A happy Sunday afternoon to all. Anyone else noticing that the city seems to have already started the winter break? People aren’t calling back, traffic is down, certainly seems like people are away pretty early.
In NY, NHL hater (and i can’t for the life of me understand why someone so biter covers the NHL as Brooks does) Larry Brooks wants the Count to initiate a league wide price freeze on single, season and playoff tickets. Not a bad suggestion, but what about the UNION Bob Brooks? I mean Larry Goodenow? How, pres tel can the UNION allow this? I mean what about the PARTNERSHIP, the MISTRUST, the HATRED you spew every week in your columns. Certainly the league can’t do this without the UNION’S permission. Funny how you don’t mention that one little peace in your article this week. This would have a direct impact on hockey revenue which would have an effect on the UNION. Had the league done this before Larry Goodenow, I mean Bob Brooks suggested it, we all know he would have been hopping up and down about the UNION…..
A rather dull week for Steve Simmons’s again. One part worth noting, Simmons is bang on when he asks just who is going to be buying Blue Jays tickets this year when the manager has given up the season already. Trade Doc, and announce a year to rebuild and I will buy tickets. Keep trying to be half pregnant and count me out. What JP and Rogers are selling, I am not buying.
Mats Sundin is in NYC to meet with the Rangers and of course play poker. The Sens are out of the race, and word is so FINALLY are the Leafs. The other team that is out is Chicago. For my money I would love to Sundin in black and red. As I wrote earlier this summer, the only team Sundin actually contemplated waiving his NTC for last season was the Rangers. I am moving my chips to the team Bob Brooks, I mean Larry Goodenow covers. Which is good so I can hear EYE and LT chear while a few others boo.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I really missed the Leafs last night. Felt like i lost an old friend….
Larry Goodenow, I mean Bob Brooks can be found here…
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This one doesn’t surprise me one bit. Andthis move has Brian Burke written all over it.
Stralman is a skill defenseman but wasn’t playing in the top four. According to the Gospel of Burke your top four defensemen are the skill guys, 5-7 are shut down, physical type defensemen and Sifers fits that to a T.
There was some special treatment of Stralman when he arrived here last year because he stated that he would go back to Sweden if he didn’t make the team out of camp. Guess the ball’s in his court now if he wants to do something stupid like that.
I hope he does get to log big time minutes down there because he has a lot of potential. At the same time I could see him being trade bait for a future Burke move.
Oh I think I was supposed to leave this brilliant comment on the next post. Not this one.