Hi everyone! Hope everyone has had a great week and is getting nice and rested to start the weekend. As you may have heard, this weekend Ottawa is getting overrun by a band of renegade anti-vaxxing truckers this weekend, which means the rest of us here are pretty much going nowhere close to downtown while this crap passes (God, this pandemic just keeps getting better and better, doesn’t it?). Then again… have you ever been to downtown Ottawa? I mean, great restaurants and sights and all, but traffic and parking are just God-awful. And expensive too! Sure we have a train that will take us downtown, but between it breaking down every second day and the additional risk of locking yourself up in a potentially Covid-ridden bacteria trap, yeah, I think I’ll stay home. Maybe these truckers are actually doing us a favour by keeping us at home. Social distancing rules! But don’t worry folks, as usual, I’ve got you covered for at least the five or six minutes it will take you to read through all of the new stuff on the site. After that, you’ll have to go play Wordle to keep you distracted the rest of the way. Take your time.

Yes, we’re all growing a little restless these days, and we’re all a little cranky and crabby as Covid keeps mutating, the weather gets colder, and we just want life to get back to normal again, so here’s a little something to lighten the mood: a brand new Overexposed treat, this time featuring Hall of Famer Mike Gartner! And he doesn’t look too happy about it. More like Tiger Williams after getting speared in the breadbasket. You’ll have to go read this week’s new entry to see what I mean.

As for this week’s new article, I picked one from March 22, 1975, when the surging St. Louis Blues, led by their coach, and former Golden Seal general manager, Garry Young, skated into Oakland looking for two points that would get them just that much closer to the Smythe Division’s first-place Vancouver Canucks. Despite icing the better team, the Blues were no match for Gilles Meloche and the Seals on this night, and Young was effusive in his praise of his former team.

That’s about it for this week. Have yourselves a great weekend, and stay gold!