NHL Releases 2008 Entry Draft Site

The NHL continues to make baby steps in the right direction when it comes to the use of the World Wide Web as today they launched their NHL 2008 Entry Draft site.

No longer are you relegated to browsing through PDF files downloaded from some obscure location on the NHL.com site. You can now browse through all the skaters right within your browser as they've coded everything up in HTML.

That's the right way to do it! I hope they keep pushing forward with new online initiatives such as their new NHL.tv player, their early adoption of blogs including ones from celebrities like Kevin Smith and now setting up a specific site for what is one of their premiere events in the NHL entry draft.

People want more and more information and they want it online in an easily digestible format. Now if only they had added some sort of forum for people to talk about the draft...

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Marty Turco Silences Doubters

If Marty Turco didn't silence his doubters last year with his 1.30GAA, .950 save percentage and 3 shutouts in the Stars first round exit, then I can't see how they could still be talking after last night's performance.

Marty Turco is absolutely the only reason the Dallas Stars are headed to the conference semi-finals to face the Detroit Red Wings. He faced 62 shots in the Stars marathon win - 8th longest in playoff history - over the San Jose Sharks and did it with style. Turco's amazing save on Patrick Marleau was the defining moment of last night's game and the entire series.

The Sharks owned the vast majority of this game including the first three overtime periods and needed their goaltender to steal them this one. I have to wonder though, just how much magic Turco will be able to pull out against the Red Wings.