Is it just me or is there a draft?
I’ll likely be around for the Draft this evening but I wanted to make sure to make mention of James Mirtle — the bread and butter of hockey reporting online, IMHO — live blogging. The Blog is supposed to be featured on the Glove and Mail sports page. You can jump directly to James G and M blog posts right here.
You have to give props to the late-afternoon draft this year. It may be tough on your patience to wait for the draft to begin in Vancouver, but it certainly turns up the hot stove by at least 10 degrees.
And the Lightning play a dominant role the rumors that are raging on the pre-draft hot stove. There are reports the Bolts are after Evgeny Nabakov from San Jose, or perhaps Marc Denis from Columbus… There’s also a chance J.S. Giguere could be heading this way but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that.
I’ll try to report more as the draft progresses.
June 24th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
With the Lightning pick, Jay Feaster selects Riku Helinius, yet another Scandihoovian goalie:
http://hockeysfuture.com/prospect/riku_helenius
June 30th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
file this under the Canucks really do love their hockey.
I was in the vicinity of Vancouver when the NFL Finals/Draft/big trade went down and it was somewhat refreshing to see all other sports take a back seat to hockey. The Canuck ESPN, TSN, dedicated almost all of its time to hockey (although Barry Melrose was no where to be seen) and the Bertuzzi/Luongo (mispelled both I’m sure) was front page news. Not just sports section front page but Section A/this-is-the-biggest-news-in-Canuckistan-all-year front page.
All that being written there’s also something comforting about being back in football/baseball/basketball-loving, soccer-hating America…sorry John.