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...

Outside the norm

Though we added only six signatures to the Slovakian team jersey over the 2008-09 hockey hounding campaign , it's hard to complain when ...

Flashbacks 04.22

Like reading about or looking at hockey autographs? Me, too. Check out these installments from past hockey-hounding campaigns: Jan. 16, 2008...

Flashbacks 04.14

Now, I know most of you come here looking for tales of our hockey-hounding adventures. But, did you know there are hundreds of hounding repo...

Brodeur is better, but ...

More than anything else, recent history most likely played a role in Hound Central 4.0's latest poll -- asking who was a better goalie, ...

Puck No. 1,700

Over the past four-plus years, I've received a number of autographs from Colorado's Andrew Raycroft . The first came from his days w...

The kitchen sink

When you score 83 autographs from a single team, it's a tad difficult to know where to begin. Do we play up the 33 cards that Colin and ...

Calling an audible

I'll admit, my intentions were to have Philadelphia's Matt Carle sign this University of Denver puck while he was a member of the T...

First timer

In doing my prep work for visiting teams, I take extra time to focus on the players that I've never gotten an autograph from. In the cas...

I can only wonder

It's not that I'm complaining that Colorado's Ryan Smyth signed only one of the two pucks presented to him last Thursday, but I...

Happy with five

You know, there are some times, as well as teams, where working a regulation-sized helmet doesn't make much sense. In the case of the Av...

Avalanche of autographs

To be honest, snagging Colin's Colorado Avalanche jersey was an afterthought, something for him to wear as we attended the game time sig...

Waving the red, white and blue

For the past couple of seasons, this Team USA jersey has been collecting dust in the vault. Aside from Boston's Phil Kessel , who put hi...

Double figures

Slowly, but surely, the Slovakian team jersey is beginning to fill up. Colorado's Peter Budaj ( far left ) and Marek Svatos ( below bo...

Sunday morning homily XIV

From the on-paper talent, a quick-witted coach to the promise of the No. 1 overall pick, this season down here in Hockey Bay had all the mak...

Who's the best young forward?

When it comes right down to it, creating this list of the top young forwards for the 2008-09 season was fairly straightforward. In fact, the...