Wyatt’s Christmas list has all bases covered

Santa Claus North Pole, The Arctic HO HO HO Dear Santa; My name is Wyatt and I am nine years old and I’m in Grade 3 and I love hockey and I’ve been a very good boy this year. I wanted to thank you for all the really cool presents you brought me last year. My sister and I really liked the table hockey game and Dad and I had a great time at the All-Star Game with the tickets you sent us. You’re the best. I also wanted to tell you that I’ve been an even better boy this year and I’ve kept my room clean and helped shovel the walk and helped Mom make peanut-butter cookies. I know Christmas is still a lot of days away, but I wanted to make sure that…

Mystic pyramid power inspiration for Wright

It’s not the kind of place you’d normally go looking for the mysteries of Egypt. But there they are, in Tyler Wright’s skates. Oh, he won’t let you see them. You’ll just have to take his word for it. “I haven’t told too many people about it. People will think this guy is some sort of whacko,” said the 21-year-old center, plying his trade with the Cape Breton Oilers of the American League during the NHL work stoppage. He admits to a certain superstition, but this is more than putting one sock on before the other, more than talking to goalposts, more than always being the last guy off the ice. This is pyramid power. For about the last four years, he has had pyramids drawn on the soles of his skates. One in each…

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McSorley says NHLers should keep eye on ‘I’

If Marty McSorley has his way, Jari Kurri wouldn’t be the only member of the Los Angeles Kings playing hockey during the NHL lockout. Kurri returned to his native Finland to skate for Jokerit in the Finnish League and McSorley seriously considered suiting up a little closer to home with the International League’s Las Vegas Thunder until deciding his union activities would take up too much of his time. “But I’d like to see a lot of guys go (to the IHL) and play,” McSorley said. “It would help the ‘I’ and put some pressure on the owners. They’d see us finding employment and earning a living even though they’ve locked the doors.” McSorley was interested in playing for the Thunder because his brother Chris is an associate coach there. But Marty also…