Different looks

Beyond signaling that the 2009-10 NHL season is right around the corner, the recent release of 2009-10 Victory also carries cards of player...

Pencil these in

After a long day of watching hockey, ordering a Wendy's single with everything but onions and watching Colin collect three foul balls, I...

In an instant

Though I carried cards and pucks during his brief appearances on Tampa Bay's blueline last season, I somehow managed to miss getting a s...

The envelopes, please

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

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...

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...

Update: 10 Big Sigs

Before the 2008-09 hockey hounding season down here in Hockey Bay, I predicted that these items would be added to the collection. Let's...

Liveblog 04.24

As much as I'd like to give people more advance notice, these live chat sessions are the result of realizing that -- at the moment for t...

Surreal, man, surreal

If you look hard enough, it's easy to find art within the sport of speed, steel and vulcanized rubber. Even if you're sitting in a r...

A tie-breaker?

What Hound Central 4.0 readers couldn't decide, the first round of the NHL playoffs will. For the time time ever, we had a tie among the...

Playoffs picks

For as long as I can remember, rooting for the underdogs in any playoff series carries great appeal. Still, though, one should be realistic,...

By a whisker

In the end, it came down to the final vote on the final day. Upon the completion of the latest Hound Central 4.0 poll -- asking which team w...

Nice save

Rather than squirrel this away in the longshot hopes it might become valuable years from now, I believe Philadelphia's Matt Carle put t...

Big names deliver

In my opinion, it's always a good day whenever we add to our collection of pucks signed by San Jose's Joe Thornton . Starting with o...

Can't get everyone

One of the things about hounding a team like the San Jose Sharks is that there is no shortage of top-shelf stars -- Joe Thornton , Evgeni Na...

Beyond the norm

Here's another friendly reminder that specialty pucks , such as these from the Ontario Hockey League and Hockey East, come in handy when...

Oops!

Though Colin has spent the better part of this season working his team sheets , every so often he asks whether he can get a puck signed by a...

Top Shelf: Jeremy Roenick

Given his reputation as one of the best-signing players in the NHL, it should come as no surprise that San Jose's Jeremy Roenick didn...

Sunday morning homily VII

I don't know whether to howl in laughter or shrink in embarrassment, but I've got to hand it to San Jose's Jeremy Roenick. It se...

Time well spent

It's been a busy day so far today, between hounding, a makeup Little League game, a boy's-only lunch ( Momma had to work ) at Wing H...