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Greatest Ever Poll: Sugary Kids’ Cereal

Greatest Ever Poll: Sugary Kids’ Cereal

 

NHL Realignment Project – Week 24

Random Hockey Book of the Week – Wk2

Random Hockey Book of the Week – Wk2

Week 2: The Great Expansion: The Ultimate Risk that Changed the NHL Forever Here’s the second entry to our new feature… 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 …

NHL Realignment Project – Week 23

NHL Realignment Project – Week 14

NHL Realignment Project – Week 14

The Mother Lode! Okay, last week was a little out of control with 37 teams… so this week I’ve decided to UP IT EVEN MORE! I’ve taken Week 13’s concept of every city that ever lost a team got one back and have piled on seven more cities I’ve deemed “deserving”. The reason I went …

NHL Realignment Project – Week 13

NHL Realignment Project – Week 13

Week 13 – There and Back Again Who says you can’t make all the people happy all the time. In this week’s edition of the NHL Realignment Project, every city that ever lost a team (and currently doesn’t have one), get’s one back. This generosity yields a 37-team league. This number (and the geographic groupings) …

NHL Realignment Project – Week 11

NHL Realignment Project – Week 11

Week 11 – Take me out to the ballgame… err, puck match? (The MLB Map) This week, we go wacky again. This map is inspired by Major League Baseball’s alignment. With that in mind, we divide our NHL into two leagues (Campbell and Wales) each of which is divided into East, Central, and West divisions. …

NHL Realignment Project – Week 9

NHL Realignment Project – Week 9

Week 9 – Barbecue and Desert I bet you read “dessert” just now. As nice as that sounds, we’re talking desert, as in dry heat. This week, not only do we not lose the Phoenix Coyotes (hey, if Congress can come up with a deal, why not the City of Glendale?), but we add the …

The Debt Ceiling Debate, Illustrated

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NHL Realignment Project – Week 8

NHL Realignment Project – Week 8

Week 8 – Canadian Madness This week we mashup the good ol’ Divisional NHL with NCAA Basketball and toss in some Canadian Pride for good measure. The current 30-team NHL sees no relocation, but sees expansion into Quebec City and Hamilton… getting us up to the oft-dreamed-of 9 teams north of the border and even-more-oft-dreamed-of …