Muskblog: the sad, pathetic truth

It seems I may have the post-Olympics flu, as I stayed home from work today. This is my final Olympic-related post, just to clear off the last few links and stories I seem to have kept handy in case I needed them.
First David Eby got a pie in the face, this was amusing for [...]

No not the Olympic Gold Medal Men’s Hockey Game, today my sister and mother have tickets to three events in which medals will be awarded. They are at the Bronze Medal Men’s Curling match, then they will be at the Gold Medal Men’s Curling match, then finally we are all going to the Bronze [...]

Apparently Vancouver bar patrons are, not so sure about the Canucks they are losing 3-0 after one as I type.
I already posted my hockey pool team which I draft on Monday night to Facebook. I had the usual eight protected players where I took some young forwards and some veteran goalies. Then I [...]

As part of upgrading my blog and then setting up a new blog on WordPress.com I’ve learned a lot about tags. Previously I was still using a pre-tags version of WordPress. Muskblog has been online for several years, Muschamp.ca for longer, and I’ve had a homepage online since 1996, so I’ve got some [...]

Yesterday, yes yesterday, we had a large family dinner at my mother’s house. It was a potluck, but still as the hosts we had to do more than our share of preparation. I never had to cook anything, but I did get up at 7am to start cleaning and setting up. I’d [...]

Rory Fitzpatrick plays in the NHL. The NHL is the national hockey league. It is the top ice hockey league in the entire world. Just like the other major North American pro sports leagues there is an all-star game. The NHL’s is a little over halfway through the season. Gary [...]

So we completed our draft, I sacrificed some picks to trade for Turco last year, plus every year I leave good players unprotected because I can only protect 8. Here are my protected players:

Vincent Lecavalier
Marty Turco
Simon Gagne
Marc Savard
Chris Drury
Saku Koivu
Paul Mara
Zach Parise

Then using this spreadsheet I drafted the following guys:

Lubomir Visnovsky
Jay Bouwmeester
Pierre-Marc Bouchard
Rod Brind’Amour
Steve [...]

In both today’s Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail are articles dealing with the possibility that Sleeman will sell itself to a larger brewer. The article in the Globe and Mail is far superior noting that Sleeman is Canada’s third largest national brewer and the only one still Canadian owned. Molson and Labatts [...]