Category Archives: hockey

Losing Interest

When I said that I wanted the Red Wings to exit the playoffs early, I should have known that the universe would take that as a sign to get the Wings all the way to game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, and then to have them lose in a real heartbreaker. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, the universe threw a whole bunch of bad stuff at me right before then, so the Wings’ loss really didn’t affect me that…

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Can’t be bothered

There have been some pretty big changes in my life so far this year. Part of the reason my posts here have slowed to a trickle is that I just haven’t had the kind of time to devote to the .org that I’ve had in the past. I’ve still got lots of potential topics on my trusty whiteboard, but finding the time and focus to write a proper entry on them has been difficult lately. It probably doesn’t help that I’ve been Twittering more than…

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Championship Eve

Well, at least one of my two picks to make it to the Stanley Cup finals got there, and I don’t think I’m going out on a limb predicting that the Red Wings hoist the cup tomorrow night. Particularly given the demoralizing nature of Saturday’s game on the Penguins, not to mention Crosby going off like he did after the final whistle, I just don’t see a way for the Penguins to come back to win this series, much less win tomorrow night at the…

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Signs of spring

You know we’re getting into the heart of April in this part of the country when buds start appearing on some of the trees, you see young people milling about in promwear on Fridays and Saturdays, the post office gets busy with people filing their taxes in the last week to do so, and, of course, the Detroit Tigers are mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. Seriously, I don’t know what’s caused the Tigers to have this startling of a collapse in the early part…

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