Tuesday, July 27, 2004
MORSELS
Some little afternoon morsels here...
-- Will Derting has made Rivals.com's list of first-team preseason all-Americans. To those not wanting to hit the link, Jason White of Oklahoma was first-team, and Matt Leinart of USC was second-team.
-- The Atlanta Thrashers have picked up Scott Mellanby to skate alongside Dany Heatley and Ilya Kovalchuk. Scary.
-- In his first press conference after being hired as GM by the Vancouver Canucks, Dave Nonis mentioned that he would be shaking up the core. I thought that an element of this shakeup would be letting Dan Cloutier walk. Wrong. He's back on for another year in the Vancouver net. I'm not completely against this if he gets another 30 wins (or an equal percentage) next year. Unfortunately, getting injured in Game 3 against Calgary hindered him from truly sinking or swimming in the playoffs last year. So what's left for shaking up the core? Maybe it's Todd Bertuzzi sitting out for a looooong time. Maybe it's Markus Naslund going back to Sweden for good. Who knows.
-- The CBC has a pretty good Olympic schedule up, including the all-important link to their broadcast schedule, which is available in .pdf format. Swimming week is the 14th through 21st, whereas medal rounds for trampoline will be held on the 20th and 21st. For those wondering, the CBC shows a lot of stuff live (waaaaaay more than NBC), and basically lets the games take over the network.
More later. Thanks for stopping by, Sports and B's readers.
-- Will Derting has made Rivals.com's list of first-team preseason all-Americans. To those not wanting to hit the link, Jason White of Oklahoma was first-team, and Matt Leinart of USC was second-team.
-- The Atlanta Thrashers have picked up Scott Mellanby to skate alongside Dany Heatley and Ilya Kovalchuk. Scary.
-- In his first press conference after being hired as GM by the Vancouver Canucks, Dave Nonis mentioned that he would be shaking up the core. I thought that an element of this shakeup would be letting Dan Cloutier walk. Wrong. He's back on for another year in the Vancouver net. I'm not completely against this if he gets another 30 wins (or an equal percentage) next year. Unfortunately, getting injured in Game 3 against Calgary hindered him from truly sinking or swimming in the playoffs last year. So what's left for shaking up the core? Maybe it's Todd Bertuzzi sitting out for a looooong time. Maybe it's Markus Naslund going back to Sweden for good. Who knows.
-- The CBC has a pretty good Olympic schedule up, including the all-important link to their broadcast schedule, which is available in .pdf format. Swimming week is the 14th through 21st, whereas medal rounds for trampoline will be held on the 20th and 21st. For those wondering, the CBC shows a lot of stuff live (waaaaaay more than NBC), and basically lets the games take over the network.
More later. Thanks for stopping by, Sports and B's readers.
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