Joe Thornton, Joe Pavelski and Torrey Mitchell: San Jose’s New ‘G.I. Joes’ Walter McLaughlin | December 18, 2011 It’s a popular misconception that NHL head coaches spend the majority of their time diagramming and implementing X’s and O’s. In actuality, they are mad scientists, performing chemistry experiments in…
Joe Thornton’s Offense Becoming Jumbo-Sized Walter McLaughlin | November 8, 2011 Maybe Joe Thornton reads The Hockey Writers. On August 9th, I wrote an article entitled “Joey the Kid Needs Six Shooter to Tame the Wild, Wild West”. The piece postulated…
Hiller, Macenauer and Parros’ Mustache Top Sharks, 1-0 Walter McLaughlin | October 15, 2011 Something that quacks, waddles and eats bugs for breakfast isn’t typically considered more physical than a ferocious animal that devours said creature for its breakfast. And yet, on Friday night…
‘Joey the Kid’ Needs Six Shooter for Sharks to Tame the Wild, Wild West Walter McLaughlin | August 9, 2011 Back when the western portion of eastern Canada was young, there was a big kid straight out of the frozen, blustery plains of Ontario. At 6’4″ and well over 200…
Round One: Royal Jelly Walter McLaughlin | April 12, 2011 Before you say anything, there really is such a thing. From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: a highly nutritious secretion of the pharyngeal glands of the honeybee that is fed to the…
