CreaseAndAssist

I was on the Wild message boards since 2001. It used to be the Wild west...the Canucks, oh the board wars we had when were in the Northwest division. We can hold our own with anyone...

So true. Well, that control is lost now. Its also partly why I lost my name...they didn't want my views to be misconstrued as their own. Or at least that's part of what I'm guessing...also to drive traffic towards their lame MyStateofHockey.com site.

Nothing can stop the Wild Message Borg...resistance is futile.

We are the Wild Message Borg...

I might be guessing, but its probably because the teams' European scouts don't really watch any North American players and vice versa for North American scouts to see European-based players so they don't have comparibles the same way. So they keep it as two lists. The other agencies find opportunities to watch both groups; at tournaments or cross-over games to try to create just one list. You're right though, it is a bit odd.

(sigh) So yea, that's my wife.

(sigh) Isn't that the truth for us all...

CreaseAndAssist, give credit to my friend @timnado on Twitter, he thought of it. My blog was known as the State of Hockey News for 13 years before the Minnesota Wild suddenly became annoyed or aware I used 'State of Hockey' in the title and they sent my boss a Cease and Desist letter. So my friend came up with Crease And Assist: A Legally Compliant Minnesota Hockey Blog as our official title as sort of a middle finger to the team I follow and write about. And of course I'm @CreaseAndAssist on Twitter too.

I posted lots of articles on the Wild.com message boards. While that may seem like advertisement, I'd just say that quite literally I don't really make any money off of blogging. USAToday now has partnered with the Sports Daily and that is who I'm writing for now. I used to write for Fansided for a time under their flagship Gone Puck Wild (and that is affiliated with Sports Illustrated). I used to have the ability to change my layout a long time ago when I wrote for Most Valuable Network but once they pushed me and other sports bloggers over to Bloguin / Sports Daily...we don't control that kind of content. I'd certainly put a side link if I had that ability but I really don't. Its nothing personal.

I had about 10,000 posts at the old message boards under the LemaireisGOD handle, and about 14,000 posts under my KillerCarlson handle before that. Our group may have not been that big at the end, but we posted a lot and topics stayed pretty fresh.

Hi everyone, I'm the former LemaireisGOD from the Wild.com message boards. Good to see some familiar online faces here!