Robertus Retracts!

And so, mon amie, I've learned first lesson of sportswriting and web logging, namely, don't go running your mouth off, writing checks that your writing can't cash. Suddenly, I find myself here on the burgundy couch at half past eight, a little more than forty-seven hours before the first puck drops in Philadelphia, and I've written three reviews (New York, New York, and (of all places) San Jose), and a snippet of Vancouver:

Much like the San Jose Sharks, the 2003-2004 Northwest Division champions will be fielding aboot the same team as last season. The addition of Future Journeyman Goaltender Brent Johnson should take some of the burden off of Dan Cloutier, who has played no more than 62 games in any single season.. Team goals, assists, and points leader Markus Naslund, the best Swedish NHLer with a spleen, returns, as do embattled NHLPA president Trevor Linden and Ikea-esque center Jarkko Ruutu.
The biggest story for the 2005 Canucks will undoubtedly be the Return of Todd Bertuzzi. However, for this writer, the true story will be the line of Anson Carter, Henrik Sedin, and Daniel Sedin. Never before have three Tomas Kloucek Memorial Award winners partnered together to form a single NHL line. Behind Bertuzzi, Linden, and Naslund, the team of Anson Carter and the Sedin Brothers could have been a devastating second punch, good for 100 goals, 200 assists, All Star and playoffs glory. If only they weren't Anson Carter and the Sedin Brothers.

and that's the lot of it.

Four weeks blow past in a blink, a haze of head colds and hockey seminars, bad movies and Baseball games. I came from Greenpoint, and I can go back to Greenpoint. So I apologize to you, dear reader, for promising thirty Robertus Reviews and not delivering.

The new season starts in a shade under forty-seven hours, and so I will be here on the burgundy couch, a Virgil to your Dante, Robertus, the Sublime Sportsman.

Coming Soon! Robertus Predicts the final standings for all thirty teams, Opening Night, and Some Guy Named Mike on Major League pitching!