Posted in All-Star Game, Bully Pulpit on January 28, 2008 | 432 Comments »
So we’ve pretty much ignored all the post All-Star Weekend media coverage today, because it always makes us feel so very low to hear the bitching about how “meaningless” the game is, and to listen to the hockey media yammering on about what changes could be made to make the game “matter” more. You [...]
Posted in All-Star Game, Potpourri, Running Game Diary on January 27, 2008 | 723 Comments »
WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Can you feel the excitement? Can you feel the star power? Can you? Can you? Because it’s ALL-STAR TIME! Doc’s intro, singling out the biggest and brightest names, is hilariously short of actual big and bright names. It’s like he’s saying, “Come see the high-scoring Ovechkin, the [...]
Posted in All-Star Game, Peanut Gallery on January 27, 2008 | 38 Comments »
We are sure you’re wondering what our take on the red carpet footage before yesterday’s SuperSkills festivities was. Well, after considerable TiVo delay, we’ve decided to zap through the presentation from NHL Network, and we’re happy to share our purely fangirl-riffic take on the be-suited players in all their All-Star finery.
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Posted in All-Star Game, Potpourri, Running Game Diary on January 26, 2008 | 383 Comments »
Well, here it is, perhaps the most challenging hockey engagement of the year to try to diarize – that’s right: All-Star Saturday! We’re staring down the barrel of the Young Stars game and the SuperSkills, two events that could be completely awesome, but are seriously undermined by the fact that there is a dearth [...]
Posted in All-Star Game on January 26, 2008 | 306 Comments »
Gentle Reader, welcome aboard IPB’s All Star Saturday Open Thread! We’re gearing up for a fantastic night of All Star super skills — okay, a diverting night of super skills — okay, a passable night of super skills — okay, seriously, there’s nothing else on TV tonight and at least the super skills happens [...]
Posted in All-Star Game, Around the League, News and Notes on January 24, 2008 | 344 Comments »
Attention Gentle Reader! We are excited to swagfully announce that we are planning a blowout weekend of diarizing all the All-Star programming Versus and NHL Network have to offer. Be here or be square! Please help us in our quest to get a Versus playoff tracker magnet board by being here for [...]
Posted in All-Star Game, Andrei Markov, Around the League, Arron Asham, Bully Pulpit, Dainius Zubrus, Daniel Alfredsson, Devils, Johnny Oduya, Laffs, Marty Brodeur, News and Notes, Patty Elias, Peanut Gallery, Sheldon Brookbank, Sid Crosby, Vinny Lecavalier, Zdeno Chara on January 9, 2008 | 406 Comments »
The All Star Game starting line-ups have been announced and as usual we’re incensed at who’s been deemed an “all star” and who’s been deemed “less than”. We look at the guys who were “voted in” by the “fans” and have a hard time trying to figure out which league these so-called “fans” [...]
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