Tuesday . . . early

The hockey world awaits at the foot of Mount Blog for Regan Bartel, the radio voice of the Kelowna Rockets, to climb to the top and make another pronouncement. His last one drew 59 comments; the bar has been set awfully high. LOL! . . . Ahh, what fun it is . . .
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The NHL’s Central Scouting Service has released its final rankings of players eligible for the 2009 draft. All the info is right here. Unfortunately, Central Scouting doesn’t rank all draft-eligible players together, choosing instead to separate them in Don Cherry-like fashion.
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A source in the Portland area is striving to keep me up to date on goings-on involving the potential blowing up of Memorial Coliseum, which just happens to be the home of the Winter Hawks, and has been since the summer of 1976. Judging from the early reaction, this issue isn't going to go away any time soon. Here then are a few links to the latest news . . .
The Oregonian’s Anne Saker has a piece right here in which Winter Hawks president Doug Piper tells her: “"There hasn't been a lot of talk about us in this process publicly, and our fans seem to think that we're not being considered. We weren't in the beginning. We are now. It's fair for the public to realize that we're not getting steamrolled. We're getting our day at the podium."
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The latest from the Portland Tribune is right here.
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A blog that specializes in “designs in the Rose City” is dead against tearing down Memorial Coliseum. It is right here.
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Also from the blogosphere comes savethecoliseum.blogspot.com. Check it out.
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And the Daily Journal of Commerce also has a piece on the situation. It is right here.