His recent appearance here railing against the raising of Patrick Roy’s sweater was read by a great number of people, with many having a strong say about his slightly opinionated slant on things.
Now he’s back, and Jim takes aim at shoot-outs. 
 
BAH, HUMBUG!
 
    The imposition of the shoot-out on the hitherto respectable game of hockey is a travesty, a sad and sorry reduction of the sport to the [...]

Good guy Tom at The Ryan Coke Experience has gotten wind of a rumour you might want to check out on his site – that both the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens are showing interest in Atlanta Thrashers sniper Ilya Kovalchuk, a guy with almost 500 points in almost 500 games in the [...]

Talk about doing it the hard way. Sleepwalk through most of the game, fall behind 4-1, then storm back in the third period and shock everyone in the building by coming alive and winning the darn thing 5-4 by scoring four goals in seven plus minutes at the end of the game.
 
I was hoping for Alex Kovalev [...]

Although it’s sad for Vancouver Canucks’ fans that their team has never won a Stanley Cup, they just have to remind themselves that someday, somehow, it could happen. Meanwhile, I’ll try to cheer them up by telling them about the time the Canucks’ great-grandfathers, the Vancouver Millionaires, did hoist the big old mug.
 
In 1915, the Millionaires, led by flashy [...]

 For seven years, between 1943 and 1950, Bill Durnan was Montreal’s star goalie. He was such a great goalie, and also such a great team player, that by the end of the 1940’s he was even wearing the captain’s ‘C’, which, of course, is quite unusual. And he was also ambidextrous and wore a sort of combined catching glove and [...]