Tyler Dellow has been lacing into the Edmonton management group with a series of posts that demonstrate the incompetence of Kevin Lowe and the people he has hired to make the hockey decisions. His most recent begins with the point that the Oilers were the league leaders in whining about the CBA that was destroyed [...]

I caught a few minutes of McCown today while his roundtable reviewed the state of each of the Canadian teams. I missed most of what they said about the Canucks (and I don’t care enough to go through McCown’s archives) but as an aside about another team Damien Cox said, “Vancouver is head and shoulders [...]

Rick Nash to Vancouver? Zero – and I mean zero – chance. Why on earth would the Canucks want to get Rick Nash now? That’s a terrible idea. Not only would he cost two or three of Schneider, Hodgson and Tanev, the Canucks would have to drop at least two other players to fit Nash [...]

Elliotte Friedman thinks that Mark Howe had a point when he said, “I like the game a little better in our era, mostly because the players policed the game. I think there’s so much onus put on the officials right now …” I thought a lot about what Howe said during the Hockey Night In [...]

A variety of thoughts on a variety of subjects: 1) A sloppy, wild and hugely entertaining World Series game distracted me from hockey (and another forgettable Canuck performance) last night. That the Winnipeg Jets and Philadelphia Flyers played a sloppy, wild and hugely entertaining hockey game the same night gives rise to the question, “Are [...]

Bob McKenzie has an excellent, if lengthy, post outlining all the realignment options the league has. According to Bob, the most likely move is Detroit and Winnipeg simply flipping places. The Jets in the Central isn’t silly, but Detroit in the Southeast? That is silly. Unfortunately, there aren’t any good options. My druthers among the [...]

Don Cherry delivered up a classic rant on Coach’s Corner last night, a rant that was both predictable and offensive. Unlike most of the critics who are blasting him this morning, I think he should be lauded for so clearly laying out the battle lines. Attacking Don Cherry is not the answer. Addressing the issues [...]

One of the reasons Mirtle advances for the failure of hockey analytics to gain traction in the NHL: One of the more common theories is that NHL teams are very traditional organizations, with teams often run by large groups of former players and in much the same way they’ve been for decades. “I think what’s [...]

James Mirtle has a series of pieces in the Globe on the new hockey analytics: “The Moneypuck Revolution“, “Why Haven’t Advanced Stats caught on in the NHL“, and “Hockey’s New Numbers“. I think he was very clever to use the movie “Moneyball” to pitch a series he’s wanted to do. I am also happy to [...]

The Stephen Marche piece in Grantland created somewhat of a stir this week. I caught Marche guestng on the McCown show where Bob and Stephen Brunt basically agreed with the Marche thesis – that Toronto was the “worst sports city in North America”. This past summer, ESPN The Magazine, in its annual ranking of sports [...]