Of course this isn’t a post about the Oilers, who will sink their season by giving Nikolai Khabibulin at least twenty games so as to further the assessment of his NHL future (any day now, if someone would remind Steve Tambellini that delay is a decision, it’d be great). Rather, it’s about Blackpool FC....
Read more →My old criminal law professor Barney Sneiderman took a great interest in the Robert Latimer case. One of his more memorable lectures in law school involved him telling a story about writing some justice of the Supreme Court of Canada after they upheld Latimer’s murder conviction. Barney had an interest in end-of-life issues and...
Read more →I listened to Tom Renney’s chat with Bob Stauffer today (and, see how damned easy it is Dave Fuller, am going to borrow part of a transcript from David Staples. For reasons I’m finding difficult to understand, I hate listening to the guy. I don’t think it’s because he’s absurdly positive; Ian Holloway is...
Read more →By my math, Jack Layton was possibly just 2,717 votes short of becoming Prime Minister in our most recent election. That many votes, occurring in the right ridings, and the Tories would have been limited to 153 seats. Layton and the NDP were pretty clear that they’d be willing to govern as part of...
Read more →I try not to write too much about the arena, mostly because it makes me feel like I should be working at an alternative newspaper and because it makes me depressed about the state of society, that people argue so vigorously to comfort the wealthy with hundreds of millions in tax dollars in return...
Read more →I have been pretty much completely and utterly soured on Cogliano since this quote from September of last fall: We just found last year, with the amount of older guys and guys who have been here for a long time, it was tough for guys like me, even though three years is quite a...
Read more →Just over two years ago, I got into the topic of faceoffs and how they affect your penalty kill. It’s a topic of some interest to me, given the abysmal penalty kill and power play that the Oilers have iced over the past few years. This has coincided with the Andrew Cogliano era, faceoffs...
Read more →So the free agent class kind of sucks this year. All the more reason for some enterprising GM who has a bucket of cap space and desperately needs a star for his team to offer a one year $12MM contract to Drew Doughty, consisting of $6MM in salary and $6MM in signing bonus, plus...
Read more →The Oilers official Twitter account just tweeted a link to this video, along with a request that you advise them of your favourite Ryan Smyth memory. I was moved to put together a snarky response about how this quote from Pat LaForge explaining how people were reacting to the Smyth trade was my favourite...
Read more →.bbpBox85060954508898304 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/236964945/vangoal.bin) #1A1B1F;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} For everyone asking if I’m threatened by new flow or a LW coming in. No cause Smytty can give me flow advice and I played RW all...
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