Thursday, July 11, 2024

Welcome to slow news summer, let's play a time-wasting roster-building game

It’s mid-July. All the best free agents have signed, all the trade talk has cooled off, the draft is in the rearview mirror, and nothing is happening. Half the hockey world has already taken off to a cottage or golf course, cell phones turned off. Welcome to the dog days of summer.

Or, as we call them around here, pretty much the best time of the year.

Yeah, it’s time to get weird. This is the time of year when my boss is on vacation and there’s no hockey news to get in the way of me torpedoing your productivity with random trivia and time-wasters.

It’s not for everyone. If you’re looking for in-depth analysis of line rushes from prospect camp, I can’t help you. And if you’re the sort of person who likes to stomp off to the comment section to grumble “Slow news day?”, let me answer you in advance: No, dummy, more like slow news month, consider having some fun with the whole sports fan thing for once in your life.

See? I just called some of my readers dummy. You can’t get away with that stuff in February when people are paying attention. Hockey summers are the best.

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3 comments:

  1. Team B5 has two Blakes. On the other hand, Team S5 could fit a Sedin on there

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  2. S11

    Silfverberg Jakob RW
    Salomonsson Andreas C
    Salmelainen Tony LW

    Shattenkirk Kevin D
    Sanguinetti Bobby D

    Skorodenski Warren G
    https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/goaltender-warren-skorodenski-of-the-montreal-canadiens-news-photo/109299787?adppopup=true

    Should Salomonsson be a LW, there´s still Fred Sasakamoose, C. Could not find an S11 coach, though.

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