Ramblings of the Mad Cow

The Mississippi RiverKings of the Central Hockey League have announced the signing of right-winger Darrell Stoddard to play in the 2008-09 season. The 26-year old Stoddard will be entering his fourth professional season, all with the RiverKings. He becomes the third announced signing under new coach Kevin Kaminski. 

In three previous seasons with the RiverKings, Stoddard has scored 37 goals and has 93 points in 180 games. 16 of his 37 goals have come on the power play, one has been shorthanded and four goals were game-winners. 

The 5-foot-11, 195-pound native of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada played in 62 games for the RiverKings last season, scoring six goals and assisting on 14 others for 20 points. Not afraid to mix it up when needed, Stoddard also collected 165 penalty minutes in last season’s campaign, putting him third on the roster in that category. 

Half of Darrell’s goal scoring came in the month of December, when he scored three goals and added four assists for a total of seven points. He did the most damage against Corpus Christi last year with one goal and three assists for four points. 
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Next time someone tells me how raunchy my sense of humor is, I can just tell them that I came by it honest.  Here’s a funny from my dad, aka “The Butch”.

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Landmesser Signs With Riverkings

The Mississippi RiverKings of the Central Hockey League have announced the signing of Derek Landmesser for the upcoming 2008-09 season. Landmesser becomes the first signing under new RiverKings’ coach Kevin Kaminski.
This past season with the RiverKings, the native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada played in all 64 regular season games and also in all three playoff contests, totaling 50 points on eight goals and 42 assists during the regular season. In the playoffs, the RiverKings’ team captain chipped in a pair of assists as the Kings were eliminated in the first round by Texas in three games.

Landmesser began his CHL career with the Memphis RiverKings in the 2000-01 season, scoring seven goals and 41 assists for 48 points, then adding two goals and seven points in the playoffs. After a year with Muskegon (2001-02, UHL), Derek returned to Memphis to become an integral part of a 2002-03 championship campaign.

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Dumont Signs With RiverKings

(Southaven, MS) — A key figure in the Mississippi RiverKings’ run to the Central Hockey League playoffs last season has signed on for another campaign. Center Louis Dumont has agreed to be a part of the RiverKings as he begins his 15th professional season and third year in the Mid-South.
A native of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, the 5-foot-10, 180-pound forward played in all 64 regular season games for the RiverKings last season. Dumont was fourth on the RiverKings’ stat sheet in points with 51 and his 35 assists ranked him third on the team in that category. Dumont added three assists in the Kings playoff series with Texas last year.

Dumont was good when it counted for the RiverKings, as six of his 16 goals last year came as game-winners, putting him third on the roster in that category. Louis also contributed in each of the last four crucial games of the regular season, as he scored two goals and added two assists in the push for the RiverKings’ spot in the CHL post-season. All four games were RiverKings’ victories.

If you’re local, and you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the local blogger at MPD Enforcer 2.0. He/she/it blogs about the Memphis Police Department. They have been critical of the muckity-mucks in the MPD, and of the way some investigations are handled. Now the city of Memphis and Police Director Larry Godwin are suing to find out the identity of the blogger. Here’s a blurb about it from the Commercial Appeal

Paul Alan Levy, an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, a Washington-based public interest law firm founded by Ralph Nader, will represent the anonymous bloggers at MPD Enforcer 2.0 whose identities are being sought by Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis.

The lawsuit, filed in Shelby County Chancery Court, asks AOL to produce all information related to the identity of an e-mail address linked to MPD Enforcer 2.0, a blog popular with police officers that has been extremely critical of police leadership. The bloggers operate under the name Dirk Diggler, a porn-star character in the movie “Boogie Nights.”

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