Archives 2011 October

NHL Realignment Project – Week 23

Random Hockey Book of the Week – Wk1

Random Hockey Book of the Week – Wk1

Week 1: Sports Illustrated The Hockey Book Trying out a new feature (and busting out some seriously mediocre Photoshopping)… picking a random interesting-looking hockey book every Friday. Some of them will be ones I’ve read, but most will be ones I hope to read someday, whenever the time-demons decide to give me some of my …

NHL Realignment Project – Week 22

NHL Realignment Project – Week 22

Nationalism  Week twenty-two in the NHL Realignment Project has a “country” flavor to it.  The main thing we’re doing differently this week is how we arrived at our honorific division names. The NHL is mostly made up of North American players and European, right? So I took the two (present-day) countries from each continent that …

Stacked Deck

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NHL Realignment Project – Week 21

NHL Realignment Project – Week 21

Pod Casting – There’s No Place Like Home (and Away) This week we go to pods for the NHL Realignment Project. The addition of the Seattle Shamrocks and the Quebec Nordiques gets our league’s team count up to (our favorite very divisible number,) 32. In an effort to not only divide the teams up the …

NHL Realignment Project – Week 20

NHL Realignment Project – Week 20

Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto With all the recent talk of NHL Realignment, it’s apparent that it’s a very emotional subject. “It’d be an insult if…”, “How dare they consider the possibility of…”, “If they do that, I swear I’ll…” So this week on the NHL Realignment Project, we take emotion out of the equation and ask …

NHL Realignment Project – Week 19

NHL Realignment Project – Week 19

Champions Leage (Semi) Final So this is the final iteration of the idea started three weeks ago, that of the “Champions League”. We started with a league that consisted of only teams that had won the Cup, and then we expanded it to include teams that had made it to the Stanley Cup finals, but …