Buccigross is back for the 2006-2007 season and he’s off to a great start.

You can’t see the puck? Can you see a baseball being hit? How often do you see the football on TV? Can you see when Tiger Woods hits the golf ball outside of the short game? If you are simply trying to follow the puck when you watch a hockey game, you’re missing the game.

Preach it Bucci!

Much is written about the popularity and market share of the NHL. I’ve written it here before and I’ll write it here again: I don’t care how popular the NHL is. I love hockey and you love it and that’s enough for me. It’s a beautiful, addictive game that is immune to extinction. It’s a way of life in Canada and it’s growing in the United States. It is the most intimate of games because it is the most emotional. The “smallness” of the game is its strength. The humility of most of the players, the bond that is found in every rink in North America and the sheer joy of skating on open, clean ice — that’s what makes hockey special.

Tell it like it is Bucci.

Although my approval ratings for Bettman went up after he handed the player’s a sound defeat in the lockout year, I have had diffficulties giving him a higher than 50% approval rating after he went expansion crazy in the early 90’s. Nashville? Phoenix?

There sure wasn’t an outcry for a team from those cities, yet he sold out the Winnipeg fans.