From Helene St. James’ Hockey Diary:
A reporter asked Chris Chelios whether Sweden is a better team with Peter Forsberg. Chelios’ answer was vintage Chelios: “I would say ‘yes.’ He’s a pretty good player. Is this is a trick question?”
That is vintage Chelios. I can hear him say it. What a dumb question, seriously.
Nice to see the Freep get on the blog bandwagon. First it was the News’ Ted Kulfan “blog,” then Ansar Khan’s mLive-style blog and now we have Ms. St. James’. It’d be nice to see a links list from those three and maybe some more interactive functionality as well. Blogging is more than a format, guys, it’s a dialog. Want to join the conversation?
Matt, I’d be shocked if she maintained it after the Olympics. Kulfan only sporadically writes in his. Khan’s a bit better but…well, you know how I feel about the Wing beat writers.
Yeah, it does look like a temporary thing, you’re right. Thanks for pointing it out on your site. Wouldn’t have found it otherwise.
No problem. And isn’t that typical, that you have to hunt for something like that? Why the free press isn’t giving it more pub is beyond me.
I guess I don’t mind so much that the papers do the blog thing (and really their real jobs) so badly. I’m frustrated that regular bloggers, like you and me, are kept on the outside. The Freep/News and mLive obviously haven’t got it yet but no one seems willing to open to the door to those who have.