All-Star Voting: The Goalies

Vote for 3 players from each conference. Do not vote for players on your own team. Write-in votes will count. Here’s a message to cut and paste to send to the commissioner. …………………………………………………………………… Commissioner,  here are my votes. Position:Goalies Northern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3 pts.) – 3rd (1 pt.) – Southern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3…

All-Star Voting: The Defensemen

Vote for 5 players from each conference. Do not vote for players on your own team. Write-in votes will count. Here’s a message to cut and paste to send to the commissioner. …………………………………………………………………… Commissioner,  here are my votes. Position: Def Northern Conference 1st (7 points) – 2nd (5 pts.) – 3rd (3 pts.) – 4th – (2 pts.)…

All-Star Voting: The Left Wings

Vote for 3 players from each conference. Do not vote for players on your own team. Write-in votes will count. Here’s a message to cut and paste to send to the commissioner. …………………………………………………………………… Commissioner,  here are my votes. Position:LW Northern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3 pts.) – 3rd (1 pt.) – Southern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3…

All-Star Voting: The Right Wings

Vote for 3 players from each conference. Do not vote for players on your own team. Write-in votes will count. Here’s a message to cut and paste to send to the commissioner. …………………………………………………………………… Commissioner,  here are my votes. Position:RW Northern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3 pts.) – 3rd (1 pt.) – Southern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3…

All-Star Voting: The Centers

Vote for 3 players from each conference. Do not vote for players on your own team. Write-in votes will count. Here’s a message to cut and paste to send to the commissioner. …………………………………………………………………… Commissioner,  here are my votes. Position: Center Northern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3 pts.) – 3rd (1 pt.) – Southern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3…

Oslo leads EURO in games lost to injuries

The Oslo Outlaws should consider changing Tomas Hertl’s number from “48” to “Fragile.” No player in the league has been out of the starting lineup more often than Hertl has this season. On 10 occasions, coach Claude Julien has had to adjust the lineup because Hertl had to sit out. But Hertl has only been…

The Underachievers – Part 2

This is a continuation of a story posted Wednesday, covering the teams in places 13-24. Zurich: The Lions went from having six great forwards and possible weak links elsewhere to having 7 great forwards and a goalie who was supposed to take care of the back end for them. Key words: supposed to. Longtime Copenhagen…

The Underachivers: Part I

As the Athens Greeks skate away from the pack, let’s use Chris Legge’s recent post as a springboard for a different story: The Underachievers. Legge, whose Gothenburg Devils have catapulted themselves from 10th last season into third place overall this season, pointed out the improvement has come without much help from Ryan Suter. The minute-munching…