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Hockey Rantings: August 2007
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Friday, 31 August 2007. An Off-Season Look at . The Vancouver Canucks. It's about time that I whip out the EXCEL spreadsheets and have a look at how certain teams look heading into the season. The Vancouver Canucks have had a very quiet off-season, which can be good or bad, depending on your point of view. The Canucks do have some room for a 2nd line scoring winger type, or Jan Bulis,. Last season, the Canucks vastly outperformed their Pythagorean record. With 222 goals for, and 201 goals against, the Ca...
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog: The PA really wants this?
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog. Sunday, December 02, 2007. The PA really wants this? Recent reports coming out of the NHL Board of Governors meetings have an interesting tidbit regarding the whole "hits to the head" issue that has plagued the league so far. Apparently, the players themselves are finally waking up to the whole lack-of-respect notion within the league, and new PA head honcho Paul Kelly wants the players to have input on discipline regarding these situations. That used to mean Marty McSorely.
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog: Putting the Olympics to rest
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog. Thursday, November 29, 2007. Putting the Olympics to rest. With word coming out that the NHL will reevaluate (re: probably not bother with) the league's participation in the 2014 Winter Olympics, it looks like this grand ol' experiment may finally be coming to a close. The final verdict? To skate at full speed while trying to knock future-teammate Chris Pronger. Where else could a team from Belarus destroy a goalie's confidence and career with a single shot? For one afternoon, ho...
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog: Insert Phoenix-rising pun here
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Insert Phoenix-rising pun here. Promising goalie is mired in backup position, then gets dealt away for next to nothing and inspires team to become a whole lot better. We've heard this story before; in fact, it was just a few seasons ago where Miikka Kiprusoff. Was mired in the backup role for the San Jose Sharks. While whispers around the team had Kiprusoff's talents pegged as even better than starter Evgeni Nabokov. For one thing, Bryzgalov's done h...
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog: Time out
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog. Monday, November 26, 2007. Dealing with some post-Turkey Day personal and business stuff.will resume normal posting on Wednesday (unless something really wacky happens). Posted by Mike Chen at 11/26/2007 08:36:00 PM. Buy all Sports Tickets. Including all NHL Hockey Tickets. Like Detroit Red Wings tickets. And Carolina Hurricanes Tickets. 07-08 Crappy Player Pick 'Em. Antropov 8G 7A = 15P. Belanger 4G 5A = 9P. Fiddler 3G 3A = 6P. CGratton 3G 3A = 6P. Andrew: Bonk 4G 1A = 5P.
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog: Definitions
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog. Friday, December 07, 2007. Folks, before we all get on the "Marc Crawford is Hitler" bandwagon, let's remember some key vernacular surrounding our beloved game:. Punish him" = Check a player hard every time he touches the puck. Pay the price" = Fight through physical adversity, like a forward battling for position in the slot OR get a player to drop the gloves in retribution for some event during a prior game. Look, you can blame Crawford and the organization for not saying, "We ...
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog: Time to upgrade
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog. Thursday, December 13, 2007. I'll be migrating (hopefully) from Blogger to WordPress, so I won't be doing any updates until I get it properly configured. Should just be a day, but it might be more if problems arise. Posted by Mike Chen at 12/13/2007 11:26:00 PM. Great choice Mike. I use Wordpress for my main blog, much more professional. BTW, Dupuis has like 8 points now! I'll be curious to know how it works out for you. If it's worthwhile, then I might make the switch myself.
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog: Thanks Tom!
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog. Tuesday, December 04, 2007. I had listened to the HNIC piece on bloggers but I didn't see the actual video. Until today. Thanks to Tom Benjamin's. Blog roll, I was pseudo-featured for a few seconds around the seven-minute mark. Ron didn't click on me, but he seemed to be focusing more on the Canadian bloggers/market. It's too bad they didn't click on the Battle of California. I would have loved to see Earl Sleek's greatest hits. Make it on to the CBC. Ok, now I'm curious! Perreau...
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog: September 2007
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog. Thursday, September 27, 2007. Ah, the late 90's when every year's Stanley Cup pick wound up being Detroit, Colorado, Dallas, or New Jersey. Times aren't nearly that simple anymore, and if there's one trademark of the salary-capped NHL, it's parity. Usually, the beginning of the season means dividing the teams into a few different categories: a few contenders, a bunch of pretenders, and some teams with no shot at all. Detroit keeps getting written off before coming back from the d...
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog: Battle of the bluelines
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Mike Chen's Hockey Blog. Tuesday, December 11, 2007. Battle of the bluelines. If I've got it right (and even TSN's Bob McKenzie's confused on this whole issue), the Anaheim Ducks DON'T need to get rid of Mathieu Schneider's. Contract, meaning that they can create the most fear-inducing blueline in the NHL. However, is it the best defense we've seen in recent years? Here's some food for thought:. Age 38): Schneider may never make it to the Hockey Hall of Fame, but he definitely will make it into the USA H...
