Same time next year

Written by: Sean McEachernThere is a strong possibility that Thursday, February 9th, 2012, will be remembered in hockey lore by hardcore NHL fans as the "Day of the Long Shot Prop Bet." Why, you ask?  Well, if you were still trying to recover from dropping hard-earned cash on the winning TD in the Super Bowl being caught by Wes Welker, Dancing Rob the Gronk or even Tom Brady’s husband Gisele, you may have been spreading prop bets around a 10-Game NHL night looking for the big payout.  And you would have found two such places to drop down your unsuspecting paycheck.  First stop, Ottawa – Canada’s Nation’s Capital, recent scene of the crime better known as the NHL All-Star Game, home of the Nowhere-Near-Ottawa Scotiabank Center and a city considering a bylaw outlawing the wearing of anything Toronto Maple Leaf.  If Daniel Alfredsson gets booed one more time in his own building, Senator management are likely to install an intensive screening process for visiting jerseys at th...