Late Monday Misc...

I can tell you why former Texas Tornado Jon Awe lacks a Southern accent. It's because hockey rinks in the south have homogenous populations. If you go to a rink in Marquette, you're going to find it full of Yoopers named Eino and Toivo. But if you walk into a rink down here, you're as likely to get a Bahston accent or someone who talks like an extra from the movie "Fargo" (youbetcha!) as someone sounding like Tommy Lee Jones. But after a nice career at Northeastern, it's good to see Jon make a splash in the pros. I see his still wearing the same #2 he wore when he patrolled the Blue Line at Blue Line. Here's the latest blurb in the ongoing saga in Onalaska. For those who get hung up with attendance numbers, specifically the lack of them in the NAHL, here's a brief comparison with a team from the AJHL. Since the story didn't give any hard figures on what the Camrose Kodiaks average, I pulled the boxscores off their website and observed most of their games were in the 750-850 range. Of course, teams in the Provincial leagues don't have nearly the travel costs. It's on this holiday weekend that I usually start suffering from HDS (Hockey Deficiency Syndrome). The junior season has been over for weeks and I start getting antsy like I haven't had my morning Dr Pepper. So I've been looking for some good action & fight clips to start adding to the blog. This first one does have an NAHL connection, since Kelly Chase is one of the owners of the Chesterfield Used-to-be-Bandits... (Update: Sorry, I'm going to pull this for now... it was loading very very slowly.) Of course, I think this image sums things up nicely as well...