Puck Headlines: Crosby stinks at fishing; Heatley on boo-birds

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August 28, 2009

Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

• Sidney Crosby (notes): "Hello muddah/Hello Mario/I’m in Calgary/Not Ontario/Skating daily/With Nash and Marty/Nearly used a fishing hook to pierce an artery." [NHL.com, Pensburgh]

• Peter Forsberg (notes) plays again, wears No. 7 and is listed on the Swedish Olympic team’s preliminary roster. Here we go again. [TSN]

• Dany Heatley (notes) believes he’s getting booed at Team Canada camp because his trade demand became public information. He’s got a point: If his status as a mutinous malcontent, whose motivations for asking to be moved are hackneyed at best, was kept private, he’d simply be ignored. [Ottawa Citizen]

• By the way: Mike Babcock has a hell of a sense of humor with his Heatley/Joe Thornton (notes)/Patrick Marleau line pairing, doesn’t he? [@jeffmarek]

• Strange but pretty awesome: Former NFL star Boomer Esiason talks about getting 72 stitches after a hockey injury, and then getting a call from Bettman to say his hockey cred had been established. [Newsday]

• Phoenix Coyotes individual game tickets ~~for their farewell season~~ go on sale Monday. [Coyotes]

• This piece comparing an NHL-owned Phoenix Coyotes team with the MLB-owned Montreal Expos is hack-city. How does one squeeze out an article like this without mentioning the tomb that was Olympic Stadium at least once? [Canwest]

• Brad Noyes of the St. Louis Blues is getting some well-deserved mainstream media attention. Brad Boyes (notes), not so much. [St. Louis Game Time]

• Maybe Eric Brewer (notes) is having knee surgery so he’ll forget about how much his back hurts. [Blues]

• "Everybody knew Kovalev was a risky choice. Nobody expected to be saying that in August." [Off The Posts]

• Inside the Edmonton Oilers‘ arena debate, and the use of taxpayer money for the project. [Battle of Alberta]

• Dagmar of Raw Charge takes a turn at the 5 Reasons I Love Hockey. Hip-checks is a wonderful call. [Raw Charge]

• The Toronto Maple Leafs are giving Jason Allison a tryout. From Puck Buddy Michael M.: "Good to see they are balancing youth, speed and truculence for old, slow and whatever the opposite of truculence is (Hossalence?)." [Globe & Mail]

• The Dallas Stars announce the Battle of the Stars, which will pit the NHL team against the AHL Texas Stars. No mention of Ice Girls appearances for either team? Do they like ticket sales? [Dallas Stars Blog]

• A snark-tastic Dallas Stars preview. [The Hockey Writers]

• What you’re looking at here is a Florida Panthers Mr. Potato Head, complete with interchangeable black eyes. Any resemblance to Nathan Horton is purely coincidental. [Litter Box Cats]

• Bill Daly on the Coyotes auction: "I think to a certain extent the Moyes and the Balsillie parties have intentionally tried to damage the club to make it less attractive to the local purchasers." [AP]

• A brief history of other NHL bailouts for struggling markets. Guess Ottawa just didn’t deserve hockey … [Canes Country]

• Hockey lede of the summer on this Jordin Tootoo (notes) story? "They don’t serve raw, bloody seal meat at many Ritz-Carltons." [Sun Media]

• John Tavares (notes) as a New York Islander. [Islesblogger]

• The New York Post ties the New York Rangers to Phil Kessel (notes), and encourages the New Jersey Devils to get involved in the bidding for the Boston Bruins RFA. OK then. [NY Post]

• Well-traveled pugilist Kip Brennan (notes) jumps from the Hershey Bears to the Edmonton Oilers’ AHL affiliate. [Hockey Fights]

• From Puck Buddy Sasky: "Just a quick message to say for the hockey deprived and slightly insane of you out there the Australian Hockey League Finals are being broadcast live this weekend on Slapshot entertainment at slapshot.com.au. All games are Free!"

• Interesting blog by former Minnesota Wild assistant GM Tom Lynn about the use of statistic analysis in the NHL and why context is what matters most. The Wild were, during his tenure, one of the most open-minded organizations when it came to applying stats to prove a point — like attempting to convince Marian Gaborik (notes) that his offense wasn’t suffering under Jacques Lemaire, for example. [THN]

• Finally, it’s fight night with the Buffalo Sabres and the Hartford Whalers. Ulf punching away while wearing a shield. Just like old times. [Hockey Fights]

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