Grantland Rice Award (meow)

In addition to players, rookie players, and coaches, perhaps honors should fall also to some of the outstanding and insightful hockey writing we're seeing online. For instance:

>>> And stay tuned, because a lot can change each weekend ...
[Spencer Penrose Coach of the Year discussion [www.insidecollegehockey.com]]

>>> The PairWise is so volatile each and every weekend that's it's almost impossible to predict what will happen day by day. That's the moral of the story.
[Bracketology 1/31/05 edition [www.uscho.com] ]

Bracketology also deserves an award for best application of modular, re-useable code. Of the 1,980 words in this week's column (and an incredibly narrow column it is, too, physically), a good half of them carry over intact, including what seems like the first 1,000 words. Thank God for mice with scroll wheels. The author could keel over at his keyboard and so long as he hit the Send button on the way down, we wouldn't notice until mid-March.

And there should be an award for the online columnist who uses the word "interesting" most often in his or her column. It will be interesting to see who comes out on top. Four "interestings" is the most based on a very quick scan, although one was embedded as a quote.
>>> The third installment ... contains some twists, including an interesting conference breakdown and hair-splitting decisions.
>>> By now, we all know how beautiful [the new facility] is, but it's interesting to look into the issues that surround this move.
>>> Interesting, too, to hear [the coach] talk about his lasting memory of ...
>>> The Harvard-Colgate matchup is an interesting one.

If someone objects to using the memory of Grantland (Four Horsemen of Notre Dame) Rice, it could also be called the Bulwer-Lytton On Ice Award. ("It was a dark and stormy game ...."

Other nominations? No fair picking on the Sun, Journal, or unpaid individual posters.