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FanHouse TV: The Year in Images
By FanHouse TV - AOL NewsIt was a year that saw incredible highs thanks to champions like Drew Brees and Phil Mickelson, and embarrassing lows brought to us by the likes of Tiger Woods and Brett Favre. From the successes to the scandals one thing is certain, 2010 will never be forgotten. FanHouse TV, with a helping hand from the band Earl Green, presents "2010, The Year in Images." Click to watch: ...
'Puck You Palin'; Fans Boo Sarah
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate: Here's the video. They definitely turned the music waaay up to drown out the boos. Considering the game was in Philly, this was probably a best case scenario for Palin. Also, please note, this was an NHL game, not an Obama rally. There were also no discernible calls for violence or accusations of mass murder and treason. I guess this proves that all different kinds of people dislike Sarah Palin.Update: I just watched the puck drop, and there was definitely a lot of booing, at least from what I could hear. The Flyers had the music up extremely loud the whole time, drowning out the ...
Roy Removes Dunce Cap, Back with Bolts
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsAfter Andre Roy went bat-poop crazy during a game against the Flyers earlier this month, Tampa Bay general manager Jay Feaster announced the 33-year-old enforcer would be sent home for a week as the team's "internal discussions and overall review continues" regarding that incident and others involving Roy this season. Well, the banishment is over, and Roy was scheduled to return to practice today with the Lightning. This begs the question: Why?Why, when Tampa Bay's season has had a fork in it for weeks, is Roy even being considered for a slot in the lineup? Why, after blowing his stack in ...
Paying the Price for Brad Richards
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsDarren Dreger of TSN reported today that the Tampa Bay Lightning have alerted center Brad Richards they're trying to deal him. Richards has given management a list of teams for which he'd be willing to waive his NTC; GM Jay Feaster will take the offers he's received -- allegedly from Vancouver, Columbus and Dallas -- to ownership, and a former Conn Smythe winner making $7.8 million per season until 2011 could be gonzo by the trade deadline.If you go by the hockey rumoristas, Richards has been on the block longer than a septuagenarian prostitute. But this time could be different, if Dreger's on ...
The Ice Sheet: The Niedermayer Fallout
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsEvery day from Monday to Saturday, The Ice Sheet will take a look at the biggest stories in the league that happened on the ice and elsewhere the night before. Semi-Retired (adj.): 1. A near or incomplete state of retirement. 2. A code word, frequently used in professional hockey circa 2007, that describes a veteran player who is content to loaf around during the regular season until he decides to rejoin his team, causing a domino effect of financial repercussions. Scott Niedermayer returned from semi-retirement last night in Anaheim's shootout loss to the Sharks, but the real loss ...
Sidney Crosby, Power Forward?
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsWell-written column by George Johnson on ESPN.com today, mopping up the last penguin droppings after The Sidney Crosby circus left Western Canada days ago; it heads to Philly tonight for a game on Paul Kelly's favorite network. Besides grabbing a money quote from Calgary defenseman Cory Sarich -- "You're seeing car bombings somewhere else and it's not even a blurb on the news these days because of Sidney Crosby" -- Johnson does an interesting analysis of Crosby's game: Stylistically, they found out that Crosby is far closer to, say, an in-the-pink-of-health Peter Forsberg than Gretzky, the ...
The Ice Sheet: Lightning in a Bottleneck
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsEvery day from Monday to Saturday, The Ice Sheet will take a look at the biggest stories in the league that happened on the ice and elsewhere the night before.St. Pete Times reporter Damian Cristodero dropped a bomb the other day, quoting Tampa Bay GM Jay Feaster that huge changes could hit the Lightning if the team hasn't turned things around by Christmas: "Being sub-.500, being 13th or 14th out of a 15-team Eastern Conference isn't cutting it, given the money we lose, to think we're going to keep payroll where it is and not make changes."Naturally, Vinny Lecavalier became the topic of ...
Trashing the Charity Point: Re-Imagining the National Hockey League Standings
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsLast Wednesday, a game between the Florida Panthers and the Washington Capitals ended when a defenseman who had one goal on the season, and hadn't scored another in his next 17 games, was asked to beat Tomas Vokoun on a breakaway in an overtime skills competition. Washington's Brian Pothier was the 22nd shooter of the shootout, following offensive aristocracy like Jay Bouwmeester, Dave Steckel and Boyd Gordon; as expected, he failed to score, and the Panthers earned two points in the standings.That the Panthers -- or any team in this painfully familiar scenario in today's NHL -- were rewarded ...
The Ice Sheet: Bertuzzi's Homecoming Bust
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsEvery day from Monday to Saturday, The Ice Sheet will take a look at the biggest stories in the league that happened on the ice and elsewhere the night before.The needle on the Vancouver hype machine was in the red yesterday as Todd Bertuzzi made his long-awaited return as an opponent after 18 months. The TEAM 1040 in Vancouver even cut away from "The Jim Rome Show" in favor of audio from Bertuzzi's Tuesday morning press conference, no doubt depriving listeners of dozens of recycled O.J. jokes and humorless "takes" from callers who live-read from scripts written on well-soiled cocktail ...
Eric Lindros and the Hall of Fame Debate: It's the Personal vs. Professional
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsIf Eric Lindros is enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame, my preference for his etched glass plaque would be an image of his frozen face under a twisted helmet, resting on the slowly melting ice in Philadelphia during Game 7 of the 2000 Eastern Conference Finals. Somewhere in the corner would be a smaller etching of Scott Stevens, shaking the freight-train impact from his shoulder.The above is written as a Devils fan who is unable, even as Lindros formally announced the end of his career, to shake the vision of No. 88 as a fragile Messiah; always one championship away from being declared a ...
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