A Saturday without college football or a televised Wild game? No football
and no hockey make Jon something something … Here I am not counting
Cincinnati vs. San Francisco as a football game. It’s more like an armored shoving match — we’ll call it “helmet rugby” and leave it at that. And so, on with a strangely hockey-centric version of the weekend links!

*I link to ESPN.com hockey guy John Buccigross’s latest mailbag only because of this quote: “I’ve been writing here for years that Minnesota is clearly the best hockey market in the United States. It’s not even close.” Take that, everybody else! Bucci also breaks down his picks for the 2010 American Olympic team, one that has a lot of young stars on it but still would be obliterated by Canada and probably most of the rest of the world.

*From The FanHouse: Chris Chelios thinks that steroids aren’t a problem in hockey. If this were baseball, I would note here that Chris Chelios is 46 years old, yet played 71 games last year and 81 the year before, something no mortal should be able to do. (Side note: In no way do I really think Chelios is on steroids. However, he is a former Badger, so I’ll cast any aspersions on his character that I can manage.)

*The purpose of this link is twofold: one, to laugh at Michigan’s attempts to create a “Hockey Day in Michigan”-type event, except completely indoors at Ford Field. Hello, mitten residents — we already stole that idea from Canada, and we at least have the guts to play outside! The second reason for that link: it contains a picture of a representative sample of Packers fans. Among the denizens of Packer Nation, I’d say that guy is in the 50th percentile on just about any dimension you could dream up.

*And finally, we have to ask — could somebody please get Dwight Smith a townhouse or a condo of some sort? He seems to have a tendency to do things in public that he might want to keep a little more, well, private. To recap: last year, Smith was caught *in flagrante delicto* in a stairwell, earning himself a citation from the local police. Now Access Vikings reports that Smith was cited for smoking pot, outside a strip club, in a car that was impeding traffic. I hate to be the one to explain this to you, Dwight, but an apartment has dual benefits: it is a more romantic setting than a stairwell, and it is rarely if ever in a lane of traffic.

That’s it for me; enjoy your Saturday, which hopefully turns out to be slightly less Arctic than the past few days. It’s been quite a few Decembers since I’ve been rooting for the mercury to break 25˚ F. On the other hand, if it stays cold, we can always hope that the Redactular is changed to an ice-fishing event at the last minute!

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