NY Hockey Report 10-29-08

October 29, 2008   ·   Derek Felix   ·   Jump to comments

Last night while the Leafs and Devs were taking part in a wild unpredictable contest featuring 10 combined goals plus a couple of scraps and a skill competition with the road club getting the better of it in Newark, I was upstairs in my room flying solo on the NY Hockey Report minus co-hosts Gary Harding and Joe McDonald.

It was a bit of a wild show as well considering I recapped the Rangers’ recent success including their two-goal road win over the Islanders Monday. Plus discussed the Devils’ tough weekend against the rival Flyers and further examined the Isles’ issues health wise and team wise. Are they making future plans for top Canadian prospect John Tavares?

This was one of the things I talked about along with some concern about prone players putting themselves in defenseless positions by turning as a player finished a check resulting in a boarding penalty. Has this become a league issue? Are players failing to protect themselves allowing opposing players to get nabbed in the process? What do you think?

Anyway, I gave my input on this and also covered the very crazy and interesting final three-plus innings of the Phillies’ first world championship in 28 years even doing a little play-by-play for that ninth inning in their five game series win over the Rays.

Why not? It’s not every night you got a big ballgame going on when we’re nearing Halloween and the conclusion of the first month in a long season.

So, be sure to check out the archive below:

NYHR 10-29-08 archive

Also, NHL Arena good buddies TheRick and poor Met fan Chris Wassel joined the program over the final portion talking some Sabres, Devils and a little Phillies as we even paid tribute to Wassel who was having a rough night.

All in all, it went alright and was a fun program despite no Harding or Joe around. Hope they’re back next week.