Remembering Selkirk’s Jimmy Skinner

A Little Background On The Reason For The “Jimmy Skinner” Story ….

I really love some of my evenings interacting with the wonderful people on Twitter.  You can really learn a lot about the people you follow and the people that follow you.  A lot of my insights, thoughts and stories come from my interactions with the Twitterverse and it was during a Winnipeg Blue Bomber game that an innocent tweet by myself and the corresponding reply that got me thinking. [Read more…]

Bryan Little Six Years Later

Bryan Little —

Bryan Little played this past season in the NHL for the Winnipeg Jets

Position: Center      Shoots: Right

DOB: Nov.12, 

Height: 5’11     Weight: 185

Selected by: Atlanta    Round: 1st   Overall: 12th   Year: 2006 NHL Entry Draft

Six Years Later

I will be continuing my prospect analysis today with Winnipeg Jets center Bryan Little.  I like to pick a current roster player on one of my favorite teams and look back at  their post draft projections.  The projections are based on their amateur careers and draft position. [Read more…]

The Scott And Mitch Twitter Bet

Twitter Bet Phoenix Coyotes Or Winnipeg Jets?

Sometimes, killing time on twitter can lead to some interesting if not humorous conversations.  On a boring Monday night in August, ex-WHA Winnipeg Jets defenceman  and original NHL 1.0 Winnipeg Jet Scott Campbell and I were goofing off on twitter with the regulars just like any other night and we got into some friendly Jets/Coyotes 2013-14 playoff banter. [Read more…]

Travis Zajac WHT Hometown Boy

About Travis Zajac :

Born: May13, 1985

Birth place: Winnipeg, MB

Position: C/RW     Shoots: Right

Height: 6 ‘ 3″  Weight: 200 [Read more…]

Two Kids From The Bronx Made It To The NHL

  

That's my house on the right and Neil Komadoski's house on the far left.

That’s my house on the right and Neil Komadoski’s house on the far left in the Bronx.

I grew up in The Bronx. Ya, that’s right, The Bronx.

It wasn’t such a tough neighborhood. Most of the kids I hung with were rink rats. Neil Komadoski, for example. He lived two doors down from my shack on Helmsdale Avenue, right where that street partners with long-and-winding Kildonan Drive in East Kildonan. [Read more…]

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