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December - 2005

List of NHL teams
2006 World Junior Hockey ChampionshipDay 4: Searching for Evgeni Malkin
World Junior Championship notes (Dec. 28)
Happy Holidays
Record number of NHLers will be in Turin
World Juniors: My Assessing
Canada v. Russia (at Kamloops)
2006 World Junior Championship preview
Spezza, Staal, Crosby shutout
Todd Bertuzzi named to Team Canada
Crosby not on Team Canada
Team Canada names Olympic hockey roster
Team USA names Olympic hockey roster
World Junior question: Norway and Latvia
Foreign cartoons are ratings gold
SPECIAL BULLETIN: Potvin not coming to Vancouver!
Robitaille's retirement coming in LA?
Klipp on veidi ootamist väärt!
The Google game
The shifting age of Canada's world juniors
The death of the Red Line
Cutting through the PR swath
Olczyk fired, Therrien hired
Who's this Allison kid?
Are the Canucks better without Dan Cloutier?
Kirk Muller's move behind the bench
The Mike Danton transcript
THN picks Team Canada, USA
The Hamilton Penguins?
Patrick Lalime and the waiver wire Blues
What's with Todd Bertuzzi?
Emery likes his bugs
Picking Olympians
The emergence of The Chara
Power plays experience shrinkage
Bens and Benjability
Bring out the carnies
One year of cheer that the Mirtle blog has been here
Super Mario hospitalized
Malkin to join Russia for WJC
Something's amiss in Denver
Sean Avery: Gives the finger, gets the ladies
Professor McCabe
Kings of the faceoff dot
Blogger bogged
The 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships
And the winner is...
Laurier wins the Vanier Cup
The 2005-06 Ottawa SenatorsThe best team ever?
Bryan Murray v. Jim Fox
Video of Marek Malik's shootout goal
Get your hate/love on
Picking (apart) Team Quebec
And then news happened...

November - 2005

The downward spiral in Columbus
The Stanley Cup's summer tour
Picking Team Canada for Turin
Bitten by a radioactive spider...
The NHL's revamped advertising campaign
Blog awards?
The longest shootout of the year
Fell out of the ugly tree...
Drug debate hits the NHL
Avery gets his comeuppance?
Shanahan's on the record
'That dreaded trapezoid'
A walk through the wounded
A shootout goalie swap
Neil's mother killed in accident
The tribulations of the West Coast Express
Crosby, meet Ovechkin
Jiri Fischer collapses
Just call him Mr. Minus
The Steve Larmer resignation (and why it matters)
Minnesota remembers Sergei Zholtok
Those plucky Capitals
The FedFed files
Why Richard Park is popular with the ladies
Todd Marchant to be waived
'One Fedorov too many'
Blogroll update
Attendance padding
Ya-har, it's blogging piracy — Part 2
Ya-har, it's blogging piracy
The worst team in hockey
Victims of the new NHL
Loss of Mezei could be big for Panthers
The perils of the salary cap
The NHL's worst faceoff men
Remembrance Day
Saturday roundup
Debunking hockey's Golden Boy
It's... hockey journalism!

October - 2005

The NHL's real standings
It's not just the goalie equipment getting bigger
No one's forgetting about Bertuzzi
It's a tough life sometimes
CIS player paralyzed in on-ice accident
Adding to the blogroll
The rise of the Predators
The league of extraordinary groin injuries
TSN on the top of its game
Why can't you be more like Michael?
The good kind of Hurricane
Shields to aid the Thrashers?
A sportswriter's struggle
Rookies are telling the story
Trent the Klatter
McGill football cancels remainder of season
They missed the memo
Attendance by division
On hiatus
The Bertuzzi incident and Mr. Laraque
There's a religion other than hockey?
The Globe's Crosby Chronicles
Todd Bertuzzi: A class act?
Win something for the Kipper
Friday night wrap-up
Top sports teams of the decade
Another nominee for the Calder Trophy
Mirtle's opening-night wrapup
The Battle of Alberta goes big time
Mirtle's 2005-06 Predictions
James's self-indulgent hockey pool post
The proud Kovalchuk parents
And the preseason winners are...
CIS Report, Ver. 3
The 18-year-old club

September - 2005

Kovalchuk deal close: Report
Sept. 28: A day when good things happen
Sports Illustrated picks the Flames to win the Cup
A thought on the shootout
The Grim Reaper
A sportswriter goes behind the bench
Dan Blackburn retires
Saturday mini-roundup
McGill hazing makes headlines
More on more of Keith Tkachuk
Rem Murray's comeback attempt
'My NHL' ... is having problems
A new, higher-scoring NHL
Brett Hull, King of the Zingers
Ken Dryden as Canada's next Prime Minister?
Around the CIS, Week 2
Hear that buzzing?
Canadian Interuniversity Sport
Covering Crosby
Can these Penguins fly?
'Tis the season...
NHL training camps set to begin
The NHLPA mutiny scrutiny
It's that time again...
Filling out your roster, NHL style
Ovechkin itching to prove his worth
Stars contribute to hurricane Katrina relief
On a brief personal note...

August - 2005

Eakins hockey journey continues with the Marlies
Enforcers need not apply in new NHL?
Hockey Enforcers spill blood in PG
Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans
Battle of the Hockey Enforcers
Mike Keenan strikes again
Devilish defence in the swamp
Rankings from Duha
Carnival Roundup
Senators trade Marian Hossa for Dany Heatley
Carnival of the NHL #6
Come along my carnies!
OLN TV deal won't meanmore hockey for Canadians
Details for Carnival of the NHL #6
The Top 10 goals of 2003-04
Anson Carter joins the Vancouver Canucks
Alex Mogilny rejoins Devils
Cujo looks to join Gretzky's Desert Dogs
The reborn Penguins
Looking for the next nipple-gate
An updated, complete unrestricted free agency listing
Flames sign Roman Hamrlik
Is there an opening for a "least prolific"?
NHL Roundtable for Thursday, August 11th
Todd Bertuzzi: The aftermath
The bargain bin
The new NHL: Picking favourites
Still grounded
Technical difficulties
Free Agent Frenzy: Day 2
Free agency winners and losers
Demitra goes to LA
Today's moves
Zubov gets more than he's worth

July - 2005

Entry-draft recap
It's draft day
Welcome to my home
NHL salaries, from then till now
The four-division NHL
Back on the road with my carnies
A weekend on the move
Jay Feaster: The NHL's non-hockey GM
Bob Goodenow quits NHLPA
Jagr staying put, Holik likely going
Jim Hughson joins Hockey Night in Canada
Markus Naslund: B.C.'s adopted son
Sabres to revisit blue and gold
NHL Roundtable for Tuesday, July 26
A complete unrestricted free agency listing
Free agent frenzy
Some players elect to stay in Europe
Red Wings buyout three vets
The plight of the Blue Jackets
Sidney Crosby: The weight of a franchise on his shoulders
Best NHL rookies (all-time)
Feels like old times for Glen Sather
Tag team, back again
The remains of Dany Heatley's Ferrari on eBay
Where oh where will the RFAs go?
Where could Sidney Crosby do the most good for hockey?
A report from the player meetings
Where Crosby could go (geographically)
He springs into action...
Who will get Sidney Crosby?
The spectacular Mr. Spector
Red Wings after Glen Murray
The trials and tribulations of Coach Gretzky
Missing your second visit from Stanley
The NHL's new salary structure (graphic)
If I could be like that...
No more excuses for small markets
My dear Tom letter...
Farewell Golden Bear
An ominous ode
Goodenow makes the most
The day after...
The NHL lockout is over
TSN reports deal will be done today
Busy times on the sports desk
Lockout messes with game developers too
Coyotes lose all-star game, gain Gretzky as coach
Red Wings look to replaceDave Lewis with Mike Babcock
Rebranded and reborn: The new NHL
Desperate Hockey Housewives
Bertuzzi still has shot with Team Canada

June - 2005

Book Binge
CBA announcement to come with timing
Calgarian buys into hockey night in Ireland
Trainer fined for beating a mascot
Mario: Knows his side of the fence
The New NHL: Ticket sales are down, TV ratings are up
Surprise, the sky remains blue...
Can you two just get along... ?
Paul Maurice to coach the Toronto Marlies
Prince George quashes Hockey Gladiators event
Anaheim Ducks to be renamed?
Burke ready to unleash a new breed of Duck
A clarification
Amazing how these CBA things work
Jagr tells us what we already know
Former Blazers, Canucks coach dies
Players go behind the mic after the NHL
Walmarts sing the hockey Blues
There's a new No. 1 pick...
The planet's new fastest man
Much-maligned Hockey Gladiatorsevent slated for Prince George
A hockey journalist's blog catches its breath
Mirtle on hiatus
On this day in history... the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup
HHOF: 'No Vacancy'
'One year? Hello! Long term? Goodbye!'
Edmonton Roadrunners are no more
Owen Nolan — and at a bargain of a price
Every man in the (Rangers') crease
Bring on the Carnies!
'The Hat' fills us in
Bad Google
'Some good will come from all of this.'
Chilliwack Bruins name new GM

May - 2005

Hockey dad pulls no punches in court fight
The London Knights win the Memorial Cup
Mainstream vs. the Extreme
Crosby learning about life as a superstar
Memorial Cup predictions
Bring on the ping pong ball lottery
Hockey news and notes, May 18
Bring on "Moose Mania"
Rick Nash in the Memorial Cup?
The saga of the crazed hockey parent
Quotable quotes
Canada's silver lining
Czech Republic vs Canada for World Championship Gold
Best of luck, Mr. Cole
Prescient predictions
Moose set to topple No. 1
Delayed reaction
Say it ain't so Sidney!
Americans embarrassed by Ukraine
No, not a panacea
Lockout power?
The lockout in a nutshell
NBA MVP: Greatest sporting achievement by a Canadian?
Case closed on Swedish hockey players sex scandal
Canada 3, USA 1
Fehr named WHL MVP
The next Next One
Around blogdom in 300 words
Back in B.C.

April - 2005

Czech it out: Kaberle named MVP
Eric Fehr: King of the Wheaties
UFA scramble
Cuthbert hired
Ted Nolan returns to hockey
OHL update: Ottawa ready to advance
Another blog for me list
'Twas never dead
Moore on Bertuzzi
Pulp Fiction Hockey
And we've got a... symbol
Employment at last
King of the Wheaties
Andrew Peters in Sweden
Ragnarsson retires
Bertuzzi a no-go for Canada
Burke sues Larry Brooks
Building a champion
Unwelcome back, Vince
Habscheid: The right guy?
It spreads like wild fire...
OK, Blue Jays
OHL hock-ay
I'll be back

March - 2005

Lecavalier in Russia
Blazers battling in WHL playoffs
Harken back to 1994
Hibernation mode
So long Salo
It's new, it's improved, it's FOX ice!
Blackburn facing retirement
Who do you hate?
Quick trivia: Who is the top player in junior hockey?
All quiet on the blogging front
Dude, let's buy the NHL

February - 2005

What's Eaton David Poile?
Conan, I've got something for your dog Triumph
Andreychuk will play well into old age
The all-time losers team
What slows down hockey bloggingmore than Christmas?
More on Cuthbert firing
Iginla: A class act
My rebuttal
Do we have a lawyer in the house?
Partying NBA-style
Cuthbert fired
Hockey nerds, meet The Ice Block
Bettman no hockey man
Would you watch replacement players?
Simmer down Nazzy
Isn't it pitiful...
THN says season saved
Ode to the way it was
Halpern's mother killed in crash
Steve Moore sues Todd Bertuzzi
The death of hockey blogging?
Why stop at 28?
Where does the NHL head from here?
No tears for lost season
Bad News Bears of hockey
Count me out
Profile of Goodenow
More of me
10 minutes with Dan Blackburn
Goodenow and Bettman on thin ice?
No season this year
Blackburn makes miraculous return
Some blame for the lot of ye
Sydor or Svitov... it's a tossup
Behind the bench
Pavel havel no shame
Dan Blackburn put on display
Andrew Peters' Swedish odyssey
Look, there's a drunk fly on the wall!
My two cents
NHLer's odyssey in Europe
CBC loses Olympics TV rights
Hockey in July... noooo
Cosh rags drab McNabb
Report: League to prevent team firesale
Best hockey blogs
Tibbetts continues hockey journey
Stick a fork in it
The Lockout Drinking Game
Busy... again
Oilers crying poor?
Meeting over
It's a late one folks
Goodenow playing hardball
Devils to get new home
Blackburn to play with two blockers
SkyDome no more
Interview with NHLer in Europe

January - 2005

Jagr says flip a coin
How does he do it?
Red James Line Mirtle Sports
Expansion is the devil
"We'll just all go to Europe"
Agents beg for mercy
NHLPA not happy with latest proposal
Tkachuk's got his eyes on the prize
The latest proposal
Get your salary caps here
Who here's Swedish?
Coaches meet and greet
Praise for me
The magic that is Terrell Owens
A journalist and a blogger
Remodeling
The fight for Crosby begins
Monument to the lockout
Barrage 'o Links
Points for creativity
Writings from beyond
Akin switches teams
Brian Burke says no-no to Chicago rumour
Palm tree puckheads
Bettman as Napoleon?
It's cold in Toronto
New England and Philadelphia face off in the Super Bore
Lennox Lewis to make comeback
Brian Burke to the Blackhawks
Link list updated
Canada's plan to own the podium
What - no NHL season you say!
Linden: There's no hope
Another blog for the roll
McKenzie: Keep your shirts on
Busy time for hockey pundits
Story help, junior hockey
The things people search for
No tears for end of 30 team NHL
Rumour of a Bettman/Goodenow meeting?
Fischler: That's why they're called owners
Tortorella worried about defending Cup
NHL entry draft rankings
NFC not so good
Rocky goes green
Randy Moss set to one-up himself
Three Days Grace rock the Cup
Naslund may leave NHL
The world of blogging
Mike Modano retracts statement
No toking in Dukla!
History repeats itself
Ulmer: Players will lose
Modano: Players will cave
Vote for Rocky's hair
Robert Esche to play in minors
Happy Anniversary!
Randy Moss shows some oss
Don't look to the media for help
Koltsov quits Manitoba Moose
Blackburn still struggling with injury
Frei offers plea
NHLPA supporters FAQ
Hello 911, I was robbed by a masked man!
Brophy says some players having change of heart
Lack of postage and Jersey-gate
A media flurry over Fleury
Glass gets the last laugh
Shameless self-promotion
Canada dominates U-17 tourney
Canada wins gold
Mellanby mad-anby
Canada moves onto finals against Russia
Big day at the WJC
Czechs beating up Fins in quarter-final
World Juniors prepare for playoff rounds

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