Post Taken Down – Apologies
Hockey Primetime: No column today as I’m going to be live blogging tonight’s game for HPT. Come back at 8PM EST and join me here on Bourne’s Blog or over on their site - BYOB! ***** My apologies on having to take down today’s guest post – I had planned on running that...
Multi-Columns and New Wheels
Yesterday was a multi-column day from me, hence no blog, but at least that leaves a glut of columns today if you care to read a couple. The kid’s been busy with playoffs (and the thing I mention below)! New Puck Daddy: Underdog status is a beautiful thing – looking at Tampa/Boston New The...
Column: How The Sharks Can Neutralize Canucks D
New Puck Daddy: Sharks need to play more puck possession hockey to neutralize the Canucks skilled d-corps ***** As a special bonus, I’m doing TWO posts for Puck Daddy today – the second will be the post-game wrap up, so swing by to check that out after game three. That also means if...
Playing With A Snapshow – No Way To Stop The Inevitable
New Puck Daddy: hey, your boy’s on the main Yahoo! sports page today apparently, wwwwwhut’s up. On coaches willingness to adapt, and why Tampa needs to throw a new look at Boston for a few periods in game three. (Puck Daddy – post up a little later than usual today) ***** Yesterday,...
Following Up On Tyler Seguin
I think I have to go back and touch on yesterday’s column, don’t I? I mean, after last night’s debacle of Seguin awesomeness it feels sort of mandatory. If you haven’t read it, basically the message was this: the Bruins should keep Tyler Seguin’s minutes down – he can become a great...
Thoughts On Boogaard’s Passing, Growing As A Writer
New Puck Daddy: Seguin and player development: the dude’s just not ready for a bigger role, yet ***** When I started writing about sports, I did it the way people talk about sports and athletes in general, which seemed like the obvious things to do. Sidney Crosby’s great, Matt Cooke’s...
Praise For Pavel, Sharks Questions, Boston/Tampa
New Puck Daddy: A tribute to Pavel Datsyuk. This was quite fun to write, I think you’ll enjoy it (unless you’ve somehow found a way to dislike Pavel Datsyuk, in which case you need your head rearranged.) ***** It’s game seven day, hurray! Prior to the series, I picked the Wings. ...
A Column: Looking at the San Jose Sharks Failure to Communicate
New Hockey Primetime: Y’know, what the title of the column is. A video breakdown of what’s going wrong for the Sharkulars in the d-zone. (Should be us soon friends! Until then…. Hockey Primetime). *****
Todd Reynolds and the Gay Marriage “Debate,” and A Terminology Fix?
New Puck Daddy: Some technicalish hockey stuff, on how teams tighten up during close games ***** Howdy folks! If you missed Elliotte Friedman’s constantly praise-worthy “30 Thoughts” column this week, you can find it here. Dude knows what he’s talking about. Anytime you...
Accidental Goals, Roenick’s “Gutless” Comments
New The Hockey News: explaining why players dive, and want refs can do to minimize the problem (The Hockey News) ***** When red-hot Predators forward Joel Ward stole the puck on the penalty kill, then threaded Canucks’ forward-playing-defence Mikael Samuelsson with a pass to David Legwand,...
Oh Crap It’s Almost Summer, What Wings/Flyers Need To Win
New Puck Daddy: Ryan Kesler is a flat-out horse, and the Canucks will need him to be to win the Stanley Cup The Glambourne Project, part IV: In which we ramble about about each playoff series, all of which are near ending. We also devote way to much time to the Capitals. ***** I kinda like the piece...
The Caps Need a Change, Canucks/Preds, CAT PICTURE
New Puck Daddy: Being on the wrong side of a sweep and what a coach can do to turn it around ***** Round two of the Stanley Cup Playoffs have been downright weird, bordering on disappointing. And it’s strange, too, because it’s not like any of the games have been particularly bad (save...
Some Thoughts on Pronger, Caps/Lightning, Canucks/Predators
New Puck Daddy: Undisciplined play from a teams’ leaders can kill a dressing room, also, *cough*Flyers*cough* ***** If I may explain today’s Puck Daddy article – I realize Pronger hasn’t played a ton, but he has played three of the last four games, and managed to anger me...
Random Personal Ramblings
New USA Today: Tampa is winning the battle of depth play at forward - those gents have been the difference in the Washington/Tampa series to date ***** I sat beside my father-in-law (to be) yesterday and watched the Capitals/Lightning game, and somehow we got talking about Osama bin Laden, and whether...
Reflections and Predictions
New Puck Daddy: On Luongo, and bouncing back from getting scratched ***** Some reflection, before more predictions: In the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, my predictions went—-wait. 8-0? Can that possibly be right? Deeeeeaaamn. I shoulda bet on that, I guess. I guess it’d...
I'm a hockey player turned writer. After playing for Alaska Anchorage in the WCHA (NCAA), I carried on with an NHL tryout (New York Islanders in 2007) before spending a couple seasons in the AHL/ECHL (last year was 2008-09). 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 the web editor for theScore's hockey blog "Backhand Shelf."
