Sunday morning homily XII

Ever since the puck first dropped on the 2008-09 NHL season, we've had Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, circled on our calendar. That's when ...

Review: NHL Upper Deck Series I

When it comes right down to it, what hasn't been said or written about the NHL Upper Deck Series I product? It contains the season'...

Stamkos wasn't in the cards

Alright, alright, I admit it. The only reason I bought another box of Upper Deck Hockey Series I on Black Friday was the off chance that I...

I'm hungry

Wow! Fourteen posts in little less than fourteen hours , including 12 in four hours. Now, that's what I call live blogging. I'm goin...

Big Apple day

Last season, I thought it was a pretty big deal to score 50 autographs from the Montreal Canadiens. After Wednesday, though, I've reali...

Quality, not quantity

Though I didn't get many autographs Wednesday, I'll probably remember the day for a long time. Not only did Colin log his first 50-p...

Making the effort

It's always our intentions to add any NHL's team's top players to pucks before any other item. Some days, it happens. Other time...

Starring roles

Only the most jaded of hounds would say it's no big deal to get autographs from any NHL team's role players. Sorry, but I disagree. ...

Another silver lining

To be honest, it doesn't really matter who scores the most autographs, especially when one is from the Rangers' Nikolai Zherdev , a ...

On a roll

Given that Colin had this week off from school, it made sense to add the Tampa Bay Lightning to our hounding adventures Wednesday. And after...

Oh, really?

Every time I hear that Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos is getting more difficult about signing, I watch the young man quickly dispel what i...

No hard feelings

Even though neither won a game when Tampa Bay opened its 2008-09 campaign with a pair of games in Prague, these pucks from Lightning goalies...

Waste not, want not

Because a true hockey hound will never let an opportunity for an autograph to pass, this Tampa Bay Lightning jumbo card was put to good use ...

Live and learn

I really have to start remembering to use my silver paint pens whenever a Lightning player signs one of his team cards. As you can see, even...

No shortage

If there's one thing about Tampa Bay's Mark Recchi , hounds should never have a hard time finding something for him to sign. Seeing ...

Food coma, notwithstanding . . .

. . . plan on a turkey gravy boat-load of postings later this evening. One of us loaded up on autographs from the Rangers and Lightning. It ...

Stamkos fought?

Here's a Hound Central 4.0 tip of the helmet for Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos for taking interim coach Rick Tocchet 's words to h...

Just asking

Who has the better hockey name: Nashville's Radek Bonk or Minnesota's Cal Clutterbuck ?

Sunday morning homily XI

When it comes right down to it, the Nashville Predators taught Humidity Bay hounds a pretty valuable lesson on Friday. Over the past few yea...

One and dones

If you're going to hound the Nashville Predators, my advice is to get them early and don't expect them too often. Though the team pr...

Interesting choice

Perhaps I appeared a tad greedy when I approached Nashville's Jason Arnott with four "career road-map" pucks -- Nashville, Da...

Paying attention

It seems like every time I watch the NHL Network's On the Fly show, I see Nashville's Shea Weber making another highlight-reel-cal...

Catching up

If memory serves me correct, I believe Nashville's David Legwand was one of the first players to send back in one of my most ambitious ...

Maintaining perspective

Ask any veteran hound what NHL player has the worst-looking autograph and there's a good chance that Nashville's J.P. Dumont would ...

Third-line stars

It doesn't happen too often, but it's always a kick when you actually see an NHL player enjoy signing autographs. Mostly, they'r...

On the right side

It's rather early in the game for this project piece, but Florida's Tomas Vokoun , a fairly prolific signer ( nine-card boards don...

Taking it easy

Pound for pound, and player for player, the Florida Panthers are one of the best-signing teams in the National Hockey League. Granted, the t...

Mixing it up

There are days within hounding that you simply have to grind it out, putting in the time it takes to round out a collection. That's why ...

Another nice memento

It's not too often that you get the NHL's top draft pick to sign a game-dated puck of his NHL debut, but this Prague Premiere puck w...

Get them while you can

It's not that I'm saying Tampa Bay's Gary Roberts is old or anything, but I believe it's always best to load up on players ...

Oh, the indifference

Though the New York Rangers and their fast start might make them the talk of the Big Apple, those taking part in Hound Central 4.0's lat...

Sunday morning homily X

Longtime readers of my Hound Central blogs know how much I stress the importance of preparation when it comes to hounding NHL teams. From pr...

On second thought

It was almost an afterthought to bring items for the Tampa Bay Lightning to sign Thursday, but I'm glad I made that call. Though we were...

Nice hat

Who says you need pucks, photos or cards to snag an autograph from Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos ? All Colin had to do Thursday was take hi...