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Media Members Test the Ice at Heinz Field
by Jon Jordan on 12/30/10 at 05:18 PM ET
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See? Now here’s exactly why next year I may opt to cover the Winter Classic instead of the All-Star Game: For the chance to exhibit my skating prowess alongside my fellow media types, of course!
From ESPN.com:
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Firewagon Friday: Hodgepodge Thoughts on a Wild Game, the Amazing Stamkos, Defensive Woes and More
by Jon Jordan on 11/19/10 at 11:08 AM ET
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That was crazy.
And, with craziness comes a reaction a bit altered from my Good, Bad, Ugly usual. Instead, a hodgepodge of thoughts for your consideration on this lovely Friday morning:
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My reality (which I love, through and through, for the record) when the Lightning are on the road often entails missing the first few minutes of the first period, regardless of whether the game starts at 7:00 or 7:30. (Ergo, roadies outside the Eastern Time Zone do not apply.) You see, Papa JJ (by far my favorite of the many hats I wear) is usually either helping out with baths, bottles, diapers, bedtime or all of the above for one or both of my two young sons.
Though I’ve tried many times, I simply cannot get into the idea of watching on tape delay and catching up. Something just irks me, with sports, about what I’m currently seeing play out in front of me having already happened. And so, by the time I settle in on these kinds of evenings, oftentimes, much of the game story has already been told.
Case in point (I thought) last night, when I got comfortable on the couch with the Flyers already out to a 2-0 lead, 5:03 into the first period. “This was very predictable,” I remarked, having already gone on record to say that starting goaltender Dan Ellis again, after a relatively taxing win on Long Island the night before, was a questionable move on head coach Guy Boucher’s part. My muddled thinking would have given a struggling Mike Smith a go against the woeful Islanders and then Ellis in Philadelphia against a much stronger team. But, as it turned out, there was nothing at all predictable about last night’s outcome and, with the Bolts winning both of these games, once again in my life, I’m left wondering, “What the hell do I know?”
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Tags: Chris+Botta, Guy+Boucher, Nate+Thompson, Steven+Stamkos, Steve+Yzerman,
Botta Speaks X 2
by Jon Jordan on 11/18/10 at 08:30 PM ET
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As is pretty well known throughout the hockey world by now and, as we surmised yesterday, the New York Islanders have revoked the media credentials of AOL Fanhouse and NYI Point Blank writer Chris Botta.
Botta stayed silent, as was probably best in the early-going but the hockey community has rallied around him today and he obliged several requests from fellow members of the media.
Tonight, he will guest on Versus’ new “NHL Overtime” show, which begins at 11:00 PM, ET. Until then, catch a couple of interviews from earlier today after the jump.
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Tags: Chris+Botta, Jeff+Marek, Mike+Francesa, WFAN,
Ellis’ Twitter Tiff is Simply a Sign of the Times
by Jon Jordan on 09/09/10 at 06:42 PM ET
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This is not a story.
Alas, I’ve been forced to write something on the matter because there’s no shortage of lunacy out there right now.
What’s been made of Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Dan Ellis’ recent Twit-roversy is shameful.
How far it’s gone is embarrassing.
And, really, it’s much ado about nothing but, in an effort to talk some sense into the masses, here goes nothing:
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Tags: Dan+Ellis, Greg+Wyshynski, Puck+Daddy, Twitter,
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