A few more days and the December 1st deadline for hockey to start will come and go, and will join the beginning-of-the season deadline, the November full-season deadline, the seventy-game season deadline, and the Winter Classic deadline. Soon it will become the fifty-game deadline, then half-a-season deadline. Who knows? Maybe in several months we’ll have [...]

Happy New Year from me, Gaston, Jack Schitt, and Little Dennis. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to lose ten pounds. If I could just do this, I’d be able to see my shoes again. Another resolution is to win the lottery. Then there’s that plan to walk, just once, the 32 kilometers to work to see [...]

Finally got to see Part One of 24/7, HBO’s fascinating look at the behind the scenes goings-on of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals, two teams going in different directions, and one team with a coach who drops a ton of F-bombs as he gives his inspirational speeches in the dressing room and behind the bench. It’s a [...]

My friend Diane in Boston tells me that ticket prices for the Winter Classic at Fenway Park ranged from $375 to $2200. I wouldn’t pay that for several reasons: seats were too far away from the ice: it’s warmer at home: it was overcharged: it was the Bruins and Flyers.

The Boston Bruins may not have won as many Stanley Cups as Montreal over the years, but they have one thing they can call their own that the Canadiens can’t. One unbelievable thing to call their own: They have Bobby Orr. There he was at Fenway looking good, healthy, happy, wearing his number four Bruins [...]