Ron Green in Orillia sends along an interesting story from TheStar.com – Hockey Is In Tom Scanlan’s Bones  – about a fellow who bought game-used sticks once owned by the 42 players who scored at least 500 goals in the NHL. The sticks were up for auction last June from Classic Auctions in Montreal. 42 [...]

As a trucker in 1992 or ’93, I was delivering to a grocery distribution centre in Calgary and I noticed a new chocolate candy bar called Mario on the shelves. So I bought a box of 24 for 20 bucks or so, and decided to sit on it forever and see if it became valuable. [...]

Alex Galchenyuk scored again on Sunday as his Sarnia Sting edged the Oshawa Generals 3-2, this coming a night after his three-goal showing in Peterborough, and so while I should have been working, instead I used the boss’s computer and calculator and came up this: (with the help of Miss Vicki, who seemed to know [...]

I can’t wait for tonight’s Canada-Russia battle. It’s payback time for the Canadians and they have the team to do it. I was going through some old photos and found my friend Gary Lupul (below), who passed away in 2007 at just 48 years old, and who played in the 1979 World Juniors, when it was [...]

  It was always around this time, in early September, when those beautiful Canada Cups were held, when the Russians were still the enemy, when Sweden, Finland, and Czechoslovakia offered up National team excellence, and when the United States was becoming, slowly, a team to be reckoned with too. It was when Alan Eagleson appeared [...]

If someone continued to dump on me about my work production, I’d be getting mightily riled. So why do I go on about Scott Gomez? I’ve been very hard on Gomez lately because he’s, well….. not doing enough. On the ice at least. Maybe at home he’s a ball of fire, fixing the dryer and cutting the lawn and [...]

This was the team with four losses in five games. The team with cap problems which on some nights was forced to ice less skaters than it should. This was the team that shut out the Montreal Canadiens 3-0 on Thursday night. My wife mentioned to me during this sad-fest that the Devils’ goalie was both lucky [...]

The Canadiens win their second in two nights, and look out Toronto Maple Leafs, we’re coming. Tonight it was the Ottawa Senators, with absolutely no help from Alex Kovalev, who fall to the Habs, and when you look at Montreal’s five games so far, only one was where they didn’t gain any points. So how can [...]

Like Mario Lemieux, who had such a bad back he had to get a trainer to tie his skates. I had a professional massage today by a massage therapist in daylight hours. (as opposed to a massage by a professional lady of the night.) I did a huge number on my back and if I had skates, somebody would [...]

I thought Elliotte Friedman came up with an interesting little ditty in his CBC blog Elliotte Friedman. It involves The Kid, The House, and The Habs. Friedman, in my books, is a star who hasn’t peaked yet in the sports media business. Here’s what he said. And I think it’s what most have said also. “(Sidney) Crosby gets ripped for not [...]