First of all, if you didn’t read my buddy Jeff Cavanaugh’s Senior Bowl Day 1 piece, then you should check it out right here. I’ve decided to handle Day 2, and then Jeff will finish off the practice portion by covering Day 3. Let’s start with the practice from the North squad. *Michael Gallup is […]
The Upset
The 1/24/18 Upset Update: On Diekman’s award and the Hall of Fame, etc.
Good evening and welcome to the January 24th Upset Update. Today’s music recommendation is an old friend of mine named Casey Black. I’m sure I’ve recommended “Lay You in the Loam” before—it’s one of my all-time favorite albums—so today, I’ll recommend “See the Black Sea” from 2016. He’s a gravelly-voiced poet, and perhaps that might […]
Method to madness: how the Stars and Panthers ended up with half a dozen fights
The last time there was a major brawl in Dallas, Brent Severyn was on the other side. Sparked by a bad hit on Teemu Selänne by Craig Ludwig, the Dallas Stars and Anaheim Mighty Ducks squared off in a line brawl with a little more than three minutes remaining. Here was the hit that started […]
Da’Ron Payne is Hands, Feet, and 308 pounds of grace
Even if you didn’t regularly watch a lot of Alabama football in 2017, you probably became very familiar with Da’Ron Payne due to his outstanding performance in both games of the college football playoffs. Payne is a massive defensive tackle who will fit for teams as a nose tackle in a 3-4 defense, or a […]
Defining Play: Shore, Klingberg, and Janmark crush Panthers spirit
The Florida Panthers still had hope heading into the third period of a 6-1 loss to the Dallas Stars. Their captain, Derek MacKenzie, said as much after the game and really you can’t fault that view. It was still 3-1 and despite a fracas-filled contest, the Panthers actual had been testing Stars goalie Ben Bishop […]
With a full fight card and an EBUG, Stars win a weird, or fun, game against Panthers
DALLAS — This one was weird. Ok, well, Ken Hitchcock didn’t agree with me. “I didn’t find it weird,” Hitchcock said. “In a very sick way, it was fun.” So, I guess we’ll go with fun. In the first period alone there were four fights, a goalie injury, 84 penalty minutes, a pair of game […]