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.