I’m at the Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) conference in Regina from today until Friday. Here are a few random thoughts from my first day… – it’s always enjoyable to attend a conference in a different city – staying in a hotel, eating meals in cool restaurants, checking out the attractions of a […]
It wasn’t a surprise but it was nice to have it made official today – the Atlanta Thrashers have been purchased by True North Sports and will be moved to Winnipeg next season – though it’s still not known if they’ll be called the Jets or something else. When St. Louis had their training camp […]
The NHL playoffs continue and the final four are down to San Jose versus Vancouver and Boston versus Tampa Bay. In terms of who I think will win the Cup this year, I’m getting razzed as anti-Canadian by my Vancouver relatives but, as a Calgary Flames fan, I just can’t force myself to cheer for […]
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Posted 22 May 2011
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“The closest the Sharks will get to any cup.” “The best twins at the game tonight.” “Two for cross-checking.” “Gives new meaning to ‘Sin Bin’” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0KJrT0Odk (via Reddit)
In honour of the Flames’ Jarome Iginla getting his 1000th career point tonight, here’s a really cool site that displays the names of two fairly equal NHL players and allows you to pick which one you think is best. (If you don’t recognize one or both players, it helpfully puts their career stats side-by-side and […]
Today’s the second ever Heritage Classic outdoor hockey game (Heritage Classic is in Canada – there’s also an annual outdoor game/marketing bonanza in the US called the Winter Classic.) Today’s game is between the Montreal Canadiens and the Calgary Flames and even if you’re not a hockey fan, it’s worth paying attention to how the […]
Recipe for A Real-Life “Slapshot” Movie Take one goalie fight in a recent game that ended with the New York Islanders’ starter, Rick DiPietro, getting one-punched (and a broken jaw) from the Penguins back-up goalie, Brent Johnson That game also saw Maxime Talbot of the Pens hit Blake Comeau of the Isles causing a concussion […]
It was National Family Literacy Day today and nothing starts your day off like doing the hokey pokey to tie in to this year’s theme of “Play for Literacy’. Good stuff – I joked with one co-worker that we could do it everyday, sort of the RPL version of the Wal-Mart Cheer. Another co-worker […]
I was barely able to pass Stats in library school so this article makes next to no sense to me. But the analysis sure sounds impressive! 😉 (One figure that I do know – I’d always heard that shootouts where 1/3 “score” versus 2/3 “save or miss” and after 1500+ shootouts in the NHL under […]
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Posted 29 December 2010
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Looking forward to the big Riders game this weekend (though I’ve managed to double-book myself for Sunday afternoon so am thinking “PVR game and try to make it home from event without hearing/seeing/webbing the score” will have to be my strategy. Not ideal since my most direct route home goes right past the stadium where […]
