoalie

Let’s see.
One Sutter designed the building, bought the wire, conduit, etc. Another Sutter tried to connect up the right wires with the right wires.

And, what do you have? A giant cluster f..k.
The answer?
Don’t blame the tools and materials.
Get rid of the designer and the head electrician.
Those Sutters just can’t seem to turn on the lights….

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by Ron Spence
The nucks youngsters learned a lot from Mathieu Schneider.
Keep your mouth shut, work hard, and your time will come.
Schneider did none of the above and after 17 games – 2 goals, 3 assists, and 12 penalty minutes – was sent to the peg.

And that was just before half the Vancouver D were injured, [...]

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A  man watching a hockey game on TV kept switching channels
and stopped on a channel featuring a lusty couple in a dirty movie.
“I  don’t know whether to watch them or the game,” he said to  his wife.
“For heaven’s sake, watch them,” his  wife  said.
“You already know how to play  Hockey!”

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by Bill Heintz

After the boys most recent performances against the crème de la crème, the chat boards are buzzing with controversy.
The problem?
Why, simply its; do we need a third line centre upgrade?

Many fans have given up on Kyle Wellwood. He’s not producing the offence and he isn’t playing on the PK so [...]

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by Ron Spence
“It’s inconceivable for an official to tell a player he’d get him back,” Ron MacLean said. “It’s not inconceivable that he would do it.”
It was inconceivable to the Hockey Night in Canada commentator – and former coach – that a ref would hold malice.

Well, it’s inconceivable to me – as a former coach [...]

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Mattias Ohlund: The defenseman, with zero goals and 10 assists, is the first to say he needs to contribute more offensively. But Ohlund is a calming influence on the blue line, and he was an early season anchor and mentor for rookie Victor Hedman. Ohlund is minus-3, but his team-high 23:57 of average ice time was [...]

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by Ron Spence
Sports were all the rage by the ‘90s – the 1890s.
Americans were spending some $150 million per year – the players’ salaries for three NHL teams today – on recreation, and by 1909, $1 billion on recreation and travel combined.
People had discovered this new-fangled thing called leisure, as their work weeks were [...]

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by Ron Spence
Hockey salaries were out of control, prior to the NHL lockout, and the resulting agreement.
During that time, four players were earning $11 million plus per season – not counting Sakic and Fedorov, who had higher front-loaded contracts.
They were: Mario Lemieux, Peter Forsberg, Keith Tkachuk, and Jaromir Jagr (three seasons).
Name the highest [...]

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by Ron Spence
The Victoria Cougars won the Stanley Cup in 1925, but lost to the Montreal Maroons in 1926.
The West Coast Hockey League then folded, and the valued players were purchased by both old and new NHL teams.
A group of 26 investors, led by a Mr. Charles Hughes purchased the Cougars, and moved them to [...]

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by Drew Baird
When discussing the favorites to win a gold medal at winter games this year, the conversation usually creeps toward Team Canada and Team Russia. Mostly everything I’ve read has had them stacked up pretty even, but I think that a lot of experts are underrating the Russian defense.
Now I’m not saying it is [...]

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