So this is my first blog, hopefully it doesn’t totally suck.

I think the first blog is definitely going to be the hardest to find something to write about, but I believe to have found a good subject.

First of all, I’m a goalie, I play for my HS team and I play for the Leitrim Hawks. now onto my point, my high school received a huge boost 2 games into our season when a kid by the name of German arrived from Russia and joined our team, our first game he had no goals, but neither did anyone else on our team, possibly because he is so much smaller then most people. He may not have scored but we noticed several things from him. He has mad dangles, amazing speed and his head is on a swivel. Our second game with him finished in a 4-4 tie, where he scored 2 goals, the first goal he just had good body position and the puck went off his leg and in. The second one he got a partial breakaway yet got haled down, but we received no penalty shot… because even while sliding on his front he managed to poke the puck through the goalies legs and in. I would have to say it wasn’t a fluke, cause he did that twice for us. He played 4 games I believe for us and scored 4 goals, and got 3 assists. However he can no longer play for us because his transfer agreement was signed and he is now playing for the AAA Jr 67s and because it is contact he cant play in our non-contact league. Let me tell you though, me and the starting goalie both noticed something in him, when he goes down on a full out breakaway, he doesn’t do much with the puck, he moves his body which throws you off way more. Keep an eye out for this kid to make an appearance in the OHL.

As well, I’m a sens fan and hate the Leafs, probably always will, but I love watching them now and I love how everyone gives 100%. More teams should implement the system Wilson has. Some players(Blake) need to work on not taking stupid penalties though, or in low scoring games the Leafs will get burned.

Also, regarding the goaltending situation in the NHL (I might focus a small section of each blog to this part), there is a huge problem, brutal teams have amazing goaltenders, so you dont really notice the skill, for example Vancouver, Columbus, LA, (labarbera is a good quality goalie), Atlanta. While talented teams have lower quality goalies or their stars are injured as in Ottawa(Gerber, Auld), New Jersey(Brodeur injury), Detroit(Osgood), Boston(Thomas, Fernandez), thats the reason some of the teams are not in playoff position, lack of a number 1 goalie. Look at some of the top teams, Montreal has Price, San Jose Nabokov, Buffalo Miller.

I’m going to finish my blog with a rumor. Supposedly Lehtonen is up for trade, because Atlanta wants Pavelec with them but want to keep Hedberg as a backup. Could Lehtonen and Kovalchuck be packaged to somewhere like New Jersey in exchange for picks and a young dman?

As living beings, of which the notion of life itself still remains mysterious, we are aware that with each coming day, we inch closer to the coffin. Death, as mysterious as life itself, strikes at the most unlikely and unplausible times for most.

It did for Marguerite Kuhlman, and in 1986, her mother Mildred.

The 68-year old woman passed away while attending the Hawks-Avalanche game at the United Centre this past Monday. Interestingly but strangely enough, Marguerite’s mother Mildred Kulman died at Chicago Stadium during a game 22 years ago, on March 30th 1986, at the old but well remembered Chicago Stadium.

Her sisters, Patricia and Dorothea spoke fondly of Marguerite, and all have been hockey fans in a city that’s now craving hockey for many years.

Dorothea claimed in an interview with the Chicago Tribune’s Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah that a fellow Hawks fan alerted her that Marguerite had fallen over her seat. Noticing she was unconscious and not breathing, emergency specialists on site were quickly called over. And as the circle of life ends, it did at 8:25 PM CST for Marguerite Kuhlman at the Rush University Medical Centre.

Heart attack? Close enough, in another case that’ll keep the hockey Gods looking on, heart disease was the cause of this all but happy ending.