Been too long since my last post

Anyways, I just happened to watch the Leafs pepper the Tampa Bay Lightning with shots. Overall a good effort, and in fact the Leafs lost to Lecavlier rather than to Tampa.

39 Shots, and simply out working the opposition is one way to win games, all they need is a goal scoring superstar to get them close to that 8th spot and into the playoffs. Or they can trade away their best players, and try and get Tavares to be that goal scoring superstar next year.

Reasons for my lack of sports blogging.

Politics and doing some courses unfortunately took over my life for most of 2007 and 2008, but I will have more time to write now. The quality of sports writing in general and the high quality and irreverence with which some sports blogs have been written has made me realize that this could be a lot more fun then complaining about Federal Politics.

The NHL has an exciting season, and we get to see which team will be the next one to go bankrupt due to the financial crisis, and how much the salary cap will down thanks to the financial crisis. Most of my hockey focus will be on the fortunes of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

It will be an interesting season, as we are only 12 games in to see how they handle the pressure. The team is already playing better and working harder than last season, but can this last. Can Ron Wilson will them to a playoff spot, can he just make sure they get a mid level draft pick rather than a shot at the next one, John Tavares.

So for the near future Jamie on Sports is back, and will be as honest and irreverent as ever, without the sports journalism cliches.

Golden Brett is back and ready to talk!

Looks like Brett Hull is back in the hockey spotlight. He is now the intermission analyst for NBC's hockey coverage which starts this weekend. This is great news for hockey in the states, as it gives it some greatly needed publicity, and Brett's mouth is so loud and explosive it might bring us back to the sports section front page.

What I like about Bret is his crazy outspokenness which is great. He has commented on the past on things like gay marriage in Canada, Adolf Hitler and his similarities with Mike Keenan. He has also commented on refereeing many times, and has not been afraid to show the league exactly how he feels despite the consequences of his actions.

This is great, i only hope he doesn't get put on delay like Don Cherry.

Holding on for the ride......

Canada, won their 3rd straight world junior championship. Once again they defeated the arch-nemisis Russians, in what turned out to be a nail-biter.

Canada once again, did enough to win, it wasn't the overwhelming performance of Grand Forks, or Vancouver, but they came in waves, and they found a way to win. Their first period was dominant, and the Jonathan Toews goal was picture perfect on the power-play. The game was more about taking control of the play in critical intervals, and being able to harness their chances. After they got their lead the Canadians held on for the ride, and were able to play very disciplined in their penalty killing. The game was summed up by the 6 on 4 in the last minute where Canada's physicality kept the Russian players and the puck to the perimeter and they were unable to get any quality chances.


As usual Pierre Maguire adopted one of the Canadian defencemen as his favourite throughout the tournament. Its like a holiday tradition, in which every year Pierre will go on about how great said defenceman is, like a father going on about their son being ready to play in the national hockey league. This year it was Mark Staal, who Pierre went on a continuous tangent about how great Mark is going to be in the NHL. 2 years ago it was Dion Phaneuf, now its Mark Staal, can Pierre please focus on being a colour commentator, I'm sure these young men pay their agents to be their public relations officers.