With the Rangers set to take on the Kings in a few hours, I wanted to chime in with this little post. Sam Weinman over at the Rangers Report (see blogroll for link) has a nice post about Ryan Hollweg, and in the comments people are talking about how he is unfairly targeted by the refs. Well, what I am about to tell you is neither substantiated nor endorsed by me, it is merely the information I am passing along, take it for what it is ok?? I dont want any hate mail or horse heads in my bed over the next few days ok people?

A? source of mine….if you want to call it that, has friends who are training camp refs (i guess thats what they are, i dont talk to this guy anymore), anyway, apparently the reason Hollweg has a big old bullseye on his sweater is not because of his playing style, but the way he mouths off at the refs from the box and on the ice. Apparently he is VERY vulgar and downright nasty to them. Insert Vinegar and Honey analogy here…

So there you have it.? supposedly it is because of his mouth, not his play that he has been targeted.? I am leaning more towards believing this than not, just from a little lip reading I have done, and the fact that honestly, Ryan isn’t really a dirty player.

-Inferno

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One thing I have noticed talking with hockey fans over the past few years.? They tend to be creatures of habit, and creatures who view 50 thousand hockey related sites on average per day…..Wait….so you’re saying thats just me?? Hmmm, well, anyway, as you noticed on the right hand side there is? a small little blogroll with the best of the best sites that I visit multiple times per day, but I just wanted to go over several sites that I like to go to.? Here they are in no particular order:

Rangers Report?
Blueshirt Bulletin
Hockeybird
Hockey Rodent
TSN
MSG
New York Rangers Official Website
Inside Hockey
The Hockey News
HockeyNutz (a great site debunking all those BS rumor websites)
Outside The Garden
and The New York Hockey Report.

Those are the sites I would consider must reads on a daily basis.?

I did want to comment on 2 things though.? The first is a big thank you to Sam Weinman of the Journal News who linked to me today on his blog.? Sams blog is the first one I have listed as required reading, but really its not just because of the fact that he linked to me.? To be quite honest I go to his blog at least 6 times a day, usually more.? Not only is it filled with information and some hilarious self flaggelating commentary, it also has comments by some of the smartest hockey fans you will find out there in response to his posts.? So not only do I suggest reading his blog several times a day, I also suggest reading the comments as they tend to be pretty well thought out and insightful.

The second thing I wanted to talk about was the HockeyNutz blog.? I realize it is a bit contraversial to advocate a site that basically calls out some of those so called insiders *COUGHeklundCOUGHcodeCOUGH*, but I did want to take a second to say, if you think these guys are legit, then think they are legit, nobody should tell you what to think.? But, as a person who actually knows a bit about one of the insiders….who actually knows a LOT about one of the insiders, I will just say, take everything they say with a grain of salt, and let me also say, I would NEVER pay to get access to their information.? I’m just going to leave it at that.

-Inferno

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