Monthly Archive: October 2011

Boyfriend of the Week: Week 3

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It’s that time again, my friends, when I make my pick for who gets the honor of wining and dining me (hypothetically, anyway) for the next week. Boyfriends Prospal & Russell are still very much enjoying decent seasons so far (forget about Ottawa), but we must move on. Life is short! With a less than …

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0-7-1: If your heart is nowhere in it, I don’t want it for a minute.

This team is not good enough to win the Stanley Cup. Did you think that they were? The NHL season is six months long. Eighty two games in roughly one hundred and eighty days to whittle thirty teams down to sixteen. One hundred and eighty days to eliminate fourteen teams from existence every fall, winter, …

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Boyfriend of the Week: Week 2

Well, after an explosive (or, shall we say, implosive) first week of the season, jammed-packed with four games, week two was not so accomodating. With only two games on the schedule — both against Dallas, both losses — there wasn’t much to work with in picking this week’s Boyfriend. Yet again, we got only two goals …

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Boyfriend of the Week: Week 1

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Welcome to Boyfriend of the Week, which is almost like it sounds but not quite. No, ladies, this isn’t our weekly gab sesh about who is looking mighty fine (heeeey, Antoine) and who’s starting to look rough around the edges (sorry, Calvert, you have to get those teeth fixed) –that’s Twitter, of course. This is …

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Blue Jackets by the Numbers: 10/7 vs. Nashville

Statistical odds and ends, courtesy of the NHL.com Event Summary for the 10/7/11 game: Marc Methot had only 15:33 TOI, the least of the entire D corps, though he was far from the worst. His last shift was with four minutes left in the third. Likely because they were looking for an offensive push on …

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