Ted Bird's blog

AVERY OFFICIALLY NUTS

Wed, 2008-12-03 08:29.

Ted Bird

The NHL did the right thing by suspending Dallas Stars forward Sean Avery, but...

WHY CAN'T KOVI COPY KOSTI?

Mon, 2008-12-01 08:42.

Ted Bird

Tom Kostopolous can only wish he had Alex Kovalev's talent, but what's stopping Kovalev from emulating Kostopolous's work ethic?

WHAT I DID ON MY FALL VACATION

Mon, 2008-12-01 06:49.

Ted Bird

On my fall vacation, my wife Danielle and I went to Chicago...

AMATEUR HOUR ON HNIC; LET THEM EAT COUSCOUS

Mon, 2008-11-17 08:53.

Ted Bird

If Hockey Night in Canada and TSN had assigned their "B" teams to Saturday's Canadiens and Alouettes games, it would have been an improvement.

Okay, so it's art rock and not prog rock, but check out the old National Lampoon classic bit while you're listening to CHOM's Pro Rock Weekend.

http://learning2share.blogspot.com/2007/07/christopher-guests-art-rock-suite-from.html

FLOAT WITH THE HABS; WHEN WEST IS EAST

Mon, 2008-11-10 09:25.

Ted Bird

After watching the Canadiens sleepwalk through back-to-back losses in Columbus and Toronto, I asked my nine year old son if he still wanted to go to the Skate with the Habs event at the Bell Center yesterday, and he said "Sure, but we'll have to slow down so they can keep up with us"

EVERYBODY TAKE A PILL

Wed, 2008-11-05 08:43.

Ted Bird

There's only one place in the NHL - maybe only one place in the world - where fans and media would be quibbling over a hockey team with eight wins and only one regulation time loss in its first ten games, and we're in it.

HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST (HEAD) SHOT

Wed, 2008-10-29 08:37.

Ted Bird

Short of overhauling the rules on bodychecking to an extent that would change the fundamental nature of hockey, there's probably no way of completely guarding against the kind of violent head shots that sidelined the Canadiens' Andre Kostitsyn and Carolina's Brandon Sutter within the past two weeks.