Oh, really?

Earlier this year, we heard from a Clearwater Threshers players that collecting an assortment of autographed Florida State League team balls...

Less than convincing

Now that we find ourselves mere hours away from the first overall pick being made in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft in Montreal, Hound Central 4.0...

Back in the day

I thought you might get a kick out of this: Hockey Sock Rock by Phil Esposito and the Ranger Rockers, released in 1979, and featured, besid...

Little Gray Box: Mike Green

Little did I know, during the 2005-06 season, that Washington's Mike Green would become a Norris Trophy finalist, a NHL First Team All ...

You're on the clock

With only a handful of days before the 2009 NHL Entry Draft in Montreal, it's time we all put on our general manager/player personnel h...

Three-Sharpie day?

When it comes to my own hounding productivity, it's a great day any time I score at least 50 autographs. One hundred autographs? Only on...

No surprise here

Eyebrows didn't even flinch this time. Going in, I knew, without even a hint of doubt, that Hound Central 4.0's readers would show o...

The envelopes, please

After careful tabulations, double-blind accounting and pacts of secrecy authenticated by verification experts at the highest levels, the ina...

Like looking at pictures?

Good. Check out these five galleries from the 2008-09 hockey-hounding season down here in Hockey Bay: April 8, 2009: Pittsburgh Penguins Ma...

Teeming with sharks

After adding 40 autographs last week from the Florida State League's Jupiter Hammerheads and Clearwater Threshers during Shark Week , it...

Little Gray Box: Jeff Carter

These days, Philadelphia's Jeff Carter is best known as a goal-scoring sniper. He signed this cheapskate card during the 2004-05 season...

Flashbacks 06.10

It's been nearly three weeks since the last installment of this summer space filler. How about a mixture of team and player reports from...

Know the Bible?

Did you know that Doug Waechter , a St. Petersburg, Fla., native and pitcher for the Kansas City Royals, incorporates a Bible verse in his ...

He could relate

Seeing that May's Win this Auto contest featured an NHL official practice puck signed by Colin, it was only right, Hound Central 4.0 de...

Top Shelf: 2009 NHL draft prospects

Want to know who was the first Hockey Bay hound to get an autograph earlier today from John Tavares , the likely No. 1 overall pick at the 2...

No shame in these

With the John Tavares , Victor Hedman and Matt Duchene -- the top 2009 NHL Entry Draft prospects -- in Tampa earlier today for a meet-and-...

Not a Crab among them

Can you guess what Florida State League team nearly filled up a team ball for Colin during two games last week? Here's a hint: It's...

Little Gray Box: Ryan Getzlaf

There was a time when I had little other than pucks for Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf to sign. Namely, a quick demotion to the Portland Pirat...

Could've been Joey

With only one of 25 votes picking the Boston Bruins over the San Jose Sharks as the biggest choke in the 2008-09 NHL playoffs, one could sur...