Hi everyone! How did everyone enjoy Free Agent Frenzy Week? Regular visitors to this site know very well about my love of this week, not to mention Trade Deadline Day. These are my two favorite points of the hockey season, if you consider July hockey season. Sure, my Habs usually do diddly squat both of these times of the year, but I still love the anticipation of a big move, the utterly pointless commentary by hockey pundits (after all, there’s no telling what impact Carl Dahlstrom’s one-year $750,000 deal will have on the Leafs in 2021-22!), and the debates about which team improved itself the most (i.e. the team that will also disappoint its fans most when they struggle to make the playoffs in April). Overall, I like the Mike Hoffman deal Montreal made. Not too long a contract, not too much money committed, and if the guy can pot 25 goals or so per year, it will be worth it. Signing Mathieu Perreault could have an impact too, but probably not that much. Hopefully David Savard will bring an edge to Montreal’s defense, but I don’t expect a lot of goals from him either. Not sure if the team will be much better, but as long as the young guns like Suzuki and Caufield can improve a bit from their strong playoffs, the future looks brighter than it did even one year ago.

Anyway, what was I doing this week while the NHL’s 32 teams were doing their annual roster shuffle? I was doing some much-needed upkeep on this here site. Man, was that articles section ever getting long and tedious to scroll through. Hopefully, that problem will be behind us all as I’ve organized all the articles by year, and the articles that don’t fit into specific years have also been organized into manageable categories. Same goes for my beloved Overexposed cards. I’ve split them up into years, so you can quickly access the archives or go to the newest inductions lickety split. I’ll probably reorganize the cards themselves into decades for those of you who enjoy the crap that was produced in the 70s more than the crap that was organized in the 2000s, but that will be for another day. Just check the menu up top and select Articles and you’ll see how I’ve reorganized that section, and if you go to the Hockey Hall of Shame section, and scroll down to the Overexposed wing, you’ll see what I’ve done there.

That’s about it for this week, sorry this update isn’t more interesting, but then again neither is housekeeping. Sometimes though, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.

Until next time, stay gold!