Hockey Greats Fantasy Camp – The Itinerary
There's a reason a kabillion NHLers live here. . Well, everything is all finalized for the Fantasy Camp. For our guests that read my blog, you’ll enjoy the rest of this entry. For the rest of you, hopefully you’ll find it appealing for next year! Our itinerary! ***** HOCKEY...
Mind-Dump Extrordinaire. …Eh, Fairly Ordinaire, Actually
It’s sad that my own little piece of serenity has evolved to including a couch, a laptop and free time, but that’s where I’m at these days. I’ll spare you any more updates on our fantasy camp, except to say I’ll be tweeting about it throughout next week, and if you...
Quick Post From Kelowna
Goood morning, friends of the blog. Comin atcha live from Kelowna, BC, home of yours truly. This blog could be a little weird today. I’m full of unnaturally nutritious food (+), but minus Bri and Tyson (-), TV has provided plenty of updates on hockey stories (+), but I haven’t had...
Hatred From the AHL On Down
TGIF! My apologies for not getting a blog up yesterday – the sad reality is, it could be happening a bit more often over the next month. I expect to slow down to a Down Goes Brown posting rate (poor), minus his level of quality (amazing). Tomorrow morning at 6:00 AM, I’m heading back...
Where Do You Draw The Line?
The same contracts are being trotted out by the mainstream media and blog community as examples of salary cap circumvention - basically, there’s the sketchy-factor in the deals of Zetterberg, Franzen, Hossa and yes, even Pronger. There’s Marc Savard and to a lesser extent, Mikka...
Gut Feelings on the Kovalchuk Signing
Moneymoneymoneymoney! MUH-NAY! Ilya Kovalchuk’s deal has been reported at 19 kabillion dollars over 106 years, or something like that. Maybe it was $102 million over 17 years, I forget. The point is, he got a truckload of money on a heavily front-loaded contract that includes him making the league...
Car Colour, Dining Out, ESPN & MJ
Gooood (Monday) morning! It’s 7:00 am here, and I’ve already had a bowl of Cheerios, a cup of coffee and a steam bath, so I’m at a rare level of awake for blogging. How fun. Before I really begin, I just gotta say – in the first 27 years of my life, I’ve cared exactly...
Table Scraps, At Best
Gooood morning hockey fans, and everyone else (is there an “everyone else” out there that reads my blog? I hope so, for today’s sake). Let’s get rambling: ***** Has there ever been a white guy in the NBA’s dunk contest? I mean, 3/4 of a black guy won the thing in...
The ESPY’s, and Breakaways by Floating vs. Timing
I watched the majority of the ESPY’s last night before losing out to Bri and her DVR’ed Hills finale… whatever, shut up. Anyway, I made a few notes on it. So, without any ado, really, let’s launch into them! (Oh, and some good news for you puckheads: there is a hockey...
One-Touch Passes, Zero Theme
Y’know what I don’t need when asking for directions? Options. “Well, you can either take the 40 to the 105, or you can just stay on 3rd street and take it up to -” NO. I obviously don’t know WTF I’m doing, which is why I’m asking. Narrow it down to...
I’m Back-Back, From-From, Cali-Cali
Well, I’m famous. The transition just happened, did you catch it? The next ad going on the building beside Madison Square Garden is going to be just me, flexing, intimidating the employees at MSG even more than the Jay-Z one did. That, or I’ll continue blogging and maybe possibly...
I’m Going Going, Back Back, to Cali Cali
Thanks a million for all the tips yesterday, that was a SUPER productive comment section for me. As it stands right now, I’m in no rush to charge for any content, so until further notice, relax and enjoy, and I’ll try to find ways to make this site more attractive for you and your hockey...
Bonus Content, Lebron, and CUTE ANIMALS
For those of you who haven’t been with me since day one of the blog (you bandwagoners): here’s the truth: I’m a hockey writer by default. I started out just…. blogging. Stand-up comedy, animal pictures, football rants, and the occassional mention of a sport I sometimes...
Caps Goaltending, Modano, and Quality Sportswriting
It’s that time of year – NHL news is at a minimum, and summer fun is at a maximum. Although, I live in Phoenix, so it’s “winter” here (you don’t go outside for very long if you can avoid it). I will say this about the heat though – it’s not as bad...
Ilya Kovalchuk…. is NOT an Islander
Nope, no he’s not. This makes some fans happy. This makes some fans sad. Either way, it’s like talking about global warming, or Pierre Mcguire. The topic is polarizing, and people are waaaayyy too intense about it. ….Okay, they’re allowed to be intense about the whole...
I'm a hockey player turned writer. After playing for Alaska Anchorage in the WCHA (NCAA), I carried on with a NHL tryout (New York Islanders in 2007) before spending a couple seasons in the AHL/ECHL. My father, Bob Bourne, won four Stanley Cups with the Islanders in the '80's, as did my fiancee's dad, Clark Gillies. I'm now a columnist for USA Today, Puck Daddy (Y!) and Hockey Primetime.com.