RIVERKINGS ADD SIZE AND STRENGTH TO BLUELINE

The Mississippi RiverKings of the Central Hockey League announced today that the team has agreed to terms with defenseman Brian Mullally (pronounced: muh-LAH-lee). Mullally played as a rookie last season with the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL and is the sixth player signed by the RiverKings for the 2007-2008 season.

Mullally, 25, is a native of Maynard, MA and is six-foot-three and 220 pounds. He played 39 games with the Cyclones last season and finished with a goal, an assist and 99 penalty minutes. Before last season, Mullally completed a four year career at Division III Norwich University where he gained the reputation as a tough-nosed defenseman.

At Norwich, he competed in 107 games, scored 15 goals, assisted on 60 others and totaled 284 penalty minutes. Mullally led the Cadets in penalty minutes each of his four seasons and was part of the team’s 2003 NCAA Division III national championship as a freshman. During his senior season of 2005-2006, he served as assistant team captain as the Cadets captured the ECAC Eastern Conference championship and played in the NCAA Division III National Tournament.

Mullally’s senior season at Norwich concluded with a couple of awards: All American East Second Team and All-ECAC East First Team. He was also a teammate of 2006-2007 RiverKings Phil Aucoin and Kevin Schieve while at Norwich.

After the completion of his senior season in 2006, he made his pro debut by signing and appearing in one game with the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League.

Mullally joins Derek Landmesser as defensemen signed by the RiverKings thus far for next season.

The Mississippi RiverKings will begin the 16th season of CHL hockey in the Mid-South in October. The RiverKings are coming off a season where they finished the regular season with 39 wins, the most since 02-03 and the third most in the franchise’s history. The team also made a return to the playoffs for the first time since 2003 and advanced to the Northern Conference finals before falling to the eventual President’s Cup champion Colorado Eagles.

The on the ice success was accompanied by off the ice success. The team was awarded as the CHL’s “Most Improved Franchise of the Year” for 2006-2007. Game attendance at the DCC increased 18% from 2005-2006, the fifth largest increase among all 87 minor pro hockey teams in North America. The team averaged 4700 fans in its final 12 regular season home games.

RIVERKINGS SIGNED PLAYERS
Ryan Campbell LW
Louis Dumont (vet) C
Derek Landmesser (vet) D
Brian Mullally D
David Nimmo C
Chad Woollard (vet) F

Check out Brian Mullally’s profile atHockeyDB

This is a test for men only and all real men answer “C” to all of these questions.

Women will also benefit by reviewing the questions so they get to understand men and thereby enrich their own lives.

1. Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you are the first human they encounter. As a token of intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device capable of curing all disease, providing an infinite supply of clean energy, wiping out hunger and poverty, and permanently eliminating oppression and violence all over the entire Earth. You decide to:
A. Present it to the President of the United States.
B. Present it to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
C. Take it apart.

2. As you grow older, what lost quality of your youthful life do you miss the most?
A. Innocence.
B. Idealism.
C. Cherry bombs.

3. When is it okay to kiss another male?
A. When you wish to display simple and pure affection without regard for narrow-minded social conventions.
B. When he is the Pope. (Not on the lips.)
C. When he is your brother and you are Al Pacino and this is the only really sportsman-like way to let him know that, for business reasons, you have to have him killed.

4. In your opinion, the ideal pet is:
A. A cat.
B. A dog.
C. A dog that eats cats.

5. You have been dating a woman for several years. She’s attractive and intelligent, and you always enjoy being with her. One leisurely Sunday afternoon the two of you are taking it easy. You’re watching a football game. She’s reading the papers and suddenly, out of the clear blue sky, tells you she thinks she really loves you, but she can no longer bear the uncertainty of not knowing where your relationship is going. She says she’s not asking whether you want to get married; only whether you believe you have some kind of future together. What do you say?
A. You sincerely believe the two of you do have a future, but you don’t want to rush it.
B. Although you also have strong feelings for her, you cannot honestly say you’ll be ready anytime soon to make a lasting commitment, and you don’t want to hurt her by holding out false hope.
C. You cannot believe the Broncos called a draw play on third and seventeen.

6. Okay, so you have decided you truly love a woman and you want to spend the rest of your life with her, sharing the joys and the sorrows the world has to offer, come what may. How do you tell her?
A. You take her to a nice restaurant and tell her after dinner.
B. You take her for a walk on a moonlit beach, and you say her name, and when she turns to you, with the sea breeze blowing through her hair and the stars in her eyes, you tell her.
C. Tell her what?

7. One weekday morning your wife wakes up feeling ill and asks you to get your three children ready for school. Your first question to her is:
A. “Do they need to eat or anything?”
B. “They’re in school already?”
C. “There are three of them?”

8. When is it okay to throw away a set of veteran underwear?
A. When it has turned the color of a dead whale and developed new holes so large you’re not sure which ones were originally intended for your legs.
B. When it is down to eight loosely connected underwear molecules and has to be handled with tweezers.
C. It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody, and we are not naming names, is quietly trying to discard his underwear.

9. What is the human race’s single greatest achievement?
A. Democracy.
B. Religion.
C. Remote control

From Jason

Maddox has taken time out of his busy day to post about why he won’t be getting an iPhone.

I especially love his self-portrait, and the fact that he’s not at all self-conscious about his elephantitis.

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the internet is actually a series of tubes. In case you haven’t, or you don’t get it, here’s a brief explanantion. Well, thankfully the folks over at www.informationarchitects.jp
have taken the time to map all the tubes out for us.

Beware, there be spoilers afoot!

I’ve done it, I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Oh, and I’m sure there will be some spoilers in this post, so consider yourself warned!

First off, seeing as how this is the box it shipped in, I consider it no small miracle that I even got it! I mean, what were they thinking, shipping it like that? Do they ship diamonds in a box labeled “Hey, this box is full of valuable diamonds, please don’t steal us or anything else from the person receiving these valuable diamonds”?

But I was one of the lucky ones that received my book, so no worries there. Got it yesterday morning, just in time to completely dominate my weekend. I got all my chores done nice and early and then sat down to read the most talked about book of the summer. There I was, with little memory of the last book, strong memories from the last movie, and certain that between the two of them I was sure to get plenty confused. And I was right. Thankfully I have the kids with their very strong Harry Potter knowledge to help me out whenever I can’t remember why he killed him or what her name was, or what’s so special about Godric’s Hollow (yep, it’s important in the book). And I somehow managed to ask the kids to remind me who so-and-so was at the ministry without giving too much away since I knew they’d read it as soon as I was done. So I managed to get through it. It was good. A fitting ending to a very captivating group of characters. ****Big spoiler here**** I was a bit confused in King’s Cross to hear Dumbledore explain to Harry that Voldemort had sort of killed him, but not really. I know Rowling tried explaining it several ways, it was just over my head. That whole chapter left me scratching my head. And yes, I know it all made sense later since Voldemort didn’t really have control over the Elder Wand, but I just couldn’t quite grasp anything they were babbling about in King’s Cross. And what was with the kid under the chair?

So, basically, this series had to end one of two ways, good or evil. There was no compromise they could reach, we all knew going in one or both of them had to die. ***More spoilers, don’t say I didn’t warn ya!*** Of the possible endings, I like this one best. I was very happy to read that not only did Harry and his friends prevail, but they really did grow up, have little witches and wizards of their own to send off to Hogwarts, and live happily ever after. I just hope that the ‘19 years later’ Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny do our imaginations justice.

Last weekend I took the boy child and we went a photograhin’!

I didn’t get much, but I got a few neato shots of some local flowery things, and some kudzu shots that I’m sure I’ll share with Idgie. As soon as I decide what to do with em, I’ll blog it.

Oooooh, what a sexy new theme I have for my blog!

Mad, stinky props to my most über awesome CSS guy, Webmaster Will for uploading and organizing my new pinkness!

Yep, it is definitely going to rain soon. Might not be much rain, but it will be raining. I am so sore I can barely keep my eyes from crossing. Braces, canes, creams, pills, etc - none of it seems to be helping much right now. So either Will is kicking me in his sleep, or we’re about to get some precipitation. My money is on the rain.

Trust me, the knee doesn’t lie.

First Steve Cherwonak leaves the CHL office to become the new GM of the Mudbugs, now this!

Treliving Joins NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes

Central Hockey League President Brad Treliving has today accepted a multi year contract offer to become Assistant General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Phoenix Coyotes, joining General Manager Don Maloney’s hockey operations staff. “Brad brings a diverse skill-set to what we are trying to accomplish here at the Coyotes,” said Maloney. “His work at the CHL has been excellent, and he is a great addition to our front office team.”

Treliving, 37, co-founded the Western Professional Hockey League in 1996, and assumed the role of Central Hockey League President following the May/2001 merger between the two organizations. Under his guidance the CHL has recorded six consecutive ‘AA’ average attendance crowns while welcoming numerous highly successful expansion franchises.

“We are deeply appreciative of Brad’s unwavering loyalty and efforts to our organization in his 11 plus years of service,” said Rick Kozuback, President and CEO of Global Entertainment Corporation (AMEX: GEE), the CHL’s parent company. “The Central Hockey League’s great many successes can be in large part attributed to the passion and desire Brad brought to the office every day, and we wish him nothing but success as joins the Phoenix Coyotes.”

“As I embark on this new opportunity, I wish thank the great number of individuals who have helped make the Central Hockey League the flourishing organization it remains today,” said Treliving. “Our entire front office, Global Entertainment, team owners, employees, coaches and past and present players are to be commended for the great many achievements we have enjoyed together. I will fondly cherish my experiences and time representing both the Western Professional and Central Hockey Leagues.”

Treliving’s departure comes two days after the announcement that Steve Cherwonak, Vice President of Communications, has accepted the title of General Manager with the CHL’s Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs. The process of filling both vacancies will begin in the immediate future as the CHL continues preparations for its 16th season of play, beginning October 19th.