My comments. Finally...

I really have no comments about the former Thrashers. It's painful. I've been pretending that it's not true. I can't see the word "Winnipeg" without wanting to either cry or commit a violent act.

I have to find another team to see. I'm trying to decide who is more worth it: the Canes or the Preds. So far the Canes are winning cause they have 3 players I can stand and some more I neither like or dislike. The Preds have Shae Weber and he is no bueno. (Yes I'm still hostile toward him because of the 09-10 playoff series against the Blackhawks.)

However. It's a 6 hour drive from where I live to the Canes. So basically an overnight trip.

Let's move on before I get really upset.

This is not a "happy place" either.

I was sitting by one beautiful day reading the trade news. The Flyers organization was on the prowl. And they picked up a dead skunk. Why is there a flightless bird littering the roster of my Flyers?! Isn't that oxymoronic anyway? Penguins don't fly. Hence, this fool can't be a Flyer.

Maybe my logic is tainted by my pure disgust of anything hockey related that hails from the Pitt.

But seriously?!

He walked into base of the enemy camp.

I won't even go into detail of how screwed up I think they are. I'll just list: Richards- Gone. Leino- Gone. Boucher- Gone.

My Rangers on the other hand. They've done good. They kept Dubinksy, Callahan, and Anisimov. Added Brad Richards (who, as it stands, I like because he likes the Packers. And he was on a team I semi-rooted for last season.) Hopefully this pays off. They've made a couple moves that I don't get but the major players are still there....for the most part.

I don't understand Troy Brouwer going to the Crapitals. I don't understand a lot of what the Blackhawks did this off season, but I hope it works. At least they extended Sharp's contract!

Detroit is hockey royalty so I won't even begin to question their trades.

Ben Eager is all but falling off my radar! I love the man, but the Oilers? I can't watch the Oilers.

We'll see what else happens before the season opens.

A different kind of Gordie Howe: Avery Style

So....Sean Avery. Forward for the NY Rangers.

Well hello sir. You just completed your week with an off ice version of a Gordie Howe hattrick!

The goal: Opening your second restaurant, Tiny's.

The assist: "Avery also made headlines with his very public support of marriage equality in New York State" (Spector "Sean Avery Arrested").

The fight: Shoving an officer from LAPD when they showed up at your house party in the hills.

Wonderful.

When my friend told me about the cop thing, I was mildly hopefully that Avery had actually assaulted a police officer. As in full on jumped the officer in a blind rage.

I don't know why I was hopeful for that but eh.

We can put it down to being starved for hockey. Which will lead into the next blog post. The no-longer-around Thrashers and the off-season trades.