Jersey what?

Hilarious Jersey etiquette post at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Empty Netters blog.

Speaking of Pittsburgh, Fleury is back in net Thursday, Dec 18 vs ATL and the Penguins have one of the sweetest schedules from then until Feb 8.

All Stats Fantasy Player

I've been looking through some players statistics the past few days. Some of these guys are getting great numbers from peripheral stats like hits, PIM and shots on goal.

% of tsnp's from hits, PIM and shots.

Avery: 55%
Robidas: 53%
D. Brown: 50%
Coburn: 46%
T. Hunter: 43%
Lucic: 43%
Ohlund: 39%
Doan: 36%
Girardi: 36%
Burrows: 34%
Souray: 33%
Ovechkin: 32%
Weber: 31%
J. Carter: 31%
Perry: 31%
Getzlaf: 30%

NHL beat writers Blogs

Blogs from NHL beat writers for info on players, lines and injuries. Updated for 2018/2019 season.


Avalanche section (Denver Post)
Avalanche twitter (Denver Post)

Blackhawks section (Chicago Tribune)
Blackhawks blog (Chicago Blackhawks official Twitter)
Blackhawks section (Chicago Sun Times)
Blackhawks section (Chicago Daily Herald)

Blue Jackets blog (Columbus Dispatch)

Blues blog (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
Blues blog (St. Louis Blues)
Blues twitter (St. Louis Blues)

Bruins twitter (Official Bruins team twitter)
Bruins blog (Boston Herald)

Canadiens blog (Montreal Gazette)
Canadiens section (CTV Montreal)

Canucks section (Vancouver Province)

Capitals section (Washington Post)
Capitals section (CSN Washington)
Capitals blog (Washington Capitals official Twitter)

Coyotes section (AZ central)
Coyotes twitter (AZ central)

Devils blog (North Jersey.com)
Devils section (NJ.com)

Ducks section (Orange County Register)
Ducks twitter (Ducks twitter)

Flames section (Calgary Herald)

Flyers section (Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News)
Flyers section (philadelphiaflyers.com Official insider twitter)
Flyers section (Courier-Post)

Hurricanes twitter (Official Hurricanes twitter)

Islanders section (Newsday)
Islanders twitter (theAthletic Twitter)
Islanders blog (NYI Point Blank)
Islanders twitter (Newsday)

Jets section (Winnipeg Free Press)
Jets section (Winnipeg Sun)
Jets twitter (Official Winnipeg Jets twitter)

Kings twitter (LA Times)
Kings blog (LA Kings Insider)

Lightning section (Tampa Bay Times)
Lightning section (Tampa Tribune)

Leafs section (Toronto Star)
Leafs section (Globe & Mail)
TSN
Leafs reporter (TSN)
TSN Leafs reporter(TSN)

Oilers section (Edmonton Journal)

Panthers section (Miami Herald)
Panthers section (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Penguins section (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Penguins section (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Predators blog (Tennessean)

Rangers section (News Day)
Rangers twitter (News Day twitter)
Rangers section (North Jersey)
Rangers section (NY Post)
Rangers section (SNY)

Red Wings section (MLive)
Red Wings section (Detroit Free Press)
Red Wings section (The Detroit News)

Sabres section (Buffalo News)
Sabres news (WGR 550)

Senators section (Ottawa Citizen)
Senators section (Ottawa Sun)

Sharks section (San Jose Mercury News)
Sharks section (NBC Bay Area)

Stars section (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Stars section (Dallas News)
Stars section (Dallas Stars site)

Wild section (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Wild twitter (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Wild section (Pioneer Press)

New Hockey Night in Canada Theme Song

Vote here for the new Hockey Night in Canada theme song. It's too bad we lost the original one to TSN.

NHL Schedule Grid 08/09

Here is a schedule grid for the 2008/2009 NHL season. Dark gray is 3 in 4's or 4 in 6's, light gray is 4 in 7 or any period with 4+ games every other day. Another schedule grid is also available at kafenatid as well as a game counter.

Let the Brouhaha Begin

This blog will be about NHL hockey. In particular, The Sporting News' Ultimate Fantasy Hockey. I guess it's referred to as a salary cap hockey pool. You manage a team of twelve players: 2 goalies, 3 centers, 4 wingers,3 defencemen, and you get 5 trades per week. The cost of players goes up and down depending on how many managers are buying and selling them, analogous to the stock market. The point of the game is two fold: get lots of points from your players and make money in the process. In order to do this, you wanna buy players who play a lot of games and you wanna buy when they are cheap and sell when they are expensive. Better players will generally cost more so the faster you make money, the earlier you can field a star studded team.

The name of the blog was inspired by Don Taylor of Sportsnet Pacific who says: "Some advice to young broadcasters; anytime you get a chance to use the word brouhaha, you take it!" My wife and I refer to him as Chunky Chunkerson from back in the day when the highlight of the night was brought to you by Campbell's Chunky Soup.