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22 Is Keeping me off the Ledge
I am not going to turn this blog into on the ledge off the ledge dot com. The Bruins are frustrating right now, almost as frustrating as the fact I taped the Senators and Leafs game last night, and inexplicably when I went to watch it this morning, the recording was black. So, I missed...
Ledge is all yours Carolina
I’m not sure if it’s because all the Carolina fans are jumping off the ledge, and any that haven’t jumped yet are thinking about it now that Cam Ward is hurt, but I see a lot of Bruins fans coming in off the ledge. I wrote earlier in the week about what they need to get done...
In off the ledge Please
In off the ledge Bruins fans. In off the ledge. It is way too early to panic. The Bruins will make the playoffs with their current configuration. They play in a fairly week division and can get it done. Look at how they have played over the last three games, and it’s easy to see...
Matt Carkner has Arrived!
Mighty Matt Carkner was signed to a 2-yr deal by the Ottawa Senators this week, just a few short days after his first-ever NHL goal. He also soundly beat the snot out of Steve Downie on the 15th. To say it’s been an incredible month for the man would be an obvious understatement...
I feel good. I feel great. I feel Wonderful.
So, the beloved Bruins are the feel bad story of the year so far. One minute they look like world beaters, the next they look as if Perkins Scholl for the Blind would give them a run for their money. I think what they need is a real good knockdown, drag em out divisional game to get...
I Smoked Pot with Charlie Dickens
If I may borrow a bit of old Charlie Dickens, this weekend was like the beginning of “A tale of Two Cities”, “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” I don’t want to get overly dramatic here, but it really was the best and worst of the Boston Bruins on opening...
Wake up Fans
In about 11 hours, the hibernation ends. That’s right; the beloved Boston Bruins are skating back onto the ice tonight at 7 PM against the dreaded Washington Capitals. Boston and Washington will both come into tonight’s opener with the weight of huge expectations on their shoulders...
I’ve Never Even Been to Reno
The NHL season is coming round the bend like the train Johnny Cash sings about in Folsom Prison Blues. I feel like the summer has been my prison, and I am finally free to watch the greatest game on earth. It’s almost here, and per usual, I am as giddy as a little girl.
One thing...
RIP Fred Cusick
Everywhere I turn, there is another story how an inordinate number of celebrities have died in 2009. Some heavy hitters have come down for their last breakfast this year, but no death has saddened me more than the passing of Bruins Broadcasting Legend Fred Cusick.
I remember Fred...
5 Second Rule
With the opening of NHL training camp less than a week away, I wanted to talk a little bit about fighting and its place in hockey. Below you will find what the NHL deems to be a “good” fight, and a “bad” fight. Meaning, one is spur of the moment, and one is “staged”. I...
New England Rivalry
I wrote a little while ago how the NHL signing period works. Typically the top flight talent goes, then, people to protect the top flight talent get signed. That’s where we are now, and the Springfield Falcons added a big protector in Kip Brennan yesterday.
Kip was a Lowell Lockmonster...
I’ve Been Had
The Lowell Devils get me every year. Last season they promised they’d be more up tempo, and tough…not your father’s Lowell Devils I believe was the quote. They were up tempo and decent. On Opening Night. This season, it is the press release I saw today where the Devils have signed...
My Money is in my Other Pants
I am a reasonably smart man. OK, I am kind of smart…..fine…I am a man. Ooooo shiny….Anyway, what I can’t figure out for the life of me, is why the NHL is so vehemently against Jim Balsillie owning a NHL franchise.
Craig Leipold, a man who himself was forced out of NHL ownership...
OK, so now what?
I don’t know where to start. I guess I’ll take it from the top, and we’ll try to make sense of it all. I have questions that need answers, each one more diabolical than the last. Not really, I’ve just always wanted to start a post that way.
Yesterday afternoon I was sitting...
Getting Closer
It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here! The NHL announced the schedule for the 2009-2010 NHL season last Wednesday, and I for one, am more excited than Chris Nilan walking into the men’s swimsuit section to find the guard off getting a sandwich. I have gone over the schedule...
Too Much, Too Soon!
Jay Miller has the same metabolism as his daddy, so usually right after he eats; he needs to be taken out to poop. I get home at 6, feed him and Milan Lucic, and we head out. On tonight’s walk, after Milan made a nice dude we came across a very big Golden Retriever. At least I think...
Will Work for Cake
Typically when the NHL free agent period begins teams load up on the guys that help them win by scoring, stopping, or defending. Then as the period goes on, they load up on guys that protect the scorers, stoppers, and defenders by signing the beloved tough guys. These guys are every...
Free Agent Frenzy
I hope everyone is having a very Happy 4th of July, and Happy (belated) Canada Day to all the Goonsqud in the Great White North. So far free agency has been open for a couple of days. What has developed has been a new GM putting his mark on a franchise, another two or three reasons...
Figured I’d join Before I got Drafted.
Hey, did you hear Michael Jackson died? No ****. I’m not making this up. Good thing the good Reverend Jesse is involved now. Phew! Through it all, the NHL managed to press on and hold their draft in Montreal Friday night. Naturally, I watched the whole thing.
The Islanders had the...
What? Was Sheena Easton Busy?
Congratulations to Boston’s Manny Fernandez, Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara and coach Claude Julien for bringing home the hardware at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas Thursday night. Of course I would have traded any of the awards given for one giant cup, as I’m sure they would have too, but...
I hate to do it….
It’s been killing me to have to write something positive about the New Jersey Devils, but here goes. The Devils have resigned one of my favorite tough guys, Pierre-Luc Letourneau-LeBlond. PL3 as he’s known to his friends was one of the only reasons to watch the perennially dreadful...
Whoop-de Friggin Do. Penguins Win.
For me, the hockey season ended a month or so ago when the Bruins were defeated. For the rest of the hockey world, it ended Friday night when Pittsburgh beat Detroit in a very exciting game 7. Much like the rest of the hockey world, I had counted the Penguins out after they went down...
Instigator, Schminstigator
The Red Wings are going to win the Stanley Cup, and the NHL ****** up the instigator rule one more time, but I am not going to get into that. OK, for a second I will. Why does the rule book only apply to certain players? In other sports, if someone broke the rules, let’s say in football...
Back Home Again, From Indiana
Congratulations to the winner of the 93rd Indianapolis 500, not the IRS, but Helio Castroneves! This year’s race featured a one beer race day by The Hammer, the greatest “pooping in the infield at the 500” story EVER, one of the wildest crashes I have ever seen, and much more...
Happy Birthday Mr. Hockey, and Go Bruins!
Happy Birthday to Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe. The man with the sharpest elbows to ever play the game turns 80 today and Gonnblog is proud to wish him good health, and many more to come. This is a man that played hockey at the highest level until he was 52 years old. I will be in a home...
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