Shootaround
Crossing my mind as I watch Canes-Isles:
- Marcus is gone, thankfully. May we never speak his name again.
- Nobody saw it but Center Ice subscribers, but the Flyers-Hurricanes game on Tuesday was a spectacular show, and a good example of how physicality is still part of hockey under the new rules, no matter what Steve Yzerman says. Philadelphia’s Michal Handzus was physically dominant at both ends of the ice for much of the game, the game wasn’t overburdened with penalty calls, and yet the clear violations were whistled where they weren’t before this season. By the way, I was thinking this even before the Canes lit the lamp twice in the third to tie it, then eked out the shootout win for their eighth straight victory. Sorry, Eric, but we’re definitely keeping Coach Laviolette.
- Jody points today to a very solid article out of City Journal discussing the “marriage gap”: the vast gap in out-of-wedlock birth rates between college-educated women and women who did not finish post-high-school education. The piece defies short excerpting, so read the whole thing.
Thoughts? What’s on your mind?
19 January 2006 / 0 Comments / Tags: hockey, life