I love how Adrian Dater’s pet issue is tracking attendance at Avalanche games. Yesterday he posted some ideas on how to improve attendance. It’s interesting stuff: brighter lights around the arena; classic rock music, rather than metal; and a high definition JumboTron screen. Dater also talked to some players about the low attendance this season, [...]

The Rangers completed their trade for Olli Jokinen this morning, giving up the underperforming Christopher Higgins and Ales Kotalik for Calgary’s Jokinen and Brandon Prust. Kotalik was strange for the Rangers. Brought in as a powerplay specialist, he became such a defensive liability, he found himself a consistent scratch, despite a booming shot. Also, presumably [...]