doug risebrough Stories - Hockey Wilderness
Smitty the First
If I were going to enter the Witness Protection Program, I could do a lot worse than choose the name Steve Smith. Wikipedia lists no fewer than 54 Steve Smiths (or derivative) on a "human name disambiguation page", two dozen athletes among them as well as 8 academics, 7 entertainers, 6 politicians,...
What if the Tampa Bay Lightning already know who they want?
Let’s review the timeline of this whole CEO/GM search, shall we?Okay, there’s really nothing to review. And that's a drastic turn from how things had been happening in Lightning Land for the past couple of years. It’s like there’s new ownership…or something.As John as...
The (rumored) top three GM candidates [updated with poll]
With Wednesday night's revelations about the Tampa Bay Lightning seeking (and receiving) permission from the Detroit Red Wings to speak with assistant general manager Steve Yzerman... Well I thought it was high time to take a look at the rumored short-list candidates for the Bolts GM vacancy. Are...
Tampa Bay front office rumors swirl on Wednesday night
The focus of the hockey world was squarely on the Canadiens and Capitals tonight at Verizon Center in Washington DC. While there was a watch party live and happening at the St. Pete Times Forum, there have been whispers creeping out of executive movement for the Tampa Bay Lightning. TSN's Bob...
Palm Beach Post: Panthers narrow GM search to "5 or 6"?
From Brian Biggane: (Bill) Torrey, the team's alternate governor who has been conducting the search since Jacques Martin left to become coach of the Montreal Canadiens on June 1, has conducted face-to-face meetings with several candidates and narrowed what was once a field of 60 candidates...
Back to reality for the Florida Panthers - Torrey, Bouwmeester, Lemaire, and more
Why the sudden, dramatic decrease in price? Perhaps only Randy Sexton knows for sure... Does the NHL Shop know something we don't? Found today... a soon-to-be bargain bin Jay Bouwmeester #4 tee shirt: $21.99. Elsewhere on the same page, another example of the very same tee with Tomas...
Risebrough Canned
Between Jacques Lemaire leaving as Wild head coach and today's news that general manager Dough Risebrough has been fired, there's got to be some hope in Minnesota today. Perhaps the people running the top organization in the State of Hockey won't have such an obvious disdain for players from the...
Islanders Gameday: Where the Wild things aren't
If you loathe Jacques Lemaire for what he's done to hockey -- the mid-'90s leveraging of lax stick-foul rule enforcement, monotonous backwards-skating forwards, and passive hockey systems imitated by dull expansion teams everywhere -- then you might want the Wild to go down tonight, miss the...
View From The Frontier
I know that the NHL struggles in competing for television ratings with poker, but in my efforts to reach out to this apparently huge market of, ahem, sports enthusiasts - I'll use a metaphor to describe today's NHL trading deadline to them. The "river" card is about to be revealed and it's time to...
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