First off, I realize the frequency of my postings has declined in the past few weeks…I have just hit the summer doldrums, so to speak. Once we get closer to training camp, the frequency will pick up.
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The Team Alberta provincial camp took place last weekend and from the reports that I’ve received, all of the [...]
At least on the Winter Hawks front…
Meanwhile, in the WHL, the Regina Pats are looking for a new Head Coach after Curtis Hunt has decided to leave to become an Assistant to Craig Hartsburg with the Ottawa Senators. Hunt had been an Assistant to Hartsburg while with Team Canada at the World Junior tournament, so [...]
The Portland Winter Hawks have posted information on their main training camp on their website at:
http://www.winterhawks.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1172&Itemid=311
It opens on August 24th and will be split between Moutain View Ice Arena in Vancouver, WA, and Memorial Coliseum.
As our great country celebrates another birthday, I just wanted to pass along the best wishes to all my US based readers on this Independence Day.
Hopefully, my neighborhood won’t turn into a war zone with illegal fireworks like years past, but that may be too much to ask.
Be safe, one and all.
For those that have read this space in the past month or so have probably figured out that I hate the Detroit Red Wings. So, what do they do? They sign Marian Hossa to a 1 year, $7.4 million dollar contract. The Wings just became harder to hate.
I’m sure that Mike Babcock, the Head Coach [...]
To all of my readers north of the border in the Great White North, a very Happy Canada Day as they celebrate the 141st birthday of their great nation.
You have to love a country that has given us hockey, Rush, Timbits, Molson, Don Cherry, Mounties, Pamela Anderson, Jim Carrey, Wayne Gretzky, Stompin Tom Connors and [...]
I’ve received a few e-mails asking me my opinion on what Dwight Jaynes wrote in the Portland Tribune today regarding the group led by Brent Peterson and the possible purchase of the Winter Hawks.
My response has been the same to each - it is hard to comment on it as there really isn’t anything to [...]
With the third overall pick in the 2008 CHL Import Draft, the Portland Winter Hawks have selected from Severstal Cherepovets, 1990 born Right Wing Maxim Trunev.
Trunev is 5′11, 174 lbs. and was the 5th round selection, #138 overall, of the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL Entry Draft last weekend.
Trunev is described as an incredibly fast [...]
The 2008 CHL Import Draft goes tomorrow morning (early on the West Coast - starting at 6:00 AM local time). This is a chance for teams to add European players to their protected lists. Some teams will be looking to add two players, some one and some will most likely pass on their picks.
Here is [...]
There are very few TV series that I follow with any regularity, but one that I did follow from Day 1 until it went off the air after seven seasons was “The West Wing”. While I am not much into politics, it was an extremely well written show that had intelligent story lines, humor and [...]
