I named my first dog after that song. She lived 19.5 years.

I work with a guy who couldn't understand why I was sick of "Chinagrove".

Yeah, even though it's a part of the Lone Star State people don't seem to care.

Well Mac told me to to tell you to go FUCK YOURSELF!!! ..So now it's been said .. .

Remember Mac, the intro to Sweet Emotion is 34 seconds long so get those Hawks thoughts in quick.

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

Remember Mac, the intro to Sweet Emotion is 34 seconds long so get those Hawks thoughts in quick.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Mac isn't a true hockey fan.

They just keep on lookin' to the east.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

NHL Network shows some KHL games throughout the year...it's a more interesting brand of hockey than the AHL

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Did you read Igor Larionov's piece about why North American hockey sucks so much dick now? He singled out Patrick Kane as one who doesn't suck.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

The problem is more philosophical and starts way before players get to the NHL. It’s easier to destroy than to create. As a coach, it’s easier to tell your players to suffocate the opposing team and not turn the puck over. There are still players whose imagination and creativity capture the Soviet spirit — Johnny Gaudreau in Calgary, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews in Chicago just to name a few. However, they are becoming exceptions to the rule. Many young players who are intelligent and can see the game four moves ahead are not valued. They’re told “simple, simple, simple.”

That mentality is kind of boring. Nobody wants to get fired. Nobody wants to get sent down to the minors. If you look at the coaches in Juniors and minor league hockey, many of them were not skill players. It’s a lot of former enforcers and grinders who take these coaching jobs. Naturally, they tell their players to be just like them. Their players are 17, 18 years old — younger than I was when I joined the Red Army team. Say what you want about the Whiplash mentality (or the Soviet mentality), but if coaches are going to push kids at that age, why are they pushing them to play a simple game? Why aren’t coaches pushing them to create a masterpiece?

We lose a lot of Pavel Datsyuks to the closed-minded nature of the AHL and NHL.

I remember Datsyuk made a couple turnovers in a game when he first came to Detroit at age 23. Players on the team like Brett Hull, Brendan Shanahan, Steve Yzerman and myself had to tell him, “Pavel, just keep doing what you’re doing.” Thankfully, Scotty Bowman had the wisdom to see his potential. If he was on a different team with a different coach who did not appreciate that kind of unique skill, Datsyuk might have been out of the league. He would be playing in the KHL tonight.

In Russia right now, there are four or five Datsyuks playing in the KHL who never got their chance. Sergei Mozyakin led the KHL in scoring last season and was in the scoring race for most of his 20s. But he’s 33 now and nobody in America has ever heard of him. Why? Most North American coaches don’t have the patience for his style of play.

I roll my eyes whenever I hear people talk about how fast the game is now and how sophisticated the systems have become. Watching the game, does it really seem much faster? Does it really seem more advanced? We had a saying in the Soviet days that I wish more coaches and scouts would adopt today: It’s not how fast you skate, it’s how fast you think.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

The problem is more philosophical and starts way before players get to the NHL. It’s easier to destroy than to create. As a coach, it’s easier to tell your players to suffocate the opposing team and not turn the puck over. There are still players whose imagination and creativity capture the Soviet spirit — Johnny Gaudreau in Calgary, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews in Chicago just to name a few. However, they are becoming exceptions to the rule. Many young players who are intelligent and can see the game four moves ahead are not valued. They’re told “simple, simple, simple.”

That mentality is kind of boring. Nobody wants to get fired. Nobody wants to get sent down to the minors. If you look at the coaches in Juniors and minor league hockey, many of them were not skill players. It’s a lot of former enforcers and grinders who take these coaching jobs. Naturally, they tell their players to be just like them. Their players are 17, 18 years old — younger than I was when I joined the Red Army team. Say what you want about the Whiplash mentality (or the Soviet mentality), but if coaches are going to push kids at that age, why are they pushing them to play a simple game? Why aren’t coaches pushing them to create a masterpiece?

We lose a lot of Pavel Datsyuks to the closed-minded nature of the AHL and NHL.

I remember Datsyuk made a couple turnovers in a game when he first came to Detroit at age 23. Players on the team like Brett Hull, Brendan Shanahan, Steve Yzerman and myself had to tell him, “Pavel, just keep doing what you’re doing.” Thankfully, Scotty Bowman had the wisdom to see his potential. If he was on a different team with a different coach who did not appreciate that kind of unique skill, Datsyuk might have been out of the league. He would be playing in the KHL tonight.

In Russia right now, there are four or five Datsyuks playing in the KHL who never got their chance. Sergei Mozyakin led the KHL in scoring last season and was in the scoring race for most of his 20s. But he’s 33 now and nobody in America has ever heard of him. Why? Most North American coaches don’t have the patience for his style of play.

I roll my eyes whenever I hear people talk about how fast the game is now and how sophisticated the systems have become. Watching the game, does it really seem much faster? Does it really seem more advanced? We had a saying in the Soviet days that I wish more coaches and scouts would adopt today: It’s not how fast you skate, it’s how fast you think.

I passively hear the show before swimming. It's better than Eric and Kathy.

I am in the urination, puking, drunk, yelling zone.

I once jerked in a chicken truck, so I have that going for me.

1980

Kudos to Mac for driving to Detroit for the Rolling Stones concert last night then driving back and coming to work this morning. His former partner at WSCR would have definitely missed today and possibly tomorrow.

To be fair, Mac wasn't exactly committed to the WSCR job either. It was a team effort to keep guest hosts gainfully employed.

That's true, he did miss a lot of time when he was there.

Well Mac told me to to tell you to go FUCK YOURSELF!!! ..So now it's been said .. .

Mac is off today and Harry Teinowitz is sitting in for him. Knowing how awful Harry is, did Mac specifically ask to have him sit in so he'd make Mac seem better by comparison?