The Linkage: Awesomesauce

Evening, morning, whatever. Read on for links of awesomeness! Danny Dries joins the pro hockey ranks, Ryan Kesler lends his support, Peter Boyd reigns supreme, Sean Duddy is off to a great start, Cal Heeter is all kinds of popular, John Albert is all kinds of awesome, plus it was a pretty good week for a couple of future Buckeyes...

If ever I would leave you...

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. My sister (the soon-to-be-married one, not the just-got-married one) has been in town visiting/making wedding preparations so blogging has taken a back seat to my maid-of-honor honors for a few days. Unfortunately for me, I have to send her back to the wilderness of south central Pennsylvania this afternoon. Luckily for you, I'll have nothing to do this evening except post your weekly linkage which will be full of awesomeness (with bonus Robert Goulet!)

Season Recap: Part Three

Dear e-mailers, If you're making a joke you have to say "lol" or use the winky face. If you're being serious, what on earth would lead you to think I'd be providing comprehensive analysis of the rookies? I don't provide comprehensive analysis of anything.

The next season recap question was supposed to be "Were the returning players ready for increased responsibility and ice time?" It's a good question, but I started writing this thinking the question was "Did the returning players show improvement over last season's performance?" So... that's the new next question. 

Season Recap: Part Two

More awesome contract news! Sean Duddy is joining Shane Sims and the Gwinnett Gladiators!!!!!!!!! Maybe, according to this press release, as soon as tonight's game!

I’ve managed to get my word count from “OMG shut up!” to “Longwinded much?”, but it’s still too much for one post so this is Part Two of what seems like infinity. (If you missed it, Part One is here.) Let’s see, a lot of questions, answers are largely positive… That’s about where we were, right? Well, one way or the other it's where we are now.

So we wondered how the rookies would do. The rookies did pretty good. They were prone to mistakes and inconsistency at times (What rookies aren’t?) but they all played at least a few great games and it was a solid first season.

Season Recap: Part One

Argh. Sorry. Grandma had a crisis that turned out to be about chesseburgers and March Madness. Luckily she's coming home tomorrow and I can go back to resolving her problems by yelling through the house instead of taking phone calls and/or making the trip to the nursing home. Anyway, here's... probably about a quarter or so of what I'm working on. Figured I should post something so you know I'm not making it up. There actually is a season recap! (And if Cal Heeter isn't mentioned in this part, he is in the next one so my streak [kaerts] is still intact.)

The most obvious place to start this recap would be at the beginning, but then this post would end on a sort of down note. I’d rather start at the end and go backwards.

Hold on (and watch the weiner video)

I'm almost done. I scrapped the ebola-fied recap and started over, which went great except that now it's way (like a thousand words) too long. Here are a couple things to entertain you while I edit: 

"St. Louis Kid Gets a Crack at Professional Hockey" - Jeff Ponder for The Hockey Writers (I don't set out to mention Cal Heeter in every post, honest, but I'm not at all sorry when it happens. Here's to the streak! Kaerts!)

This came from a wishes-to-remain-anonymous reader with a subject line reading "Peter Boyd weiner ad."

The Linkage: He feels the need...

Slight change of plans. I underestimated how busy I'd be with the wedding and didn't have any time to fix my season recap, so linkage today and recap tomorrow. Read on for some tournament notes, some other tournament notes, a solid week for future Nuts, and International Former Buckeyes Score Shorthanded Goals Week.