Jay Feaster is a Dream-Killer

Post #2

March 28, 2013

EDIT: JAY FEASTER IS A DREAM-KILLER

Hey Flames fans, remember earlier in the season when GM Jay Feaster did that terrible thing called “signing O’Reilly to an offer sheet that the Avalanche almost immediately matched because Feaster didn’t understand the current CBA?” Well, Feaster was at it again yesterday, apparently. This time, though, it was at the expense of Boston GM Peter Chiarelli and the Bruins. I don’t know about anyone else, but last night when I went to bed, I had dreams of the #12 Boston jersey I was going to order today when it was supposed to be announced that Jarome Iginla would be joining us here in TitleTown for the remainder of the season. WELL, imagine my surprise when I woke up this morning to find out that Iginla is a… PENGUIN?! Excuse me? I think I will go back to bed. Stay tuned for more after the Chiarelli statement.

And to my fellow heartbroken Bruins fans: if it makes you feel any better, the first Auto-Fill option that appeared when I typed “Jay Feaster” into the Google search bar was “Jay Feaster is an idiot.” Google, you’re so smart.

Original Post:

JAROME IGINLA IS A BOSTON BRUIN

Tonight, in the midst of what has been a great Wednesday Night Rivalry game between the Boston Bruins and the Montréal Canadiens, all signs for veteran Calgary Flames forward Jarome Iginla are pointing toward Beantown. It doesn’t look like anything is super official just yet, but various social media posts from TSN correspondents like Bob McKenzie and Darren Dreger are increasingly more convincing as the night has progressed. The Flames’ #12 was a healthy scratch for their game tonight, and here on the East coast we saw D Matt Bartkowski and C Alexander Khokhlachev scratched in Boston and Providence respectively. Looks like some people are getting ready for an official trade announcement!

So how should Bruins fans feel about this? Flattered, I suppose, since Boston was on a list of only four teams that Iginla gave to Flames GM Jay Feaster, as a term for forfeiting the left wing’s no-movement clause. Some B’s fans have been wary of this trade since the rumors surrounding a possible trade of Iginla began to surface – many have said that at 35, Iginla is past his prime and won’t be worth what teams will have to give up in order to acquire him. Others argue that what the Bruins need to focus on, especially as the trade deadline approaches, is finding someone to alleviate the hot mess that is the Bruins blue line. Then there are the nutcases who would rather take a 3^rd string goaltender because they have some twisted idea that goaltending is Boston’s biggest problem… but I won’t get into that right now. Back to Jarome Iginla. I personally am thrilled with this news, and I am going to have sweet, sweet Stanley cup dreams and visions of #12s dancing around in my head. Welcome to Boston, Jarome!

Girls Don't Really Write Hockey Blogs

3/25/2013 

If you’re reading this post, I just want to say thank you for overlooking the incredibly corny play on words in my site title (consider this my most sincere apology) and choosing to read on. I am an avid Twitter user, and over the past couple of years I have started using my Twitter account to tweet increasingly more frequently about hockey. Well, as it happens the majority of my followers (read: friends, like people who actually know me, so I have to think about their feelings) don’t actually care to read hundreds of my sometimes-emotional and probably way-too-invested tweets about hockey, and I can’t say that I really blame them. For this reason, in early March I decided to create an anonymous Twitter account dedicated solely to commentary about NHL hockey.

            However, I quickly realized that my feelings about Twitter’s 140-character limit are similar to my feelings about watching Major League Soccer – I can’t stand it. I thought, “Why should I allow Twitter to control my expression? Why not expand my operations?” These thoughts, combined with my recent decision to pursue a graduate degree in statistics (specifically athletic statistics and sports analysis) are what sparked this blog. Given that I aspire to one day be the Queen of Canada as well as the proud wife of a hockey player, I felt that “The Ice Queen” would be an appropriate title.

Until recently, statistics was something that many hockey fans and media personalities (bloggers, broadcasters, etc.) tried ardently to keep completely off the agenda for discussion within the hockey community; hockey fans and professionals alike prefer the tradition of using superstition and luck to explain why things happen the way they do in the NHL. Many have stated that the rise of statistical analysis in hockey takes away from the fun that guessing and the notion of chance or ‘fate’ add to the sport, and even argue that statisticians and analysts are only interested in the numbers and are rarely actual hockey fans. The latter, however, is not the case – in reality, the majority of NHL analysts are people who love hockey and watch a lot of it.

            What a coincidence- I love hockey, and I watch a lot of it. I read a lot about it, I watch old videos; I peruse CapGeek and statistics websites in my spare time (wait, spare time? By that I meant ‘at work’). I hope that my love for hockey shows in my candid and spirited writing, and I hope you as a reader enjoy my contributions.

Here's a link to my favorite hockey blog: http://www.downgoesbrown.com

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