Mark Moore’s SAVING THE GAME came out in 2006 and I managed to avoid hearing anything about it until late 2008. I was watching HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA and someone off-handedly asked Dominic Moore about his brother’s book. I did some research and found out about SAVING THE GAME.
Mark Moore played in the Penguins organization, [...]

Marian Gaborik is going to be out 10-14 weeks with hip surgery.
Apparently, the Wild aren’t very happy about it and seem to have wanted him to play through the pain.
Or, to be more accurate, they probably wanted him to play through the pain until they were able to trade him.
I bet the Wild bet they [...]

I rarely get to say anything nice about the NHL, but the Winter Classic has been a pretty great idea. The NHL season is so long. You need something to break it up a little bit and the All-Star game is so pointless, it’s hard to get excited.
I feel awful Doc Emrick won’t be able [...]

So I leave New York City for like three or four days and I come back and Larry Brooks is clamoring for the Rangers to bring in Sean Avery?
I’m glad I wasn’t gone a week. Otherwise Chris Simon might have been in the line-up.
I see Brooks’ point. The Rangers are soft. There’s very little energy. [...]

Happy holidays!
Here are the RotoRob fantasy hockey awards, which I worked on.
Also, there’s a a big picture of Evgeni Malkin making out with his girlfriend, so be prepared.

I think the holidays stress everyone out — even athletes and coaches. People around the NHL seem a little tense.
Over in St. Louis, coach Andy Murray called out players by name after a loss to the Bruins. And now, rather than apologizing or clarifying, Murray is bizarrely standing by his jerky behavior. All of this [...]

I’m sorry but I think Mats Sundin is a little crazy. This week he was in New York, huddling with the Rangers, making it seem like his signing was inevitable.
And then, of course, he signed with the Canucks.
In New York, the beat writers seem to believe the X factor was a dollar sign. Larry Brooks [...]

Mike Keenan was back in St. Louis Tuesday and true to form, he was making fans miserable.
In typical Keenan fashion, he played the victim.
Then, the media came in and fact-checked his statements.
How many times do you think this dance has been performed? Hundreds? Thousands?
Sometimes I think Keenan is maturing and then he visits an old [...]

Adrian Dater has an interesting plot twist in the Sundin To Rangers Show.
Like how about the Rangers moving Chris Drury to Colorado? Adrian Dater says it’s not impossible. He concocts a scenario where the Rangers waive Drury, Colorado claims him, and the Rangers are only on the hook for half of Drury’s salary. Because the [...]

I haven’t really talked about Mats Sundin possibly/probably coming to the Rangers because it seemed like such a dumb idea, I didn’t think there was any way it was really going to happen.
But more and more, it seems likes it’s going to happen.
It doesn’t make any sense for the Rangers, who are deep down the [...]