Happy Labour day to everyone in Canada and the United States. Today’s post will be a short one. I’ve spent most of the weekend catching up on errands like grooming my wiener dog and trying to rewatch all three seasons of my favourite show ever, Veronica Mars. (These errands may or may not be serious…)

First and foremost, Matt from ViewFromMySeats.com has begun his division preview-blogger roundtable for the upcoming NHL season. If you recall, last year’s blogger roundtable was a ton of fun despite every blogger looking like an idiot for being so wrong. For some crazy reason, Matt asked me to contribute my thoughts about the Ottawa Senators and how they will fare this year (again – I know. Matt, buddy, learn from your mistakes the first time! ). That’s a joke… but I will receive a phone call for that one. Anyways, here’s a quick preview to make you want to read the whole thing… please do:

… I’m looking to Jason Spezza to have a great bounce-back season. Last season’s 57 points in 60 games was an off year for Spezza, which fuelled all kinds of ridiculous E5-type rumours from our favourite sports-tabloid blogger…

Click here to read it all.

Secondly, have you ever heard of DownGoesSpezza? No puck-bunnies, I didn’t say “Going Down On Spezza.” To all of Jason’s haters (and there are lots), I also didn’t say “Down On Spezza.” DownGoesSpezza is a Flyers blog that makes fun of the Flyers (nice), run by a pretty cool dude (very nice) and is a funny read (super nice). The other day DGS wrote a “Part 2″ of my recent post, “What kind of hockey player are you?” Here’s an excerpt:

The Houdini Defensemen: This guy always seems to pull a disappearing act, especially when in the Defensive Zone.
NHL Examples: Mike Green, Tomas Kaberle, Lukas Krajicek, The Boston Bruins after the 1st period of Game 7 against the Flyers.

Click here to read the full post.

And now I’d like to turn your attention to a few blogs that I really enjoyed over the last few weeks:

You know you’ve hit it big when a message board hates on you… “Blades” account of the story, plus his own commentary is the reason I think BoF is a must read. Prepare to laugh. [Blades of Funny]

Speaking of laughing, Habs Laughs is one of my new favourite hockey sites. This post, titled “I found Pierre Gauthier’s Blackberry” features various email/text conversations with Steve Yzerman, Sergei Kostitsyn and Jaroslav Halak. So good! [Habs Laughs]

This is one of my favourite Down Goes Brown posts of late. I do like the NHLPA, however, DGB’s leaked Executive Director job application had me in stitches. Stitches!!! [Down Goes Brown]

I’ll be back later this week with longer (read: better) posts as we get closer to the NHL season getting underway. Have a great rest of the weekend everyone!

Stay classy, Labour Day weekends.