Hal Stern's thoughts on sports, work, technology, food, and life in New Jersey
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I’m flat-out delighted that Ilya Kovulchuk will be a New Jersey Devil for the next 17 years. The last time I was this happy was when Elias signed a 7-year deal assuring he’d play in New Jersey until the Bubba graduated from high school. Kovulchuk might be the first player that we [...]
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I think I woke up in the 1950s this morning.
LeBron James is using his Twitter account to point you at his static web site that indicates his regalness will announce his free agency signing decision on television. Sponsorship dollars for that hour long blathering will be donated to the Boys and Girls Clubs.
This is 1950s [...]
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When their hockey season ends, players start or continue work on their favorite off-ice activities. I’m thrilled by Zach Parise’s promotion of reading, and seeing large banners of #9 beats the daylights out of the “Reading is Fundamental” public service blips that ran during the Saturday morning cartoons of my youth. For every hockey [...]
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My yoga adventures continue. I’ve come to some basic realizations about the practice of yoga and my body’s tolerance for it – namely, my hamstrings are short, my legs are not like Barbie’s (in that they don’t rotate neatly in front of me for sitting purposes) but very much like other men’s (they don’t [...]
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No, not 3.14159 or circumference divided by diameter or even the real but irrational part of the natural logarithm of -1 (e to the i pi references rule). Something natural, real, rational and not subject to circular arguments.
It’s not even a thinly veiled reference to my favorite high school hockey goalie, best known for [...]
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Nick Swisher has renewed my faith in baseball players. For years I’ve thought of most baseball players as being too busy, too focused, or too impressed with their large contracts to pay much attention to the fans. Yesterday I attended the Nick Swisher autograph signing at Sports Express in the Livingston Mall, where [...]
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It’s just about four weeks since the Devils’ season ended and I’m finally rational enough to write rationally about it. I think this was the most uneventful, non-season in the decade I’ve been a season ticket holder, and therein lies the problem.
Lou signed Ilya Kovalchuk, but Lemaire couldn’t figure out how and when to [...]
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It gets worse.
I love Chico’s comment: “This team might not be together next year.” Of course they won’t be together next year, because short playoff runs are depressing.
Colin White: miss your guy, then reach instead of skating. And his guy was Carcillo. Kind of sums it up.
Mike Mottau: Three words: “Where’s [...]
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Why are Colin White and Mike Mottau together? On the winning goal, Colin White (a) followed his guy behind the net (b) reached, leaned and otherwise made lazy swipes at the puck and (c) left Mottau to remember to cover the weak side (oops). These two don’t belong on the ice at all, [...]
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Here’s a statistic you won’t hear Chico Resch cough up on a break in play: There are three Jewish players on three different teams in the playoffs for what may be the first time in NHL history. Jeff Halpern (Kings), Mathieu Schneider (Coyotes) and Mike Cammalleri (Canadiens) are all vying for a chance to [...]
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