The Vig

I must confess, I don’t know you other than by your work on the ice and the ‘A’ on your sweater.  A lot of people had nothing but great things to say about you.  Leadership is something that cannot be easily replaced.  I hope Johnston knows what he’s doing with this.
During our visit Sunday evening, [...]

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Crap, that’s what I get for not saving before I go back to texting. The Hawks have looked slow to open the game. Everett has done a nice job of flopping, getting two calls from a compliant Derek Zalaski. Mucha is giving up way too many rebounds and it cost him at 2:50 as Kyle [...]

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Cheers to Scott Gabriel for getting a two-game suspension for his garbage cross-check during garbage time on Sunday night.  Nice going!
Employee #5 is the only player with a letter sewn on the front of his jersey right now.  He’s earned it.  I hope this is the last we see of this behavior.

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Congratulations to the Portland Winter Hawks on their first home ice win of the season, a hard fought victory over the Saskatoon Blades.  As Andy pointed out the other night, going into the game the Hawks were winless at home while the Blades were winless on the road.  Something had to give.  And it did.  [...]

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Andy, as usual, has posted excellent training camp recaps here and here and even makes some suggestions predictions as to who folks might see in Everett this weekend.  Chip Petrino has apparently been let go by the club.  He was a tweener last season and a guy who never made a big impression while on [...]

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