Monthly Archives: February 2009

Falling VORG*: Pens Trade Whitney

* Value Over Replacement Goligoski
“Personal reasons,” eh? Maybe I should have checked the Bruins schedule last night. (Update: ESPN’s Scott Burnside is reporting that Whitney’s mother had successful surgery to remove a brain tumor yesterday. The whole “family in Boston/Anaheim at Boston” thing turned out to be a coincidence, and one that’s working out well [...]

The Hockey Gods are petty and cruel, and plague mankind with suffering.

Chris Osgood shutting out the Penguins and proving his critics wrong? Marian Hossa held to an assist on a Valtteri Filppula goal? That I could live with.
Instead, it’s Ty Conklin getting the shutout, and Hossa scoring a back-breaking goal.
That’s Fate twisting the knife.