Nice, close up views of all three sides of Budaj's mask. Unknown moto guy is officially Rossi.

Former Av Johnny Boychuck, who we traded for Hendricks or someone else starting with H, I'm not too sure, was just awarded AHL Defender of the year. Awesome news, just awesome.
For full comedic effect read like Professor Farnsworth.

Dater actually worte an interesting blog talking about Boods. He does seem to make some valid points about his game.

Fun, interesting look at the Roy vs Brodeur rivalry over at Habs Eyes On The Prize.

Theres now a Flames blog on SB nation, leaving only the Oilers without a blog in the Northwest. Now we can go to their house and talk about Lappy destroying Phadouche. Should the need arise of course.

Well the Senators have fired Hartsburg after only 48 games as coach because of how bad they're playing. FG really needs to learn from other teams that if the teams playing poorly and the coaching sucks get rid of the coach and see if you can get some decent play that way. It'll be interesting to see if the Sens season gets better without Hartsburg.

In an article about how the NHL is against them because of the ALL Star game suspensions Detroit journalists and goalie, prove how stupid they are. Osgood acts like he made a huge difference, Lidstrom claims he would have skipped the game even if he knew he had to go but the best is this quote from Bob Wojnowski.
"If the NHL All-Star Game was so important, there would have been one in Detroit more recently than 1980, right?"
Why would you hold an important event like the All Star game in a 5,000year old arena where theres a 95% chance one of the players/officials/sponsors or even Bettman wouldn't walk away.

Finally I can improve m,y goalie game, without actually having to work. Its the American, and by assocciation, The Australian way. The trick, put the net ON your pads.

This has nothing to do with the Avs, and very little to do with the NHL in general but I figured I'd post it anyway to show just how much class NHL teams have. The Penguins signed a 8 year old Make-A-Wish foundation kid to a one day contract and let him practice with the team before they're game against Carolina. Incredibly classy gesture that should get more media coverage than it probably does. Gives everyone a good impression of NHL teams when they read stuff like this.