keith-ballard Stories - The Copper & Blue
Mike Gillis: "We Are Not Done Yet"
What an eventful Draft Day for Canucks fans! With no second of third round picks in this year's draft, Gillis traded away Vancouver's first round pick (25th overall) plus Steve Bernier and Michael Grabner to the Florida Panthers for D Keith Ballard and RW Victor Oreskovich. Mike has already touched...
Kings 2, Coyotes 4
Before I go into the game tonight, I'd like to give a shout out to all of the people driving north on the 110. Fuck you very much! Why were so many goddamn people on the freeway at 6pm on a Saturday night?First Period:- Starting lineup is Lubo with Modry, with Ratti, Anze, and Zeiler out in front....
2008 NHL Entry Draft - Day 1 Review
I'll get to what the Oilers did in a second, but first I'd like to go throught the various trades and some of my impressions from the top 10 picks. Darryl Sutter was the arguably the busiest GM on draft day (with the possible exceptions of Garth Snow and Dean Lombardi). Despite what virtually every...
This Should Lower the Level of Discourse a Little Bit
The U.S. played Slovenia in the World Championships yesterday. It was a ho-hum 5-1 victory for the Americans (Brown and O'Sullivan with assists, Kopitar with a goal), but the incident I'd like to bring to people's attention was a hit laid on Kopitar by Keith Ballard, defenseman for the Phoenix...













