The Wire Troll: The Flip Side Of Anger

This can also happen any time a first line player gets demoted to third or fourth line status. The very impatience of Fantasy hockey owners is what bites them in the caboose later. What becomes worse is those dreaded platoon goalie situations that every owner also dreads. However, what seems like one person’s pain can be another owner’s gain. There is nothing more satisfying than to steal someone’s damaged goods and watch them blossom. It is like the gift that keeps on giving.

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The Wire Troll: Delayed Gratification

People often ask me ‘hey did you see that, or did you go to that game?’ Well, Sunday night was one of those rare instances that I got to see something people do not see very often. This was a resumption of a hockey game that had been suspended because the arena circuit breaker blew. The Devils were nice enough to compensate fans who were at the original game with tickets to another game on top of honouring their tickets to Friday. About 3,500 brave souls went to this “abbreviated” game where the final 29:12 was wrapped up. The Devils were down 3-0 at “halftime” and lost 4-2. They did come close, but as you know, close is not good enough (except in horseshoes and nuclear war).

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The Wire Troll: Mr. Big Shot is Back

There has been a ton of real and cyber-ink already spilled about this situation, so we’ll skip the editorial histrionics and focus on the Fantasy implications a bit further on. Don’t bother trying to glean any “personal” takes from Arenas’ prolific Twitter account, as Agent Zero has apparently shut it down. Probably not a bad move. On we go.

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