Just a heads up from your friendly neighborhood hockey blog before everyone leaves for their Friday night festivities: we will be live blogging Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. EST. So be sure to take a few hours out of your busy weekend to spend some quality time with MYFO tomorrow [...]

Larry Pleau has been the general manager of the St. Louis Blues since 1997. That’s a long time to be the GM for one franchise in any sport. He even survived a change in ownership. And he’ll be sticking around a little while longer–yesterday, the Blues announced that Pleau had received a two-year contract [...]

Tonight, the Scripps National Spelling Bee will take place, allowing some bookworm kid (not Charlie Brown) to add a nice little crown jewel to their college application by becoming the National Champ. Last year, Evan O’Dorney took home the prize by nailing “serrefine” in the final round. Nice work, Evan.  Now go outside and play [...]

Apparently, fans remembered that the NHL exists this off-season. Ratings are on the rise, and Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Versus broke all sorts of records for the channel. After the jump are some interesting bits of trivia concerning the highest hockey numbers on cable since 2002.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Stanley Cup Playoffs for this charming photo.

Hey gang–we’re at it again. Tonight when the Penguins and Red Wings face off for Game 3, your MYFO Editors (the ones that aren’t scuba diving in their basements, anyway) are going to be liveblogging.
Click here to go to the liveblog at about 7:30 PM Eastern time. We’ll see you there!

Most of you by now have seen footage or witnessed first-hand Mark Messier going down in flames during his gig as analyst during Versus’ Game 3 broadcast of the Stanley Cup Finals. For those of you who have not, please take a gander:
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Obviously, not a very good showing by the hockey hero. To be fair, most [...]

Now I gotta deal with Hockey Jesus giving sermons to this schmuck?

Proof positive that Versus is getting better and better every year. This is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. Bravo to He Score, He Shoot!
(HT to wraparoundcurl for linking me to this.)

It was a tough holiday weekend for the Penguins and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury. Two games in Detroit, zero goals, and halfway to having to answer stupid questions from reporters about where it all went wrong, what happened to all the momentum. But hey, it’s tough all over, and nobody is crying for Hockey Jesus and [...]