I’m annoyed by the condescending tone used by Greg Wyshynski when he talks about the shootout. I know he hates it, and that’s fine, but he doesn’t need to keep painting the fans who actually enjoy it (like me) as complete morons who don’t know anything about hockey. Here is how he started his latest [...]

Now that I’ve paid homage to Bob, let me quickly tackle 2 issues that bothered me yesterday, while everyone was discussing the habs situation. 1. The way some fans are calling for Jacques Martin’s head: (yeah, sorry EP, it’s not really just you actually, but well…) The guy has only been here for 4 months. [...]

Could you please pick one of those and help me gouge my eyes out? The habs played a revolting game last night. Disgusting. Putrid. Vile. Vomit-inducing. Absolutely everything you don’t want to see in a hockey game was there. A 2 goals lead blowed on the road against a direct opponent in the standings? check [...]

Yesterday I read this post from EP at Shifts and Sets about the infamous pink jerseys, and it inspired me a little rant about some marketing trends of the NHL. I completely agree with EP about those pink jerseys. I think it’s a rather unfortunate way to try to appeal to the female hockey fans. [...]

Just so you know, I wrote this in French, because the article I comment in this post was written in French. But I wrote an English traduction of this post too, because I really wanted to make sure everybody could read it. You can find the English version just under this post, here. ~~~ Bon, [...]

Well, it’s time for me to talk about a subject that’s important for me, as you probably guessed from the title of the blog. The Soft European is obviously my own little response to the clichés frequently carried in some media (English and French) on the European players. Be warned, it’s gonna be a loooong [...]

I’m thrilled by the All Star Game. But after reading some of the All Star weekend coverage around the Internet, here is apparently the kind of things I should write to be trendy: “The All Star Game is a COMPLETE JOKE, it’s a meaningless game, and I couldn’t care less about it! The voting thing [...]