Came across a new “Canes blog on my evening web surf… This is just fitting seeing we just played them… Of course CasonBlog has some problems with Tampa Bay radiocasts…

Espo sounds like a some old guy in a wife-beater t-shirt, kicking back in his lazy boy recliner, seven beers into a twelve-pack, griping and grumbling incoherently more to himself than anybody else in the room. The only diversion from homer propaganda I heard last night was an Espo rant directed towards Darryl Sydor. It kind of went like this: “That was terrrible. Just terrible. What are you doing Sydor? Agnes, get me my smokes and another beer.” And that little weasel Mishkin-in a nanosecond, he goes from the monotone delivery of Chris Schenkel calling a Pro Bowler’s Association event, to some lathered up Hamas protester at a “Today we hate the Danes more than Jews” rally.

For the record — I’m hearing impaired. I stand neutral on this one as I add Casonblog to the blogroll…

spectorshockey.net

Stan Fischler yesterday reported the following: - NY Rangers goaltender Kevin Weekes could be attractive to some NHL clubs seeking goaltending depth, like the Vancouver Canucks, by the trade deadline.

If there is a single trade rumor out there for a goaltender being traded, this is the oen that I would think Jay Feaster was exploring (instead of Manny Fernandez, or other names that have been tossed around the last few months).

What Jay Feaster may be thinking on all of this: He’s interested in team players, high character guys who will not rock the boat and ruin locker room chemistry. Kevin Weekes is all those things, he’s also a former Bolt (which is another quality that Feaster actively looks at) who has played with the core of this team in the past. He’s not an ego, he’s not a troublemaker and he’s not an overhyped player that will fetch a ransom.

The entire Ranger situation and Weekes expendability makes me smack my head and say “duh!…I, and other Lightning fans, should figure that Weekes is on Feaster’s radar as a acquisition of last resort. If the Lightning do pick up a goaltender after the trade freeze passes (it is already active0 I think we will see Weekes back in Tampa before you see Manny Fernandez or Jose Theodore traded to the Lightning.

Oh, and no — Weekes will not fetch Brad Richards in trade :P. Just heading that one off at the pass.

I’ll revisit the Tampabaylightning.com poll again in the future…

The new poll that is up on site asks — Do you believe the impending Olympics have been a distraction to NHL players at all this season?

Today marks the second anniversary of Boltsmag… I don’t have anything articulate to say this year with regards to the anniversary - which is a sharp contrast to last year where I gave the plea for hope…

Well, lockout is over. NHL Action is back… The Lightning are back, the Refs are back to their old ways… Everything seems (almost) right in the hockey world once again.

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