The Sunday Spreadsheet

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
At N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 4
At Buffalo 3, San Jose 1
Philadelphia 6, Montreal 2
At Carolina 5, New Jersey 2
Boston 3, at Florida 2 SO
At Detroit 4, Ottawa 1
At St. Louis 4, Washington 3 SO
Dallas 3, at Phoenix 0
At Chicago 5, Atlanta 4 SO
At Calgary 3, Anaheim 1
At Los Angeles 3, Colorado 0
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
Recap by Sportsnet.
Three stars by Puck Daddy.

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Albany 7, Binghamton 0
Abbotsford 2, at Hamilton 1
Bridgeport 6, at Hartford 4
At Manchester 2, Syracuse 0
At Portland 5, Adirondack 4
Providence 3, at Springfield 1
At Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 5, Hershey 0
At Norfolk 5, Lowell 1
At Rochester 3, Lake Erie 2
Chicago 5, at Texas 2
Milwaukee 3, at Rockford 2
Toronto 2, at Manitoba 1
San Antonio 2, at Peoria 1
At Houston 1, Grand Rapids 0 OT
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

EAST COAST HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Toledo 3, Kalamazoo 0
At Gwinnett 2, Charlotte 1
At Reading 6, Trenton 5
Florida 4, at South Carolina 2
At Cincinnati 6, Johnstown 2
Elmira 5, at Wheeling 3
At Idaho 4, Utah 3
Las Vegas 4, at Bakersfield 0
Stockton 3, at Ontario 2
Alaska 5, at Victoria 3
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.

QUEBEC MAJOR JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Chicoutimi 7, Baie-Comeau 4
At Rimouski 9, Halifax 6
Moncton 4, Gatineau 2
Val-d'Or 3, at Shawinigan 1
Prince Edward Island 5, at Acadie-Bathurst 0
At Drummondville 3, Rouyn-Noranda 2 SO
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

ONTARIO HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Erie 7, Peterborough 1
Niagara 4, at Belleville 3
At Plymouth 5, Sarnia 4 OT
At Saginaw 7, Windsor 2
Mississauga 5, at Barrie 4
At Owen Sound 6, Guelph 2
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Swift Current 4, Medicine Hat 1
Regina 6, at Edmonton 1
Saskatoon 3, at Lethbridge 2 OT
At Red Deer 3, Prince Albert 1
Vancouver 4, at Chilliwack 2
Kamloops 4, at Kelowna 3 SO
Portland 3, at Prince George 1
At Spokane 4, Tri-City 3 OT
At Everett 5, Moose Jaw 1
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

UNITED STATES HOCKEY LEAGUE
Chicago 5, at Omaha 2
At Indiana 4, Des Moines 3
Tri-City 3, at Sioux City 2 OT
Cedar Rapids 6, Fargo 3
Youngstown 2, at Lincoln 1 SO
Green Bay 5, at Sioux Falls 3
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.

ATLANTIC HOCKEY
RIT 5, at Army 2
Canisius 4, at Mercyhurst 2
At Sacred Heart 4, American International 3
At Holy Cross 4, Bentley 0
Standings and summaries are here.

ECAC HOCKEY
At Harvard 4, Union 3
Princeton 2, at St. Lawrence 2 OT
Yale 2, at Cornell 1 OT
At Dartmouth 4, RPI 3
At Clarkson 4, Quinnipiac 1
At Colgate 6, Brown 2
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

HOCKEY EAST
At Northeastern 6, Massachusetts 3
Merrimack 3, at Vermont 2
At Boston University 5, Maine 2
At Boston College 2, Massachusetts Lowell 1
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

COLLEGE HOCKEY AMERICA
Bemidji State 5, at Robert Morris 2
Alabama Huntsville at Niagara PPD
Standings, summary and recap are here.

CENTRAL COLLEGIATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
At Northern Michigan 2, Western Michigan 1
Ferris State 2, at Lake Superior 1
Alaska 3, at Ohio State 3 SO (OSU wins)
At Nebraska Omaha 4, Michigan 1
Miami 10, at Bowling Green 2
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

WESTERN COLLEGIATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
North Dakota 8, at St. Cloud State 1
At Denver 3, Minnesota 1
At Wisconsin 8, Minnesota State 4
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

The Saturday Spreadsheet

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Philadelphia 3, Montreal 2
At New Jersey 5, Nashville 2
Vancouver 4, at Columbus 3
N.Y. Rangers 3, at Pittsburgh 2 OT
At St. Louis 4, Toronto 0
Atlanta 3, at Minnesota 2
At Colorado 2, Phoenix 1
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
Recap by Sportsnet.
Three stars by Puck Daddy.

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE
Hershey 5, at Albany 2
Worcester 6, at Bridgeport 1
At Portland 3, Syracuse 1
At Providence 7, Hartford 1
Abbotsford 3, at Rochester 2
At Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 3, Binghamton 2
At Norfolk 3, Lowell 0
At Lake Erie 5, Hamilton 4 SO
Manchester 4, at Springfield 1
Rockford 4, at Milwaukee 2
San Antonio 3, at Peoria 1
At Manitoba 5, Toronto 1
Chicago 4, at Texas 1
Grand Rapids 7, at Houston 2
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

EAST COAST HOCKEY LEAGUE
Cincinnati 1, at Toledo 0
At Trenton 5, Reading 3
At South Carolina 4, Florida 3 SO
At Kalamazoo 5, Johnstown 4
Charlotte 5, at Gwinnett 1
Elmira 4, at Wheeling 3
Utah 4, at Idaho 3 SO
At Las Vegas 6, Bakersfield 5 OT
At Stockton 5, Ontario 0
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.

QUEBEC MAJOR JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
Victoriaville 5, at Lewiston 1
At Drummondville 8, Baie-Comeau 1
At Saint John 3, Cape Breton 2
Moncton 3, at Shawinigan 1
Quebec 6, at Acadie-Bathurst 4
Rouyn-Noranda 4, at Gatineau 1
Val-d'Or 3, at Montreal 2
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

ONTARIO HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Saginaw 5, Plymouth 2
At Guelph 4, Sarnia 3
At Kingston 3, Niagara 2 SO
At Kitchener 5, Belleville 4
At London 4, Owen Sound 2
At Mississauga 6, Oshawa 0
Barrie 6, at Ottawa 4
Windsor 4, at Sault Ste. Marie 2
Brampton 3, at Sudbury 1
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Brandon 3, Swift Current 0
At Calgary 3, Prince Albert 1
Kootenay 5, at Edmonton 2
Saskatoon 5, at Medicine Hat 3
At Red Deer 3, Regina 1
Kelowna 5, at Kamloops 3
Portland 5, at Prince George 2
Chilliwack 6, at Tri-City 3
Spokane 4, at Everett 3
Moose Jaw 3, at Seattle 1
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

UNITED STATES HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Indiana 5, Des Moines 1
Green Bay 3, at Sioux City 2
At Sioux Falls 3, Youngstown 1
At Tri-City 5, Lincoln 2
At Waterloo 5, Chicago 1
Cedar Rapids 9, at Fargo 6
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.

ATLANTIC HOCKEY
Mercyhurst 3, at Canisius 1
Sacred Heart 4, at American International 1
Holy Cross 6, at Bentley 4
RIT 3, at Army 0
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

ECAC HOCKEY
At Cornell 5, Brown 3
Quinnipiac 5, at St. Lawrence 0
RPI 5, at Harvard 4
Yale 3, at Colgate 3
At Clarkson 4, Princeton 3
Union 5, at Dartmouth 4
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

HOCKEY EAST
At New Hampshire 5, Providence 2
Northeastern 2, at Massachusetts 0
At Boston University 7, Maine 4
At Massachusetts Lowell 4, Boston College 1
Merrimack 2, at Vermont 2 OT
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

COLLEGE HOCKEY AMERICA
Alabama Huntsville 3, at Niagara 2
At Robert Morris 5, Bemidji State 2
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

CENTRAL COLLEGIATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
Miami 3, at Bowling Green 2
At Northern Michigan 7, Western Michigan 2
At Lake Superior 4, Ferris State 3
Alaska 4, at Ohio State 1
At Nebraska Omaha 4, Michigan 3
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

WESTERN COLLEGIATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
At St. Cloud State 4, North Dakota 3
At Denver 3, Minnesota 1
At Wisconsin 4, Minnesota State 3
Standings, summaries and recaps are here.

Dealing at the Olympic Deadline

Just a few transactions to note as the National Hockey League's Olympic trading deadline passed today.

*** TSN reports that the Chicago Blackhawks sent the defenseman Cam Barker to the Minnesota Wild for defenseman Kim Johnsson and prospect Nick Leddy, a first-round pick who is a freshman at the University of Minnesota.

*** The Ottawa Senators grabbed the defenseman Matt Cullen from the Carolina Hurricanes. The defenseman Alexandre Picard and a second-round draft pick is going the other way.

*** The battleship Jody Shelly is leaving the San Jose Sharks, who traded the forward to the New York Rangers in exchange for a draft pick. His last big battle can be viewed in the clip at the top.

I Just Want to Watch Olympic Hockey

Back in 1994, the Lillehammer Games didn't look so good to me. My daughters, now 25 and 21, were wearing footie PJs and rushing down to watch cartoons at the break of dawn on weekends.

As it would happen, I was living on the Pacific Coast and the 1994 gold medal game between Sweden and Canada was going head to head with the morning cartoons. The best TV in the house was locked up by the girls. I have the courage to do many things; looking the girls in their eyes and telling them their cartoons will have to go is not one of them.

So I grabbed a portable TV and picked up the game. No cable on this set. Just the airwaves. Black and white. Plenty of electronic snow. The YouTube clip posted above never looked so good, or so clear.

Those days are gone. The girls are grown up and off on their own, probably watching cartoons at all hours of the day. And that black and white portable is gone as well. It would be no good to me if I am looking at the Olympic men's hockey tournament schedule correctly.

You'll need cable or a satellite dish if you are living in the United States. NBC is of little value to you until the gold medal game comes around.

NBC's affiliated networks (Since when did one channel become a network? Just wondering.) USA, CNBC, MSNBC will carry the bulk of the men's hockey tournament, according to Puck the Media.

The preliminary round looks like this:
Tuesday, Feb. 16
United States/Switzerland -- 3 pm Eastern -- USA
Canada/Norway -- 8 pm -- CNBC
Russia/Latvia -- 12:30 am -- CNBC

Wednesday, Feb. 17
Finland/Belarus -- 3 pm -- MSNBC
Sweden/Germany -- 8 pm -- CNBC
Czech Republic/Slovakia -- 12:30 am -- CNBC

Thursday, Feb. 18
United States/Norway -- 3 pm -- USA
Canada/Switzerland -- 8 pm -- CNBC
Russia/Slovakia -- 12:30 am -- CNBC

Friday, Feb. 19
Sweden/Belarus -- 3 pm -- MSNBC
Czech Republic/Latvia -- 8 -- CNBC
Finland/Germany -- midnight -- MSNBC

Saturday, Feb. 20
Norway/Switzerland -- 3 pm -- MSNBC
Slovakia/Latvia -- 7:30 pm -- MSNBC
Belarus/Germany -- midnight -- MSNBC

Saturday, Feb. 21
Czech Republic/Russia -- 3 pm -- NBC
Canada/United States -- 7 pm -- MSNBC
Sweden/Finland -- midnight -- MSNBC

According to Puck the Media, the viewing guide in Canada looks like this:

The preliminary round looks like this:
Tuesday, Feb. 16
United States/Switzerland -- 3 pm Eastern -- TSN, RDS
Canada/Norway -- 8 pm -- CTV, RDS
Russia/Latvia -- 12:30 am -- CTV, RDS

Wednesday, Feb. 17
Finland/Belarus -- 3 pm -- TSN, RDS
Sweden/Germany -- 8 pm -- TSN
Czech Republic/Slovakia -- 12:30 am -- Sportsnet, RDS

Thursday, Feb. 18
United States/Norway -- 3 pm -- Sportsnet, RDS
Canada/Switzerland -- 8 pm -- CTV, RDS
Russia/Slovakia -- 12:30 am -- TSN

Friday, Feb. 19
Sweden/Belarus -- 3 pm -- Sportsnet, RDS
Czech Republic/Latvia -- 8 -- Sportsnet, V
Finland/Germany -- midnight -- CTV, V

Saturday, Feb. 20
Norway/Switzerland -- 3 pm -- Sportsnet
Slovakia/Latvia -- 7:30 pm -- Sportsnet
Belarus/Germany -- midnight -- TSN

Sunday, Feb. 21
Czech Republic/Russia -- 3 pm -- TSN, V
Canada/United States -- 7 pm -- CTV, V
Sweden/Finland -- midnight -- CTV

That schedule should stand up for the first round. That is, unless the coverage is interrupted by late breaking cartoons. Could happen.

The Friday Spreadsheet

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Ottawa 6, Washington 5
At Carolina 4, Buffalo 3 OT
Boston 5, at Tampa Bay 4
Vancouver 3, Florida 0
San Jose 3, at Detroit 2 SO
Dallas 3, at Calgary 1
Edmonton 3, at Los Angeles 2 SO
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
Recap by Sportsnet.
Three stars by Puck Daddy.

EAST COAST HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Victoria 6, Alaska 2
The standings are here.
The summary is here.

ONTARIO HOCKEY LEAGUE
Barrie 7, at Peterborough 2
At Windsor 6, Kitchener 2
At Niagara 3, Oshawa 1
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

UNITED STATES HOCKEY LEAGUE
Omaha 8, at Des Moines 2
The standings are here.
The summary is here.

The Thursday Spreadsheet

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Philadelphia 3, at New Jersey 2 OT
Nashville 2, at New York 1
At Columbus 3, San Jose 0
At Montreal 6, Washington 5 OT
At Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Islanders 1
Phoenix 3, at Minnesota 2
At Colorado 4, Atlanta 3 OT
At Anaheim 3, Edmonton 2
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
Recap by Sportsnet.
Three stars by Puck Daddy.

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Adirondack 3, Rochester 1
At Lake Erie 3, Milwaukee 0
At Binghamton 4, Albany 3 SO
At Norfolk 5, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 3
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

EAST COAST HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Charlotte 3, South Carolina 1
At Cincinnati 5, Kalamazoo 2
At Florida 3, Gwinnett 1
At Idaho 1, Utah 0
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.

QUEBEC MAJOR JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Saint John 5, Acadie-Bathurst 1
At Victoriaville 13, Baie-Comeau 3
At Lewiston 5, Moncton 4
At Halifax 5, Prince Edward Island 4 SO
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

ONTARIO HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Guelph 6, Plymouth 3
London 5, at Owen Sound 3
At Sault Ste. Marie 3, Sarnia 2
Ottawa 6, at Belleville 3
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE
Calgary 6, at Regina 2
At Saskatoon 2, Swift Current 1 SO
Lethbridge 4, at Edmonton 3
At Medicine Hat 6, Prince Albert 0
At Portland 5, Tri-City 3
At Prince George 4, Kamloops 2
At Spokane 6, Moose Jaw 3
At Everett 4, Kelowna 0
The standings are here.
The summaries are here.
The roundup is here.

It Happened While You Were Sleeping

Sorry for the delay in the daily Spreadsheet.

I was up at 5:30 am Eastern to shovel the driveway after a full day of snowfall. By 6:44, I was winning the battle and thinking of going inside for a warm shower, breakfast and, later, a full day of work.

At 6:45, I was admiring the soft blue tones of the sky, wondering whether I should just die here in the driveway or try to crawl inside the house.

Back to 6:44.30, or thereabouts.

Nearly done with the driveway, I took a big step to clear more snow. That step was not so firm. One giant step for man, one giant fall for this kind man. My fall was not so slightly interrupted a stone ledge, which not so gently touched the lower left side of my back and side.

Back in the house now. Still in some pain, but I am receiving a direct stream of sunlight through my window. My back hurts when I turn, when I try to walk and when I sit. But it doesn't hurt when I stand and do nothing.

Sounds like a perfect time to stand at the bar and do nothing. Doing nothing is pretty much my fallback plan for any serious situation. Sooo, here goes nothing......