You vented ... I'm answering
Pierre LeBrun...them metamorphose (just in time) into a team that took fewer chances and played smarter, playoff-style hockey. But they had to go down 3-1 in the first-round series before they figured it...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009First Cup: Monday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopJeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News: "By now, the video has flown around the world, which is more than can be said of one of its stars. The bat that Spurs guard...
Blog | November 02, 2009Western Conference preview
Chris Bleck...what I watch. Basketball is in my top three sports to watch in HD. (1. Football. 2. Hockey. 3. Basketball.) This week, all three will be in play at the same time. With that said...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 30, 2009Scoring? Cooking? Stamkos a master of both lately
Pierre LeBrun...in nine games at this past year's world championship in Switzerland, where Stamkos helped lead Canada to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2009Friday, October 16
...playoff baseball, and plenty of hockey. Rich Beem and Tim Clark...doubleheader in the Under-20 World Cup. Hungary and Costa Rica...Brazilians play Ghana for the championship. Both matches take place in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 15, 2009And the inaugural HOF class is ...
Ryan McGee...Richard Petty: The no-brainer of no-brainers. The King leads nearly every major statistical category, from championships, to top-10s, to poles, to laps led, to career starts, to, well, you see where this...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 13, 2009
Penguins find defensive answer in Jay McKee
Pierre LeBrunIt was back in June at the NHL awards in Las Vegas when your humble hockey hack ran into Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero after the show. It didn't take long before...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 12, 2009Islanders phenom may be worth the hype
Matt Kalman...customary gold medal at the World Junior Championship. "He was a big part...his craft in the Western Hockey League at the time, while...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 10, 2009Crunching numbers for California
Matt Willis...seriously when they opened with a film about hockey! I have to go comfort Barry Melrose and...watching an hour-long film and then some World Series of Poker (special thanks to my DVR...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 08, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMichael Wallace of The Miami Herald: "Players and coaches said Alonzo Mourning already is having an impact in his new role as Miami's vice pr...
Blog | October 02, 2009Burnside & LeBrun: Our Top 10 lists ... rookies, sophomores and players with something to prove
ESPN.comScott Burnside: 10 rookies/sophomores to watch this season We all know about John Tavares on Long Island. Watching the No. 1 pick from this past June'...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 30, 2009My not-so-wide-awake report from Helsinki: GM Sexton earning right to stay with Panthers
Pierre LeBrun...all-too-familiar smell of hockey equipment. Near the elevators was...day (I covered the 2003 world championships here six years ago). In...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 2009Despite Kadri craze, Leafs did the right thing
E.J. Hradek...star back to the Ontario Hockey League's London Knights for...strong Knights team to a championship? Those are some significant goals...Canada at the Under-20 (World Junior) championships in December/January...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 28, 2009
Friends, and enemies, will be made in 2010
Pierre LeBrun...against Chicago Blackhawks teammate Patrick Sharp in the world championships and the Team Canada forward's warning Kane...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2009
