Tag Archives: KHL
Kyle Wellwood and Nikolay Zherdev: how to lose your place in line
As of July 21, 2011, neither Nikolay Zherdev nor Kyle Wellwood had received NHL offers for the upcoming season. Did going to Russia cut too many ties for them to find a place through the old boys network? I think … Continue reading
Filed under Flyers, More & Less Hockey, SJ Sharks
Kladno
I don’t think I was ever in Kladno, CR. I might have been on a bus that stopped there for a couple of minutes at some point. Jaromir Jagr, apparently, is there now. He’s trying to save his old team … Continue reading
Filed under More & Less Hockey
Long Road Home
The details are not clear, but Nabby is no longer with SKA. Pavel Lysenkov says he is now a free agent, that the contract was canceled: "He is FA, so he can sign a contract with anybody, starting "Pittsburgh " … Continue reading
Filed under More & Less Hockey
My other other other team
If I could forget about Nabby since he went to Russia, Bob would remind me. Bob looks nothing like Nabby, aside from a glint in the eye that is freaky uncanny similar. So I decided to check in on SKA … Continue reading
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Russia Bob and Other Developments
Doesn’t look as if the Flyers will have much to worry about in goal this year. I still hope Leighton is playing on December 8, but that’s just me. Bobrovsky sounds like quite the find. I knew that … Continue reading
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Home Again
October 4, 7pm I am starting to recognize faces in the SKA fan crowd. The travel books are so completely and shamelessly wrong and evil. I will leave the Lonely Planet one behind, my host might find it amusing, or offensive. Not … Continue reading
Filed under hockey tourism, More & Less Hockey, petshark in Russia
Avangard Omsk v. Dynamo Minsk
(still working under the pay by the minute online rule of no time to edit, forgive typos and gibberish) Avangard is very handy. Their goalie looked pretty hot tonight, very elastic, very cat-like. I don’t think Minsk posed much of a challenge … Continue reading
Filed under More & Less Hockey, petshark in Russia
