{"id":79,"date":"2012-10-21T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2015-04-05T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:10:08","slug":"the-wisest-hockey-columnist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"The wisest hockey columnist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the time I like Brandon Worley and others at Defending Big D<\/a>, probably my favorite hockey blog. Good information and usually good opinions. (Sometimes their ‘doom & gloom’ outlook gets to me, or they’d be my unqualified favorites.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Picture of Benn & Morrow for no particular reason
\nother than I can and the team can’t.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I like Ian Hudson’s take on the current NHL lockout<\/a>. He’s a professor of economics at the University of Manitoba, and his views are pretty sensible. (Gee, that’s\u00a0a shock, right?)<\/p>\n

I like Jeff Gordon columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (or, actually, STLtoday.com). He distilled the issues between the NHL owners and players to its very essence<\/a>, as far as I’m concerned.<\/p>\n

But they could both be usurped by Gavin Bard, from the Heckler Spray blog<\/a> (“Internet villainy & grown-up gossip since 2005”) just because of this one quote:<\/p>\n

Gary Bettman, the weaselly grim reaper of the National Hockey League, is quite possibly the worst human being in the world.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah. You tell ’em, Gavin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the time I like Brandon Worley and others at Defending Big D, probably my favorite hockey blog. Good information and usually good opinions. (Sometimes their ‘doom & gloom’ outlook gets to me, or they’d be my unqualified favorites.) Picture of Benn & Morrow for no particular reason other than I can and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}