Twelve reasons you have to love the New York Islanders

Get it? Because there are only eleven girls in the picture? So the twelfth reason obviously has to be what I’m going to focus on? Get it? Good. Anyways, the Islanders recently fleshed out their Ice Girls squad (which has twelve members, but there are only eleven in the picture, so my title still stands; [...]

You mean he didn’t play for the Oilers in the 80s?

Wow, so it’s not every day that the Oilers succumb to my demands and remove Kevin Lowe as GM. I guess I should be grateful that the guy responsible for numerous bad decisions over the past few years is no longer in charge of the roster of the Oilers. Except he still is; he just [...]

MacT in a blender

As an aside before I even start in, I don’t have this Craig MacTavish card, but I do have like 3000 of them in 5 three-inch binders in my closet (three of which that my dad brought home from work are marked with the RCMP logo; yes, even the cops steal office supplies). Anyways, I [...]

Oh Danny Boy, Why Have you Not Been Fired?

I attended a funeral in Three Hills the other day, and on my way back to Edmonton one of the 1.6 billion Saskatchewan Roughriders’ fans—seriously, they’re everywhere—rode back to the city with me. At one point the discussion turned to football, and my friend started off by slyly asking, “So why don’t the Eskimos fire [...]