Good morning, puckheads, and welcome to JustWide!
You might be thinking the internet needs another hockey fans' site like Mark Messier needs a curling iron, and you may have a point. But this one aims to serve a different purpose than the others.
There won't be a lot of post-game recapping here, or statistical analysis, or player profiling. There are already lots of big-name, big-money mainstream media sites that do that stuff, and do it better than we could hope to. The stuff you'll find on Just Wide will be a little quirkier, a little geekier, and sometimes just plain weird.
In the next few weeks, look for an essay here on the subject of wearing the wrong jersey in enemy territory. Look for our Stanley Cup Playoff Beard festival (transplanted from
seriousdanger). There'll be book and movie reviews, critiques of your favorite (and least favorite) play-by-play announcers, and a lot of friendly fan-to-fan discussion. Hopefully you'll find these oddball discussions will make JustWide a fun new stop on your daily or weekly rounds of hockey sites.
Try out the message boards, introduce yourselves, ask questions, and have fun! There are bound to be disagreements (I'm thinking of you, Avalanche fans), and that'll be part of the fun. Let's keep it spirited, but sportsmanlike.
Welcome to JustWide!