Flashbacks 07.21

It's been a long time since we tried one of these, hasn't it? More than five weeks, if you're keeping track. Long overdue, if yo...

Hello, Tony O

Though Colin may have gotten more than 300 autographs on his hand-drawn team sheets over the course of the 2008-09 hockey-hounding season, ...

Last puck of the season

It wasn't until a moment ago, as I was importing this picture, did I realize that one of these two pucks signed by Washington's Nick...

It never hurts to ask

This week's 5 Big Sigs, a feature within each Sunday morning homily where I name the top autographs I hope to get within the next seven...

Thanks for the memory

When it comes to a player like Toronto's Brad May , there's no problem calling him a pest. He's the kind of player who fans eith...

Puck No. 1,800

Going into Friday's hounding session for the St. Louis Blues, there were 1,799 pucks in The Vault . The first puck signed by a player me...

They didn't get any beads

For those of you unfamiliar with Tampa Bay area festivities, the annual Gasparilla Day event -- from the flotilla to the parade along Baysho...

Another platform

As promised, both here in Hockey Bay and in Dallas, here's a sneak peak at my latest article for Beckett publications. This article, in ...

Seeing Stars

It should come as no surprise that Hound Central 4.0 gets a little ramped up any time a Western Conference team crosses the Mississippi and ...

No. 1,000 for the season

Not that I checked with Big Four accounting auditors Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, but Hound...

Another notch

During the course of a season, there are certain milestones that help define the success of a hounding campaign. As the wearer of many hats ...

Thanks, folks

Hound Central 4.0 is calling a quick time-out ( the good kind ) to thank all of the beautiful, intelligent people who visit this little jour...

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...

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 ...

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...

Puck No. 1,600

Of the 36 autographs I collected yesterday from the New York Islanders, only one of the 11 pucks signed carried true significance. When forw...