So, right after the Cup I torrented the 6 SCF games against Philly, but I've been thinking how comforting it would be to have each and every game at my beck and call, from Game 1 against Nashville through Vancouver's veil of tears, and of course the Sweep of Silicon.

I'd love to find these games and save them to my computer/rip them onto CD or DVD ... but I haven't been having much luck locating them.

Two questions for you friendly anonymous people: Does anyone know where I can go to find (and save) the full games? And if that spot doesn't exist, does anyone have all the games in a rippable format, and if you do, I'd very happily pay the cost of postage, and I'd even more happily throw in enough money to buy you a couple of beers. That part is non-negotiable.

You can reply here in this thread, of course, but you can also email me at leathermcwhip(at)zoho(dot)com.

Needless to say, any help would be appreciated. If you have the games yourself but you're someone I teased at some point in time or if I called you a complete idiot outright ... well, I'm sure you can guess that nowadays I actually think you're quite funny and insightful.

Came across this, an interview with Brouwer on the Danny Mac show about leaving Chicago. It's pretty cool.

Link

He doesn't pull any punches, and the guys ask him some uncharacteristically pointed questions ... proves radio still has a role. But ya, he doesn't come across as a jerk or anything, far from it--honest answers without bitterness about his role in the line-up last year, about so many Cup teammates disappearing, etc. Worth listening to, even though the call gets dropped at the 9-minute mark.

I posted this in a thread but thought I should put it here for anyone interested. If you actually click and read I'm guesssing it will interest you ... umm, because it's interesting.

The links are to TSN's Scott Cullen's articles on the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and our own GM Bowman was at a panel on using new stats for hockey player evaluation.

Here’s the link to the piece on hockey, which includes additional links to new kinds of metrics for a variety of evaluations (this one includes the Bowman stuff).

And here's Cullen’s previous piece, too, where he describes the conference and the issues discussed there at length.

Seriously: good stuff.

I'm making this post because I think we should get prepared ahead of time for the brain-slow grade-schoolers that will soon be posting on our board about the Hossa curse.

My own inclination is to have an agreed-upon response for all of us, something odd, something mostly impenetrable for anyone not aware of the joke ... just a brief standard reply that we can all use to end the discussion without having to get into it.

I have three suggestions I came up with just now to give you an idea of what I mean, but I know many of you will have more, and better ones. If the four-headed monster that is this blog thinks it's a good idea, please take it and run with it.

Suggestions:

1. Great story. Compelling, and rich. (Reference to Anchorman when Brian Fantana is on the Panda Watch; this is how Ron Burgundy sums up the story.)

2. The new phone book's here! (Reference to The Jerk, where Steve Martin's character gets excited over nothing at all.)

3. Precious bodily fluids. (Reference to General Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove ... he's just a colossal lunatic with no tangible grasp on reality ... an appropriate response to someone trying to make me acknowledge a curse.)

Alright. So there you have it. Do people read these things regularly? Let this disappear into the dusty corners of Internet, I guess ...

Enlightening interview here, fellas. I hadn't heard this story before, and thought other Blackhawks fans might be interested.

I'd think that it bodes well for the whole team that he's already experienced a mental breakdown; the experience will serve him well in dealing with the number of times we seem to need to come back after poor starts.

from The Toronto Sun

(http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2009/05/04/9339946-sun.html)