Night off*

No NHL, AHL, ECHL, IIHF games. A chilling vision of things to come**.

Alex Giroux is finally going overseas: Dynamo Riga announced a two-year deal with him. (The noted-therein “hockey experts” apparently are employed at eliteprospects. Did change the wording, though, a little.)

Smithsonian Magazine on the chicken. Have not finished, but will for now stick with my initial reaction: Neat. (h/t: Discover.)

Tip of cap to Damon Markiewicz in Springfield.

And RIP, Hal Jackson.

*-Well, from hockey. Beehive Field, baby. Bullard-Havens can play a little.
**-9F15, not encapsulized because you can’t encapsulize
every word from the greatest half hour of television ever produced.

Michael Fornabaio