Archive: NHL
Our Local Teams' Odds of Winning it All
I gave myself a window of 45 minutes this morning to accomplish a non-NBA diversion. When the 45 minutes were up, I was the proud owner of an ICAST Classics 50th anniversary calendar, a "Keep'n It Reel" ICAST convention bag, 29 print-outs from the Las Vegas Hilton Sports Book, and...
By Dan Steinberg | July 11, 2007; 05:33 PM ET | Comments (5)
Chuck Norris Makes Gary Bettman Cry
After several months of misery, the NHL finally managed to generate some heat. Yeah. Great. From the Globe and Mail: Chuck Norris doesn't catch fire. A CBC broadcast truck almost caught fire during the network's telecast of the NHL Awards show from the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto....
By Dan Steinberg | June 15, 2007; 09:05 AM ET | Comments (8)
On Leslie Nielsen and BobbyBoswell.com
Dan Steinberg here. And this isn't about college basketball. So it was a big night for parties last night. First was ROCK THE HILL, a welcome to the 110th Congress featuring Leslie Nielsen, the Stanley Cup and award-winning country artists Emerson Drive, sponsored by the Canadian Embassy, taking place at...
By Dan Steinberg | March 21, 2007; 02:58 PM ET | Comments (11)
Hurricanes at the White House
Rod Brind'Amour has a general rule; if someone makes fun of you, you make fun of him back. But there are exceptions. Like, if the President of the United States makes a crack about how you can judge hockey players by looking at their noses, and then he thanks them...
By Dan Steinberg | February 2, 2007; 07:14 PM ET | Comments (4)
Georges Laraque Doesn't Like To Fight
[Ed. note: This blog item is about an event that took place more than a month ago, featuring quotes gathered four days ago. Sorry. Gilbert on the brain.] So anyone who follows the world of hockey blogging is well aware that, while wearing a mic last month, Coyotes toughguy Georges...
By Dan Steinberg | January 4, 2007; 04:31 PM ET | Comments (6)
All-Star Voting
So after reading that Roberto Luongo has voted five times for Rory, I figured I owed it to CapsNut to see whether the Caps were on-board with his Ovie ballot-stuffing plan. (Go here to vote, btw.) In other words, have the Caps voted yet? "I didn't know we were allowed...
By Dan Steinberg | December 8, 2006; 04:02 PM ET | Comments (5)
Pittsburgh: First on Our Backs
Remember when I pointed out that Sidney Crosby was No. 1 in NHL uniform sales last year, and that the Steelers had three of the top seven players in NFL uniform sales, and that Pittsburghers clearly must have excessive amounts of disposable income? And when Pittsburghers wrote in to say...
By Dan Steinberg | October 30, 2006; 02:10 PM ET | Email a Comment
Sabres Slug Sales Skyrocket. Seriously.
At a minimum, this ought to get me linked on Buffalo Sabres blogs. So it turns out that after all the complaining about the Sabres new logo, which was widely compared to a slug and Donald Trump's hair and which spawned a Web site and more than 30,000 signatures, people...
By Dan Steinberg | October 17, 2006; 04:38 PM ET | Comments (12)
