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Quick hits: Street hockey in Times Square, Bryan Murray’s hatred of smart phones and more

Peter Forsberg

Peter Forsberg, of Sweden, speaks to a Swedish reporter using a cell phone to record video after a morning skate with Colorado Avalanche before the Avalanche play the Boston Bruins in an NHL hockey game Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011 in Denver. Forsberg says his heart fully supports a return to the NHL. The 37-year-old is now trying to determine if his bothersome right foot will cooperate. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

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Here are a few quick and interesting stories during the last weekend of August.

Adrian Dater wrote an amusing piece for SI.com about how “team bonding suffers” thanks to modern gadgets such as smart phones, as players “have created insular worlds” where they even (gasp) might text members from other teams from time to time. (If you ask me, it all really started with those pesky Walkmen *shakes walking cane angrily* ... )

Look, it’s annoying when you’re having a conversation with someone who refuses to look up from their text messages, but people who think that players aren’t bonding with their teammates anymore clearly haven’t witnessed the triple low-five in all of its glory.
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Then again, maybe society really is falling apart one emoticon-filled text message/game of “Angry Birds” at a time.


  • Greg Wyshynski of Puck Daddy takes a look at today’s landscape for head coaching in the NHL compared to 10 years ago. He actually found that coaches experience a slight bit of extra job security, as the average job spans 2.8 years instead of 2.5. Beyond lifers like Lindy Ruff and Barry Trotz, Wyshynski says that five seasons is the new benchmark for longevity among coaches. It’s a tough racket.

  • Finally, here is today’s evidence of the power of spontaneous street hockey. Weather concerns provided the rare opportunity for a shirts and skins game in Times Square, which you can see in the video below (via Kukla’s Korner).

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